Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1870-10-14
NO. 244

1t was the last time the subject was
mentioned between them, and at length
they passed each other as almost strangers.
Not that Eva and her brother did SO until
they found it impossible to keep up the
acquaintance. They reasoned correctly,
that such q state of affairs was not accord
ing to the wishes of June, to whom they
had taken great fancy, especially Fred.
The devil take that old ogress of an
aunt, he muttered, as he saw June pass
ing, looking even more lovely than on the
night Of their first meeting II wish that
something might happen so that could
gain the entree of the house.n easU
He wouldn't have confessed even to him.
self, that he had fallen in love with the
girl at first sight No, nothing of the
kind. He only pitted her on account of
her close confinement, when, like other
girls of her age and beauty, she ought to
have been enjoying life, as bird does
sunshine and liberty to fit among flowers.
But try as he would to think of some plan
of visiting her, he could determine upon
nothing, and was about to give up in
despair when an accident came to his re-
lief
In returning home one evening from a
ride, he saw a crowd gathered in front of
his door, and upon inquiry was told that
an old man had fallen from a stroke. One
glance revealed to him who the man was,
and he instantly ordered him to be carried
into the house, and dispatched his sister
for Prudence Griswaid and her niece.
They came. Physicians were called, but
all in vain. Nathan Griswald never reused
from his sIeep--was never moved until he
was taken to his last earthly resting place.
Dark days followed. The blow was
terrible one to his sister. He had been to
her as husband children, brother, every
thing. All her love was centered in him,
and she was completely Frustrated.
Fred Buswell pitied her sutferings. and
did all that a son could have done to re-
lieve them He attended to all her busi-
ness, would not listen to her leaving the
house until everything had been arranged
to her satisfaction, and then he and Eva
accompanied her and June to little cot
tage he had hired, and seen furnished for
her, upon the banks of the river where
she had been born.
You will not leave me ?n said the old
lady, whose entire character had appeared
to have changed since the death of her
brother. Il have not long to stay on
earth, and poor June, what will become
of her when am gone?n Ia
She glanced up quickly, saw the eyes Of
those she had mentioned meet. understood
their meaning, and was satisfied All
through the summer months she fingered,
tended by her affectionate niece. and when
the leaves began to fade and fall she died.
During the last few weeks of her life,
Eva Buswell took up her abode at the cot
toge, and cheered June in the dark, trying
hours. And when at last Aunt Prudence
found she was dying, she looked from the
grave face of Fred Buswell to the weeping
June. and endeavored to speak, but the
palsied tongue refused to articulate word.
Then she took June's hand and placed it in
that OF her lover, who pressed it to his
lips, and STOPPING, breathed into her dull
ear his thanks.
81 will tenderly cherish and care for her
while live," he said. wiping his eyes.
Thus they were betrothed in the solemn
presence of death, and when the days
Of mourning were passed-when the
air was freshest and sweetest, and the
! flowers the brightest-in that month for
which she was named June, she became
his wife. They live in the old Griswald
mansion, remodeled and retitted to suit
the times and their taste, and the happy
young wife does not regret that she made
the embarrassing mistake that gained her
so good husband