The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-04-05

however, one Deautllul ray or brightness
that streamed out over his darkened life.
Floy Austin had been true to her love for
him, though her father had forbidden her
to see him after his arrest. But when the
story that he was dying, came to her ears,
she threw aside all parental control, and
came to him, and insisted upon being his
wife Immediately He objected family,
but the thought of having her with him
to the end, and of calling her at last, by
the sweet name Of wife, was too pleasant
to be long resisted, and so in the solemn
shadow of death they were united in we'd
lock, and her hands ministered to his last
earthly wants and her loving faithfulncss
frightened the valley Of shadows.
And so Robert Sherwood was dead
dead in the flush Of his young man
hood. IF he erred and fell in that one
terrible moment of bitter temptation,
were they quite guiltless who barred the
way Of his return to honor, and virtue,
and usefulness?
After Roberts death, Alfred Lindsey
came up and took Mr.. and Mrs. Sher-
wood and Corraline down to Windsor
Locks. He knew how desolatc and ter
riblc the old place must seem to them
now, and he promised Robert to make
their grief as easy for them to bear as
possible. Grantley people talked about it
some, and wondered why he didn't mar
ry Corrie and be done with tit would
certainly looh better"
But one, two, three years went by, and
both Alfred and Corrie kept on in the
even tenor of their way. There was
nothing heard of marriage between them
but that a deep, and tender, and earnest
affection existed between them, no one
could doubt who knew them. Some peo-
pie, not understanding pure and tender
feeling, laughed, and made sneering re-
marks and innuendoes, but the poisonous
arrows glanced off harmless from their
strong armor Of purity. But there came
Il change at last; change that released
lindsey from the seifimposcd life of la
Dor and sacrifice in their behalf Corrie
Sherwood, quite unexpectedly to most
people, though not to Alfred, married
wealthy gentleman in Hartford, who at
once took her parents home to his house
The day after they left, Lindsey went up
to Grantey. He had scarcely been there
since Robert Sherwood died There
were reasons why he dared not trust him
self to go there much.
Annie Morrison, little palcr and
graver than On that autumn morning
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Grantley with Alfred Lindsey, sat lost in
thought before light fire that fickered
through the twilight shadows of gray
October evening. A low rap sounded on
the door. OF course it was her father,
she was expecting him momently; so she
said, with little low laugh:
"Come in, if it is anybody that loves
me-"
The door opened and gentleman
came forward, pausing where the light
fell across his face.
"Addic," he said, tcndcrly, at could
not stay outside when you said Mat."
OF course she gave little feminine
start and scream, and protested against
his taking her so literally, because, of
course, she was only in fun, besides, she
was so sure it was her father. But when
he told her in earnest, passionate words
Of his love for her all these years, and
how he had not dared to come to her be-
fore, lest her sweet face should make him
forget the path of duty he had marked
out for himself; and that now the bur-
den was off his hands, and he was free to
seek his own happiness, etc, etc, why,
she quite broke down, and admitted be-
tween little happy, hysterical sobs, that
" she had loved him always )" and when
little later Mr.. Morrison really came in,
he found his little girl the betrothed wife
of Alfred Lindsey, and like a model faith
er, added the parental blessing.
9ey~ In a Western Sabbath-school, a
boy was asked to give an account of Mo
ses, Moses, said the boy was born