Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-04-08

share of future happincss-all of Eternal Life.
Dear Alice, zoe wiH meet again. But | owe a
duty to William which nutst perform; lnust,
1 MUST. TIL then, FAREWELL" :"
Alice INDUCED q strong solicitude for her
mothers fate, and she dared not delay her El-
ther's homeward progress. She saw that VIII
lam Beldan had formed no plans for the future,
and she felt assured that before many daysshould
elapss, he would bend his steps toward the roof
that should shelter her. She was pleased with the
thought, yet less from any selfish considerations,
though gratfed with the various proofs of hom-
age he bestowed, than from kind desire to
temper the passions, and mould the virtues of
the novice: to the wayward currents of the
world he was about to launch his bark upon.
She knew that Clovis indulged toward him a
steadfast regard, and that recently the earnest
ness of his attachment had wonderfully increas-
ed. But to what cause to assign it she did not
know, nor did she take pains to think. She
knew too that his devotion to the boy was such
that he would peril life and limb if need be,
for what he nigh conceive to be the interest of
the Latter But she feared viewing him as SEN
sual and impulsive in his character, that he and
she might widely differ in what the true and
enduring interests of William Beden might
consist
"Good bye, Clovis good bye, William!"
said she as she turned to take her leave, and at
the same time she extended her small, white
hand to each for a parting pressure.
81 would gladly go with you, Alice" said
William Belden, by whom the idea of separa-
ton was more keenly felt, as it came to be more
wildly fixed in his mind % if could believe
you would approve the step. But am as yet
to myself mystery, and Iam sure it would
best become me, before claim more of your
kindness or regard, to be able to tell you who
and what am. That is chapter in my history
which | have yet, and now, to learn
" Musgrave is your father" answered Alice,
% and -"
"Alas Dear Aice,'' said William, inter-
rupting her, 81 have no father or mother, sis
ter or brother, that wot Of in the wide world.
No human being lives, as believe, in whose
veins flows blood that is akin to my own"
Alice's trials had made her sensitive to his
misfortune, now, for the first time disclosed to
her, and the change in herspirits and Herberts
since the discovery of their father, enabled him
more keenly to feel his loss
The chilling sense of loneliness which Will
Jams manner and language conveyed, touched
what seemed to be a sympathetic chord in
Clovis heart, and the latter said to him in a
tone so full of thrilling pathos and fraternal
feeling, that the words and action called forth
tears of joy from Alice,
BILLY, dear Billy, # you will do SO, hence
!, forth call me your brother and come away"
Clovis, my brother My brother Clovis -
answered William and he bestowed on Clovis
a look so desparing as the latter had never wit
messed before. 1t penetrated the heart of his
attached friend to the arousing of all his SYM
pathies.
t I" You know not" continued William to his
i auditors, I" what a sense of desoation encum-
) bers my heart. To know that one is, yet like a
n solitary pilgrim in the world whose memory
: stretches back in vain endeavor for an impress
It of his prmeval cause, and sidewise, equally
s fruitess, for lateral shoots from the same pater
l. nal, or maternal roots to know that thu
), map Of his lineage is entirely blotted out, hi
d paternal name filched from him, as if some in
10 carnate fend owed the yet unborna spite thes
E. are sorrowful truths to contemplate. Ant
then, as he journeys on, and meets the way
S. farer, to hear his yearning heart imploring o
}; his searching gaze, Is that my father Or m,
,e mother or my sister? or my brother and hi
t. vision answering back, Who are yOu that ask
lie Tell me your na,ne, to which the heart replies
of Alas alas / know not. 0, this is q mourn
h. full fate. Could find the being in the wor
50 never SO poor, or mean, or debased, in who's
if veins flows the most diluted drop Of my fatt
to er's or my mothers blood, assuredly shoul
he worship him or her.
IN "Or it," added Clovis.
y. "Or it," repeated William, " though he O
H. she were sunk to the level Of the brute"
- Ready, Alice!" said her father, who stoo
n apart from the others.
se " Once more, good bye" " said she. address
m ing Clovis and William Belden. " In goo
as time come and see us, and in all future time |
nd as brothers both;
lis Be kind to each otLer for the nights coming on
When friend and when brother will aye be gone.'"
a Thus separating, Alice and her father con
ng menced their homeward journey. The formC
IA had dispatched letter in advance of the
al, progress, to her mother, informing the latter
he, the expected return. Mrs. Hartman wi
therefore prepared for their reception, and IL
IN exuberance of her joy when she met her hu
on Eband and daughter, was restrained and mod
be fed by the timely monition from Alice Ye
led till they met, neither of the parents could +
len press an effort to anticipate the appearance
ex- the other, and the manner Of his or her rece
ye, ton while Alice, in the progress of her .ou
ere ney, participated in advance in the happinc
ier she had largely aided to produce.
Kinder greetings were seldom exchanged
re- smiles and tears betokening more of joy we
in seldom evoked, or more of joy ndulged, til,
re- when Hartman reached his newly found hom
my a home from which, bya selfimposed outlaw
ult he had suffered years of banishment, and
+; | which he had now come to grasp the hand, a
en-, meet the warm embrace, of her whose trust
wv him was never shaken, and whose early aft