Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1861-02-21

AS the last word OF the song died away,a
quick, manly step was heard on the walk
The next instant, shadow darkened the door,
and voice, which caused Euloeens heart to
thrill to It's very centre, exclaimed in & dad
tones,
80, Eulie Eule, darling have found
you at last?'
She rose, trembling all over with joyful emo
ton, and sprngiog forward, was quickly folded
in the arms Of Gerald Earle.
In that blisslul meeting, every sorrow was
forgotten all the weary months chat had ilo"n
since they prtod, and even the knowledge that
she was now bound by the chains Of Slavery,
had passed from Enoeens mind, in the rap
turous thought that he had followed her--ho
,oqs still true to her. At last, she raised her
happy face to his and whispered,
80, forgive me- Gerald, that | have ever
wrongcd you with a doubt Of your love. Can
you do 50?
Willingly dearest, he replied, pressing
his ips iondly to hers. " But SIT down here,
and tell me all that has passed. and seating
themselves, be drew her head again to his boz
som. and then seeing her changed appearance,
for grief and sickness had wasted her once
round eheek.-he added :" how the storm has
p4led your lovely cheek Come closer to this
heart and tell me all youi woes
Tell me first ho,c you happened to come
dare not talk, lest YOU will slip away from
me, as YOU always do when dream Of you, il
| speak to you"
but | slould not Do 50 now for. Eulie we
must never part again Shall 80 back to the
} time we parted ?"
20 "Ycs, tell me all, every thought you have
u had since tb.n.'
n We'll, then, for a while after vent home'
yonr letter. came regularly, but finally you was
ID silent. and though wrote again and again,
70 ., received no reply 0, Eulic, why did you
VI leave it for Others to write me, that after the
story had become known that your mother was
~ - slave, you had lee. yaur heme fareseF2 ? Why
no did you not write me yourself
by 40. did, Gerald !" she cried starting up
ed 81 did write you Immediately after knew II
o' myself telling you all, and releasing you ir0"
v your engagement.
ho 81 never received such letter, or any let
cn ter. until. having concluded to 90 down and sec
ne you, to learn ,chy you did not write, lette
nu was placed in my hand from Rupert Finland
lie stating all that had been learned about you
H. parentage and then adding that you had de
W. ceNed them all with the idea that yon wa
- going away from home to teach music, and the
~ fed, never to return with man you intende
to marry
ef 90, Father in Heaven " exclaimed the az
e" tonished girl And you believed such tai
eih as that of me, Gerald? " she asked
.''e - No, Eulic, ,couH not, could not unit
Aeu went down to the Hall, and there Mrs Me-
10 lyn showed me a letter from you, which 81
if' found the next morning after you left, in whic
." you said you was going to marry him, ar
so' bade her write me to that effect. e"
.reo Never, nercr did | write such letter.
le'- Gerald it was not my writing
heh &" [ have since been led to believe it was no
or never should have been here; but it W
an exact imitation of your hand Mrs, Me-
lyn am now convinced, wrote it. But The
when every one else in the house seemed to
leye it was true, O, Eulie though my hea
me plead strongly against it, was forced to belle
mo- that it must be true, and with breaking hei
had | returned home, where, alter relating what
the had ear:od to uncle, he told me to forget y
used as soon as possible and as Mrs. Merlyn h
IS re, told me that you confessed to her, after l.
Fa- ties letters were read, that you had known I'll
! ii she was your mother for years but kept 1t
ltent Yourself lest should not marry you ii kn
~ it, was forced to believe that you had {
ming ceiyed me, that you had nercr loved me, u
had therefore tried to forget you But Eul
her it was all in vain, and as time passed on,
hie; that there was soma mystery which would
ular be cleared up whcn you returaed to the III
litar, for could not give up the idea but that )
,soud come back Still, my own true. hear
Euli, to blast my vision Of joy to come, we
follow the thought she is already the wife
n a,other. And thus few weeks passed,
then came letter from Mrs. Croydon, say
that she had overheard some conversation
tween Rupert and his mother, which conyin
her, bcyon "A doubt, that they had deceived
that YOU was not married but that
was in Kentucky somewhere, either teael