Shreveport daily news., 1861-09-05

inquired Arnold with look of un-
speakable earnestness.
LIT is," rejoined the other calmly.
"Then God help mel" exclaimed
the youth, rushing out of the house
in phrenzied despair.
Elizabeth had overheard the con-
vcrsation betwixt her father and Ar
mold. and with him had felt the fair
est hopes Of life blasted in .cne brief
hour. She now stepped gently out OF
the house and followed her lover,
who directed his steps towards the
clurch-yard, with the design Of once
more watering the cold turf which
covered his fathers remains with his
tears before he set out OH a long and
uncertain pilgrimage.
The youth was bending over the
grave when Elizabeth approached.
" Arnold Arnold!" she exclaimed,
flinging her arms around his neck {;
"Oh it must not, cannot be, my Ar
uold! Wei part not thus !"
Elizabeth, l must ! ,Forbear !!
You break my heart-but must go!'
"And will my Arnold never return
again?"
Elizabeth, ] will do all that man
can do in my circumstances. livery
moment of my time will devote to
that purpose for which alone l now
live. Within three years will l re-
turn, if the grave has not closed over
me ere they elapse. Will you con-
tinue true to me :"
True till DEATH" " replied Eliza
beth firmly.
=" Even though your father should
strive to compel you?"
=" Even though they should drag me
to the ALTAR"
"Then part we now in hope +!
Elizabeth, at the end OF three years
thou art mine! Till then, farewell''
Arnold stopped and imprinted a
kiss on the weeping maiden's fore
head then tore himself from her arms,
and plungedinto the darkness of the
night,
CHAP. ".
Early every morning Elizabeth
visited the spot where she had last
parted with Arnold, and her father
chided her not for so doing, because
he reckoned it only a girlish fancy
which would soon be lost sight Of
when new object presented itself to-
her imagination. a. year had passed
away in this manner, and greatly to
Elizabeth's satisfaction, 30 new suiter
had vet announced himself But to-
wards the end of the second year,
Eperson who had left the village in
extreme .indigence in early life, re-
turned in very apulent circumstances.
Hans Heiling, rs he was called, had
travelled, or affirmed that he had done
SO, through a great many countries;
and in addition to his apparently
limitless wealth, he possessed an in
exhaustible store of anecdotes and
marvellous narratives, which so en-
deared him to old Veit, that every
evening seemed to him unexpectedly
tedious if Hans did not spend some
hours OF it by his tireside. The neigh
bours indeed shook their heads at
many of Hans relations, and there
was also something unaccountablv
mysterious in his disappearance every
Friday; but Veit was upon the whole
so we'll satisfied with his new neigh
Dor, that when he made formal propo-
sails to him for his daughters hand,
he intimated that if he could make
himself agreeable to the girl herself,
he had no objections to the match.
AS for Elizabeth, she, as may well be
supposed, hated the very sound of his
name; and at his approach her blood
seemed to herself to freeze within her
veins. Hans Heiling was the only
one of Gods creatures whom she de-
tested-the only human being in
whose presence she felt unhappy.
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