Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-05-28
| never felt such thrill of exultation as
| felt at that moment.

| felt at that moment.
took out piece of silver, and Civ
ing it to her, held out my hand.
"Speak it, Judith" | said. "Read
me my future, for it is very dark to me,
and | would know it,"
She followed the lines of life and
death, doom and fate. Her look grew
grave, and she fingered over her task
with a certain troubled aspect which in
terested me.
" Stranger she murmurod; "for 1
see myself mixed in this tangie of des-
tiny. There is trouble--there is peril
there is much of evil menace; and vet,
stranger, | see it writ here, ay as plain
as the stars are written down in tho sky,
that the Romany girl will meet the Bus
nee again and help him in the moment
when life, and fate, and all his future,
are quivering in the balance w
+" So be it, Judith" murmured; so
be it! Come what may, only let me
meet with thee again p
:" / see trouble, and rcverses, and sor-
row, like to heart break; | see clouds
and darkness, pillows and tropic storms,
and far land | see new home, the
dawn of another day. and yet, oh
master of the seal and reader of the dark
secret, | see myself there-there !"
where, Judith-where ?" l cried
impatiently.
"HushP' she said /; II may say no
more They call me Hope, work, and
wait The years are as full of promise
as the fields which ripen for the harvest,
and time is full of revelations but it is
not the zingari that can read it Fare
well-farewel y And, lifting my hand
as if in homage, to her lips, she bound
ed off like doe, and left me amazed
troubled, enrapturcd. Did | read her
half-hidden revelation truly2 We shall
see.
A week after, | was in gallant YES
sci, crossing the wide, wide seas, seek
ing for home and sources of living
here, exhausted and hopcless--ir Aus
tralia.
A year after, | was in the heart o.
far Australia wilds, working like a pea
SAINT, toiling like slave; but my hear
was light--hope was before me-succes,
certain.
At home all had been loss, decay
ruin--my father dead, my mother ant
sisters portionless. Fate pointed out t.
me, that there, yonder, beyond the heav
ing ocean, my new world now lay. l
was dawning upon me at last.
Then, came roversss, nlnoss, oiolxnoes
next to death. | was all but ruined
well nigh dead One day a haggarc
bushranger came crawling to my door
sheltered, fod, protected him, and | al
last recognized tho gypsy whose lool,
once menaced me. He was Of the Coo
per family, and had been transported fol-
shecp-stealing. He became my slave,
my faithful right hand-true as steel to
me. | saved, protected him. lie
would never leave me more. judith
will come" he said significantly.
But Judith-where was Judith %
my gearing heart cried. Patience,
patience +" | said. eve shall meet
it is decreed we shall meetp And al
last, at last we did meet; but how?
was at Port Phillip once, seeking
for some laborers to hire, for my farm
had increased and my stores multiplied
and l required more men to aid me. A
vessel had lately landed there a remnant
Of emigrants, who stricken down by the
plague, lay helpless on the beach, in
canvass tents, and praying for death,
from the tardy help the frightened peo
dared scarcely bring them.
lettering to meet me came wan,
worn figure, with the rich olive of her
wasted face almost faded, but the eyes
were like glowing opals. knew her al
once.
Judith {! Judith ~ I cried aloud.
at is hc--it is he r' sho half shrieked
and fell fanting in my arms.
| did not tarry long at Port Phillip,
but FASTENED TO return.
Judith, the magnificent, the match.
less has been my wife, the mother Of
my children-a finer, nobler race, eyes
never looked upon. She has been mine
mime own-my beloved for years past
now; and truly did she say our horo-
scopes were equal, our houses" one,
our destinies intcrtwined.
Those so dear to me, whom | left in
old England, have long had homo here
with me; and while we have cattle on o
thousand hills, / am a master, a prince,
a monarch in tho rich benignant wills
that have been pastures, fields, vine
yards, gardens-all mine and theirs to
inherit after me.
That's how had my fortune told, !"
says a friend in letter to me ten years
ago; and this is how / have sletched it