Newbern progress., 1863-02-04


sister, It.is better to be introduced
Ito 1ler By you. She viii feel more tha1
Ishe belongs to me when you have con
l6ded her to my protection.
ss1Y Oh are right. i will take you
! row, If yon please wish to marc
! with the 2Stli fo-morrow, and there j:
lno time to lose. Poor Emily. It will
Ibe hard on her. & - - 8. ss & 80
In five minutes more Miss Barclay
| was walking toward GramEfcy Park
8 with her soldier by her side. She stole
| a look now and then at his face. II
was calm an fir marks there ol
weakness or irresolution. She began
to be proud of him.. Soon they. are in
q Miss Dnpont's front parlor waiting fol
8 Emily. As. she came through the door
her brother met her and drew her with
him.into the back room. He had said
II to Miss Barclay that It was better he
q should speak to her first quite alone.
H Waiting fhere, Kate heard tlIe sound
LOT, earnest, manly talk, them a few
1 words ina voice full of tears. then
Il again the low manly tones, and then
/ Mr.. Keene led his sister in g .sssA
z ssMiss Barclay" he said, ssheres is is
4 your protege. She quite understands
your position gas. regards her, and ]
hope she will little, and notmake
You much trouble" als eegasss1
Kate's warm heart overhowed in
stant1y. She put her arm around the
shy, trembling girl, and drew her to
her side. She whispered:
sssIhave n6 mother, dear, and no sis
tier. l shall need you as much as you
will needSme. Let us love one anoth-
Ier."
Mr.. Keene did not hear the whisper,
but he saw the quick flash of pleasure
flush his sisters cheek, and the confid-
ling gesture with which her hand stole
into her new friends, and he was sat
listed.
1--WE need not detain Miss Barclay
any longer.n he said, gentiys RI viii
walk home with her now. This after
noon ] shall be busy, but I will come
to you again this evening"
There were few words spoken during
the short walk, but when they were
Iparting Miss Barclays door step, she
l|gave her hand to Richard Keene, and
lsaid earnestly:
do not doubt that all I car. do for
lyonr sister will be a labor of love.
There has been a vacant place in my
heart, a lonely longing for some one
Ito care for, and she will fill it. IT.
her eyes filled with tears-ssif anything
should happen, she shall be as near to
me as she would have been to you"
f Richard Keene pressed the hand he
Iheld.a AT&1 TA su epa CT q
81 believe you," he said, "Emily is
q good child. You will not find in
her, coldness or ir1gratitude."
Il That evening Kate Barclay sat alone.
living over in thought the parting,
which she knew was taking place, FAM
cying how these two, who were all the
world toseach other, swould say good
by-a good by which might, all too
possibly, be forever She aim almost re-
pented of her own doing not quite
for she knew her soldiers heart was in
his work, and she felt that If he had
been her own brother she could have
sent him forth as cheerfully. She was
hot dealing to another such measure as
she would not have borne to. have dealt
with herself.
II was a little past nine O'Clock when
the bell rang, and the servant anv
Lnounced Mr.. Keene. She had not ex-
[pected after their bargain to see him
again she was glad after all that he
should have reckoned her among the
rlumber'of those to whom it became
him to say farewell. He came in as
calm and self-possessed as ever.
"I have been bidding Emily good
by,'" he said as he sat down., 81 had
to leave her at 8 o'clock, and thought
IL might venture to come to you
After all it issby your means that | go,
and that makes a sort of tie between
|us !; bond which it would be pre-
sumption to call friendship, and yet
which will make me think Of you
when I am gone.D 1ssisd ss eflasa s'fasiE
Kate had not the courage to tell him
that his young sisters thoughts would
scarcely follow him with a more con-
sfant Interest than her own. She
asked him instead how Emily had
bornesthe parting. 3 So ssn4 4ssa ssasA
Brayely," he answered. :" He
knew the chiId's heart had been al
most broken, butt shedhad kept back |
|any utterance of complaint or alamells
tation, whose memory might have uns
nerved him when the hour Came to |
test his courage
Then there was silence between
them for a few moments, and he was
the tirst'tc break it. s,gssssE tlfsH
81 tell You honestly why / came
here to-night, Miss Barcley.. had
been thinking how possible It was that