Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-07-25
PART II.
CHAPTER III.
WAITING For NEWS,

with hlr. Tindal? Neither so ill or so we
as Pennies fancy had set her on dreaming
He had achieved no honors, and had run
risks worth speaking of Both, if even
were yet to come. A few days after III
landing of the English at Varna, in June
George Goodwin fell in with him. a sun
burnt, beaten, wild figure of a man
who knew the country and the people, wa
Il capital rider, and a dead shot with the ri
lc. lie had fraternized with some Frcncl
officers. and appeared to be mighty favor
lie in their camp.
lie seems pleasant, generous, easy
going fellow enough, not bit like a mar
who ought to feel halter round his neck,
George wrote to his sistcr-in-aw. 81 shoult
not object TO go through campaign will
him. lie is brave and cheerful, he sings 4
good song and has some prime tobacco.
do not suppose his story is known here.
Hangham, who told me, is still at Scutarj
with the staff. If Tindal goes in for the
war as volunteer he will probably ioin
The French. Should his antecedents come
out some of our fellows might fight shy Of
llm, and that would not be encouraging. I
Shall keep his counsel, for l am sure man
with his face and his voice cannot be vii
lain. If he has come out here to redeem
lls fame, all can say is, hope he may get
Tile chance.
1t was no more than kind of Lady Good
win towrite little version of Georges news
70 Pennie by-and-by. 1t came to her like
Pelreslling dew in a dry and thirsty land
where no water is. She had returned to
.skdale just at the beginning of hay harvest,
md her mother had Immediately desired her
feScnce at Mayfield. Pennie exchanged
nc dull refined quiet of Eastwood for the
pustlc of the farm reluctantly. Nothing had
appened to cheer her since she came home.
u.s. Wynyard had tacitly declined any con-
ersation about Mr.. Tindal, and Mrs. Croft
Tehed to be following the same cue. One
orhing Pennie rode to Allan Bridge, in
e hope of seeing DIR. Grey, but Mr.. Buck
lfst assured her the old man was too
VGle a,;I to to see any one; and besred lar ,rai.
be was returning disappointed to Mayfield,
e met Mr.. Hargrove. He would have
zen willing to talk if she had been willing
listen; but her ancient dislike had grown
10 the keenest repulsion, and it was all she
ould bring herself to do to return his bow.
he understood her sentiments, and passed
brward with an odious triumphant grin
|gAting up his big red face, and menacing
ought in his mind, that lie 'would be even
ih scornful Miss Penelope yet"
The first drop of comfort Pennie got,
anne therefore in Lady Goodwin's letter,
hd she thanked and blessed her for ii like Q
Feature that had been perishing of drought
ennie was not much given to tears, bu
lat night, in her little white dimity cham
sr, she had a good long crying.it, and whel
We fell asleep exhausted, she had dream
fome antique superstitions survived in EslS
Ae, and amongst others, certain faith il
Ieams, from which Pcnnie was not quit
i. rec. When she awoke it was high morn
\ hs, and she tried to recall her scattered Wis
on, which had left her with lively sens
n bnoyant exhilaratlon.
\ 1t would only come back in fragments
flTs, she saw Rood Abbey garden in til
n not afternoon sunshine, and heard the soun
y D an axe in the stiffness chopping dow
al lecs Then she heard babble and prattl
. which was sometimes children laughing, an
Y hen grown people disputing, and just befol
sAc woke she saw Mr.. Tindal coming up Il
avn waving his right hand. And he w
waving it to HER. That was what had mat
Ief feel so strangely glad at heart. I
= looked like himself, yet unlike; for his &c
ls lure was expressive of triumph and 10
n n she had never seep him in the flesh we
lal lubilant countenance, but she could il
lr aglne it. 'And," said she to herself, so
aay shall see it, 1t is of good augul
r. nat garden-scene l shall see with my boz
iS y eyes before come to die" She felt
upilted that she could almost have sung
happiness. The sensation did not endu
Out while it lasted it was as vivid as if s
+. 'aa laid hold ola real and palpable joy.
When she appeared at breakfast,
mother asked what allied her, that she 10,
50 elso bonnie. Pennie replied that she
had comfortable dream.
THAT is more than can say for myse
sighed the window. "I've been sa
Oothcred down in the Five Acre, with
NY shoes or stockings-and that means p
~ er'y. The crops are safe to be light,
now, and if the weather should be bad
WIN be u rulnous harvest. Then I'd go
'apiul o'littlo silver coins that coul
IN eount-small coins is no good, and to dr.
@coppcr money is nothing worth. Idre
Mlce, when was lass, that my father {
!. n,! 'ie Queen Anne's guinea, and that '
PEI Hlsl', If he didn't bring me home from
Minister, where he'd gone to Thursday !
Ne', the prettiest mode silk cloak that
l. " DC seen in Eskdale all that summer
1au 1t when married poor Croft, and
,as' DIT OF it made into hood for
.enhlc, when he was dead and gone, h
20, ,''ks was good in them days, and wor
"ook handsome to the last thread of EN-
-, That is all old folks cry, mother
'nhss they had when they We're young
always best"
~ is so, Pennie, love. You'll tell
23, 'wh children the same, if the lord send
ahy, and you live to see 'em grow up,
your own head grow grey. But tel
wnat you've been dreaming that's put
"sht IN your face, that You look che
''r lhan you've done since you came Ii,
rennie recounted her broken vision
window grew meditative on it.
1t may mean good, and it mayn't,
sue oracularly, by-and-by "Sunsl
'nats luck and prosperity. Aftern
mats getting on in the day it is
noon with you now, Pennie. Cutting
"ees-that I'm not clear about. 1t