The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-04-28

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/ I cav tle~Acss 6an,ly ssshsssa q ehe uissss 9
/ Welconse -. Think I shoaa6 rashcr have weIh
| "a up to ~ eanaon'S noatA. Nv e;ster Stare.
| down the seems 10 meet ,Nc. fhen stunned
st.pped up on the piazza. n : mother ssslc !,
death, sunk into her cl,sie. Nv urettv coua1l
| Eila, on whom l had alwass. frcm roand-jecke
DAYS, been sweet IN suncakinr sors Of vay. dsrtet
an annihilatinx clance & upe. ana r.n 8 ruppor
my mother ~ father advanced, -
| =. What do y0a dare 70 ,,tine here. Won shas.e
| Iess Young rascal? h shlsa nlacey He broke
| down 90 angry that uttsrance Vas Absolutely IN
possible. AZ any other time 1 should hays
shouted with laughter Il the ludicrcus spectacl,
he presented: now only haeteued "a tell mn
story. In : Jew moments INV snotkcr's arms vcr,
| round me. INV sieter and co,,sin we're contestine
| q reMeri for possession Of nv hahy. and nv fhth
cr recoyeved from hin rage eulic;crtly 70 v,el
| come his ONLY son. though Il did hear him erovl
| through his white beard. Confounded spool,ey
| advertised far and vide 20 no parpoee. Eui
/ INV baby REV 10 into the aaecsions Of III tn
houeehold that / had NO other sesus 70 sake.-
( We named her Perlida. and len her with NM
| mother. when / returned, wear afeer wear. j
found her each time grown heaDthier and psettter
| and she each time manifested nm affection fol
me. charminsiy legitimate was she mot ns
6aLyF As such 1 cherished her. Z
She vea n v4ars ol,l rhen I I'm We.s Point
| for active esrvire Amer thnt Nd 4 vi,pae,ins
| and adventnrnu. life for vears shy 0ood ~
0eld, sNv hahv' vrnte me. Il f;rst often. He1
6rst letters we're curious spec;mens-
half printed. and somet;mcs her meaning eket
out with rude drawings. n those DAYS she Wa
charminely personal I do 40 and SOL think
| no and eo-Iloye 60 and so.' But years changed
her oalixraphy and. alas the feeling Of her let.
ters Nov n her charming ,,irlish character.
stood, Your mother does 50 and 50 J or sYon.
sister thinks and loves. &c. Nv mother wrote
We can't cali Pertlida your baby any longer
She does not permit the title. and Won. were Won
To see her could scarce imagine that our fair
Young queen Was ever baby. am too old 70
be enthusiastic but our darling il surely the love-
liest vision these eyes ever rcsted on. She
makes hearts ache, but as vet their pain ID vain.
We tried to be 50 cautious; but she has somehow
learned about her finding. and it is bitter knowl-
edge to the proud little heart II NAV be that
that makes her melt only to us, win you never
come home to SEQ US and hers'
1t was in the spring Of the year 1856. Twas
on INV way home to America An elderly GEN.
tleman. who had evidently been soldier. occu.
pied state-room next to mine. A similarity Of
taste and feeling brought us much together
during the VOYAGE. He had been absent from
his country many years.
when left said he to me, i meant never
to revisit the shores that had been accursed to
to ME. l los: there my wife and child under the
crutlest circumstances; and could not remain.
thought then I could never Gee again the SPOT
that had been so fatal to me- And vet return
now, impelled BY some feeling which can neither
account for nor resist. I dream that am going
to see nv child sometimes, even in INV waxing
moments. l ann fully convinced that I shall End
her.
How / interrupted in spite Of myself: is
not your child deait'
Alas do not know
sYou do not know did she not die before Won
left American
NO. Three months ago should have said I
wished she had ther than live lost to me- exposed
to fatcs shudder to think Of Now am hope-
full. Nore-trustful. 1t seems to me she has
been kept pure. and that shall know her. And
yet - and he sighed heavily L haven't the
the shadow of reason for such hone and trust.
/ was excited Il compared the remembrance
of the miniature Ga my bshy's' slccye-cha;n with
the figure before me. made him explain ALL
He told me of the child's birth, the delicate
health of his wife afterward, his taking her to
Cuba, leaving the child in as he supposed. trusty
care, the death of his wife in Havana, and while
he was still in the first anguish Of her loss news
from his child's nurse of its death, and Of her
spsedy return to Ireland. lie came to New York
too late t. find her, and left america a. SAGE
as he supposed forever ia Europe, years after
ward, he had met servant who had been with
him during his brief married !,te, ana who de-
ciared to him positively that ms child was not
dead at the date on which the woman had writ.
him; but further than that he could not say, as he
had followed the fortunes OF another master
The unhappy father sought vainly for the woman,
ana n0E returhea AZ lasF W2ln5 ~ America Y
He described the chilts nurse. IT was the Wo-
man who had abandoned her CHILD IN my arms,
and the face was the changed, aged one OF Per.
dldas immature NOT many days thereafter
restored to my friend his 80 early lost child and
gave up my baby to her rightiul father.
Without pang? Yes. Did console myself
with the pretty cousin aforementioned? She
hadn't had patience to wait, that might-a hus-
band and several olive branches prccladed that.
How, theRy ! saw .my babv' a stately, RADIANT
", beautiful woman. She called me Major ---,
she treated me in the most precise and formal
way-the utmost favor she bestowed upon me
was the slightest possible touch Of the fingers as
she bade me gooi Gisht or gcod-mcrning, and |
saw her hourly in hef idolizing fathers arms, law
ishing the tenderest caresses upon him. Would
| have it nthe,sises No. There was dearer
delight in the reserve with which Vas trcated
the faintest fush that coiored her cheek when
! was near her, or addressed her, had for me
an incxprtn. a;'.la sweetness that wouldn't have
bartcred for aught on earth short Of what even.
tnally obtained What, YOU don't mean that
You. a Scared old yetersn Of betneen thi,tr
and forty. dared DidntIs Hum! And this
was the way of it. In INV military capacity /
was invited to West Point I went. and INV
friend and his daughter accompanied me. / sat
beside her in the ears. The happy old gentle.
man, at a little distance, read diligently. /
said:
.Perdida YOU have travelled this route before
She blushed scarlet. and looked Mt me beseech.
iuciy. went on.
To think what heavy, hungry, unpaci6ablc
baby carried on that day, and the way that
poor cadets humanity Was ridiculedv
The tears started, and the young lady at my
side bowed her naughty head.
And the worst feature in the case is that he
has never had any suitable recompense. A good
deed is its own reward, to a certain degree, Of
course but in this case every feeling of my soul,
every FIBER Of my heart demands something more
and great something more, Perdida my
darling these seventeen years, have lost you to