Connecticut western news., 1871-12-22
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6 Your, uncle Charles,s wife" ,,,t f,,q
 I literally stood still wita astonishmen ,,t" How very 7strangesno observed $
 never , knew Uncle Charles ies had been ma
 That is aop pproso of EGith, 1,adlS replied dl4Aa Auna
 Myra, that your mother did not thin
 you sufficiently judicions to be entraste
 with the Knowledge. Itgshows great, wis
 don en her part shI shhe has judged of you 2
 aAont porodth said b fo her, r as she wa: va
 about to leaye nSh ny room roc that eYenina swb,
 have not heard ,ss @ bet9Fs t that Uncle cnarls
 are sons s1taae nataurss oE Edelb Ire seeplist a
 Aunt Dorothy, slowly, { that 9ever ca,
 endnre to hear their great sorrows talked
 about Your Uncle Charles has, such :.
 nature, Edith. He loved hisjyifeso deEo
 tedly and eherishes her memory so even a1
 this time, that his, family, never speak Q
 her to save him the PaI,gs which, mentior
 of her would call forth, 4;a 1..,t'.., ad
 Twas quite by myself one bright, wintry
 morning, and was making my way homo
 through the church yard. when n. .respeota,
 ble- looking old woman, standing by the
 grave with the marble cross, caught my
 attention. It was a kind, good face
 mofherly and soft, and it seemed te me
 that she looked lovingly down. own, on the
 green turf, and was caressing with one
 hand the polished surface of the white marble. N7 &Ait@ '.F99 ni'h
 1T knew her, my dear iaa young lady,!,, she exclaimed nearly ali her life kney her. She was just a poor young thing. left without any parents when quite 2 baby and she was sent to the Han to be taken care of. MT. Westswoosd d-the father of the ladies there now, n,iss-was her guardian and when she was about seven teen, Mir. Charles who was cousin of the family and who, they all hoped, would marry Miss Myra Westwood, came dowsglnr, VI, tostay at the Hall, and fell inl love with my Katharine, and married her, and took her of to where his regiment was for tw1p, years. And then he .,was sent away to some. foreign place, where there was fight ing going on, so he sc6ula hot take his wife with him and she came down to live at the Hall again with the ladies. Bat shtc, was Ill and weakly like, poor dear ' frettine after him, I suprSse. ! SS they took hsr of itovF France, somewhere; bat she soon died, land then they brought her back here in erieof6n; but she wasii't buried at once, 'misssi tHI sdi yd Iait3os JTo3 eaI--Ali
 Iwanted to ask moretat0 learn aii that the woman knew, but just then Aunt rMyrai came along, and in her cold, distant way took my arm and twe went home. '2'
 That evening as greped my way to my room, Che lamp not Doing lighted, I made a discoyery-the recess between two of the portraits was not a recess, but a door, and the door was open. only, just b little wayrAiaa behind 1t was | diM s6tf of light which glimmered on to the landiak. My vulgar cur4osity,' as Aunt MyfaSs would doubtless have termed my very natural de- sire to know more on che subject, prompt ed me to push the door a little further open, and in. Just then heard the tirm, unmistakable footsteps of Aunt Myra coming from her room above. Slow and measured 1t seemed at first, then suddenly became quicker 5 and, from my gloomy po- sition on the lowest stair, I could see her hasten across the landing, looking quickly and furtively around her as she went. and disappear in the recess. \ heard fiol door close, but the faint dim light 'iad4d in.' simultaneously and in the silence and dark ness I made my way to my room, Y9i <, On entering, my beart seemed to 'ceass beating- for there by the; fireisSt woman. her face partly hidden from me by the long brown hair that fella over it. .h The closing of the door hadistartled hher. She half rose from her chair; then appeared to be reassuredl in some way, and sat down again. Frightened as I was tsfforlstruck,s I may say-as stood in the shadows, and watched tha flrelight flicker over the pale, beautiful face, the thought stole into my mind instantly that the face before me was the exact counterpart Of the picture, hanging in the hall, and which had 60 at- tracted my atteltiona I went a few steps nearer. I made up ah mighty mind, and opened my mouth to speak. The bright, Wpnde derful eyes were fixed on me as | did go. But I heard no sound issue from inlyy,3 lips. though they tried to form the words v '.'Wh0 are you 2' iit3i'I saI tf siioi'.@e@s ? }, The face smiled looked into the firree4-a- pushed, away with both hands its long, shadowy hair-theh rose from the chair. and came \ step nearer to me ss it uttered these sefrble words .:rse3 aab VIZ oi aoI .a..9 p ,.sE am bdried in iDetchngley, eharck--c 2 Yartl!ss 7haw sh1 nSaR :eSsTisf llR SIS si' ' We'll, T suppose Ishuddersd, and turned white, and felt as an3i other young girl under the same citchnastances might have done; bGtI d0 hot remember, anything distinctly, except shiVering very much, over q fifeless gfate, aad wondering how it was that I was found lying senselsss on tbo hearthfOg. s9iees1dtd -I'iI9 sS1iqs a4f nl r Time stole on;s fortnight had passed away ;zit wanted just { week to Christ mas, but the strange Gce had not yet rcapl peaFedp \ had hot been inactive Sll this time, for I had most perseveringly attacked daily the door in the recess, but it never once yielded to my eiforts2 ands IlMasi al-il most beginning to despair of accomplishing the work I had laid out. fer myself bna sSf v One intolersble, dull dayI proposed ,so- lacing myself gwith little music. and was about T to commeneee ef but, hearing my afniable relative mpttars something about being bored, r and < that herrid march, ,aal thought it as well to spare her the inflic- tion, IFemember. she informed me that night, before going to bed, that my uncle Charles was expected to arrive the follow. ing Thursday --G Christmas ETe-and that ir was proposed that ! should return to town with him after his short visit ef two or three days was concluded. hBoth pieces Of intelligence gave more real pleasure than II cared to exprcss. 4a uasd a3d otw .a
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