The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-01-14

frank, impulsive letter.
"Dear little Daisy" she said; and
then.
7 ~ wonder who Give Hartley
dearest friend isl! "Daisy does moi
give his name
So she went about her prepara
tions, before going to her friend
with happy heart-for woman de
lights in weddings-only that the
manly pleading of that troublesome
letter would sometimes come before
her, and she wondered if the writer
had given up the desire of knowing
her.
( Delay occurred; until she finally
wrote to Daisy and her family, that
she could not arrive in Benton earli-
er than the day before Christmas;
and Daisy was sadly disappointed
thereby.
Some time previous to this, Brace
Clifton had, also, received a letter
from his friend Give, asking, nav.
commanding him to come and be his
groomsman on that day, which was
to make him the happy husband OF
Daisy Cummings: and he too accep-
ted, but wrote that his business in
the West, would prevent his reach
ing Benton earlier than the day be-
fore Chistmas.
He also, wondered, not little, as
to the probable identity of the
bridesmaid; but supposing it would,
of course, be some of the young ladies
whom he had met in Benton, thought
but little more about it.
When the day before Christmas
dawned, it found our hero, a passen-
ger on the Western railroad. DELAYS
had occurred; and nov, he feared, if
any further accident should befall
him, he would be too late to partici-
pate in the festivities at Benton.
As the train neared another station
after the early dawn had begun to
make things visible, he was startled
as by 4 galvanic shock, when the cry
rang through the car, "A6iRgton"! :
The next instant, they slackened
speed, and then came to full stop,
before a depot, thronged, even at that
early hour, with people.
"A small place, this Arlington, .
said an old man, to another, as they
looked out, and nodded to each
other approvingly. And such it
seemed, from the number Of passen-
gers, who crowded in, literally filling
the car in which was our friend
Brace, to overfowing.
The whistle shricked: the engine
started, and Brace Clifton caught,
and saved from falling, a poorly clad
woman, who was standing near the
door looking forlornly around for q
seat, when his quick spring brought
him to her side, in time to save her
from the fall she was in danger of,
He had seen her, and was about to
offer her a scat when the cars so
suddenly started: and in moment
he had placed her safely in the one
he had vacated, stopping her eager
thanks by saying quietly.
"It is no trouble, madam. l can
stand much easier than you with the
child"
The train flew on, Brace Clifton
did not know, as he stood in the
aisle, steadying himself by the straps
in the top of the car, that a pair OF
darkly bright eyes were fixed adj
miringIy upon him, not that their
owner, secure behind the thick folds
of her vail, called him hero softly
to herself: and let no movement of
his graceful figure escape her.
Nor did she relax her scrutiny,
until with quick flush of the dark
cheek she remembered that he who
was the object of it, was a stranger,
to whom her approval of his courte-
sy to q poor woman, could make no
possible difference. Then, she turn
ed herself, resolutely to the book in
her hand, and in its pages, assumed
an utter Indifference to the little
world around her.
She had thrown aside her veil
the better to peruse the volume; and
as she did so, she met the gaze of the
stranger" and was surprised to see
a look of frecognition, emphasized by
a slight start forward, in his face.
Both blushed to the temple; an(
both at once, put on an air Of indif
ference, to vail the confusion unde.
which they labored.
Brace was the first 70 understand
and to act. The face of the lady
strange as it may seem, was til,
face he had given in his dreams t
| Leila Lawrence,
Gould this be shey" 1t was no
impossible. did she get on at Alb
lington." He believed she did; and
suddenly, it flashed upon him, tina
she might be going to Benton-migh
even be the bridesmaid, whose nam
Give had neglected to give him.
"What complication! And thi
same proud girl, if it were the sam
had refused his acquaintance" H
could believe it the same, as he not
ed the proud pose of the head, an
the queenly grace of the form.
But, she had refused his acquain
! aRce "She would be angry then
if she could know it to be him, gain
so admiringly upon her."
That she was not angry, he coul
easily see; "but them, he though
''she does not know it to be the prC
suming sspirant for her friendship
II will not even look at her, witt
out her approval" he finally concluC
r ed; and he turned away.
At the next stopping of the trail
f he entered the adjoining car.
, Leila-for it was she, saw him G
with a pang of disappointment.
9 Yet, was it possible that this SUE
den movement had connection wit
his agitation when he first saw hei
1t looked like it she thought.
S "What could it mean? And agai
1 Miss Lawrence had occasion to chic
herself for the folly which kept h'
thoughts on a pair of brown eye
e which she had never seen before,
t the exclusion of the page before he
The day went on, as days do Q
4 the cars. At T-those going fu
e ther East changed cars; and agai