The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-18

means fOrgetfulnesS, aud / oelleVe u
does. I cannot forgive your"
But give me time to prove myself.
Will you forgive me IN a year? in { a
years?"
In twenty years, if we both live"
she said, I will forgive you, Not
before"
Then I will wait he said. and
the subject was dropped between
them.
Persia felt the necessity Of getting
away from the mute pleading of Del
! mere's pale face, and besides, she was
conscious of strange seasons of WearI-
ness and pain. She felt that possibly
she had caught the infection, and In a
dumb sort of way she prayed God that
she might die. There would be none
to mourn, and life was so very hard
to live rightly.
She engaged a reliable nurse to
take care of Delmere, and went her
self to the hospital. for she would
not endanger the life of any other
person by going back to Arlington.
She had a light touch of the disease,
but so very light that it left no traces,
and after a long and tedious conEa-
lesceuce, she went back to Arlington.
just after her arrival there. she re
ceived a letter from Aubrey Delmere.
| never saw il, for she keeps 1t among
her most sacred things, but she told
me it was filed with passionate plead
ings that she would revoke her de-
cision-sufer him to break his en-
gagement with Miss Elmer-and after
she had put him upon a probation for
any length of time she chose, to con-
sent to become his wife.
She wrote him only a few words
in reply-Marry Helen Elmer. Hon
or compels you to do so. As for me,
| have no heart. Adieu. foreverl
PERSIA ANDERSON
-Four weeks afterwards she saw a
notice Of the marriage Of Abrey Del
mere and Helen Elmer"
Mrs. st. Maurice paused. Carries
blue eyes were swimming In tears.
What a dear good soul she
was, to be surel l will kiss her
the next time she comes here to
sew, and tell her how nobly she acted
in going to take care OF her faithless
loVer!'
No, dear. Never mention her
past life to her Ia any way. The
wound has closed. but it will bleed
again at a touch"
Wen, mother" said Gerard, is
hat ALP.
There is little more. She lived
FIVE years at Arlington, and then her
Aunt Martha's health failed. Week
after week she grew feebler, and at
the end of the year she sank into a
state of hopeless imbecility. Then
Persia took the oversight of affairs,
and found to her astonishment
that when her fathers death occur-
red, he was insolvent. Aunt Martha,
with a delicacy which no one would
have given her credit, had succeeded
in keeping this knowledge from her
niece, and had used up all her little
/, private fortune in satisfying the cred
! itors, and preventing them from seiZ-
ing upon the old homestead. Imme.
? diately upon ascertaining the state oil
, affairs, Persia acted with decision
she sold the farm and all other prop
. erty belonging to her late father
paid the debts. and had just nine hun.
I. dred dollars left. With this she pur.
chased the little cottage where she
now lives, and assumed the care Of
her idiotic relative. For almost IF.
teen years she had toiled early and
! late to keep this poor old charge com.
I Portable; for, though denying herselI
/ everything, save the bare necessities
: of hfa, Aunt Martha is nicely clothed
u and has a hundred little luxuries thai
can only be procured for her by thu
: unwearying labor of her devoted
: niece.
Mr.. Delmere and his wife led
y gay life for some years. Helen was
, reckless, INSCRIPTIONS hirt, and he
husband was unhappy and disappoint
ed. Some years ago they went abroad
- and | can tell you nothing more 0
4 them. And this is all / know of Mis-
; Anderson's Romance"
= The Summer following Mrs. ST
n Maurice relation of Miss Anderson
4 story, Gerard, came into the sitting
room one July afternoon, with an IN
mistakable Indication in his face G
something to tell"
a What is it, Gerard?' said Carrie
4" You look as if you had found a
IN Aladdin's lamp. Have you?"
No; but Miss Anderson has.
think"
Miss Anderson? You dear oil
Gerard Has somebody died an
i left her a fortune? Oh, I do HOP
N ~sol'
Mrs. St. Maurice looked up at th
II radiant face of her son. WHAT'S i
Gerard? am all interest where Mis-
Anderson is concerned"
O. Well, then, l will turn narrato
ar This is the secoud volume Of the re
ne nance, and however poorly | may te
lie il, [ think tits decidedly the best. ]
fortnight ago, as you already know
the Aunt Martha for whom Miss Al
Al lo--o, - slava3 hapSalE L.,