Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-09-06

/ hanging on the garden gate watching for
me, come flying out in the lawn to meet
me, all her golden hair streaming STRAIGHT
out behind her, heard her call me, scold
me for being late, my own voice answer
ing, saw and heard all the familiar sights
and sounds of everyday life as we do
sometimes in dreams, all made strange
and perplexing by some dreadful sense of
pain and trouble.
{ 'Het, said Milly, as we sat at tea,
you re Dot eating anything you look pale
and gtum, vou'v sat oat in these horrid
marshes till the sun has made you sick.
shall not allow you to 80 there again,
nina that
1t pleased Milly to play the elder sister.
and ] was always content that the LITE
one should do what it pleased her She
was my darling, the one thing that my
solitary life gave me to love till | saw
Mark; had set up my idol long ago, but
It cost me dear remember that the child
was in more than usually high spirits on
that evening, that she teased me to IA k to
her, sing to her, and finally flew up to bed
in childish fit Of anger because | could
do neither one nor the other. At anv
other time | should have gone after her.
coaxed and caresSed her in to good temper,
but now, with a feeling af relief that she
had gone, | sat at the window staring out
into the dark, scented night, and counted
the cost of the sacrifice. Long, long sat
there, long after the moon had risen. had
set, and the stars began to grow dark be
fore that streak of grey light in the east
| thought Of Mark, of what | had done
Of what had given up, until was nearly
mad, for when | stood up and closed the
window before going up to my room, |
had said to myself that | would write to
Mark Sutherland when morning came.
and tell him that | had chosen once more
between the two loved and chosen dit
Ierently. Therefore ! hope that / was
mad, but | went up stairs quite resolved
and quiet: | undrcssed without ever once
glancinS towards the bed where my little
sister lay; meant to lie down on my pill
low without doing so; but oh | could
not say my prayers and leave Milly with
ou' 'ne KISS always gave her hel9re
:-1ry. = 20 = went up 70 thG hed, and draw
what had been for years my sole earthly
treasure. The child looked pale in the
cold ,rrev dawn. her golden hair was +ossal
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