Litchfield enquirer., 1860-07-19

NeW ! OfK too late 10 nnd her, ana leIl America at once--as he supposed forever In Europe, years afterwards, he had met . servant who had been with him, during his brief married life, and who declared to him positively that his child was not dead at the date on which the women had written him but further than that he could not say as he had followed the fortunes of another mas ter The unhappy father sought vainly for the woman, and now returned as a last means to America. He described the child's nurse. It was the woman who ehad aban. doned her child in my arms, and the face was the changed, aged one of Perdida's minia. ture. Not many days thereafter, restored to my friend his'so early lost child, and gave up my baby to her rightful father.
 Without pang? Yes. Did console myself with the pretty cousin aforemen- toned ? She hadn't had patience to wait, that I might---a husband and several olive branches precluded that. How, then? I saw my baby stately, radiantly beautiful woman. She called me Major, and 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 good night or good morning, aud 1 saw her hourly in her idolizing fathers arms, lavlshing the tenderest caresscs upon him. Would have it otherwise No. There was dearer delight in the reserve with which l was treated-the faintest flush that colored her cheek when I was near her or addressed her, had for me an inexpressible sweetness that l wouldn't have bartered for aught on earth short of what I eyentu- ally obtained. What ! you don't mean that ycu scared old veteran Of between thirty and forty, dared. Didn't l. Hum And this was the way of it. In my military ca pacity was invited to West Point. l went, and my friend and his daughter accompa- nieG me. sat beside her in the cars The happy old gentleman, at little distance, read diligently l said
 "Pcrdida you have travelled this route before with me do you recall this scenery at all 2"
 She blushed scarlet, and looked at mo besecchingly l went on.
 "To think what heavy, unpacifiable ba- by carried on that day, and the way that poor cadets humanity was ridiculed !"
 The tears started, and the young lady at my side bowed her naughty head.
 Y" And the worst feature in the case is that he has never had any recompense A good deed is it's own reward, to certain degree, of course but in this case every feeling of my soul, every fibre of my heart demands something more-and great some thing more. Perdida my darling, after these seventeen years, l have lost you to your father but ] cannot bear it. Be gen. erous. Here here where found my ba- by give, o give her back to me l"
 She raised her head.
 eff she were as much trouble now as then ?"
 "My darling, don't triAc! Am to have you 7"
 My young lady answered net. Instead she occupied herself with deliberately draw ing off her glove. Then she turned to me,
 "Since you will be troubled," and she laid her barred hand ill mine. Mine again.
 Shortly after we were married. l carried Perdda during our wedding tour to the friends had found for her and me in the cars seventeen years before and this time right reverently kissed the gracious hand that had then so swcetly tended what was HOW becoming my earthly all.