The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-11-29
sstsetsa Story.
Broken Vows.

LUIS was Nv" IVY pave" Nf'f "
summers evening. and they stood in a
vine covered porch, he, tall and manly.
holding her slight dropping figure In his
arm. Bending over her, till his lips
touched hers, he said: ,s.......i. b. .,ss to
"You wiz never forget me? You are
my own promised wife p IF g.,,,.. s.
"All yours. | will never forget you, p"
she answered l.,, .........
81 may be gone wears; sweet one |!
Will YOU wait for me. ?" .' " ,,. ,,
Il will wait" g,aur 3us lgot sif
And, with a PASSIONATE embrace, he left
her standing, white and still, in the pale
moonlight, his firm, ringing step carrying
him nul to a new lite, new scenes, to
battle with the world; her trembling feet
bearing her back to the old mototony,
unbroken by the Sunshine that had glad
dened 1.-THE tight OF lis love.
She was very fair and pretty, and six
teen summers only had printed their
warm isses on her lips, when she stood
in the porch on that moonlig' t evening
Her simple dress Of, cheap cotton print
could not hide her graceful figure, and
,l "a IL, IL, ,,L
face but the smal hands were SCARED
with work; the rough seal OF poverty was
stamped on all her surroundings.
They had been neighbors, these lovers,
rom the time when they was rocked in
their baby cradles; and Trey had grown
up, side by side, knowing no pleasures
that was not ,hared between them She
was the only child of a widowed mother,
the village seamstress; he boasted Of no
higher origin than the parentage Of vii.
age sUhoolmaSter afforded. But the
motn5toBy otlife in the obScrue country
tow n, had at last wearied the ambitlous
boy. and he Lad wrung from hi. father n
reluctant consent to try his fortune III n
world outside of his quiet home, Of which
he had heard much-seen nothing. "a He
wis Of Age, man of fine intellectual pro
mise, unpoIished but wellstudied learn
ed, tullaof-hope, ambition, and courage,
wnen he pressed his farewell kiss upon
the lips,-of The maiden whose heart be
had won. His father, a quiet, sludions
risn, had mustered an immense fund Of
book learning; aud this. sifled and ,+fn
ed, rl AIRED ot all useless, dross, he had
i'nparied TO his only son. A brother OF
his mothers, a lawyer in full practice,
had consented to take the young man to
I,i> effics 90 tfia, and "if there WAS any
stuff to him, the law" and SO leaving
his fathers lonely home, bis sweetheaIt's
breaking h4srt, Coleman lee turned his
buck OF L---=. to win name and posi-
ton in the world.
Four years rolled away, The. meek
widow whose needle had known but liltle
rest or misty weary years, lay at last in
The chulclyard; the old Schoolhlaster,
who Lad lost his son, had taken into his
lonely house the widows child aud Col.
eman Lee was still far away from his vil-
lage home. His letters to the iair. haired
eirl whose heart he had wony were al
first long and frequent then they3grew
shorter, and came at long intervals and
at last they ceased altogether, and she
had learned the bitter. lesson of eglect.
10 his falherI he wrote frequently, and
she knew that he was rising III, his pro
te,sion was admitted to the best society
the, e,chy ,ifforded !; was Becoming kac cwn,
a" aeqap44ps s'!ppa sbes no Tord
of reIurh to his father, or bis old home,
ever creptmito his letters that wrre1 read
with such hearts at l.. .~.III. !
From The time when 'H-lrn Montgom-
ery had turned from the vinewreathed
porcB to- enter her poor home, she had
made ,s,pe*n resolutions Which. through
hard striving, she had kept, She had
ftlt. bitterly, that her and MARINERS were
Iar below the standard which he, would
seek in his wife, after he had lived III
he great world outside Of l., and
he had tasksd,sher mind to reaehthe
deal image she had erected tor a model.
nor six months, her lite bad no change
rom the monotonyof household drudgfry'
md aiding her. mother in,ths weary iihi, :
Inc 'ei sewing ;hthen she xasorpaned.