Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-04

lHe countenancc OF Rolpn betrayed at first
! painful surprise. Then, as if new though
had struck him, "your name is Markham, di
you say ?" he added
"Alice Markham" she replied.
+" Alice Markham p
" Yes" said she, surprised at his earnes
manner.
" And your brothers name"
" Is Herbert Markham. -
" Her6eH Markham p said he, and his voice
ana limbs trembled as he repeated the name.
} fes," she replied, agitated in her turn,-
, !" Why do you make these enquiries An,
why are You agitated thus p
I" You was bora in - in the county q
Orleans, and he continued as tho amazet
girl nodded assent, Syour name is Alice Harri
man; ;" and he bent an imploring look upon he,
as if all his earthly hopes were dependant or
an affirmative reply.
" Oh! Are you My FAruER"' she said in
voice intensely thrilling, and which implied
both hope and fear for the response.
- Ny CHILD! Ny CHILD !" answered IIarri-
man, as tears gushed from his eyes, and he es-
Sayed to embrace the pure being before him.
" My FATER!' responded Alice. in words
that fell sweety, and in broken utterance
from her lips " and she fell on his neck, and
wept on his neck good while
When Harrinan's emotion had partially
subsidized, F" My Boy Herbert! ! Herbert, nv
boy = he said, and sought to gain the door !;
out ms limbs being to feeble yet to hear their
accustomed burthen he sank upon chair, and
pressing Alice to his bosom. he gave vent to his
suf-charsed heart in sohs and tears.
In the mean time Herbert had become
alarmed for the long delay of his sister, and
good Mistress McDermat. at his suggestion
was on her way to Hartman : quarters in quest
Of Alice
a gentle tap at the door aroused both father
and child, and served at once toadmonish JIarri-
man OF the dangers to which his children, as
well as himself, would he exposed, if the rela
ton he ,bora toward them should bo known to
the snaggers. Accordingly by sign which
was readily interpreted to the quick perceptions
OF Alice, rather than by words. he made known
to her that it would be advisable to repress. in
the presence of others, those sentiments which.
ON the part af both, were now quite difficult of
control and to observe, in some measure the
distant bearing which had hitherto subsisted
between them.
Alice epsnsd the door and Mistress McDer-
mot entered
" And how lis it wi ye the day. neebor
Rolph 7" said Judith. Z" Ye hae been halfted
'a lang ye maun be over feckloss, and yer stam-
ach sud AK ten punds o Draw moose meat ilk
lay, mon. }o mlun gang awerby, and tax
me fresh air wee bat gin ye wad mend at ony
neiklo gate
-" That is what intend to do, straightwav.
good Mistress McDermot.''
" 1t is what ye intend to d., nesb,r Rolph
low lang is it dye trow, syne this sackless,
md loosome BARN, haly be her cast - contin-
LED judith, at the Same time putting her hand
pom the head of Alieo, ~ read to mo fro, an
nc' sma' bulk she wears in her pockmanty,
hat cen Hell the s,l'~o it, is paved wi guide
ltentons?' hot plae, that, neobor Rolph,
nd name the mar cAnny for a that, Gin the
uik is true, and whlas trow it mabie,-and
IN yo hao M better nor intentions, Rolph ye
'aunna quit yer halft for lang day to cam
et."
" think may g abroad t,-morrow," said
afnman, "and if should, may give my
md friend Mrs. Med armot a call, if it woald
ease her -
Saul o mypody! And it wad please her?''
I'D Jaditi, lookns at Alice whose c,unte-
lnce b'tokenod a cheerful air. "D'yo trow
wadna please her? Gin We are upsides wi
pS winsoma lasses hrither; and hao forgien
m; " she continued while Hartman buried
face in his hands, and Alie, threw her arms
ound his neck, naething wad 81 mekle
ease me- And ye hae forgien him. said Ju-
Tn, overJoyed at the spectacle she boheld, sin
'th ye ias tarsien him, els9 the lassie wad na
her rasy chssk and yer ain thecither at sic
gate" !"
81 have forgiven him VITA all nv heart
od judith, said Hartman, " and pray Won
| him 50"
s. In ver@trotl has " dune the like, Rolph =, !,
d judith amazed no Ioss at what she heard :
IN what she saw. II
Hartman nodded afHrmatively.
Saul o my p1dy! What IL meikle pow5r -"
n the bulk ye ca tho IIay Scriptures 2 said :, =
aith, who believed its softsning influences had :
N exerted upon taa heart of Rolph as they :"
been hitherto successfully upon her own
zoo ye trow it was the mcikle Laird va baa
anent whilk gard Rolph to loo YER ain
+, and forgie yer brther, downa We sa? Mai
less, is ma it mair like to hae been the broo .
yer ain loosomc face, whlk hae dune the i;
o that, my bonnie lassie?" said .Judtb =
Interested in a development of Alices opin- N
"Ph"s VII
he grateful girl insisted with modest frvor "a
! she owed the reconciliation to the bene6. il,
60 Of that Being, of whose power and good Il,
she had sought to impress an idea on tho as
ID Of Jadith; and Rolph, anxious for the in
arturo OF the latter, urged her to make N,
wn t9 Herbert the reconciliation he ayowed no
nc kindly disposed woman, pleased to bs t,
bearer of such news, made haste to imnart ba
. Herbert, who received the intimation Vi,
more satisfaction than he was ready to 40. IA
Wedge.
ne presence of Judith had served to cbasten
violence OF emotion on the part of both pa sis
and child and affprded Ua,r;,no,,, i, 4li .