The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-03-02

dead.
As the next morning was clear, there
was grand hurrah over the sunrise.
Octayia was one of the group of early
risers watching the east. They saw first,
the cool, vivid green belt, which announc-
ed the dawn, and sent gray mists stealing
over the valleys below them. When the
crimson light, dissolying the green with its
glow, fell upon the hills, they seemed to
blush. Then came the gold shaft ON shaft
of FURNISHED light, shooting up toward the
zenith, aud outward over tho earth; and
it WAS day.
Miss Fosdick knew, without looking,
who was standing over her, for his pres
enco shot radiance and glow through her
whole frame as the sun over the noun
tains. She introduced him to her friends
he was himself lfagain-and, at breakfast,
all were charmed with his conversation,
considering a great acquisition to their
number had been gained.
al must see you, Miss Fosdick. When
shall it DO :" he said to her after break
fast.
81 will walk down to the Wagons: you
have no horse" That was enough.
81 owe you an apology for what you saw
yesterday" he commenced, when they were
resting on an old birch log, fallen from
the thick forest on q soft bed of moss, fern
and mountain sorr0l. 81 shall not thank
you for saving my life, till I know it was
worth saving, You must know how |
came to be before you in such a state. |
was unusually tired-I have not been we'll
this summer-climbing, aud put the flask
you saw once or twice to my lips. | never
drink-pardon the word-but confess, as
u little affects me unless [ am strong, |
have experienced before what happened
yesterday, only need not say us unplcas.
antly. When | came home | resolved to
drop this, along with other evil, out of my
life; but am discouraged, and about con-
yincod that past influences are too strong
for me. One thing will change this; but
how can | ask again for your love, after
what you have witnessed % He waited
for her to speak. She said nothing. "Do
not misunderstood me, | would not offer
ruined life to any woman; but mine is not
yet that. My father, whose own life had
been bitter in its youth, heaped upon mine
4 lavishment Of pleasure, which has always
governed, but has not kept bitterness away
from it.. | feel there are dormant powers
within me, and that, if the world demand
ed any sacrifice or work Of me, should
accept it,"
"You would p she interrupted, with a
tremulous voice. lie had found her out
now, and held her close to his heart.
Wrong, as she felt it to be, she could
not free herself at once; when she did
leave his embrace, she left the greatest
happiness she had ever known.
'Am | deceived, after all? l thought,
moment ago, you loved Inc !"
"YOu are not deceived but I must not
marry you, therefore it is wicked to love
you, as | do" Her words we're lost
under his noustachc, if she said anything
else.
"We shall never separate again, darl-
ing" be poured into Ler delighted ear.
"We must, now and forever, in this
worldw
"You cannot love me then, Octavia," he
said, as he showed her how he loved.
"God help me; have tried to do right
you must leave me. You say [ don't love
you; can't you see 1 do! Tuis forest,
with Park Montgomery, would be all the
home | want. Pity ne now, as you love
me, and GO" 1t was like the tearing of
his nerves to leave her, but he went.
Two days after this, she took the early
stage next morning, and saw none of her
friends, she was in New York. She went
at once to the Home, and clustered the
children, her all now, in her arms and to
ber heart. Their bright, happy faces,
oheGred her, as she knew they might look
into her face without reading the story she
feared was told there.
She tried hard to be content.
"THE DEVIL
Isaid, reading telegram handed me on
Change
"'Come up here at once, and bring
Octavia with you. She is in New York.
'Look here, JOB, see what Cora has
sent me. What's up do you think ?"
He read the message in cool, tantali
zing way, and then said "Nothing is
the matter, of course but you know
woman is woman.
Il don't SEQ how 1 can possibly go.
Here it is only Friday, and 1 have got
those stocks to look after, and thon-"
"You had better go, AL, all the same"
he interrupted, with such sly wink and
bachelorish shrug, wanted to beat his
handsome face against the wall by
which, you must know, was greatly ex
cited.
1t may have been good fun racing
round uptown, hunting up that Octa-
via but it appeared otherwise to me.
At last thought Of that children affair,
and there [ found her, busy talking
French to pretty sickly-looking girl.
Octavia was greatly surprised to see me
in that place, and to learn what want
ed. She behaved handsome not a bit
womanish for all CT Stevens, and did
not keep me waiting 1 did not show
her the telegram till the carriage had
started, and then could see she thought
something was wrong with Cora, while
L was almost sure that lady was all right,
and the fuss, what, I could not imagine
was all about the lady herself. 1 was
correct, as we found Mrs. Hastings on
the hotel piazza waiting us, as fresh as u
rose. Not bit of notice did she take
of her husband-very amiable, he was
too-but threw her arms around Octa-
Was neck, burst into tears, and then
walked upstairs. Ofcouse, 1 followed
but did not so far, as Mrs. H. said: