The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-03-23

| 70" hiiuo' VIII you nave me, pretty lass,
for your sweetheart?" -.
Yes, Blue Boy, l will because can't
help myself Your eyes are forget-me-nots.
thought SO long ago, though never told
! you. They made me obey their command.
have ne0eT forgotten them
And then he took her round the waist
and led her round the garden (Which appear
ed to him to be Eden) and laughed, and
malt cried again, and said if his great star
ing eyes were forget-me- nots, he should un-
commonly like to know what hers were
And he went on to tell her that she was
made OF dimonds, and gold and sunshine
and honey, and harmony. And he said that
the bliss of to-day would have made up for
ages spent clinging to charred timbers upon
stormy sea; and that he didn't care for
anything; and that God was too good: and
That the world was the joIliest, happiest
place going; and that (by Jupiter he'd
never swear again nor have another pipe as
long as he lived. And he added that
Elite must come away to-day, of course,
and that 1t was all humbug about her being
- And such lot more he said. that
we despair of telling it all.
by and-by he grew quieter, and then Et-
tie looked up into his face and said
blue boy, know what's been the mat
ter with me-"
''And KNOW" he answered. kissing her
whats been the matter NTH me ever since
that gloomy November day that took me
away.
My mind has been affected" said Elite
and this is an asylum that am staying at
now. Are you afraid that | shall get wrong
again ?"
Pm afraid of nothing. And let me tell you
Elite, my mind has been affected, and I,too
nave found an asylum; but 1T is one which
have no immediate intention of leaving,
although the treatment | have received
there has completely cured me- Here it is, :"
ne added, laying his head upon her bosom.
Ettle smiled with smile so thoroughly
her own, that it was cioar enough her cure
was in every sense as perfect as Blue Bows.
but now, old Postum" said the sailor,
as he patted the old dog, ''you deserve
little notice. So you remembered me, as | /
told you? And you came just now to put
an end to the Doctors doubtings an head
shaklngs by bringing me direct to my dar-
ling And you took care of her and stuck
TO her while was away A good old dog! |
They patted and fondly caressed him to-
gether
The ugly and aged animal painted out
upon his young master and mistress heart
full of love, and thanks, and good wishes;
and then, feeling, perhaps, that there was
nothing left in this life which he particular
iy cared to see, or may be, unable to endure |
after his late bodily exertions, the bliss of
the moment he sank upon his side, and |
SfsntnhInp CndHanIxy r. IL.
length, while everything belonging to his |
frame bent i'll hideously wrong direction,
poor Postum took his departure for that
land where flies never annoy where no ghast-
y moons compel the midnight howl, and
where young masters Gf. indeed, any in the
biped form there exists are as considerate
as they are fond.
The doctor owned to Vioet's complete
cure. She did not stay long at HeaIthfield
Court
That second gentleman who had come
with Blue Boy proved to be cousin Jack.
Although unable often to bear the SIGHT of
poor Elite while she had been suffering
from mental alteration, the kind, GOOD
creature had continually been near her. He
had never given up his hope that Blue Bow
still lived, nor his firm faith that the mo-
ment Of the lads restoration to Ettie-ifI
only that restoration might be granted
would be the moment of her return to
health.
Cousin Jack took pretty furnished coun-
try house, with large garden, a consery-
atary, and many other attractions; and
there he placed little Elite for the summer,
sending poor homeless Elizabeth to take
care OF her. And he often came himself to
see her, and we need not say that somebody |
else often came too
And now Elite learnt several new and
some pleasant things relating to the past. |
She learnt, first that her senior guardian |
was dead, and that his charming son, Ar
thur Popinjay, was engaged to Miss Emilia |
Emptlhed, who as report said, was pretty |
and always well dressed. She learnt fur |
Their, that Arthur had at one time deter
mined to marry her (Ettie) and that her
removal to CaveEdish Square had been eff |
fected by the father in the furtherance of
his silly sons wishes; that Cousin Jack had |
not approved the pl an for her removal, al |
though, in ignorance at the time of its real
object, he had recommended Elite to fall in |
with it for the sake of peace. Cousin Jack |
said, too (what Elite listened too with tears) |
that her father, on the day he died, had said
how much he should like honest hearty. |
true Blue Boy to marry his darling one day
and that Blue Boy was anxious to carry
out this suggestion Gas he considered it his |
bounden duty to do) at the first opportunity. |
And Elite heard also-what she was proud |
indeed, to hear-tbat in the terrible hour
when the ocean Ripple" was bnrnt, her
Blue Boy had acted like a noble hero, and |
been the means of saving several women
and children, who, but for his exertions and |
bravery, must have persisted. And then the
story went on to explain the length of time
which had elapsed before the boys return
1t told how he had been picked, up not by a
homeward- bound ship, but by one sailing
to tar-oif port, and how letter giving IT,
dings of his safety had been lost.
Elite became so calmly happy now that
her lmpetuous, demOnstrative Blue Boy
sometimes wanted her to be more noisily in
love with him. One day being inclined for
a sweet quarrel with his darling, he assum
ed the most injured air he could command
and asked her whether she was getting to
care for him less since she had become SO
terribly composed in her manners,
She put her arm within his, and led him
to the conservatory. There she gathered a
large tea=scented rosebud.
Pointing first to the fair, almost colorIess
outer petals, she gently unfolded, with her
tiny fingers, the deepening tints wrapped up
within, till at length she reached the in
tensely glowing centre, and held up before
Blue Boys eyes that wondrous nameless
hue-the blending as it were of fire and
blood
He understood her.
You sweet little prophecies he exclaim-
ed. ''Of course it was all my humbug.-l
DID she think | really doubted the life and
warmth OF her true, true heart? Not |, III
deed And | would not have her refined
little self be anything but what it is for a
million Of worlds. Bless me if We're only
one and twenty, and could get hold of my
TIM
"A voyage or two first" she said wick
edy.