Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-01-08

! Minnie with quick and hasty steps, N-i1A-
cd her chamber floor until after midnight,
with these words upon her lips
9" He is false he is false he is false Oh,
my father. she has deceived you, and he has
deceived mel, Repeating them over and
over until with exhaustion she sank upon
| the he'd and fell asleep.
LOttie in her room, also walked tue foo~.
but look of triumph, Of victory, broke
| over her face. Thus was her revenge work
| ing complete. She knew Minnie would tell
her father the whole proceeding Of the
night, and she 6oubted not the Colonel
would turn them both from the house
then could she ezclaim, Behold my victory
and in her happiness she seized her pen and
added all tie particulars of the day to the
| Journal which she had kept ever since she
! came to Forrest Grove, and she also noted
! the many things that she must Go on the
/ following day, then placed II in its usual
place, under lock and key, Better for
! thee, Lottie didst thou not note thy bold
/ plottings, foT BY that only can thou be be
trayed.
Morning dawued. and the family were all
brough, together at the morlhng meal, but
| a more di5consolate looking assembly never
before assembled at the table of Mr.. Pierce
/ Not a word was spoken except cold good
morning, except by the Colonel and Lottie
The former saw something was the matter.
but said nothing, confident that the day
would clear it up. Lottie saw it and vas
| pleased.
! After breakfast, Frederic sought Minnie,
/ rrho was awaiting him in the parlor
! "B9autiful Minnie, what troubles you
this morning? Surely You should tell your
promised husband all your sorrow, if in
deed there be any, for have a pleasant
surprise and happy secret to disclose"
" 5Ir. Mason it Is already disclosed You
are free from your engagement With nc,
) .-stn. ms alonent.- -'.--s
With a cold nod she as,v rather than
walked from tine room and went directly f.
Lo;te's room. Not finding her there in ihc
excitement Of the moment she took up
pretty little book which was lying upon the
table. What is it that Causes her eyes to
fash, her lips to culver and her whole body
to sway to and fro Ayl she has found
the fatal Journal, which Lottic in a moment
Of anxiety to know what was going on be
low, had foolishly left lying exposed, and aS
She reads on through the dark deeds Of Lot
tie, and reads her JOY over what she terms
her triumph, 4 cry, loud and strong, and
! Al 4 7
caused those down below to rush wildly up
stairs the Colonel and wife, Frederic and
Lottie.
Yes, she had found that which Lottie
would have given her life to prevent. and
as she read page after page did she see how
cruelty she had wrongcd that lovely being
whom she had been allowed to call mother
I Oh, how she longed to rush forward and on
bended knees beg forgiveness for her cruelty:
, aid as she heard the steps upon the stairs
5 she excleimed-
Oh, my beautiful mama, my own dear
= Freddie, you as well as well as myself have
t been deceivedl"
} Lottie with cry Of anger, rushed forward
and would have suatched the Journal from
, Minnie, had not Frederic reached and taken
4 1t first.
1 Then and there was all revealed Em-
$ ma and Minnie in each others arms, forgot
T and forgave the past. Freddie and Mimic
e again renewed the broken engagement,
o while the Colonel looked on with tears ot
= JOY rolling down MS face; and then Freddie
began his story, It was simply this;
e CAT the age Of ten, 1 started from my
< home to cross the river and 90 to school,
r | The vessel was burned and almost within
Il sight of the shore, and every person was re.
d ported to have persisted. But l escaped
t with one other man named Mason, frienG
: of Mrs Lamott's. I was educated by Ma
Y son. who was a wealthy man, and took m,
;. as his adopted son, whom lived with un
t til he died. l remember my sister and m,
t father, my mother having died when l wa,
5 a little child. 1 remember sister Emma
5. who was Two years older than myself.
it know her by a scar across her cheek, whicl
I although very slight, still could be reconi-
O zed, 1t was by that alone that alone that
knew her.
.' No wonder you should faint, after fin
h ding brother whom you supposed to b
t, dead, - said Minnie.
n They were all there was of the family
rs father died before Emma was married.