Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-04-07

night, Ida"
Let US part friends"
Friends? Eh? Friends What docs
that mean? Not enemies Z"
More thar that, Charles Let us part
friends -
Not enemies - answered tho young man,
as be coldly received in his own her soft hand
with which she warmly claSpcd his " | can
never hate thee. When | die, Ida, your i'm
age will be found cngraven upon my Utmost
heart Good night If | never more speak
to thee, do not imagine hate thee. But
can never look again upon the form which is
possessed by my rival Good night"
He left the gate and walked rapidly onward.
She impulsively followed him half dozen
steps, but seeing he paid no attention to her
pursuing feet, though hcmuSt have heard then.
upon the pavement, she stopped, claSpcd her
hands together upon her bosom, sighed hcav-
lily and said, "Oh that | had before known
how Charles loved me. IIct he never .cl!Id .c!I
his love. lie was so ditidout and distant
while N.iIam pressed his suit with much
fcror. Poor Charles, wish he could un.
derstand that / love him as friend, though
| William is my husband"
Wi-po-will, wipo-will !" cried in plant.
i've notes, whippoorwill, in the top of a
nciS SuUOIlUS lIcc.
:" What a dolcful cry. This birds note
sounds ominously, and makes me feel fear p
| she said, as she returned slowly to the gate.
"Thcy say it sings thus only when some evil
is to happen to the hcarcr Shall | 60 in, or
wait for William" ?" she soiloquizcd, as she
fingered by til gate, held half open in her
hand, +" He was to be here at nine o clock,
and the bell for nine will soon ring"
The VOunp trrl with n form bnurt-- E, - el,o
loved both lovers (but William most and ten
dcrest, having also pledged him her hand,
heart and troth)-lingclcd long after the nine
o'clock bell had rung, for William had PROM
sed her he would come at nine. With every
note OF the bell she expected to hear blended
the sound of his tootstcp. Halfpast nine
came, and her mother came out to her, and
said. Ida, you ought to be in, dear
Where is William ?"
Not come yet, mother. | wonder what
has detained him"
Perhaps some engagement. You know
he is but clerk, and hasn't his time to him
self, poor young man, as Mr.. Rcdington has,
who is rich. must confess Ida, am sur
priSod you Should have selected the poor
one"
Gle selected me- mother"
But you know that on the least cncour-
ogcmcnt the richer would have asked you"
did not encourage him because he was
rich. | could not trust myself [ feared
that [ might be thinking of his fortune, so
let the one who first offered have my hand"
Well, William is a good young man and
will make you happy. But you know my
opinion. would rather you had married
Mr.. Redington That fine house his mother
lives in would have been yours at her death
with carriage and all that"
Don't talk of such things, mother They
do not come into my thoughts. / shall be
perfectly happy with William. And since /
have seen the exhibitions of anger aud feeling
shown by Charles this evening" see he has
fearful temper, which might have made me
wrctched as lis WIFE
We'll, come in, dear children. It's full
a quarter of ten Honest people ought to be
in bed by half an hour after bcl-rnging"
| will come in soon dear mamma. |
think VILLAIN will be here by ten. will
just meet him at the gate here, and say Aood
night to him. lie was to bring me we'd
ding.rng."
We'll at ten you must come in. Tie your
handkerchief over your head Ida, for feel
the dew"
Ten was struck by the old clock in the
house, but Ida's lover had not come. She
waited till tea minutes past, when slowly and
wondcringly she returned to the house.
lie has never failed me before, she said,
but perhaps something has detained him. 1t
canio5 bC tha:, row that nm nnrnucd to him,
he loves me less, and thinks he need not be so
| punctual to his engagements us if he was not
sure of me, and was trying to win my CON
sent :"
How sensitive, how jealous, how exacting
is true love-
Ida rc-cntcrcd the house, and by and by re.
tired, but not until all hope of seeing William
that night had expired.
In the morning she dreamed dream. She
believed that she was walking arm n-arm with
William by the side of river when mcr-
maid rose before them out of the water, and
said, in harsh voice, 20 Come have waited
for you You must so with me . My home in
the depths of the river is ready !"
She thought that the mermaid so fascina-
ted William, that he left her side and went,
as by a rcsistless spell, to the syrcn, who was
about to entwnc her arms about him, when
some one cried, as if from the air, " Fire, and
sioy her, orshc will destroy him /"
She heard at that moment report, as if
from behind her, and she saw William, with
Il wound in his forehead, fall with him into
'ho arn.s of the syren, who plunged with him
=; 70 river ,"nd disappeared. There was a
,n.o .n, u. ~h bend her, and she thought
the voice m, soandoo like t."t of Charles Red
in9ton She turned to . e III i '0"i' "c'o