The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-07-31

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" no. her husband is dead"
"Ah /! but still she never thinks Of SAM"
There was dead silence.
docs she ?"
g How can tell 7"
Are you still friends 7"
YES
Then you ought to know, and you do.
Tell me-"
I'm sure I don't know why should.
But if | do, you must promise me. on your
honor, never to tell him, il you ever meet
him again"
MADAM, what you say to me never shall
be repeated to any mortal nan, upon my
honor"
Well, then, she does remember him."
= But how y
AS kindly, think, as he could wish"
8 am glad 10 hear il for his sake. You
and are the friends OF both parties we can
rejoice with each other
lie drew his chair much nearer hers. and
took her hand. One moment the widow re-
sisted, but II was a magnetic touch, the rosy
palm lay quietly in his, and the dark beard
bent SO low that it nearly touched her shoul-
der. Il did not matter much. Was he not
Samuel's dear friend Ii he was not the
rose, had he not dwelt very near it, for a
long time :"
1T was a foolish quarrel that parted
Them" said the stranger, softly.
q Did he tell YOU about it I"
" Yes, on board the whaler."
- Did he blame her much:n
Not 80 much as himself. He said that
his jealousy and ill temper drove her "a
break Off the match bur he thought some.
times il he had only gone back and spoken
kindly to her, she would have married him
after all"
Il am sure she WOULD said the widow
piteously. !" She has owned it TO me more
than thousand times"
"She was not happy, then, with another
Mr.-that is TO say, her husband-wa,
very good and kind" said The little woman
thinking Of the lonely grave out on the hill.
side rather penitently, "and they lived yer,
pleasantly together. There never was !
harsh word between them
Stili-mlght she not have been happier
with Sam: BE honest, now, and say jus
what you think"
Yes"
Bravo that il what | wanted to come
at. And now have i secret 10 tell you
aud YOU must bresk il to her."
Mrs. Minards looked rather scared.
What is il 7"
Il want YOU to 20 and see her, wherever
he may be, and say 70 her, Maria, '-Wha
makes YOU start 20 :"
Nothing only you speak 80 like sons
/ one used 10 know, once ID awhile"
dol Well, take the rest Of the mes
sage. Tell her that Sam loved her through
/ the whole that when he heard she was free
be began 10 work hard at making fortune
\ lie has rot ii ; aud he is coming 10 share i
with her, II she will LEI him. Will you tel
/ her this ~
/ The widow did not answer, She hat
freed her hand from bis. and covered he
face with ii. By and BY she looked up agaii
-he was waiting patiently.
Welt"
Il will tell her"
lie rose from his seat, and walked UP an,
down the room. Then he came back. and
i leaning on the mantei-piece, stroked III,
yellow hide Of Boase with his slipper.
Make her quite understand that hi
wants her for his wife. She mas live wher
likes, and how She likes, only i must b
with him."
II will tell her"
:" Say be has grown old, but not cold tha
he loves her nov perhaps better than lie di'
twenty years ago; that he has been faithful
10 her al through hi life. and that lie vii
be faithful ill be dies"
The Californian broke of suddenly I'll
widow answered still, Il will tell her"
And what DO you think she will ssy i
he asked, III an altered tone.
" What can she ~ but-loms'
"IIurrah."
The stranger caught her out II her chat
a. III she had been 4 child, and kissed her.
I" Don't-eh, don't" she cried out. "
am SAM Maria y
1 " WE'LL am Maria's sam"
OF vent tie dark viz and Tie black shis
kers.-there smiled the dear face she hal
never forgotten leave YOU 70 lnagin
the tablcau; even the cat got up u look
and BoWsc at pn his stump 81 i tail. an
wondered II he vas ~ his heels Of his head
Tie widow gave une little scream, and thcl
She
4 But, stop. Quiet people like you and M
who have rot over all these fDllies, aud ca
do nothing but turn up our noses IL them
have NJ business here. will only add Tia
two hearts we're very happy. iha, Bosse con
! cluded after awhile that All was right, an
% laid dnwn 20 sleep again, and that On
week Afterwards there was wedding al III
house that made the neighbors stare. Th
widow had married her FIRST Love
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