The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-06-16

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sounds wero repeated, and there was
sudden agitation of the encircliDg shrub
densely festooncd with wild grape, who's
burdening clusters had fallen to the
ground unplucked. Adelia, anxious
lest she was exposing her health, hat
sought her out.
Thus thought Annie, but with q trc
NOR of her unstrung nerves, and agasp
ing of the breath that was more ant
more drawn in painful sighs. She hac
risen, with hasty putting back of hci
dishevelled hair, and taken the mantle
which had fallen from her shoulders un
needed. The vines and branches were
cleft asundcr by strong hand, and tc
her feet advanced Arthur Maybury
Annie sank into her seat faint and
bewildcred, without the power of articu
lating syllable. Speechless as herself
Arthur knelt before her, took both hel
hands in his own, bowed his forehead tc
her kree, aud rested it there. She bent
her head upon his; and thus their hum
bled spirits comnuned together, bapti
zing themselves with contrition before
heaven, and rising to newness of purpose
and a higher appreciation of the moral
mission.
Stars lighted their pathway out of the
grove, and seemed an alphabet of love
which they had never learned rightly
till now. A few days later the broken
band of Hymen was reunited with deep
er significance, with better hopes and
holier aspirations on the part of those
whose experience apart had been 50 rife
with unhappiness.
1t was on the anniversary of their di-
vorce that Arthur and Aunie chose their
seats on the deck of the Golden Petrol
about to weigh anchor for the shining
shores of California-their chosen fu
ture home.
"One year," said the wife, fly,
''since our hopes perished so violently
Our hearts term of mourning is over,
for those hepes have burst their cere.
ments, and come forth as by miracle u
again and again." returned the hus
band, did I follow you, Annie to your
wildwood retreat, watching (oh, how ear
FnestlyD to read your heart in secret as
I had never been able to do in public
and see if it shared anything of the
regret which was consuming my life
Words cannot describe the joy of tha
moment, when at last I dared to WOO
you to be my bride a second time"
There was murmured Interchange
of endearing words, and an interval of
silence.
"Do you remember" said Arthur
again, "the evening in the gay company
when we go suddenly met eye to cye?-
What an impulse felt to revenge my
self on the miserable fop who referred
to you with such bold admiration"
Annie smiled as she recalled her own
emotions on the occasion, and compared
them with those just now confessed
Then, forgetting the things that were
behind, they tolkcd hopefully of what
what was before. And when evening
came and the panorama was waters with
only belt of land fast declining beyond
it, while the new moon cast oblique shad-
oHs over the deck and behind the flight
of the Golden Petrel, their iich voices
mingled in song whose burden was OF
affection which is all unmeasured by
ocean, and which, though suns set and
moons wane, ever increases more and
more. Then amid the encores Of their
fellow-passengers, their hearts responded
=" Eureka!-we have found it!''
Where west winds bear the Pacific
spray like rainbow clouds, is little
Eden home, with the tree of love, zeal
ously guarded, growing in the midst
Two cherub children Of twin birth tod
die forth, hand in hand, to gather bright
flowers that cover the landscape as a
robe of costly splcndor the person of
some eastern monarch.
I cannot ask the reader, Do you fad
this a pleasant fctionl-for it is no fc-
tion. 1t isa sketch from real life, which
some who poruse it will surely recognise
and say, "Here are old friends, only
with new names" L.. g. G