The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-12

1A4 - - = :: - asese = .
saa3s4's'a aS;aTsfa sis1 t'toriginal.
GoH9EkngHsx,
FORTUNES OF JULIET CLAYBURN.
A Talo OF the Palmetto State.
PART Q.
"Hal Hal What's Life3 Think of the Joke,
The heroest ire still spds p51i in smekel" ,e,
Ass.( CHAPTER I-ORKNEY.
Orkney was not the same place as when
Juliet left home. She had last seen it in
mid-winter, when the hills were bleak
and the valleys bare; but she greeted the
place again in the heart Of summer,
when there was the sound of music
among the trees and glory over the
landscape. There were many things to
divert the young girls attention and pre-
vent her mind from dwelling continually
on thoughts of her absent lover. So many
balls at the hotel, so many beaux, so
many rides and walks, and so many mer-
ry-makings of every description. But
she was never for a moment untrue to
the absent-her heart faltered not in it's
allegiance. She enjoyed these gay
doings, for they were natural to her age
and her sunny disposition, but one en-
dearing word from Karl were worth them
all. Not even Harry Babbitt could make
her false to his memory, though she
could be kind and easy with Harry now,
without the fear of exciting Karl's dis.
pleasure.
Poor Harry came to Orkney during tho
summer, but returned sadder and O
wiser man. Mr.. Clayburn was immense
ly relieved when his rejection transpired.
II like Harry" he said to his daugh-
ter. "He's young man of kind heart
and gentlemanly department, and no
doubt would make you an excellent hus-
band. II had another daughter, for
his own worth, and his fathers sake, she
should marry him; but for you, my child,
have other views"
Other views? What views? Juliet dared
not ask.
Her father resumed: "Enjoy for a
season your youthful pursuits and the
pleasures of society, but recollect, my
daughter, there is q certain point to
which you can go, and no farther. If I
have never told you before, I give you
warning now, that you are already
promised wife. Bear this in mind, and
keep your heart intact, or send it only
where you know your hand is bestowed
Frank will come to claim you for his wife
when see fit that he should do So"
Juliet's tongue was paralyzed-s ut
tered not word.
She knew she ought to speak-ought
to tell her father his warming came too
late, for she was already the betrothed of
another. and her heart in his keeping.
But the opportune moment passed and
Juliet had not the courage to broach the
subject sfterward of her own accord.
She hoped and prayed her father might
mention the matter again, but he did not.
Mr.. Clayburn's mind was perfectly at
rest-he considered his daughters silence
as merely Indicative of that maidenly re-
serve which distinguished her, and never
doubted, for an instant. that she acaui-
esced fully in his wishes and plans for
her future. This double deception which
she was practioing upon her father,
gnawed at Juliet's heart with q greedy
pain more sharp and poignant in its bit
ter sensations than anything she had ever
experienced. Juliet began to hate her
self. She felt unworthy of the tender
love. the caresses, the devotion lavished
upon her by those idolizing parents,
whom she was 80 cruelty deceiving. They
thought only of her-lived only for her
duo WCiO hoNCI udppJ save when
strewing her pathway with bright flowers.
The flowers pricked Juliet as if they we're
all thorns and she were walking over
them in her bare-feet, the blood. oozing
from hundred wounds and changing
the beautiful flowers into q mass of clot-
ted ugliness. How would these fond
parents feel toward her when they be-
came cognizant of her wicked deceit?
Her father especially, who was 80 rigid
and stern in his notions of honor? Would
ne not spurn her from him, when he
knew her life was daily lie? When he
knew she lived under his roof, ate his
bread, squandered his money, received
his affection, professed by her silence
and her conduct that she acknowledged
and was governed by his authority, and
all the time was bound by secret pro-
mise to the man whom her father knew
MOTTO desert him when he bade her do
SO? She realized now, what she had
never truly done before, the unparalleled
sacrifices, the frightful consequences
which might be involved in the per-
<orrnonoa nf that cooraI o1,o hoJ