Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-07-03

that am going home to see my child I:
sometimes, even in my waking moments.
| am fully convinced that can find her
How" interrupted in spite of myself;
"is not your child dead2"
"Alas. do no, know"
"You do not know {! did she no, die be-
fore you left America g
mo. Three months ago | should have
said | wished she had, rather than live
lost to me, exposed to the fates shudder
tc think of. Now l am hopeful. More
-trusttul. 1t seems 10 me she has been
kept pure, and shall know her. And
yet-''and he sighed heavily-"I know,
and trust
was excited-Fcompared the remem-
brance of the immature on my baby's''
sleeve chain, with the figure before me.
| made him explain all. He told me of
the child's birth, the delicate health of his
wife afterwards. his taking her to Cuba
leaving her, Gas he supposed) in trnsty
care, the death of his wife In Havana
and while he was still in the first anguish
| of her loss, news of the child's death and
of the nurses speedy return to Ireland :
He came TO New York too late to find her
and left America at once-as he supposed
forever. In Europe, years afterwards,
he met a servant who had been with HIM
| during his brief married life, and who
declared 10 him that his child was not
| dead at the date on which the woman had
written TO him but farther than this he
could not say as he followed the fortunes
| of another master.
| The unhappy father sought vainly for
the woman, and now returned as last
! means TO America. He described the
nurse. 1t was the woman who had aban.
doned The child in my arms, and the face
was the changed one Of Perdida's NINA
iure. Not many days thereafter resior-
ed TO my friend his lost child. aud gave
up my baby" 10 her rightful father
Without a pangs Yes. Did | consoIe
myself with my pretty cousin aforemen-
tioned@ She hadn't had patience to wait
thatl nlght-a husband and several Of
I've branches precluded that. How. Iheni
| say ''my baby" a stately and radian,ly
b autIful woman. She called me major
--; she treated me in the most pre-
else and formal way-tile uiteatuost Favor
she bestowed upon me was the shghtes
possible touch OF the fingers as she bada
me goodnight, or good morning, and
saw her hourly in her idolizlug father.
arms, LAYING tho terdsres, caresses upoI
hun. Would have It otherwise No
There was dearer deligh, in reserve
with whIck | was tfealrd--the laintes
flush that Golored- her cheek when | wa.
near her, or addressed her, had for IN,
an lneHpressible sweetness, that woull
not have battered foI au4h on eartt
short OF what | evidently obta med
What you don't mean to say that you
a scared Old veteran OF thirty or forty
dared-dldn't /? Hum and this was tht
way 1t was done. Il. my military capac
ny, was invited to West Point went
and my friend and his daughter accompa
MED me. | sat beside her in The cars
The happy old gentleman, at a Iittle dis
tance, read diligently. | said,
"Perdida, you have travelled this roaC
before with me; do you recall this seen
cry at all
She blushed scarlet, and looked a, mi
beseechingiy. | went on
ITO think what heavy, hungry, un
pacified baby OF t1a, day, and the way ia,
poor cadet $. humanity was ridiculed =
The tears Stated, and-the young LADY
at nay side bowed her haugry head
And the worst feature IN the case i
that he has never had any suitable recon-
pense.- A good deed is It's own recom
pense, 10 a certain degree, Of course; bu
IN this case every feeling Of MY soul, ev
cry fibre of my heart demands something
more and great something more, Per
dIda my darling, these seventeen year,
/ have lost you to your father; bu, can
not bear it. Beg -nerous. Here, where
| found my baby. give her back TO me.
Sha raised her head q.
My darling, don't -srfle. Am. I e
have you g.
Ny young lady answered not. Iustead
she occupied herself in deliberately draw
ing off her glove. Then she turned tt
me.
"Since you will be troubled" and she
laid her bare hand IN mine. Nj again
Shortly after we were married | car
ried Perdsda, during our wedding tour, L
the friends l had found for her and me il
the cars, seventeen years before unt
this time righ, reverenty kissed the hanC
that had then so sweely rendered wha
has now become my earthly all.