Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-11-11


AT first Rachel cared not for this. She
did not think she should ever wish to mar.
ry again. She was able now to give her
aged parents q home :, and with the great
wealth at her, command she1felt that she
could employ herself hi Adofng rood among
the poor and needy around here She re-
membered Capt Barnaby's' sister, Mrs
Prudencey Marshall as Q tall, gaunt Ywo,
man, well adfaneedlin'l Life, who had visited
0akwood several times in the other years,
but whose family duties, in a distant State,
had prevented her presence since her
brothers marriage. She believed, howev-
er, that Mrs. Prudence was now q widow,
with one or two grown up daughters on
her hands,. 2iiiI p
Capt. Barndby had been dead a year,
when one pleasant day In June a gentle
man called atiOakwood to see him. The
stranger was q young map--not more than
five and -tweptyT-tall, robust, aud bandr
'some-his garb and his bronzedi features
giving token of life upon the sea, though
the quality of the garb, as well asthe bear
ing of the wearer, bespoke the man of
command rather than the bearer of service.
He had not heard of Capt. Bowers death.
He had Known him IN other times, and had
come far out of his way to see him.. l,f
d Rachel went down, and met the stranger
IN the drawing-room and. she met one
raised from the dead. II was Arthur Lee.
He had not been drowned. 8 He had caught
floating spar; and had been picked up
by Dutch trader and had been taken to
Australia land had gone thence to Hol.
land and had finally come to command a
ship in the employ of the Dutch East In
dia Company.
And Arthur Lee, finding Rachel so glad
to see him, stopped at Oakwood; ana in a
very few days Rachel knew that the love
of other years had not died out. If the
bright-eyed laughterloving sailor boy
had been dear TO her in the days of child
hood, how much moredid her heart go out
toward the brave and gallant youth who
had now come to her in the b1ightlmoFl-
ing,of his manhoods healthful lush and
vigor = = y - 3 g8a sHe
And how was it with Arthur Lee? That
he loved Rachel was evident enough but
had he borne her image in his heart as she
had borne his 2--IIe- -Said-he-- had, and she
believed him. He fingered, and could not
go away without telling his love. T.
Rachel awoke as from a blissful dream
when Arthur told her that he loved herr
that he had loved lier ever since that bright
childhood's time-and that he should love
her while he lived. And when he would
have spoke Further she phtup her hands
and motioned for him to stop. She was
pale and frightened, and he feared he had
offended e rgg, 80 E1 "a fg
q ENC, no. she said. Let me go now.
Say no more. Let me think"
And thus speaking she sped away to her
own chamber, where she sat down and re-
feeted and she was not happy. She low
ed Arthur Lee, and she knew full we'll that
he loved her. "But what must be the re-
suit if they married ?" Arthur had confess
ed that he had no home of his own. True,
brave, generous, and able to carve his own
way in the face of any fate, yet he had no
home. If she married him slie1npd give
up .Oakwood-give up all the home she
possessed-give up all the property-and
see another come in to claim it. For her
self she would not have hesitated an
instant but what was TO become of her
aged parents? Could she give them,as a
care upon the hands of Arthur? She
dared not. Could she take from them the
home that was now theirs while she had
none other to give them?
Ii was thus that Rachel sat in her chair,
and was unhappy, as we said in the begin
ming. It was the conflict between filial
duty and the hearts deepest, holiest love,
and the decision that love must be sacritic-
ed, that gave her unrest-and tribuhtion.
She would explain all to Arthur, and he
would understand her. She would be
frank, and tell him everything, and per
aps-perhaps-hewould wait. =. !. "a, ] {
When evening came they met again.
Arthur saw that Rachel had been weeping,
and he took her hand, and spoke to her
tenderly.
! I"Rachel, meant not to wound you.
Pardon me if / allowed my great love to
lead me astray. had hoped that had
found in your heart some return for that
affection which had treasured up for so
many years"
She put up her hand and stopped him.
She had resolved that she woqld't him
the whole, truth, and trust the resultY to
Providence. A brief pause, and she spoke.
She told him frankly of her love--she told
how she. had never forgotten him, since
irst,she knew him. AndS then she told
how she had married with Capt Bowers
how she had yielded the robedience of a
child, and secured a home for her parents.
And, then she told of the will, and how
mother homeless upon the world.
D "
a comfortable, happy home Mhile they
lived, would you be my wife?"
= Eyes, Arthur" ----
"Ahd give up Oakwood?7T I0fTfCI
love ,EN"rEtyEuT pffY l'YtffIj w
"Rachel," he said, when he had taken a
Seat by her side "thus fm IyfiRd Sdu have
loved and trusted me not knowing who l
am, /, 1 think Capt, Barnaby never told
'Ilneyer asked him. rcrdplIeal lRacIdi,
looking up with surprise. "ln the other
time he only spoke of you as his Boy
.Arty, whom, he seemed to love and rCare
for Inlthe latter time lheghasv notf men
toned Your name, save on the occasion
when he told me Of your supposed loss at
7 %And so, JRdchel, you did not know
that l was Capt. ,Barnaby's own nephew
the son Of his own sister?" ''' IL r'.' ''
';HdwYl cried tho st%tled woman. mills
sister?n -..f.....I t.,. .4.,l, .,.,y,
His sister Prudence. f. He has, no other,
and never had.
"But her name is not the same as. yours" !"
mo; but il was once! Herr first hus-
band vas Harry Lee, q bold and dashing
sailoE who was lost at sea, within two
years after their marriage. was their
only child. Afterwar1 She married with
Mr.. Marshall So, you see, am the sis
ter's heiri and when you lose OakwoDd il
must come to me, The two daughters, Of
whom you have spoken are not my moth I
er's chlIdfeh." They were the children Of
Mr. 7Marshall's first wife. W ann my
mothers, only child 81 and L know that she
will be blessed, indeed, when she sees me
settled down, peaceful and contented, on
shore. And Inow,) Raohel,>i IL u pFdmise
you that your father and mother mhy! hold
the homo adaughter's love has given them,
may not dare to hopel -
Z And Rachels tIial wasDVeE sK.Ha
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