The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-31

iSrepelsgandEsentsa q bnll let to tho heart of
many ones vet ieIt the tears come
into my eyes as i looked around.
In one room wps h great Chair that
looked as If 1t might have been tsgrand-
tather'se or grandnhot thef's chair,i' and
in that I sat down at last. tr-.ssli d
had been walking all day. Il was
very tired and very adroWsy. In nten
minutes fell asleep. %. How long i slept
do not KNOWN When opened my
dows the sun Setting behind the dRfk
trees that bordered the PROSPECT. 1t
] was late. j had a long STav vet 10 walk
before / could reach the place where
intended to sleep that night; and /
started up in haste to find myself face
to face with aiWoman.l gds ssyi
A young woman dressed in black,
with straight features and ia slender
tornn-with eyes black as night, and,ia
mass of faxen hair rippling from her
j tace7-withi a mole upon her neck, and
hanging over her breast n golden cross
suspended from q chain. The woman,
OF me vision on Of g woman, Whom I had
/ 1stpod mott less. Unless Won, have
/ seen or fancied a ghost, you'll never
| Know how i felt, until / heard her. ory5
out and, beg me not to harm, her. and
i lknewshe was quite human. Then nv
senses returned TO me. lI -. ri
H bowed-apolugiz gized for having given
ther alarm-told her that had believed
the place SIlntenanted, and so felt at
liberty to rest there, and departed. All
the!Mhile receiving no answer from her
think her terror, WAS too greatt allow
her to speak. j made my way down
the broken steps and out into the tan
gled garden: lbelieyed that this mys-
terious realization of my vision would
be left behind me us that had BEEN
Bpty as hough Eate had some, hand in
the 4mattef, aty the very gate my rifle,
carelessly held, caugh In some creepers
and went of, sending the charge into
my side. The blood poured out in a
stream. ! tried to stagger on, but was
1 too weak in q moment.
The next thing 1cl1new i was out
stretched upon the grass, and ovdf me
bent that gfrlwith the fair hair and
black eyes, and an old negro.
"He Is hurt ?n heard her ask.
mighty bad, AIissee."
I'VE must not let him die for want of
care. He is our enemy; but we should
forgive tourene elniesI you know, jScip."
eyes, Missee.n -
Then they carried me in. She
made place for me to lie with
cushions and 0ldnpillOws and cover.
yssy isss gRS sIsI,t's the 1sgrS who spgeared
dressed my wounds. Then, when L was
easier, tho girl came to me with some
Cruel in q, bowl, -.--,-.
,'ETt is poor stuff,n she said; tsblt 1
have nothing but meal and water in the
house."
shespo colely, as to an enemy, ,lbut
with some womanly pity in her eyes
aHNVhen / thanked her she bowed and
answered courteously that she had done
fsfbosgh I should have dono,mors if
could, y she said. t'I have always
had tho opportunity"
That speech hurt me. i was the enc
MY of all rebels and traitors, butt did
not wish to be hers, though she was
doubtless rebels daughter.
Ispppose stranger feelings never fell
to any mans share NthanIthose had
when lookedat that girl. The more
looked the more positive was that It
was her face Ihpd seen on Hollow Eve,
And why did 4 see 1t, and ihow2 What
was she to be to mo that should have
had n vision. of her. five years before !?
1t was more than 1 could answer.
Scip told me her story. OF course it
was q rebel mfly-mad, hot-blooded
Southerners. Tho fatlier had been a
Colonel in the rebel army; and the son
had foughtunier him. Both We're kilt
ed in the same battle, and the wife and
mother died of grief. Only this girl
was left, and she had come back to the
ruins OF her old home because she had
no other place to live.
Oder niggers3 all gone, . said fScip I:
"but ain't gwine to leave Miss Grace.
stays to protect her, does. Laws. /
toted her when she was a baby, and nv
head was White then. Old uncle Scip
can't leave Miss Grace nohow."
asked one other question: "Hns
your mistress lover-any one she will
be likely to marry, now this war is
over fneT il5 s-.5,
And ScIp answered:
tNo, Mhssa, dere ain't nobody but
Sctp, nowhere:n lfarE -
e Well, there WINS, and there L staid
longer than expected to, for thewound
iptamed and q fever set in, and / had d
chance OF trying what the next world
was like. Somehow the old larkey and
his mistress nursed me through IL. and
when 4 was as helpless as a baby Grnce
sBayard forgot i was. an enemy in her
pity and care for me. Before I was
quite we'll I know I loved her. ltl,slL
had said i would never think of
any woman as wife. j had meant it,
OF any other / never should, but that
vision of her had its effect, 1t was
preordained. She need a protector I
was sent to love and eherlsh her. 1t
was not my seeking Fate done II. all.
SO Il let Love in and he grew strong. 1t
was hard to make her forget 1 had been
the enemy of her people-hard to pull!
down the barrier those words EtNoFfhI't
and South had built between us hut
did It at last and she promised to be
my wife, and go home with me to the
old farm where mother had waited so
long for Jemls coming. And though /
Ind not forgotten Amy, i was happy in
sober, quiet way, md very proud aud
fond ofiher. i
had never told her my story of Hall
low Eve. / was not sure that j should,
But one night, a week before that fixed
for our marriage, we were walking In
the ruined, choked-up garden, when.
Grace put her hand on my arm and
paused. 44 ia
s.Jem, are you superstitious9 2" sho
q . 'sNo-+y yes--I dom lSnow.'l 49,
Z, II wish ypIl were a little, for I want
to tell Y9n 80 omething Ishall never dare
To else.n as fia
sasay / an then.'
II saw You or your wrath long be-
fore weeeYer met, ~ said Grace. Ilon't
laugh Did y0n ever llenr al AN -FIals
low Eye Ss course, for you iiayeIread
Burns, Hoil know the edd superstition
about seeing one 8 future lover ~
a hat was she going to suys2 IcouIdt
only make p sign In the Affirmative
/ 2Dnly Tor what Lam going to tell YOU
never could have pln nmised to be your
wife, . said Grace. eeined 80 wrong
that shnuld Ike m ael5loys dyed
enemy 81 my kin eFed ct mrs But Nve9
ScqIIanot resist u tIteg Ier hand was in
&c 80 plainly ] sii4g that was useless,
le was So stfafige q thing, SixlyeFFs
aga, nearly WAS on q; 70 the EastE
ern States with mo- We Enfiseil
seliroug - 7platSa called Stratfod and
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