The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-07-22


midsummer of Paradse-high, tende
glows from full pulsed, healthful hearts
All these very possible in single stock
ing!
! The too quiet and almost too long day
came and went for Sylvia. w inter
wild birthright' was passed, and now til
winter life was fully come in ali its storm
and cold. Sylvia received a note one ia
from Miss katihka Creevy, busting man
ageress of half the benevolent societies il
town, requesting her presence at tn,
organization and initial meeting of tn,
Soldiers Dorcas Society"
On the evening named Sylvia set out
without companion except the boy WIZ
drove, on her lonely ride to the town
Had her heart been ever so light, the
scenes of the journey would have taker
somewhat from its cheer The snow
stretched out in long CHASTITY reaches
under the dead grays, It's whiteness only
| broken by distant strips Of forest which
| lay along the land. as she thought, like
dead giants, prone and blackpaled.
Reaching town finally, she found Mis-:
| Creevy' 5 parlor full Of Il smiling, nimbe
| handed company. among which she took
| her place, gl;incing for q moment at the
gentlemen, variously disposed, many of
! them holding skeins of yarn for ladies to
wind, others in lieu of that keeping balls
in diligent ward. No doubt much Of the
| most invigorating electricity wrought
| back and forth en- the lines so formed
Her eyes sought her work relieved, he
was not there-though for that matter
had he been thousand miles away the
chill waters between them could not have
flowed more coldly than if he had been al
her side. For nearly an hour she busted
herself with her work and pleasant lady
companion. Finishing the task at length
her hands rested a moment in her lap.
Then Miss Creevys vivid voice.
Miss Farnham. please come and wind
this yarn off Mr.. Ecaren's hands, every
body else is busy"
How little Miss Katinka knew, as she
waited to supervise her visitors compli-
ance, how thunder bolt like her simple
request had been!
Sylvia took in ''the situation, as they
say IN the papers, at a glance.
Most of the company had looked up at
Miss Creevy's ting-a-ling voice, and were
taking IN Sylvia movements with placid
observation. How those eyes would
have widened, and those tongues ratified,
if Sylvia had acted out her impulse be-
fore them She could not do that; but
1t was scarcely easier to take the thread
from her hostess hands and wind round
after round from these others, whose
owner had done her such heart despite,
and between whom and herself word
even had not passed for months.
The company soon resumed their oc-
-
seemed for hours almost-only vaguely
glad the often threacherous thread did
not tangle. a little snap, and 10 the
supply had ceased, and the end of the
yarn had hidden in the skein, and was
not to be seen
The gentleman leaned forward for her
to regain it, and as she sought futilely,
with fingers nearly quivering. spite of her
almost fiel ce effort to keep them firm, she
heardss question, as others might have
done, but whose two-fold meaning was for
her, and understood by her only.
wv hat has made this breech ?"
She looked up at him instiuctively for
the first time, aud found his eyes, full
and earnest, steadily on her.
Ask yourself, sir.
4 have done so often, and there is no
reply in me. "
Then your mind fails to include con
versation some time ago at Mrs. May
hew :, with her SON.
He seemed in surprised reflection.
Il certainly remember a talk with
young Mayhem; but where IN anything
then said oflense to you can lie | declare
| do not know"
You do not see, [ presume" and her
voice was full of indignant pain -''how
lady can hear herself adjudged forward
and unmaidenly; nay, DESTROYS Of forcing
herself upon man, and yet feel no dis
pleasure p
We can believe the yarn was got in a
fine tangle by this time, albeit Miss
Creevy, glancing that way just then,
wondered, in an undertone to DR.. Akeriy,
who was officiating as her holder, how
some folks could contrive to snarl and
fool over yarn III such purblind way !;
whereat the worthy doctor. who, by dint
of holding the skein close to his nose, had
not slipped a thread, proudly braced out
his yarn, and watched it till his elderly
eyes and arms must have ached.
Meanwhile Phil Elcarens memory
had run swiftly back, and was sharply
reviewing every word OF that long-for-
gotten dialogue Then he looked men
tally around the parlor, whose festive
garlands had been three months dead
saw Sylvia at chess with the doctor, and
heard himself warding off the green young
collegian ; accusation as regarded him
self and that shallow little flirt, Euphrasia
Lance
Eureka He didn't say the word, but
haf ? hn tn of
smoothly it would have told two young
folks mental state thoroughly.
Twot thirds OF the great skein had van
when, fearing to tire him, she asked:
shall we not break off now, and throw
the rest aside p
Stop a minute, - said he, in low,
quick voice the threads have run
double almost from the first. If you
break of this visible grey one | shall take
it the other is snapped beyond repair !;
otherwise Loh, happy chance! y it will
run on goldcnly through life, and take us
! both to wind it side by side !"
She did not break the thread but
after one quick look, wound on and on
until, finished, it slipped softly through
his fingers.
/ And so Sylvia set out on her journey
| home over the winter hills The moon
was up in the sky no less than in the
heart and it is wonderful that under
the glamour of two moons the trees
should have turned from dead giants to
harps Of -Eotus, which seemed touched
by hands of far spirits as the wind stir
red softly in their million boughs; and
the land no longer grim, but lying with
a calm snile-pure, white, undeflcd
as it were Natures millennium come.
1t looks very much as though the
victory in Virginia must be set down to
/ the credit Of the Renuhlipan party In