Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS.
GOLDEN CHAIN.

OF course you lnlnk me naTu-neaTIcu
and selfish, Mr.. Rylston. suppose IL is
in the natural order Of things that youth
should look upon age as tyrant, but the
time will come when you will thank me
for my precautions. havc--or perhaps
ought to say my wife has married off five
d.ssrhterse ard 90 Tncy heins tho last has
been bit spoiled. If had fortune to
give her, I'd say take her; but six girls
have been expensive luxuries; my specu-
lations have not been very successful lately,
and the couple Of thousand she viii have
would not be much good"
But, Mr.. Lansden----"
But, my dear boy, would almost soon.
or see my little Lucy In her coffin than see
her married TO clerk with d hundred and
fifty year. No doubt sentamentalists
would cry shame at me for such a speech
Ny wife and ] loved each other dearly,
and we thought we were doing fine thing
when we married on exactly your salary
well, she had never done hard work and
had not the physical strength for it--what
was the consequence We did very well by
ourselves, but children came one after an
other: we could not afford to keep a good
servant and so what with broken rest ut
nights, and continual work and worry In
the day time, | saw her grow pale and thin
and broken spirited; while was power
less 10 prevent IL though Heaven knows
the knowledge cost me many heartache !;
and when at last, after years Of hard work,
/ could give her the comforts she had been
accustomed 10 have before her marriage,
thoy came too late to bring hack wasted
youth and light -hcartedness. Our expert
cncc, however, had happy ending, though
with some the struggle lasts as long ~ life
itself, and with others the end comes to
find. love, faith, and all that Is best and
brightest in life, ended too"
"Btill, Lucy and | are 50 young" said
the young man. =,
long engagements, and don't believe In
them; but shall never hurry Lucy into
marrying against her inclination. My wife
and like you, and would sooner give our
little girl into your keeping than that of
any one else we know II you think you
can make your fortune, for goodness sake
20 and make IL. She won't bc twenty one
Tor three years yet but mind, you will
have 10 trust each other. I'll have no let
ter-writing, nor anything Of that kind; SC
now, good. bye, and don't look so disconso
late. You know the old adagc, faint
heart '"
Privately thinking lovers great bore
and wondering why in the world his
daughters seemed 80 anxious to leave home
Mr.. Lansden began CORRECTING his various
belongings, preparatory to paying his daily
visit to the city; while George Rylston
looking very much " II .he had made ur
his mind To be miserable for life, wandered
off into the garden In search Of Lucy, al
the more disappointed because he and thai
young lady had, before his interview with
her father settled everything 30 entirely u
their own satisfaction.
The fact was, George had, few days be
fore, received letter from an old uncle II
India--a letter TINT had placed him on tn.
pinnacle Of happiness; and he and Lucy
reading Il over, with their heads very close
together could not close their mental eyes
to the vision of all sorts of good fortune
Certainly; Il was not very aficctiOnatc
but then, II Is too hot I'm India for senti
ment although Mr.. Landscn was obstinate
enough TO see nothing very promising In
the following:
"DEAR NEPHEW: have thought sew
onl times since my sisters death,
("Humph that's six years" muttered Mr.
Landscn,) "that, perhaps, l could do some
thing better for you out here than you will
ever do at home. So, II you like, you cal
come; but you had better make hast,
about Il, for these COMPOUNDED doctors N,
/ may 20 off any day. Yours,
FREDERICK HEDGES.
"P. s.-Mind you pay your bills before
you start"
So George had given up his situation
the clerkship Of which Mr. Landsen haG
spoken SO s1ightingly, and before starting
for India he found time to tell the old, old
story to pretty Lucy Lansden who, 1t must
be confessed, listened to 1t with far more
patience than her father displayed, and So
terribly crcstfallen, George went back to
The summcr-housc, where he had left Lucy,
and very modify seated himself beside
her.
$50 al that's at an end, he said.
"Whst Isl" asked Lucy.
"Why, our engagement, and my happi-
ness"
ssNonscnsel Why, George, what can be
the matter! What did papa sayY"
"Say! Oh. / suppose he said what all
fathers say to any poor fellow who goes to
them without his rentroll and cheque.
book in his hand. l thought should