Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-06-24

of the heather classics; no training after media
val fashion I'm one of our colleges, Rich are an
achronisms, has perverted his taste. Here is the
Emile worthy of my Emilia" he would say,
much 10 the daughters annoyance.
2 But when Edwards came the hours were
golden Hangingh his wolf-skin cap behind the
door, and shaking back his long locks as he took
his seat, he would entrance father and daughter
alike, from his entrance to his exit, with his
talks OF adventure. From the time of HIS first
visit new life came to the heart of Emilia; and
Mr.. Lindsey, whose every within the trapper
humored, was as much fascinated as his daugh-
ter. But now commenced fierce battle in the
heart of Emilia Edwards loved her. By all
the speech that his eyes were capable of, he told
her so. And by all the beating of her own
heart she knew that she loved the brown-faced,
ng-haired traPper in return. Bgt what about
the fair-eyed student, who for very love and
Disappointment had gone to the Arctic Seas? He
MAS not at hand 10 plead his cause, and tor this
very reason her conscience pleaded IL for him.
When her eeul had fed on the works of the trap
Per as upon mama in the wilderness, she took
up the old photograph and the eyes reproached
her, She she'd bitter tears OF penitenne upon it
for her dsioyafty to the storm-tossed sailor, but
rejoiced again when she saw the tall figure oft
trapper coming down the traiL 4 desoiate and
lonely heart cannot live forever on the memory
Of sslead love; And have ye not read what Da-
viu INA Nhen ne was an hungered? Do not
therefore reproach astriving soul for partaking
= OF this feast in. the desert, "a tho b .f 7
And so Emilia tried to believe that Brown was
long since dead-poor fellow! She shed tears
over AN imaginary grave in Labrador with a.
great sense of comfort. She tried to think that
he had long since married and forgotten her.
and she endeayored to nurse some feeble pangs
OF Jealousy toward an imaginary wife.
Now 1t was very improper doubtless in Brown
10 come to life Just at this moment. One lover
too many is As destructive to the happiness OF a
conscientious girl as one too few. III Emilia had
been trained in society, her JOY at having two.
lovers would have had no alloy save her grief
that there were not four Of them. But it was
one OF the misfortunes OF her solitary and pecu-
liar education that she had conscience and maid,
emily modesty. Wherefore II was source of
bitter distress and embarrassment to her that,
at the end of o long letter from neighbor who
had taken a notion after years of silence to
write her all the gossip of the old village, she
found these words: Your old friend Brown did
after all He has written to somebody here that
he Is coming home. believe he said that he
loved you all the same as ever"
The greatest grief of Emilia was that she
should have been 70 wicked as to be grieyed.
Had she not prayed against storms and icebergs?
And now that he was coming her heart smote her
as If he were ghost of some one whom she had
murdered! Whether she loved him, or Ed
wards, or anybody, indeed she could not tell.
But she would do penance for her crime. And
so when next she heard the qsiet voice of ''the
long napper, asking for her, she refused to see
him, though the refusal all but killedher.
Poor Edwardsi How he paced the shore Of
Swan Lake all that night. For when love comes
force that all the thousand interests of life have
to one In the busy world How terrible were the
temptations that sometimes assailed the reli-
Sunset Of the next aay found Edwards in the
Bed River Valley, far on his way toward Fort
Garry, bent on spending the rest of his life as
free trader" in British America. As for
Emilia, she was now in total darkness. The sun
had set, and the moon had not appeared. Brown
might be dead, or she might not love linn, or he
might never find her. And she had thrown
away her PARADISE and there was only black
Edwards had already come within few miles
OF georgetown, where he was to take passage in
enened away the elk, the little seven-by-nine
steamer Arson Northrup," when, as he was
striaing desperately along the trail, he was sud
minutes in indecision, then turned and began to
walk rapidly in the opposite direction. At
Breckenridge he found stage, and getting out
at Gsger's, he went down the train toward
Now Davy Lindsey had been in a terrible
state of ferment. When he had found the phil
the self-educated combination of civilized and
savage man." his daughter had peryersely re-
fused him. and the old man had taken the dsap-
pointment so to heart that he was in a state bor-
" Misfortune always pursues mel" he began,
when he met Edwards under the hill Fifty
times have been near achieving some great re-
me broken-hearted man. To have allied my
family with child Of nature like yourself would
have given me the greatest joy B1 Mt shall
struck patheticaliy tragic attitude and drew
out his handkerchief, weeping with profound
self-pty.
:. Mr.. Lindsey, do you know why Miss Lind
sley has become 50 suddenly displeased with
me?" asked the trapper, trembling.
Miss Lindsey, SIT, is perverse. 1t Is the one
education, drawn from Rousseau, PestaIozzi.
FrOebel, and Herbert Spencer, and combined
by my own genius-it is the one evil trait that
my system has failed to eradicate. She is per
Il 1r no iS vat xVo nj
image of a misguided youth, who, filed and
pulled up with the useless learning of the
schools, ventured to address her. am the most
"Mr: Lindsey, can 1 see your daughter
alOne?"
The old man thought he could But she was
very peryerse. In truth that very morning
Emilia had, in a sublime spirit of self-immola-
ton, vowed that she would love none but the
long lost lover, and that LII Brown never came
back she would die heriocally devoted to him,
and thus she had sacrificed to her conscience
and il was appeased. But right atop this vow
came the request Of Edwards for an interview.
Was ever q girl 80 beset? Could she trust her
self? On thinking ii over she was afraid not; so
that IL was only by much persuasion that she
was prevailed on to grant the request:
While Edwards talked she could but listen,
frightened ali the time at the fAintness of her
sole mn resolution, which had seemed so irrevo-
cable when she made 1t. He frankly demanded
the reason for her change OF conduct toward
him. And she, like an honest and simple
hearted girl, told the other love story with
trembling voice, while Edwards listened with
eyes down-cast
:" This was five years ago?' he asked.
eyes, SIR"
"And the young mans name?"
"was Edward Brown"
"Curious! 1 Think he said slowly, pausing
as If TO get breath and keep his self-control. 81
think ii my hair were cut Off short and parted on
one side, as Edward Brown wore his, instead of
In the middle, and If my whiskers were shayen
of, and if the tan of five years exposure
gone from my face, and IL were five years
younger, and two inches shorter, L think" he
paused here and looked at her.
Z" Please say the rest quickly" she said in :
faint whisper. For the setting sun was stream
ing in at the west window upon the face OF the
trapper. His hair was thrown back, and he was
looking in her eyes with a look she had never
seen before. But he dropped his head upon his
hand now and looked at the floor.
" II might be-" he spoke musingly, ait might
be that Edward Brown failed to reach his ship
in time at New Bedford, and changed his mind
and came here, and that after Emilia came he
watched this house day and night till his heart
came nigh to bursting. But was going to say"
he said, rousing himself, ''that in case the years
end the tan and the hair could be taken of, and
this trapper coat changed into one OF finer cut
and material, and the name reversed, that
Browne Edwards the trapper would be nearer Of
kin than a tWin-brOther to Edward Brown the