Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-11-13
full of golden lights, and tender brown shad

full of golden lights, and tender brown sha
ows-her curls no longer
@Please give me one to keep" she pleade
with wishful eagerness. The French woma
' smilingIy tossed one across the counter; sh
( was in good humor with herself; she had mad
5 decided bargain.
And AriaI, not even daring to look in th
glass, crept away; the hard earned money i
ber pocket, and the curl held 10 her heart a
if it had been living thing.
''Is be asleep. Marian p
"Miss Arial. is it possible that this is you |?
%Myself, Marian Hush don't wake him
here are :he twenty dollars. Don't detain me
pray. it's late" -- --
But, Miss Arial, bow-where-O, sec
now-your hair, your beautiful brown cuTls
are gone. o, Miss Arial. how could you p
Pooh ~ said Arial, lightly, chair will grow
again. Do you suppose value my silly curls
beyond poor Harry's life and strength"
And before Mrs Becker could fiBd words
to express her gratitude. Arial was gone.
upon my word r' said Miss Priscilla Vim
nigre, ''tbis is quite a new freak of caprice
on Miss Kings part. What will not girl
do TO keep np with the fashion ?"
Colonel Tylney locked quickly up from the
Photographic album whose leaves he was slow
lV turning over. Yes, Miss Vinaigre was
quite right, that was Aral King, with her
flushed cheek shadOwed with tiny brown rings
and her eyes bent downward with timid shame.
Colonel Tylney shut the album with consid-
eTab!e emphasis. Fashion be hated he sound
Of tho b,,N !
about fashion for, when the nation was groan-
ing with the agony of regeneration ? Yet he
had iancied AriaI King far superior to those
foolish whims, we'll was it for him that olsen
chanment came ere it was too late.
''ABd she knew bow much | admired that
lovely hairp was the next thought. "It shows
how much she cares fJr my likes and dislikes.
Well she is just like the rest of her silly sex.
and 1 shall go back to Washington next week
cured of one absurd fancy"
And Arial sObbed herself TO sleep that
night because Frank TyIney passed her with
such frigid bow.
Harry Becker had an unexpected visitor
the next mUrning-the Colonel of his Regi-
ment, who came in with bright, encouraging
smile, and kindly grasp of the hand that
seemed to throw new life into the invalid's |
worn fIame
"Why, Becker, where have you been hiding
yourself? Why didn't you let US know where |
you were 1t was by the merest chance in
the world that I stumbled npon you now !"
Beckers pale cheek Redeemed Il did not
like to trouble others with my distress, Colo
nel.T y7e stH
"Tben allow me to inform you that you are |
a foolish fellow. What can l do for you?-
nay, don't hesitate! have not forgotten
how you risked your life for me at Malvern
Hills.'
''Thank you. ColoneI. We have been in |
sore straits, my wife and I; but Miss Arial /
King, my former employers niece"
"King-Arial king-I know her."
'SThen, sir, you know the sweetest young lady
in the world, Well, sir, she has aided Us with
her little means-my wife used to be seam
stress in the family; and last night, to crown
al, what do you suppose she did to help us
with the rent that was behind? ?''
81 am sure do not know
''She sold her hair, sir,-her beautiful gol-
len hair, that she was as proud of as any wo-
nan could-=all TO assist poor dying s0lder!'
And Harry turned his head aside to bide the
pig drops on his lashes. He need not have
oeen so, careful; there was dimuess in the
jolonels dark eye, too.
Il have been tool !" he calculated stirring
'ut into the open air-"a mad insensate fool u
And he went straight to the little parlof
where Arial was sitting at her work, crying
little between wbiles, and CONES essed all hi
ius at the shrine Of her sanity beauty.
And now, Aria!. now that you know wha
suspicious, credulous, doubling villain !
ave been-can you give the priceless treas
re of your love into my keeping ?"
She answered seriously and tenderly, with
oft, shy bushes, yes"
What more have to say Nothing, save
hat Harry Becker and Marian, his wife, are
oing well, and the latter predicts that by Ari-
rs wedding day her curEs will have grown
ut again, long and golden as of yore.