The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-11-26

short double jointed, dumpy body, face
looked as if made of lump of dough,
with big, blue glass marbles stuck In to
serve as eyes, and in the middle an up
ward push for nose, large, good .natured
mouth, and stiff, unyieldiug braids of
rusty yellow hair sticking out behind each
ear. But who can account for taste
She might find her mate.
| Albert Trevor ate his break fast in si
lence, and then left the house. and did
not return until evening, and never in all
his life had he passed so miserable a
night and day. NO, he could not endure
this he must leave. So he told Libby
that he was going away on business that
he would leave the keys of the house with
her until either he or Mrs. Trevor would
return Meanwhile she should remain
with her mother, and occasionally visit
the house and keep things in order, and
her wages would be continued as usual.
Then he made arrangements with his
partner, packed his trunk, started on his
journey, and did the most imprudent
thing in world-he went to sigh and
brood over his vanished love dream and
wounded pride at the spot where he had
been the happiest; for who knows not
that sorrows crown Is remembering hap
pier times!
Albert left his home and its familiar
objects 10 find rest and oblivion. To win
this re followed step. by step the
same route he had passed over scarcely
six months ago, when his wife Of few
days was clinging to his arm,
And is it strange that his heart found
no rest? Only an intense longing pos
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on, for the woman that was the happi-
Hess of his life.
T One of those mornings when the heart
is opened by the loving hand of Nature,
when the blood courses more joyous
through the veins, he sat in broodin .
melancholy, gazing on the misty bay aud
above the swelling sub base of the waves
he thought to hear the voice that was all
music to him. He started TO his feet
kate is calling me- he murmared,
''I win 60 to her. | cannot resist t:.is
passionate longing; guilty or not, it is
she who possessed my soul. I must go
to her"
One day week later, Mrs Jones
started nervously to her feet as the wire
bell sharply revcrberated-
My goodness . what's the meaning OF
/ THAT SfS SIG
, answered the summons.
SIT is Albert"
, 'W here is kate?" was his sanitation
Il am so glad Jon have comc. Albert,
Mrs. Jones said joyfully, ''Kate said
, you were coming. But not so loud-kecI
quiet, please; Kate mnstnot be agltated
or she-'
ooh heavens what is it? Don't keof
me in suspense Haven't [ been torture j
enough What is the matter with Kate
lie exclaimed, with a sudden, healthy J
alarm in his face.
l My dear Albert, this is needles.
alarm-all is wcQ Kate is very weak
I and must not be excited. Go to hel
, quietly she is in her room; be gentls
+, at
He did not wait to hear more: but few
E up the stairs, gently opened the door, anc
] stood in the loom 50 familiar to him
but it was changed now.
: But he had no eyes for the waif nest
c ling there With throbbipg heart h,
neareo the bed where Kate was lyin.
among the snowy pillows, the brows
: curls floating around her face, paler nc
thinner than when he last saw it, bn
: the great brown eyes, radiant With los,
. and happiness shining uron his.
:, "Oh beloved, | knew you would come
e knew you would not forget me-tha
we are inseparablc. See our child-ou
i son.
But who can describe the perfect bis
t of such mceting-a bliss that can onl,
b be interpreted when lips touch lips?
;, Ye who have suifered-who, afte
l separation and grief, have found lovin;
!, arms encirclc you onee again-only =
can understand their inexI ressible j y.
e Later, when Albert sat near the bed
with one arm clasplng mother and child
: Kate said, mischievously
e "Albert, I will now explain the caus
i of our misery. Ismoked that cigar p
ou smoked p
l. "Yes, Albert, and for that innocen
Il misdeed you seat me away. You sec
+ Albert, | was not very well then, and
had all kinds of silly cravings and pas
S sions,' she said, smiling and blushine
= That afternoon | found the cigar whef
e you had left it, in the bookcase. | con
h ceived a sudden desire to smoke it, an
d smoke it did, and as l was eontented
e ly putting away you came, and you kno1
r what followed"
"But, my own love, why did you nc
tell me this at the time p
y ~ tried to tell you, Albert, but 20
e would not let me-"
J, Forgive me this once, my preeiou
: wife, my Heaven-scnt treasure, and wi
never doubt you again" he said, draw
:, ing the lovely head to his breast.
u Il have nothing to forgive, she SAID
amid his kisses, s.for | love you
:. With their child. the flower and pledg
: of generous nature. and a cherishin
God, with loye tried and purified, incor
d ceivably happy, they gazed down tn
bright vista Of their welded future
IS A Delaware peach raiser who W;
'e troubled with boys interviewing his o
chaed, got rid of then, by making woae
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