Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-17
plendid bridal preparations strove tc
orget that Hnnh Hamilton existod

little spark of malice in his heart; Just
enough to prompt the question, "Does
she love him?' and being assured that
the bridegroom elect had presented his
fair finance with set Of diamonds of
fabulous splendor, he said, ITO be sure
she does, while wicked little smile
stroye to be seen, but was effectually lost
in the dark ambush of his moustache.
SO he concluded to go to Europe
He was rich and perfectly able to close
his Office, and take little pleasure at
last, after SO many years of labor; and it
had been one oft many dreams of his
life to travel in, the old world. s..
Five years fed rapidly away. Under
the sunny skies of Italy; amid the
gayeties of Paris, that whirlpool of
Europe; up and down the flowing Rhine;
now floating lazily along in gondola
through the sparkling streets of ''beau-
tiful Venice and then supping with
the monks Of st. Bernard under the
| mighty shadows of the cloud capped
Alps. 'ae--rs -4.
But it was over at last, and never was
there a sadder heart than Hugh Hamil-
ton carried that night as he sat in the
loneliness of his long deserted office.
Here was his home-here all that the
world held dear to him, and how desc
late it all was! His heart sbrunk from
entering society again ON the old heart
less footing of years. gone by, because
he felt that it was all false, for under
meath the cold exterior that Hugh Ham
ilton always wore, beat heart as warm
and loving as any woman's Ohl for a
home--oh! for warm hearts to welcome
him for what he was, good and noble
man! this was the burden of his weary
dream, as hour after hour of that lonely
night went ON. ryEl,s ~ n..sa-sgzs'
Il wish 1 had accepted Ned's invita-
tion," he thought, at last, as the memory
of an old familiar face fitted before him.
Ned Leonard and Hugh Hamilton
had been college chums, and had not
met for years until the day before they
had rode together ON the ears some two
hundred miles, and renewed all the old
friendship of long ago. Ned was mar
Fried now, and discoursed SO eloquentGy
of Caddy and the children, and gave
him such a pressing invitation to 60
home with him then and there, that
Hugh Hamilton could scarcely resist:
and now he was wishing that he had
gone. '-'-'--~] ..-t -'+
He takes card from his case and
reads, CDR. Ned Leonard, Glenacre;n
and he looks at his watch, finds that it
is already morning, so he goes out and
locks the door after him; and not one of
his old friends sitting in their offices
next door that day, dream that the alb
sentee kept weary watch there all
through the long and silent night Just
past.
That was the way that Hugh Hamil-
ton came to Glenacre, because he was
tired of the world at large, and Of him.
self IN particular. 1t was enough to eff
tectually rouse any dormant energies
just to hear Ned Leonard welcome, and
to see him shake up the babies and in
troduce them, one after another, to the
number of eight or nine, that first even
ing Of his arrival. . aa a,e -rs
That night, as Hugh Hamilton laid
his head down upon the daintily frilled
pillows in Mrs. Ned Leonard's best
chamber, he voted that little lady 'twife
among million;' and Ned the 'shappi-
est dog in existence #
How happily the days flew away
Hugh Hamilton hunted and fshed,
lounged away the hours in Ned's office,
or read to Caddy while she made the
most endless number of pinafores, that
ever fell to the lot of mortal woman to
make before. 4 4 -T l
1t was in this same Office of Ned Leon
ards that Hugh Hamilton met his des-
tiny. -
Sitting there one day, after Ned had
gone out on round of professional Wis
its, deep in one of his olden time dreams,
thinking of all that Ned had been telling
him, how he had wooed and won Caddy
Raymond years before, Hugh Hamilton
saw passing before his window the
brightest little fairy that eyes ever be-
held. -,-.. -.. -.-t.f- -..
1t was strange for one that had dwelt
among the dark-eyed daughters of Italy,
and the beautiful of every land, to see in
such wee child as this something to
love; but so it was. s.s... -a.
Day after day, Hugh Hamilton learned
to watch for that little fitting figure that
went SO thoughtlessly up and down,
reading aloud, or singing to herself as
she went, careless as any bird by the
wayside, sometimes swinging her hat by
one string as she tripped along and
sometimes hanging it on her arm, while
her nimble fingers wrote out some of the
exercises for the next days lesson.
Hugh Hamilton would have died
sooner than ask Ned Leonard who she
was; for he was such an incorrigible tor
ment, there was no knowing what he
might do; so he watched and waited.
That she was one of the school girls
he already knew, and that her name
was Grace he had just found out; and
so, when he sat down to tea that even
ing, after having kept it waiting full an
hour, he set Ned Leonard off into fit
of laughter that was really dangerous to
behold, by calling Caddy "Grace' two
or three times, and then blushing like
any girl because Ned laughed at him.
The next evening, Hugh Hamilton S
divinity came alone ON her homeward
way, studiously reading along, and, being
very much pre-occupied, she did not OBJ
serve that she had dropped one Of her
books, until a very musical voice said
just behind her, miss Lee, allow me to
return your property, you dropped this
a moment ago." Thanks to the fy-leaf
: whereon was written the owners name
7 and to the finders presence of mind
that tempted him to glance therein and
| read it.
Grace Lee looked wonderingly up into
the dark eyes looking SO eagerly dowr
. uDou her. and with iust the brightest