Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-06-08

pect for few days at least, to be free from
the troublesome presence of Leland Ray
mond. He came in last night, while you
were gone TO see Mrs. Martin, and sought
TO get my consent to correspond with him
in his absence, as he was going away early
this morning to be gone long time. OF
course firmly refused, and then he pre-
tended TO be very sorrowful and called me
cold-hparted and cruel, despised his
meaningless words, and so i left the room.
If you knew how much / dislike him. you |
would not wonder that am happy now that
| suppose he is gone"
~ don't wonder in the least my child, and
only hope these annoying attentions have
now ceased forever" said the mother"
al hope so too" said LilibeI, Z" for shall
and must hasten or else be late" added
she, taking her hat, and with loving smile
she left the house. Tenderly did Mrs. Ran
dali watch tie form of her daughter until
she disappeared around the corner. And
why was il Il at the mother brushed a tear
from her eve as she resumed her work
Was it that coming events cast their shad-
ow before them? We cannot tell, but GER
tain il is that she was restless all that morn
ing, and ere the clock struck twelve found
herself looking for Lilibel.
"Wnere is Lily ?" asked father and
sons, in nearly the same voice, as they came
in to dinner.
! "She hasn't come yet" answered her
! mother, her voice half trembling, she scarcely
! knew why.
That is strange. She almost invariably
: meets US at the door," said Edward.
an Just run over to the school-room
and see what the trouble is. / can't eat
until know" said Lucius hastily going out.
= The others did not sit down to their din
ner but in silence waited the return of Lu-
cius, fearing that something had happened
Z to their favorite. Great indeed, was their
y astonishment and sorrow when he returned
! saying that she had not been to the school.
room that day. She would not have gone
: to neignbor's to spend her time, they
= said, no could she have got lost. Ther
u where, oh where, should their darling bt
h found? Inquiries were Immediately made
She had been seen to pass Mrs. AS shoI
le as usual on her way to school, and that wa
y the last known of her.
n =" Did no other girl pass nearly the sam
is time with Lilibel?" asked Lucius of Mr.
y A., thinking she might possibly have gon
- with some one to visit sick friend.
Fl 81 think not" said Mrs. A., " and now
remember, it was only few minutes afte
% she passed that you came along in a ca
bo riage. Didn't you see her?"
.;r "Me? no, it wasn't me for I was in th
to shop until dinner time!" exclaimed 1t
II cius, and then, as though struck by SON
>. sudden thought he walked rapidly hom
IA ward.
;s Gone, gone said he in tones of IL
,b most bitter anguish, a moment after as /
,o entered his home. j would rather Lii
IL would be dead than be where ! fear she
ed now.'
l. Why, what hare you learned I" aske
be his mother, deathly pallor overspreadin
re her features. Lucius then went on TO re
ev late what Mrs A. had said. and concludin
,;r this by his own conviction that it was Ii
" land Raymond, that Mrs. A. had taken
nt way had taken Lilibel, and ere she wa
: aware of it, had made her escape imposs
no BILE. This was soul-torturing though
IL but, seek as they would, they could nj
q drive it from their minds. Lilibel must b
be rescued, was then the all-pervading though
no of the whole family. But how should the
be accomplish this object? If, as they e,
pected, Raymond had taken her, they migl
. be in some remote part of their own cit,
in the United States, or hieing to some on
ofthe-way country place, where their da
- ling might suffer every conceivable tortur
r., and perhaps be left TO die of a broken hear
: Wherever she was, they knew that 81
must be miserable; and oh, how unutter
=. bly, deep was the anguish of their hear
10 while they thought of their loved one
the slave of one of their most Litter en-
mics, one whose very presence had alwa,,
=, been loathsome to her purer nature. NJ
tner the parents or brothers gave ther
Il, selves any rest until every part of the
own city hnd been thoroughly searched, al
messengers were dispatched to the neis
boring towns and cities. But vain, va
ties was all this search. Lilibcl could not
md found, and the great power of their liviI
ind grief came to them like the burning la
till of an immense volcano, sweeping avn
eir and burying every bright anticipation of
the ture bliss; Libel was gone, and with h
nd had flown their joy, their peace.
sed TO De CONTINUED.
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