The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-04-24

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owes and her ewes became 50 nilinp .llal
She could with difficulty move hSI niis
ers. Yet she had not forgotten my ~
he strong. and quickly rec0VeriBg ne1-
self found what she deslIeu- anu WIZ
10 the foreman, requestiils M Iies &c NJ
;f ,,oSsibIe. IL not. the address OF MI.
- p9ni,o or some of his relatives, and
~ A. Huntington. Then, wrapping
% II n Hid she sent her off with IT.
~ IN NJ e,rarnan came Allie met him in
l'rand deserted drawing-roOm, and
-. N foqefher made arrangements for
t.tsie,l;snosition of the body, deciding to
III If i'm The family vault Mr.. Sim
pnaon Was in Europe. There was scarce
bone that a letter could reach him
i.afore starting upon his return; never
,Ialess Allie afterwards wrote him such
Iotter rs she knew how TO write, to
- old man. 80 fearfully desolate now.
Si,obad wished for the doctor, but know
;nar his constant care, could not divine
- 10 reach him. God seemed to aid
tor for inst as the foreman left, and she
food q moment on the steps, his old
fashioned gig passed towards the gate.
The foreman hailed him: and the doc
TOR as he leaned out and detected Allie,
stopped.
II was a great comfort TO see him, and
hear him say that she had done quite
RIGHT. and to know that he would do all
that lay in his power. He promised to
send Sophie to assist in arranging the
house.
After he had gone, Allie wrote TO Mr..
-imonson, but the task of writing to
wentworth was spared her. No one
knew his address. She examined the
Igft 2. i..l, M .s.,. for
led her. On the back was written. in
pencil: Last letter, Dee. 1862 -
She. herself had quite lost track of
him. She knew he had changed his
regiment-lxnew that fearlessly looking
upon death, seeking il with a reckless
ness almost beyond belief-that he had
won for himself renown. that he had
been promoted rapidly; but for weary
time she had heard nothing. Two
months had elapsed since the date of
Sarah's last letter. What might have
happened in those two months2 Yet,
God, she thought, would work out his
own ways. Allie and Sophie relieved
each other until all was quite over. The
relatives were all so far distant that they
could not be summoned Immediately,
and. consequently Sophie remained I'M
til some one could arrive.
Afferfhefuneral. Allie returned home,
thankful that She had been enabled to
care for Sarah a. she had-further than
that, she dared not think.
All through that winter and spring,
and through the winters and springs
that had preceded, disaster had succeed
ed disaster in the Union armies, until
the people had grown sick at heart, I'M
Ill they almost felt, though their lips
dared not utter it, that free institutions
were, indeed, failure. Men took up
their papers with shudder-wOmen,
whose hearts, true and strong, had given
all. dreamed of theirs" lying, stark and
still, on bloOd-stained fields, dreams that
were too often realities. Worse than
battle carnage were the trenches, the
malarias Of that Peninsular campaign.
But there came no change. On the
plains Of Gettysburg the tide Of defeat
was turned back, though at fearful
price. You can see something-only
1.-THE Of that terrible price-shOuld your
feet seek its cemetery; only a 1.-THE, for
who can measure the woe of hearts that
were struck for each one of those who
lie there, with board at head anG at
feet. All, who would dare to measure
it Yet God does
shorty after tnlS DaUtle, IN when
Wentworth had acted as general, carry
ing all before him, with his impetuousi-
~ when the midsummer's purple
splendor glowed on the land, he came
again to Allie He had heard, through
the medium of the papers, probably, of
SaTah's death. Allie could give him its
details. As the round moon looked
down upon them, under one of the APP
ple-trees, i'm the orchard, he said:
Allie, have returned to You better
man. This war has been my furnace Of
publication. Can YOU trust me once
more-as of old? VIII YOU be mine now
and evermOre-thr0ugh life. even unto
death -
And Allie, looking up, said:
Now and for eVermore-eVen unto
death"