The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-02-24


destiny, you would now be childless. I
will tell you all by and by, but this I
will say now !: In him to whom I allude /
have also found the first person in whom
my heart in its Tuner throbbings has ever
Acknowledged IN interest-the first
whose voice he's fingered on my ears after
he was cut Of sight!"
"Anns have you fallen in love and
With strangers"
az am in love, believe, mother, and
with one whom never saw until to-day
But he is nos stranger to me, to you, or
70 fame. He 10 an officer and a gentle
man, one whose services have been &C
knowledSed By deserved promotion, and
who hAs made his mark with his pen as
we'll as his swordr"
His name, my daughter!"
"Colonel Edgar Mansfield, mother
Have you not seea 1t in prints"
"Yos, often; bat tell me how, when
aad where you met him"
Anna Marston gave an account of the
danger which she had escaped, and en-
enthusiastically described the heroic con
duct Of her prcserver.
Mother" she said, at the close of. her
narration, :" l looked into his blue eyes
while faltered between life and death,
and in their soulful depths I read nag fate
In sn instant loved him with love
that win know no change but in death"
Anna, my child, this is folly To
give your love before it is sought, is un
maidenly to say the least
| Mother, it is the voice of Nature, and
who shall still its peadings! Till now
have been as ice to all who have sought
my smiles-till now distrustful, believing
that the heiress, and not the woman,
being wooed. should ne'er be won. But
it is over. He will come to see me-he
gill wool shall accept, and l pray
Heaven we shall be happy"
At later hour, when Mrs. Marston
was alone In the drawing-room, servant
entered and said:
"Colonel Mansfield has called 60 see
Miss Anna"
Request him to walk in and / will
gladly welcome him then you may in
form my daughter of his arrival"
The colonel entered, was received with
courtesy, a grateful kindness, which
made that queenly matron nobly pre-
possessing in his signt
The conversation, Ringing much on the
service he had been so happy as to rem
der, continued until the rustic Of her
dress announced beautiful Anna Marston,
our heroine. AS he rose, she giided for
ward, and with hands extended to grasp
his, exclaimed:
81 am 20 glad you have come so soon,
that my dear mother may with myself
join in renewal Of grateful expressions
| for"
"a service which fortune threw in my
way. and to which hope my kind friend
the honor Of her acquaintance l am more
than rewarded. I hope you feel no evil
effect from the startling incident Of the
day!"
None at all. And I can now explain
to you how it occurred"
The reader, who has noted all the in
cidents of the plot laid by Belphor, needs
no repetition of them here.
Cnlnnal hansnefd 1tsJUned, osnd With
the keen perception of a man of the
world, read the entire plot in all its dark
details. And while he rejoiced at its
failure. he warned the lady that bad men
seldom give up wicked plan because
foiled at first and that she must yet
guard against peril from these men.
Urged on, they could not say why, or
cared not to ask, each in turn confided in
the other knowledge of their respective
positions.
The colonel, who had gained his rank
in the volunteer service, was now about
to enter the regular army as captain OF
cavalry He intended to do so, for IN
frontier and garrison duty he could finu
leisure to use his pen, and the income
from that, added TO his regular pay,
would enable him to continue to support
ard educate an orphan sister-h1s dear
! little Pearl, then at the Rutgers Female
College.
He informed Miss Marston that his
sister would graduate during the follow
ing week, and that it was his intention
to then take her to the west with him.
"For he added, "she IS too young, too
pure, to go out alone in contact with the
orld."
"When your dear sister graduates, |
would like to have her here to live with
me- Her room shall be next my own.
Birds shall sing in every window, and
| flowers greet her eye on every side.
Promise me my preserver, that you will
let her live with me, at least for time? ?"
81 would be unjust to both you and
her to refuse, and if you will, together
we will visit her tomorrow, for it is
Saturday, and she will be all day at
home"
Anna, noble hearted, far above the
selfshncss of too mary of the wealthy
daughters of America, now revealed her
soulful nature as we'll as part of her
history.
"Do not think me bold, Colonel Mans
field" she said 81 do not mean to be-.
| Put am fper n cpo;]o6 child Mother