Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-03-15
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BIZ BILLY J. nAcKINrosH.

tue eeeeue was p0etlcai enough. Look
ing out from the piazza. You could let.
your eye range down q green slope. with
the silsefy boundary of noisy brook gilt
toriOR 10 the moo6light, and beyond that
9 gfoveof trees. sodding aud Whispering
over deen shadowy paths, to the right of
an old mill with q wheel that was a study
for painter, and to the left long sw Weeping
lines 81. meadow, cofbfelds and farms. -
0n tbes piazza their boots eleyated TO the
level OF the railing, their chairs tilted, back
aeAIDet the posts, their mouths actively
putting two very fragrant cigars, sat Frank
Hays and Rodney Edmonds, men lust star.
dog out on life'e broad Battlefield. ADD
lingering ont their last days of boy hood to-
eether, Schooi.mates, college chunns, fast
fIisuds from childhood, they spent these
days 10 boating. fishing, diving, ridiug,
chatting and-smoking Il was Rodneyis
fsst visit 10 CliG Wharton, and he was en-.
Tying the free country life, home pleas
pEee and social intercourse as only. an
esphan boy brought upin the city, can.
"A lawyer said Frank, after a long 81.
leHce. .Well,h he mnsipgly sdded, that
win do. but not for me. You were always
the bookworm, Rodney
1t scarcely amounts to q choice said
bis companion, the family in direct line
have been lawyers, judges now and then,
for generations back, and my guardian bad
me educated TO commences Law, from boy
as a matter of course. You can bring me
your first suit, old boyv :tasa
Merchants do considerable of that kind
Of fighting. generally, believe lrr..
Another long sileEee, then Rodney
said: f,. Sos -s-. "a, ssz.f .f. s3'f
'Whenis the wedding. Franks I
'Oh ! not very soon. / must make my
way. first, ] have not your fortune to start
with, yyu know. s,l ~, a..-rair.sz
She is very charming; but it puzzles
me how you could ever 60 abroad to seek
q wife, Frank, with such sweet bird sing.
ing in the home nest' Nv
You mean Susy. Susy is my dear sis.
ter; but Meta-p ,ls. b. a,ss-s fs'f 81
Yes, ! know. I've heard it all Fifty
times. You promised to tell me Susy's stO-
ry.'
There is very little to tell. MY uncle
Ray, as you know. is a sea captain. One
CT his voyages, eighteen years ago. took
him 20 the coast of Africa. Coming home,
when they were some fise days out, they
found the remains of q wreck, and dashed
to floating spar, Susy. My uncle being
q bachelor brought the baby to bis sister,
my mother baving no child but your hum
BILE servant, adopted Sasys / think that to
both my parents she is as dear as their
own child and we'll she deserves it. She
is as gen,ls and winning as shs is fair and
graceful, full of talent and animation, yet
the most domestic home loving little dar-
ling. She is housekeeper aud child in one
with her neat little figure and golden eurls
10 short - er
In Short said merry voice at the win
COW, the most delightful person 10 the
would to recommend to q friend to marry.
Pray, who is your paragon, Frank Not
Meta, for her hair is black as midnight
without q moon 1a as,-
Here something ic Franks merry eyes
aud bic companions confusion, enlig hten>
ed Mss SEsy as to the paragon 10 ques-
ton, au1 tn crimson flush on her cheek
deepened under her adopted brothers eye.
leo we'll bred to besray har consciousness
she turned the subject and had both boys,
as her mother called them, chatting easily
on the Thousand incidents that maze mp
college life. .r -.a III 20 sa nee.
~ no wv ohbtl losotg tuoN 1SOuuCyv nav
ing retired, was sitting at his window over
the porch, that Miss Susy gave vent to her
feelings. Frank had lett the room to End
q uosel, and Susy was on the porch still.
when she saw him enter the parlor. p.
'Coine here puRaid the little maiden,
drawing her tiny figure to its full height,
and answer for your sins.' .s- - 60
Her tone Of laughing Indignation bad
nothing very terrific 10 it, so Frank
came. s.-.----.-5g .-4,-..f
What SID 10 particular. SusyP
But Susy was very quiet again, ard by
the moonlight he saw grave, cad shadow
on her face. g hfas sac aqeus .e7. t7s
Are you tired Of. mei she said, tryisg
to resume Ter tone of banter, shat you are
trying TO get me q new place by good ref
erence, Or OBJ Frank how could you 2
and here she fairly broke down in o pass
sionste ST of sobting Il - ~.
He was 10 love himself and he gave the
affection Of q fond brother to Susy. What
wonder. then, that he resd her heart 10 the
change Of face and tone, and his plying
tenderness was all reused, 5000.
pray Susy, l never dreamed Of this
And the listener above softly closed the
window and crept silently to bed. - g'5
But below, on the porch, Frank held bis
littIe sister in his strong arms till she las
there quiet. Not one word was spoken fol
long time then, as he bent over her and
pressed kiss upon her forehead, she whis
pered softly.
You will keep my secret, Frankr
AS would ms hopor,' he answered
and she slipped eway from him, aud pas
IL az ed foP hal
LIGHT steps. to gain her own room and
chide he. heart for lite weakness Memory
was busv too.q From her early childhood
her bone had been 10 this quiet country
seat, where but few visitors broke the reg
ular routine that domestic love kept from
monotony. Aud on this life came the Wis
il of Rodney Edwonds, man whose bigt
iatellect, graceful courtesy and free face
were but the outward signs of noble, tru'
heart. q keen sensitive honor. and Chris.
tiaB mind. = ~. 'tH
And the simple girl, while she felt tina
his attentions were sweet, his presepc
dear to her, never awoke to the knowledg
Of her own love, till the CALLING suspicion
that she was being forced upon bis notice
told her how precious his own freely offer
ed love would have been to her. The mex
day the friends were 10 the city, and i
the demure little figure that stood upo
the steps to wave them adieu, there wa
but little trace of the wounded woman
heart that passed the night in the sgoD
Of unrequited love-.
Rodney EdmoDds was silent compau
ion. on the journey cityward, and Fran
gave up trying to cock him into his Of
merry self again. He was thinking Of th
lonely home that awaited him, the Ion
hfer Of longing for. eompapiOesbip, ii
gifts Of domestic love that all his richt
could nege. buy. and in contrast be pictu
ed the home be had Left the fsncy.lil
beauty, whose hand shed its psculil
charm on every spot; whose voice mao
music in every room whose loving hea
was broken by her adopted brothers Low
tor 90, in his blindness, be Interpreted Il
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