Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-05-03
CHAPTER w.
"No lapse Of moons can canker love,

Whatever hckle tongues may say'"-lESSfsoS'
The next day found our hero at the pou.
derous gate, opening into the luxuriant
garden of Harcourt Hall. After pulling at
the bell several times, an Irish servant
made his appearance. After scrutiniziDg him
for some moments through the iron rails,
he drew back the bolt and admitted Edgar.
"Is it the ovid jintleman, ye would be
after? 2" asked the man.
eyes," replied Edgar. "You have but
lately been in the employ of Mr. Harcourt,
I presume, or you would have admitted me
without all this ceremony and delay
Faith and ye spake the TRUTH replied
the Irishman,' for this and tomorrow will
be the second day I've been here at all ,
Il will walk up to the house alone,' said
Edgar; so you need not trouble yourself to
announce my arrival. l presume the old
gentlmen is at home
The servant replied in the affirmative,
and Edgar proceeded up the wide she'll
walk towards the colossal old building, with
a wildly pulsating heart. Turning aside
from the main avenue, he entered beauti-
full little bower, where, in other and hap.
pier days, he had spent many ar hour in
the society of his idolized Minnie. Here,
to his surprise, he found volume of Ten
nyson's poems lying open upon the table,
with rose, but newly plucked, between the
leaves, as though the absent reader had
used the flower as book-mark. Removing
the rose. his attention was called to par
ticulsr verse by the pencil lines, with which
it was underscored.
al hold 1t true, whate'er befall
l feel IT, when sorrow most;
lis better 10 have loved and lost,
Than never TO have loved al ALL"
Edgar sighed. The sentiment of the
poet found no response from his heart; in
fact, the idea embodied in the lines were
too exclusively Tennysenan to be appre.
ciated by man of such philosophical
turn of mind as our hero. But, whose
hand had underscored this particular verse,
so applicable to himself? Could it have
been Minnie? and, if so, what had she
loved and lost, that this passage should have
so forcibly arrested her attention?
A shadow falling upon the pages of the
little volume caused him to look up, when
to his surprise, and her apparent confusion,
Minnie Harcourt, who had returned for the
book, stood before him.
minnie y exclaimed Edgar, throwing
open his arms and advancing towards her,
sfor Gods sake for the sake of all that is
good and true in human nature, tell NE.
Ha you avoid me' And be folded his
arms across his breast and groaned aloud
Edgar"
He looked up hopefully upon being thus
addressed. She was paler than at their last
meeting, and the expression of her dark
eyes was so inezpressibly sad, that he
started.
Would you be at all influenced iu your
actions by anything that l might advise ?
she asked, looking uneasily over her shoul-
der.
your own heart, Minnie, can best an.
swer that question, said Edgar.
Heart ! she repeated sadly, 'wnat is
that? 1 have no heart, Edgar Then
again looking restlessly over her shoulder,
while slight tremor agitated and shook her
dainty form, she added with much earnest,
ness, Leave this place immediately if you
love me-if you feel the slightest degree Of
interest in my happiness.
But, Minnie, /.
NAY, do not add another word. l know
all that you would say, that you would ask
To night, about twelve o'clock, get into the
garden, somehow or other. Old Dinah vii
meet you here and conduct you where you
can have private interview with me; bu
be very careful, or the consequences may
be fatal to US both. Do not come unarm
ed And, before Edgar could reply, Min
ME was gone.
"A midnight interview .--aD entrance
upon these premises by stealth In tbt
uame of hea?en, what does all this mean!
said Edgar, as soon as he recovered frcm The
SURPRISE and disappointment which Minnle'