The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-03-28
VOLUME 27.7
'tWhnt do You mean. Frank II

No one knows 1t but you, unless 1t is yOt
husband. What's the matter Evelyn? 70
look as if you didn't understand"
81 don't"
You must have had it. ! missed Il
post over night, aud gave it to Raiuhau
there, as knew be would See you the ne,
day"
''To-my husband ?"
Eyes; I'll ask bin
Crank she said, with heavy hand 0
bis arm, forget all this Never speak {
it--tor my sake"
He looked at her with perplexed ez
preston of inquiry, but he saw that sh
was white and Hurried, aud gave up th
point.
"Well, we have always been friends
have we not? | would ask you yet for you
good Wishes as you have mine; but til
doctors say there's something amiss here
touching his chest; and may not live to-
never mind! God bless you, Evelyn -
II ITS MARK ON THE YEARS TO CONE
Sir Hugh brought his wife home: and hi
hair was not gray. neither had any preIna
ueut wrinkles marked his face. To his ser
wants to,r; appeared no change III him, eithe
for better or Tor worse lie was just the Sam
| grave, silent, rather deliberate master they
remembered They did think, indeed, thai
he was dreadful polite TO his lady; but per
haps that was proper--before servants.
Sir Hugh, taking Evelyn to the drawing
rooms, which he had caused to be ALTERED
and Enlightened for her, turned aud said t,
her, welcome home.
And as he said it, the memory of his
own dreams of that home stung him so bit
terly that he half put out his arms to take
into the Evelyn he had once known But
she never saw the movement, and woulc
not have needed it, if she had seen, Snt
passed on into the room, the brilliant light
OF which seemed to hurt Sir Hugh's eyes,
for he put his hand over them suddenly; auo
for moment he stood at the door, irres0
Lutte, then closed it gently, and went TO see
after his little girl.
This was natural enough, they said -
those gossips down stairs who were always
on the watch. But why didu't he take his
new wife with him? And why did he stay
with the child, hour after hour, till none OF
the evening remained The first evening,
tool Above all, Why when the household
had retired, and all was quiet, did a tall
slight figure, which rustled a little as it
passed, go into the nursery and kneel down
beside the weeping child aud sob?
The nurse saw, for size was not asleep,
as my lady fancied; and she was aot likely
to keep it to herself, Either. These aud
such things were PuzHiing. At first they
formed a constant source of whispering and
shaking Of wise heads; but gradually the
gloss Of newness wore away from them; the
dull days swept on, and something Of the
grimness of the stone heads that guarded
the sweep of steps at the hail door, seemed
to have crept into the house. 1t was so
still and silent; 50 monotonous But for
the small Cecilia, it would have been utter
Iy dismal But she was a child aud had
childish ways, which remained unchecked.
She was quite young enough to take very
kindly to her new mamma, who was SO
beautiful and so good to her.
Not like nurse SAID she would be,-ugly
and cross, she said to her taVOrite play
fellow, ''but good, | think she could nave
brought the little princess to life again as
well as the fairy did. You never saw such
eyes ia your life as she has got; just Ill Z
the pool under the willows, where we are
not to go Charlie you know; down, as if
you couldn't never see the bottom; ever so
deep Aud she kisses me, too"
To which the boy replied, with decision,
that she couldn't be fairy in that Case, for
fairies never kissed anybody, it wasn't
lucky, that was unless they were wicked
FAIRIES. And it was all very well now but
when Cecil married him, he shouldn't al
low her to kiss anybody.
By and by, however, as Cecil grew older
she used to wonder in her wise little head
what made her father and mother, when
they were Alone talk to each other, if they
did talk, so like company" That was her
idea Of it, She jumped up from the piano
one day, and waltzed round to the tootstool
at Lady Rainhams feet, with a sudden
thought that she would find out.
''Well, said Evelyn, looking at the pur
sed-up lips, which evidently bad a question
upon them, "what is the natter is your
new music-lesson too hard?''
My new music lesson isis a fdgetty
crauk," said Cecil, hesltating for an ex
preston strong euough; but it's not that
was just wondering why you and papa
Sir Hugh let his book fall with a sudden
noise, and went out OF the room, passing
the child, but taking no notice of her.
"Why you and papa are so odd, like
grand visitors. When there's any one here
know have to SIT still, aud not tumble
my trock, nor cross my feet but when
there's DO one here its different"
Your papa and L are not children,
said Lady RaiDham. 'Grown,up people
must be steady, Cis v
Then don't want to be grown up And
I'm sure, quite sure, that Pll never be mar
red, if one Is to do nothing but sit-sit all
day long, and have no fun"
Lady Rainham bent down to kiss the res
olute lips that uttered this bold decision,
and then her face grew sad Taere wete
times When, even To her pride the life she
led seemed almost to hard to bear, times
when she was mad enough to thiuk she
would tell Sir Hugh that the act winch
stamped him in her eyes as base and dis
honored was no secret from her, as he
doubtless believed it to be. But she could
not do it, 1t seemed to her as if the con
seriousness that she knew, would only make
bin more contemplate in his own eyes as
well as in hers 1t would but widen the
gulf, and make what she was able to bear
now utterly intolerable. For she never
doubted that the purport of the letter was
known to him, and he had suppressed it for
his own ends. And the poor boy who
wrote it was dead There was the great
mischief of it all If he had been living and
well, SO tender a halo might rot have rested
over the past and all i'll the past connected
with him; so bitter a resentment might not
have been nursed in silence against the
wrong, which her husband had doue them
both But Frank had lived but few
months after her wedding aud she never
saw him again. He was dead, and she hao
killed him, no. not she, bat Sir Hugh.
She was thinking such thoughts, one
! day, when something made her look up,auc
she met Sir Hugh's eyes fixed upon her
There was 50 peculiar an expression il
them that she could not prevent certain
proud antagonistic inquiry coming into hel
own. He went towards her with his boob
open in his hand. He bent down and pul
! his fiuger on a line in tie n40a drst,ioc