The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1870-11-22

| III MS neart as she had borne ms! lie
said lie had, and believed him. He
fingered, and could not go away with
out telling his love.
Rachel awoke as from blissfll
dream when Arthur told her that be
loved her--that lie had loved her ever
since that bright childhood's time
and that he should love her while he
lived. And @hen he would have spoken
further she put up her hands and mo-
toned for him to stop. She was pale
and frightened, and he feared he had
offended. ~ as-
NO. no, isle said LET ne go now.
Say no more. let me think"
And thus speaking she sped away to
her own chamber, where ehO cat dawn
and rejected; and sile was not happy.
She loved Arthuy, Lee, aud she knew
full well that he loved her "But what
must be the result ii they married?"
Arthur had confessed that lie had no
hune OF his.owi, True, brave. gener-
/ Gus. aud able to carve his own way in
the face of any fiite, yet he had NO
home. If she married him she must
give up Oaiwood-giye uh- -,
home she posses .oA @,s' UP "'i ''o
.,nu see another come in tu
E'aim it. For herself she woold not
have hesitated an instant; bat what
Was TO become of her aged paronts?
Gould she give them as a care upon
the hands of Arthur? She dared not.
fpnld she take from them the home
W was now theirs while she had noie
"'',' To give them?
AZ vas thus that Rachel sat in her
o''"' > I'd was unhappy, as we said in
'N0 ling. Ii was tie confiict be-
'"ee" :. duty and the hearts deep
e''' "0'' ~ Te, and the decision that
'oVe a'us' o'scritced, that gave her
unrest and trh,,,i,n,. sho Yorlaov
: plaiuall to ArtL, .n,Iha II
/, stand her. she nd be frank and
e tell him everything :, ,,,,l,-,- .
: naps--he would vail P
$ When evening CANT. ~.
e Arthur saw that Racr ~
e weeping. AID he took he. ''
e spoke to her tenderly. w. ""'
y Rachel, | meant not to wO
;, Pardon me if allowed my gre; we ~"
to lead me astray. l. had hoped
>. had found in your heart some rel
h for that affection which had treasu
o ed up for so many years"
d She put up her hand and stopp'
d him. She had resolved that she =.
If tell the whole truth, and trust the |
ID suit to Providence. A brief pau'
ii and she spoke. She tod him frank
.e Of her love--she told how she h
Ii never forgotten him since first she kn'
k him. And then she told how she h
: married with Capt. Bowers how 5
nj had yielded the obedience of u chi
ue and secured home for her paren
he Aud then she told of the will and h,
ce her marriage would turn her father a
so mother homeless upon the world.
"If your parents had the assuran
a of IL comfortable, happy home wh
e, they lived. .uld you lie my wife 2"
ee Yes. Arthur" 3
IN "And give up Oakwood p
II, 81 would give up all else for yo
,d true love"
of "Rachcl," he said, when he had ta
OF en- seat by her side. thus far | Fl
he you have loved and trusted me /
I'd Gnowing who l am. | think Ca
lie Barnaby never tod YOU"
h. u never asked him." replied Zach
nd looking up with surprise. In the %
ee er time he only spoke Of you as
Buy Arty,' whom he seemed to IL
NO aud care for. In the latter time
M has not mentioned your name, save
7, the Occas ou When he told me Of y,
nm supposed loss ut sea"
no "Andsq, -ltachvI, you did not kn
= that | was Capt. Barnaby's q
10 ncrhew-lhe son of his own sister
to "How?' cried the startled wom
- "liis sistcry'
he Ills sis.er Prudence. lie has
other aud never had"
go. But her name is not the same
d; yours"
ew M; but it was once, Her
lot husband was Harry Lee, "A bold &
err dashing sailor, who was lost at z
to within TWO years after their maria
nw | was their only child. Aflerward
to- married with Mr. Marshall So, J
ho see,el am the sisters heir; aud wi
,ht you loose OAkwood il must coioe to
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