Smyrna times., 1860-06-28
CHAPTER III.

% be u even as you VIII, Annle,' SAID the old
man, 'but the same sea covers them BOTH"
CHAPTER III.
Then answered Annie as sortly as before:
g And yet, and yet hope -
But Samuel Lee answered, saying:
ali is fond delusion, child The water
drops OF grief have made rainbow in your
heart"
IT'S bow of PROMISE" said Annie.
"Yea, verify !" said the old man, with a sigh. |
I" But in the skies only. Nevertheless do as
you will"
And straighiway messengers were sent by
divers ways into far cities, and they traced
Philip Lee and his wife, Lucy, through all the
places at which they had sojo1rned, and they
spake with many people, aud they CLEANED
much tidIngs which were sorrowful to hear, and
they came back and told Samuel Lee aud his
daughter, and though they spake singly, each
man for himself, according to the knowledge he
bad gathered; yet was their tale the same,
even as the mariners aforetme.
Then Samuel Lee sorrowed more and more,
and humbled himself before his daughter and
prayed meekly, and was changed man. And
sickness came upon him with the boar frosts,
aud Annie nnrsed him through all, nor abated
one jot OF her affection.
Now Annie had great thought in her heart.
So, after many days, when the winter was
past and gone. and it was the spring season of
the year; and the yioets, and the pansies, and
the golden butter,cIps were in bloom; she
arose, and went 10 her father, saying:
Father! will 60 forth and seek my BROTH
er. pray you give me your blessing that
may depart in peace"
And Samuel Lee sought to persuade his
Il.
with meek firmness, that she was constrained
10 go, for she felt that Philip was still living,
he cou not chide her, inasmuch as while look
ing on her confident face, a dim hope rose in
his own breast, like the first cloudy outline Of
land seen by mariners afar in the ofiiDg; so he
laid bis trembling hands upon her head, and
said, in low voice:
:. May God guide and guard you, my dsugh-
ter; aud 10 his own good time bring Joy to the
hearts ofas twain
Then, in the evening of that day, when it
was known abroad that Annie waste depart on
the morrow, came 10 her Henry Russell. even
4 the young man whom she loved, and be said /:
Annie /! il is not meet for maiden TO wan
der alone among a strange people. larry,
therefore, little while and | will go with
you"
! But Annie made answer, saying:
Neither is it fitting Ishould be accompa-
Il MED by a young man. Abide you here, Henry.
aad cheer the spirits Of my father, for he will
need comforter when am gone. IL is best
that l should journey alone 10 The autumn Of
the year, ii it De The will Of heaven, shall re.
turn
Il Aud Oh the morrow she departed, and went
into all the cities, enquirIng for her brother
but many said they knew him not at all, and
Ian baa l,ef all iad he,
very much, and gave her good counsel Then
she took ship and sailed to the far country
whittier Philip was bound. But she gained &c
tidings ofhim save that the ship was wrecked
And as she heard this she sat down aud wep
bitterly for her heart began 10 be heavy with
in her. But as she wept, she seemed TO hea
, low Voice, like the voice faspirit, say:
Thy brother yet lives; 60 ye and seel
: him.
: So she arose, and went through many town
r and villages, seeking 10 CLEAN iidings Of he
: brother, bot fuding meme. But when the au
5 tumn was coming, she made ready 10 return q
her own country But it came to pass the sh
9 was not ready TO sail, whereupon she was con
o strained TO abide for brief season IN the cit
p by the sea. And she lived therein with
! good woman who wasa widow, and the woma
y was mother unto her.
n Now on a certain day, as she looked With
I. window, she saw new picture. even on
y she had not seen before. though she had sougt
e out pictures 10 all places, hoping thereby
e find her brother
d And, as she looked upon the new pictur
q straightway The blood rushed 10 her heart, an
Re she fell down in a swoon for it was like TO b,
fathers house, with the bright river in from
le and the blue msuntains far back. And whe
at she was revived she found many strange fac,
he about her, and the picture hung in The windo
ut oil The room wherein she was.
es Then she questioned quickly the master
The house concerning it, and as he was abo
err to answer, young man came 10 al the doc
he aud hearing tlere ~asa maiden within vi
20, WAC taken Ill, suddenly be pressed through q
cd crowd, aad gazed with his pale face upon =
pale face of the maiden. And their eyes m'
Of And sley who Stood by marvclled greatly
for the twain; for the maiden cast herself up
be The breast Of the stranger and sobbed aloud.
After this it happened, when the woods We
In, clothed 10 criInson and gold, that Samuel L
ow was lying upon bis couch with Henry Russ
TO- seated beside il, when there was heard grs
Dor noise from without the chamber, and 10 br
lu- space, servant entered hastily, sayisg