Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-03-12

upon whose word or look depended life or
death. Sudden gusts Of wind, which moan
ed through and swayed uneasly the brunch
es of the trees, aud chased the clouds A.
cross the hitherto clear sky, alternated with
pauses of death-like stiffness, when the
lightest football might he heard, and when
tree and flower, and waving grass, stood
still as il listening. Then again the wind
rose and the trees murmured, os ii agita-
ted by signs, aud The leaves fell over the
graves aud the wind was warm as the
wind Of the tropics, as the sweet, the bitter
disquiet of love and again it became
hushed and still, and all things seemed to
wait.
Yngve stood by Alma's grave, with q
strongly beating heart, awaiting her who
could give him life or death so it felt to
that agitated young heart, the emotions of
which had, by expectation and suffering.
been excited to the highest pitch Already
he waited five minutes beyond the appoint
ed time.
Yngve leaned against an old tree, shaded
his eyes from the binding light of the sun,
aud stood listening during a moment Of
death-like calm he knew that be should
recognize the sound Of her steps. just
lhen genial breath of air famed his coun-
tenance the tree murmured and some
thing said to Yngve, "she is there p
lie raised his eyes, and she stood actual
ly before him, but so changed, so pale, so
solcmnly earnest, that she might have been
but newly arisen from the grave, with the
last, heavy dream of human life upon her
soul.
He involuntarily extended his arms tow
ards her. Aud she = the strong. proud
girl-was obliged TO support herself by the
seat at the grave, because her limbs trem-
bled beneath her. Yngve's emaciated conn
tenance bore evidence of the amount of
his suffering, but in its pure expression,
now, as it were, transfgured by the glow
ing light Of the sun, was no consciousness
of crminalty. The two contemplated
each other in silence which he was the
| first to break
'Hertha = said he, you too have suffered
| see that =
Yes replied she, "and you" she
thought, "have been the cause of it," but
she could not say so. The longer, the more
closely her glance questined the countenance
of Yngve, the stronger appeared to her the
impossibility, the heavenly conviction that
he could not be guilty, and she exclaimed
No, no, you are not the false mo, you
have not acted dcceitlully no, l see by
the expression of your countenance. thai
you are incapable of such guilt l will
rather die at this moment than be deceived
in this belief !-Yngve you are not tht
you cannot be-the lover of Amalia, The
father of her child =
You are right am not = replied
Yngvc calmly.
4 believe you. believe youP exclaimed
Hertha, with claSped hands. But tell me
why did she mention--Yngve Nordin
Because replied Yngve, that is thC
name of my youngest brother as well a!
my own. All the three brothers are call
ed Yngve, but with the addition of anoth
other name the brother of whom yor
speak is called Alfred Yngve |, Yngvt
Frey
'Oh, l Observation-Disclosures all now?
resumed Hertha, greatly affected-'it i.
he then who is guilty, and ycn-you are
Yngvc Frey (Free !)--Why, why did
not know this before? A great deal o
suffering might have been spared 7
why did not know until a few day:
ago that Amaa was your near relative
You never mentioned her to me, nor she
you. | only received my brothers conf
dence few weeks ago. aud had no right
to betray his secret circumstances
such as have now occurred, render it a duty
in me to do So
'Oh, Yngve and l have believed yor
guilty How shall ever forgive myself !
'Hertha give me the right to obliter'
ate this memory give me your hand
henceforward let all be clear, let the'e bt
no conceaments between us--at least, i
this be the only thing which uas sunderet
us ?
Not the only thing hear me--now ol
never must all be said. Yngve have Beel
told that you were tickle /; that you loved
another woman before you loved me. An
swer me Is there no woman who, more
than me, has title to your fidelity NJ
child which has a right to demand from yol
the name aud the protection Of its father
And HerIhn'S voice fatered not bu
she herself was deuthly pale, and her coun
teuance had resumed its solemn, almost Sc
we're. gravity.
Well for Yngve that he needed not, a
she expected to evade her eye that h
could fearlcssly look her in the face, as b
replied
Give me your hand, mine is free, and II
such resp onsiJiIity rests upon my heart.
have loved before / loved yOu, yes, bu
from the overAowing life of youth, and no
from the fulnesS of the soul. might hay
, erred, have fallen, if my mother had no
stood like good angel by my side. Who
she saw the tendency to be carried away b
the feelings of the moment, she talked openl
with me, showed me the danger of bein
thus led away, and convinced me by exam
plies out of everyday life, of the misery Q
the burdensomenes of those connection
which shnn the light, and impose duties Q
responsibilities upon US which oppressiyel
or reproachfully accompany us through lifi
And how | thanked her, not now alont
but ever since knew you =
; is it then really so 2 exclaimed Herth
in transport of calm certa nty, for Yngve
manly and fresh explanation had dismisse