Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-07-22

The too quiet and almost too long days
came and went fot Sylvia. "Winter's wild
birthright' was passed, and now the win
ter's life was fully come in oil its storm and
cold. Sylvia received note one day from
Miss Katinka Creevy, bustling manageress
of half the benevolent societies in town,
requesting her presence at the organiza-
ton and initial meeting of the Soldiers
Dorcas Society.
On the evening named Sylvia set out,
without n companion except the boy who
drove, on her lonely ride to the town. Had
her heart been ever SO light. the scenes of
| the journey would have taken somewhat
/ from its cheer. The snow stretched out in
long CHASTITY reaches under the dead grays
its whiteness only broken by distant strips
of forest which lay along the land, as she
thought, like dead giants, prone and black
palled.
Reaching town finally, she found Miss
Creevy's parlor full of smiling, nimble
handed company, among which she took
her place, glancing for moment at the
gentlemen, variously disposed, many Of
them holding skeins OF yarn for ladies to
wind, others in lien, of that keeping balls
in diligent ward. No doubt much of the
most invigorating electricity wrought back
and forth on 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 be-
tween them could not have flowed more
coldly than if he had been at her side. For
nearly an hour she busted herself with her
work and pleasant lady companion. Fin
ishing the task at length, her hands rested
q moment in her lap. Then Miss Creevy's
vivid voice.
Miss Fayuham, please come and wind
this yarn off Mr.. Elcaren'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 re-
quest had been,
Sylvia took in ''the situation, as they
say in the papers, at glance.
| Most of the company had looked up at
Miss Creevy's ting-a-hng voice, and were
taking in Sylvia's movements with placid
observation. How those eyes would have
widened, and those tongues ratified, if Syl-
via had acted out her impulse before them
She could not do that; but it was scarcely
easier to take the thread from her hostess's
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 occu-
patton, and Sylvia wound on and on it
seemed for hours almost only vaguely
glad the often treacherous thread did not
tangle. A little snap, and 10 F! 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 al
most fierce effort to keep them FIRM, she
heard question, as others might have
done, but whose two-fold meaning was for
her, and understood by her only.
"What has made this breach 2"
She looked up at him instinctively for
the first time, and found his eyes, full and
earnest, steadily on her.
''Ask yourself, sir"
81 have done SO often, and there is no re-
ply in me-"
Then your mind fails to include con-
ya,ysot;cr sarss 'i"aA a"" 30 NJ No"hA"''s
He seemed in surprised reflection.
Il certainly remember talk with young
Mayhew; but where in anything then said
offense to you can lie l declare do not
know"
''You do not see, presume" and her
voice was full of indignant pain-'.how a
lady can hear herself adjudged for ward
and unmaidenly; nay, desirous of forcing
herself upon a man, and yet feel no dis
pleasure?"
We can believe the yarn was got in fine
tangle by this time, albeit Miss Creevy,
glancinG that way Just then, wondered, in
an undertone to DR.. Akerly, who was Off
ciating as her holder, how some folks
could contrive to snarl and fool over yarn
in ch purblind way; whereat the
y doctor, who. by dint of holding the
SIX "A close to his nose, had not slipped a
thread, proudly braced ont his yarn, and
watched it till his elderly eyes and arms
must have ached.
Meanwhile Phil. Elcaren's memory had
run swiftly back, and was sharply review
ing every word of that long-forgotten dia-
logue. Then he looked mentally 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 collegians accusation
as regarded himself and that shallow little
flirt, Eurhrasia Lancet
|, Eureka! He didn't saw the word, but
long before the yarn began to reel of
smoothly it would have told two young
folks mental state thoroughly.
Two-thirds of the great skein had van
! ishesi into the growing sphere she held,
when. fearing to tire him, she asked:
'fShall we not break off now, and throw
the rest aside?"
stop minute" said he, in a low,
quick voice; sthe threads have run double
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visible grey one / shall take it the other il
snapped beyond repair; otherwise (oh,
happy chance y it will run ON goldenly
through life, and take us both to wind il
side by slider
{ She did not break the thread; but after
I one quick look, wound ON and, a until
! finished, it slipped softly through his
fingers.
And so Sylvia set out on her journey
| home over the winter hills. The moor
was up in the sky no less than in the
r heart; and it is wonderful that under the
! glamour of two moons the trees should
have turned from dead giants to harps o
Z Eolus, which seemed touched by hands o
fair spirits as the wind stirred softly il
I their million boHghs; and the land NJ
| longer grim, but lying with a calm smile
pure, white, undefiled-as it were Naturei
. millennium come.
q A Touch YARN.-A strange circumstance
! is related to us as having occurredo on Mon
day. Several ladies' had assembled in tn
! tent where the MANNED man was lying, who
was run over by the cars q few miles ives
of this city, about week ago. The mai
, had one of his arms badly mutilated, ant
i the doctor found il necessary to amputat,
his arm above the elbow. The portion am
, putated was taken a short distance from
the house, wrapped in linen, placed in I
box and buried. On Monday the woundei
man became very restless, and was evident
ly experiencing torturing pain, and made
, frequent efforts to move the stump of hii
/ arm, but without avail. He told tho ladies
that his arm was bent, and that it was caus
: ing him great pain. After trying various
efforts to relieve him. oil Of which were il
! win, they proceeded to where the arm was
buried, exhumed, Strengthened it out, and
returned it to its resting place. On re