The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-04-23
--...- ItTIglnaI
& O 9RE&N1E EsK.
OR THE
FORTUNES OF JULIET CLAYBURN.

lelt OrRney. L ought to congratulate
onaEBuppoae-<you will forgive me if
do Motif cannot You cannot doubt
that I send yon all happy wishes. wishes
greaterin number than the starry orbs
intha tirnaament, and as bright and as
steadfast as they. You cannot doubt, if
1 held the blessings of the whole world
in my hand, they would be laid saori-
lice Of devotion at your feet. Need 1
say this? You know how dear you are
to me-dear as my mother-as my sis
ters. You know that L love you, as I
love the angels and oil things that are
pure. and beautiful. and holy. And I
think MIR. Lyle is not undeserving you,
not unworthy TO wear SO bright jewel.
It is nothing Of that sort which makes
me withhold my appreciation, and rem
ders me truly unhappy at the knowledge
only that do not wish you to marry at
all---at tleast-but I dare not say more.
/ am dumb, through compulsion, now,
but time will come when hidden things
are understood and mysteries revealed.
IF there is anything in this to dis
please, 1 ,entreat forgiveness. I regard
your feelings too sacredly to wound
them. II have written perhaps what T
should not have written-what I have
written only on the impulse of the mo-
ment. 'bnt in all and every case, Hersa.-
lerliebss.Npon Herxenge,n, I am still and
ever, your most affectionate RUDOLPH"
"P. 81 suppose Mr.. Lyle has told
you the news about Uncle Karl-as I
wrote him yesterday. He did not sail
on the Pawtncket, as expected; but
later on the Ocean Bird, an English
vessel. He is here and safe; I know you
Will be glad to hear this, on my account.
''R. Won o."
Juliet pernsed the letter twice, and
then sat many moments in solemn ro-
heotion, before che observed her father
was Watching her intently. When she
perceived this, she gave sudden start,
folding up the letter, and exclaimed with
an air. of studied indifference:
"What in the world does Rudolph
meanby such mysterious language! He
speaks riddles. +"
Let me see the document" said Mr..
Cleyburn, laying aside the newspaper he
had been pretending to read.
After he had finished its perusal, Ju.
liet asked:
"What do you think he means by all
those covert insinuations?"
''Means! I'm sure I cannot say. I
expect, however, he means, he has had
the audaoity to fall in love with you him
self" f''F. IS, y
sob, impossiblel''
''Not impossible, by any MEANS"
answered Mr.. Olayburn. ''When I was
about his age. I fell desperately in love
with young lady five years my senior.
/ absolutely offered myself to her. and
was on the verge of suicide, wien she
rejected me- But I met your mother
very soon after, aud my lacerated heart
was healed with miraculous skill and
rapidity."
''But concerning Rudolph, such thing
is impossible. He loves me, of course,
devotedly, but, as he says, with the same
kind OF love he bears his mother and his
sisters. think it must be something
in reference to his uncle"
Perhaps go. So, he is back in Ash
burn. Will you not find it unpleasant
meeting him again, and staying in the
eame house, too? If it will be trial,
do not go. Your own nuptuals come of
30 soon after, it will be better, perhaps,
all things considered, to relinquish the
trip" ~ .-.@- r..
s.I could not disappoint Blanche, :"
said Juliet, refeotively; ''and, besides. my
pride revelts at the course you advise.
It is due to myself and Theodore not to
avoid the meeting in such direct way;
and really, father, do not dread it.
Karl Won Oppenheim is merely memory
to me now. Fortunately for me. am
80 constituted can never waste my life
on hopeless passion. The possibility
OF loving where I am not beloved, is
someshlng cannot comprehend. At
first, I thought I would never love, never
trust again; but in some things expe-
rienoe is no teacher, for trust Theodore
now as I once trusted another"
''And in Theodore you will never find
that you have trusted unworthily- for
the other"
s'Pease do not speak unkindly of
him." interposed Juliet, with dignity;
''for remember, whatever he may be, he
is the man once preferred above all the
earth, and though may not meet him
without transient feeling of emotion,
o aeeting pang of regret, it will merely
be brief retrospect, resembling that
feeling with which maturer years, no
matter how happy they may be, looks
back upon tho sunny hours of child
hood"
So Juliet kept her resolution and went
80 A.,t,t l..