The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-12-17
ALICE HAUGHTON
che Ex.Bac helorss story.
By MRS. MARY a. DEslsos.

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mbom he had long been attached. ! shut
~rseIf up sullenly in my own room and re-
c,ssd to see the face of man. NY passions
y vs. been undisciplined from childhood
rSsr ill attained the age of twenty one
had fits of ungoyernable anger. After
-, time my pride came to the rescue. and
gSsH my temper down. ] loved Wallace
n.nnhton as some men love women, strong
y s1dently, deathlessly. We were almost
marble. Before him ] never showed
y. lend within me. His sunshiDy fare in
.isbly dispersed the clouds IN my breast.
Wet Never shall 1 forget the day he first told
- he loved Mary Vernon. Before that I
t.pght of her as sweet, angelic woman ;
" IN that hour hated her.
What shall I do % was the wild, pas
,,ate cry with which replied.
nDo? why be just the same loving
81 beloved friend-come and sit by our
.arth-stone come and live with US. Mary
laws how strongly / regard you. She
=. no Jealous qualms even towards my bo-
IN friend. God bless her she is noble
None can tell but those who are cursed
,bst feelings heard Wallace eulogize his
Flowed. l could have struck him for it.
turned away sullenly and walked rapidly
a without speaking. At last the day came.
-aught with SO much happiness to him.
could not go TO the wedding, and afterwards,
rben met him, l treated him with cold
,ss. There are few natures but what
you'd have resented such conduct; he did
nt. | have since thought he pitied me.
Well, time wore away and brought me
hIm. l became an intimate at his house,
md soon came to regard Wallace and his
rie as one. They furnished me beauti-
ial room and I went and came as I listed.
Bv,and-by a daughter was born to them.
Tiey called her Alice because it was my
NOrite name.
Little Alice Haughton She was frag-
Il, fairy thing, but exceedingly lovely. II
rss grief to us-yes, at least even to me,
hat Mary Haughton dropped from the date
Of the birth Of Alice. Some hidden dis
a;e whose germs had never showed them
@yes above the surface before, fastened up
On her vitals. So slowly she faded that
Wallace would not believe her i'll till one
lay when Alice was three years old.
vent there and found the house as still as
balh. Wallace met me in the hall. He
lid not speak, but he grasped my hand ill
panied me, and as l looked in his face his
yaor alarmed me.
She is going p he said, through his
teeth. Il shall lose her."
Impossible J" I replied, 'she was look
mo 50 healthy Yesterday"
The bloom of the grave, 4" he said,
hrshly. "tbe crimson of death, o my God
bow can bear it 20
"You are needessly alarmed" l ven
urd. knew not what to say, but longed
in some manner to comfort him.
"No-no- no ! wish / could think SO
but last night-O fearful night You
ave not seen what I have seen the very
is blood streaming. o my God, support
NE in the heavy hour -
One week from tina. time, the hearse stood
&his door. From the moment Mary died,
did not see my friend shed tear. His
Ire was rigid, colorless-awful in its calm.
His little daughter was taken to his moth
sshome, and after a while Wallace broke
qhouse- keeping and went there too. Once
more he was all mine. Day after day sat
With him, read to him, nor could believe
1a brilliant complexion--that fierce rapid
ty Of movement, or utterance, presaged a
aaI disease. But SO it proved. AT the
md of five short happy years. my dearest
trend died, leaving me the guardian of his
aie daughter.
Alice was more lovely than her childhood
had promised Not strictly beautiful but
earning. fascinating. She loved me very
aHch, and when in a year from her fathers
eath she left me for school, she wept on
~ neck, refusing to De comforted. re-
ipSed into my old habits of loneliness, and
the age of twenty eight thought myself a
s. @ndrmed bachelor. I furnished rooms.
Yk in a spinster aunt as house keeper, law
Shed little fortune on my furniture and
Surroundings, had garden beautifully laid
'I and sat myself down to take comfort.
must not forget to says here, that had
aoVed some five hundred miles from the
Iy IN which my friend Wallace lived.
light years from the very day that Alice
aaughton left me for school, received a
@'r from her edged with black. 1t was
1.-The first letter my ward had sent. by
:! Heans-but the first missive that bore
%Ags of death. Il was addressed to me
Sher fathers dearest friend. Her grand
AFher she said had recently died; her two
Sas had gone to the far West; she was
@ut leaving school: where should she go /?
las her guardian and had legal right to
t'se with her. She longed to see some
anlIar face, etc. The letter did not give
as any pleasure. l knew what my duty
Is; for on his dying bed Walter had con-
'lI his daughter to my care.
When she is grown" he said, falter-
sy, feebly, you will probably have a
Va home. Should m. mother die, be
1'her to my little Alice"
looked around my comfortable rooms.
ia not want to have my quiet broken up.
Pictures, my vases. my books, my ar
s of virtue were all exactly where /
'aed them to be. This young girl OF
'sen would perhaps disarrange, all my
aus. A. nd than cha vzould he having vonnO