The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-08-16

night, and said that hadn't thought as
yet about marrying.
| when | went to the school house the
next day at twelve o'clock, found Ellen
crying. Mother had not lost moment !;
she had been there before school began,
and rated Ellen fearfully. and told her she
should not have her son. Mother made
quite a different story to fathers as she
always does, about our money. She said
that father had been doing more than
well for many a long year. and that there
Was deal stored mp for me, and that
was like to be rich man >ome day if |
had my senses, and that it Wasn't fit
should marry any one with nothing (she
meant with no money! to bring me.
~ Ellen was as surprised at any talk Of
marrying as | had been. We had only
thought Of our love. If did marry her,
mother said, father had made up his mind
J t1 turn JDr Y6IjIt
i said would gladly bear thar for her
sake. But She took it quite differently.
She said she dare not break our family in
N-i>s~~, ',>>&S'.5A -, y =" ~ - ~
: thcr, VITO married against his fathers and
mothers will, and had got into bad ways,
and was at last transported; and that her
father died of shame and gricf, and her
mother had never known Il happy hour
, since. She would MT be persuaded 10y
any Of my reasons. She would speak OF
nothing but nv obedience to father and
mother and ali could get her to do was
to let me come that day week and see if
she would change, after thinking it over
in all its length aud breadth.
AT last, when that day came, called
upon her for the last time, without any
hope. The first thing She told me was,
that she had cnchYri hets toe =, VSSt
with the Missionary Bishop Of Raleigh's 5
I.11&' At,e reS,1oei TO zee tsc atty rt,ute.
She said that She could not bear another
meeting; that God had given her a duty
now, and would punish her if she shrank
from it. She told me that she woLld new
er cease to love me and made her prom
ise-for | was almost mad, sir-that if
she repentcd what she was now doing,
soon or atc-in a day, or in ten, or TWEEN,
| ty, or thirty years, evcn--that she would
write to me, and tell me to come and, il
/ | were alive, should be waiting for her
wanted to give her something for IL
( remembrance; but she wouldn't take any.
thing could think of. vt last, after
had gone on begging her for a long time
to choose something or other, she said
- should like that dog Of yours better
than anything, James, if | may have it. -
1t will make me think so of you, and ii
will take care of me for YOU She would
! contend to the last, sir, that it would come
all right between uS some day
Here James was forced to stop, for the
noble fellow had half Sobbrd and half
spoken the last words waited for some
time in respectful silence, and then said
by Gods special appointing, have
little doubt, she chose the dog. The dog
will unite you again.
But it is dead, SIR
/ Yes, but its message is alive. She is
still saying to you the words on the dog
paper My own dear. She is still an.
/ swering to all your questions aud doubts
= will, | wiln You see that if the
dog had livcd-but wound you to say
this-she would be your wife.
All, sir, she meant that when she
wrote it, perhaps, just at the moment o
going away, when the misery was fresh
But I'm afraid, sir, she now thinks it al
excitement, and has settled down quietly
to her duty before her where She is
We had reached the parsonage gate by
this time, aud James had said the las,
words W:iiic my iaiidS were on the ia;ch
had immrtiatr business OF another sort
81 cnnId not ask him to come in. | an
pointed a time for Tin, however, in III,
evening, and promiSed to think over I'll,
course 10 be adopted; probably, said, .
letter from myself to the Bishop, and an
other to Ellen
James Dawes then left me. Catching
wildly at the hope had put before him
Il little Of his Oh cheer came back into hi.
face. !, for my part, began to be aslamc,
somewhat of my Wanted intuition, in no
having caught at the nine months sine,
! Ellen $ departure, nor put that with til,
nine mouths of my friends. wa.
somewhat less hopeful about the effect q
u letter to the Bishop than had fcignet
| to be. was ut college with Bishop Burke
He was there known aS thorough Roman
"ot f"r his doctYinal or ritnal bent, but fo
! his fearful love of law, order, strictneSs-
his rc5o'ute preaching Of obedience, of tn,
immutabiiity Of covenants and the like
| began to apprchend that the main ligh
in which he would regard the whole mat
ter would be thiS-that Ellen mad sacredl,
devoted herself to certain work for
certain term Of years, and that no repent
ance could dissolve the obligation.
CHAPTER III.
You may guess my surprise good read
cr, when, ON asking for MY letters, tiu
maid brought me only one, and that seal
ed with his lord>hip'S wc!.known seal.
soon had it opened and read as follows
'IoNGrA BrsrA, Ralcigh's Island,
August 2Sth, 1860.
'REv. SIR, We arrived i;erc n w,rI
ago. ne rarpenEcy, !he shyee ,::crayuc,
and myself have Sl.rut the whole Of ou
time, as yet, in putting up our little ca
thcdral hut.
Il have been exceedingly diSappointc,
with the young lady who was lately mis-
treSS OF your girls school, and whom ac
ccPtcti chiefly on your testimonial. r,
do her justice, she is in character and fit
ness everything we could desire in ou
urgent and difficult work she has mas
tered two of our languages on the lon!
voyage out. But it seems that she cad !
lover in your village, most estimabl
young man, whom she (ooiShly, and OF
quite insufficient grounds, rejected. 4,
him, it tscems, she is under engagement, OF
the first motion of repentance, to signir,
the same to him. This she is now doin.
6y letter which will arrive in England
trust, with this. But she is in great dis
trcSs, because she had already done So
IN strange manner-in previous letter
to which she has had no answer. The
young man presented her at parting with
lavorite dog of his. She placed a letter
within the collar of this dog, and sent him
from London by train, with orders that he
should be put out at GliSthorpe station.
We none of us knew anything of this no.
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