Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1870-04-13

for moment He,ty looked the very embod
! iment OF misery.
What will he think? that's a great ques
ton to askl | wish you knew what he
thinks of you, you best sister. Don't you
suppose he knows of your sacrifices for me,
the poor little good for or-uothing, for whom
you have worked your fingers almost to the
/ bone? As if he would begrudge opera
ticket Why he would have taken you long
ago but for your independence, as you call
it. | call it nonsense"
Cant he dispose of the ticket? % asked
Hetty.
'No-if you don't go the ticket will stay
in his pocket, for we won't take any body else,
and that would be dead loss. Come, dar-
ling, say you'll go.
II don't see but | shall have to" said
Hetty, with long drawn sigh; and Nell ran
away radiant, to report her success.
But Hetty sat for long time, her head
resting upon her hand, her eyes fixed on the
work before her She had made as Nell
| had said, many sacrifices for her pretty little
sister-ore, i've years before that Nelly had
not known of, though size wondered, in her
childish way, what made Sumner Landman
stop coming to the house. She missed the
little presents he brought her missed his
| kindly face and laughing brown eyes. She
would have been Mortified now to learn that
her sister bad given him up for her sake, that
they, too, had parted almost in anger and
that thus the only love dream of Hetty's lie
was ruthessy dissolyed
Alas fer He:tg Since then, she had heard
Of her lover great success in a distant State
aud finally of his marriage. Only Heaven
knows the anguish she had battled with, or
saw with what dread she looked forward to
4 lonely lie
Hetty never looked prettier in her life.
that was the verdict passed by Nell; and
even Winfield gazed admiringly on the fair
face that the flush of pleasure and excite
ment made almost beautiful, on the night
OF the opera. TIE girl enjoyed the fine
music, the spirited acting, the brilliant see
nic efforts, and tho sight ofjoyous faces aud
splendid dresses, with a zcst that long absti
nence from all such sights aul sounds had
created
Suddenly Nell touched !ier sisters arm.
''Hetty, d give good deaf to know who
that gentleman is looking at Do YOU see :?
the fourth seat from the wal! he has fallen
in love @ith one OF US, am sure. 1t seems
as If had known him somewhere -
IIstty, almost uugracinusly, for Marguerite
Of her spinning wheel had just commenced
the tender, plaintive air, King Of Thule, .
turned Just in time to see the quickly reced
ing profile of the strangers but something
in the poise Of the head, even, set her pulses
to fluttering. and it was with some difficulty
she composed herself to listen to the music
again. Oaee more she felt the light tap of
Nelly 5 fan on her arm, and heard her whis,
per: ''iietty, I've just thought The face
is older. bat looks like Sumner Landman
you remember him, don't you p
Remember him !" trembled on Hesty 5
iirs, rs at that moment the brown eyes turn
ed full upon her, and she shrank back, pale,
trembling, with an angry thought in her
heart. Why does LIE look at me in that
way p
1t was Sumner Landman; older, darker,
full beard falling to his throat, the hand
some, genial face unchanged, the light OF
the clear eyes undimmed, more glorious than
ever in his manly beauty but lost to her
forever lost to her, aud beside her sat tbG
sister for whose sake she had refused him
happy iu the love Of true AID generou;
heart, while she by | er own act had doomed
herself to a fate she could not contemplate
without shuddering, beeause she had known
the depth aud fervor of a tender love.
, Say. Hetty, it is him, ism it?" querieC
Nell, with searching, ,inquisitive eyes. How
, the music affects you, doesn't it? You don
know how pale you We grown.
: And again, after Hetty nodded, ''yes.
Where has be been all this time
= In California l believe.
, Nell was quiet and thoughtful after that
y Il d. believe she sail that night TO he
! lover, as they were parting-''that Sumne
Landman liked Hetty for it was her he look
ed at so much to highland Hetty turnec
' red, and then pale, whenever she noticed it,
'Wh you never knew that they wer
t engaged once ?''
Never" and Nell opened her eyes wide
2 Pray what broke the engagement
Nobody knows, was the answer.
r 1T must have been good reason" sat
E Nell thoughtfully.
e ''Hetty always has the best of reasons 70
what she does-but he is SO handsome, hoy
could she send him away
a On the following day Hetty sat in her ac
customed place, but her pen was very Idle
a 1t would travel line or two-then stop
: move again, half reiuctantly-stop-
g Hetty deliberately wiped the nib and laid !
y upon the rack, bent her head upon her hands
and sat thus plunged IN thought, sighin
;, sometimes heavily. Nells knock sounded
Hetty looked mp as she came in fresheuin
d the faded room with her rosy, breezy pres
enee.
Il Its Mr.. Landman, she said, in lo1
u voice, breathess!y. Hes in the naIIo
e now, walking round and looking at the pho