Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-06

young people Of the village, while iti
functions were stretched to include coed
deal Of mild Irritation. Hannah, on enter.
ing, looked mildly around TO discover the
Doctor; but, strange TO say, he was alb
sent. Aeck, who Belonged TO the choir
rat In his usual place alone. Neither Jane
nor her young lady visitor had accom-.
panied him. These facts Hannah ascer.
tanned before chs let her eyes drop on her
notebook. She watched the door keenly
all through the hour of practice; but the
doctor did not make his appearance, and
her indignation grew apsce. She hoped
to slip away q little in advance Of the
crowd before the exercises were quite
over, and the Gordon of young men had
formed about the entrance. But just a.
she was stepping of into the darkness,
with the warm summer rain falling stead.
lily, hand touched her arm.
Let me walk home with ysu, Hannah!
l have an umbrella, and you are unpro-
vided." It was Alexis voice, and Han.
nah was nettled to remark not even a
touch OF penitence in his tone.
"Eo, / thank YOU" che returned, stiff
ly. II prefer TO 90 alone"
Bat you cannot refuse my company
for few steps, at least" said he, pushing
up his umbrella and shielding her whether
or no; "for have brought an apology
from Bingham. am going to tell you as
great secret" Aleck went on, confiden.
TALLY, while Hannah kept still from sheer
astOnishment, that the Doctor and that
forty-'leventh cousin of ours, from Hills
dale, were engaged once. The Doctors a
capital fellow, but there's jealous streak
in him. He wants to keep q loose foot
and wasn't willing Mary should do the
same. She's an unc0mmonly pretty, live
ly girl "a sharp twinge in Hannah's side
Sand, Of course, she wasn't going to be
cooped up, and the result was, they quar-.
relied. But they did really care for each
other, and now the thing Is made up and
/ guess they have found out what sneak
ing, unrightcous thing jealousy is."
"There might be cause for it," return
ed Hannah, family, as she felt her spirit
Oozing away.
"Come now, Hannah, you mean to hit
me, and might hit back again, but /
won't; for I haven't loved anybody but
you-ever since was q boy. en- one
Of the constant kind. Don't you know
Am, Hannah Every softly spoken for
suCn D UiB IcliOW. MY utaIt uhs lcnI utu
,ne trick Of loving, and 1t can't unlearn IT.
"Why, sir, didn't you and Jane come to
ny quilting party f"-spoken in shaky
yoice, and showing the white feather
why did you 60 gallivanting
IF with that grill"
"You did not ask US, in the first place.
md that girl was visitor, and l liked
,cr."
"Don't be saucy. sent note to Jane,
md told father TO give it to Andy"
"Ha, hap laughed Aleck, lit is all ex.
planned now. The old gentleman sent in
IN advertisement OF Puffer's Pills by mis-
AXE, and you will find the note quietly
opposing in his pocket"
l am afraid Aleck was saucy, for when
Hannah got into the house there was
very sweet and delicious ting
ing upon her lips. She crept into the
where she could hear the
rood old deacon calmly snoring, and slip
Jed the little note out of the breast. peck
i of his coat.
Long afterward, when she had been
Aleck's wife many year, and the colOrs
f the pretty star. quilt had faded upon
Ter bed, Hannah would take the little bill
ct, grown yellow now, from an inner
rawer, where she kept it along with o
ilky tress cut from the head of the baby
he had lost, and kiss IL tenderly, as if
ew faith and trust could emanate from
Is folds.