Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-11-15

question. | thought him very handsome
Abby Adair did not-and he was certainly
grave and silent to fault
We We're so accustomed to good Mr..
Hess, and his fatherly interest in each and
al of US, that even genial stranger would
have seemed very diferent-this gentle
man particularly SO, from his peculiar
manner
But | walked home that evening with
cur pastor, and on the way he told me
quite romantic story of our new organ
ist How at twenty he had saved a child
from being crushed by the eavy wheels
OF wagon driven by drunken man, and,
IN the act, been SO injured that it was for
a time thought he would rever walk again
except on crutches. How, at this, the girl
ne loved-a giddy butterfly, with neither
heart nor soul-had Tilted him, and mar
ried some one else; ard how, even while
suffering great agony at intervals, the
young man began to study music as a pro-
iession, by which in his crippled state he
could erpport his mother ami himself
He had genius, and succeeded wonder
fully, continued the clergyman, ard God
has given him health and strength again,
almost miraculously ly-and as for the girl,
believe but for those five long years
which kept hiln a prisoner in his room,
and gave him SO much time to think, he
would have quite forgotten her And some
times believe, and his old mother also,
that IT he ever meets another woman he
can love, he viii become his old light
hearted self again"
lie looked at me as he spoke. He was
very old, and often uttered his thoughts
aloud without intending to do so.
Pretty, very pretty he muttered
Golden hair and blue eyes--colored Just
as she was-and good, sweet girl"
Then with a start and newly awakened
looi1-'' There's the parsonage, sophy;
wont you come in and see Mrs Dan>
bury p
But was busy that night, and could
not Besides, | watted n think. The
new orsanist was different person al
ready in my eyes. | felt sorry for him
and indignant with the girl, and reioiced
that he was no longer very Iame-as
though had known him all nv life and
hoped that he would meet some new
true love. Abby Adair ?-no, she could
not understand him Ruth Maitland or
Bess Blauvelt may. each had a suitor
And then, being at home, l went to the
glass and looked at Sonhy Norroway
Did Mr. Danbury mean me? had geld
en- hair and blue eyes. Perhaps / was
pretty and / was sure that if ! had been
that girl | ne er, never
There the folly of my thoughts burst
upon me; laughed aloud Sily.ssilly
girl l cared nothing for that dark, sad
stranger; and he had not even looked at
me
Not then; but l could not say the same
thing afterward There came time when
lift my eyes when could, saw his bent
upon me. Not an impertinent stare;
quiet. earnest look, as though he were try
iu- to read me through He used to listen
when I spoke TO others, though he very
seldom con erscd with me, and once |
funcied, changed nv seat under some pre-
tense, to have me where he could see me
better. At last, as sat sewing at homo
one day, near the window, | lifted my
eyes aud saw him coming UP the garden
path
We talked that day. Shv people can
onlv realize converse en- 5ete n tcte And
when he went awav knew him and liked
him
The first time / ever saw him smile was
WI on he looked back at the door to saw n
last word Or two
l. ,zos verv sweof srriIe br;r,r,I ~
Kindness
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