The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-11-23


Robinson Crusoe's sand. In an instan
OF time Jennie had taken a mental pho
tograph of the face of one of the gentle
men. 1t is dark, grave, resolute, hand
some; the eyes are deep, calm. and
houghtfu!. Jennie feels vague con
vlction that she will see that face Otter
in her dreams.
The other gentiman she has hardly
looked ar, and has certainly not seen
But he looks at her, ard exclaims,
Why Jennie Elspeth miss Elspeth
surrey Don't you know me-Rnbert
/ Lnwton %
Jennie knew Robert Lawton in mo
nenr, though she had not seen him for
years. Roberts record had long been
considered decidedly bad one in that
locality. HIS III her used to be - very
dear friend Of Jennie's aunt, and thus
J nnie had known him well while they
were both young. Robert would DRINK
WINE and brandy and smoke pipes, and
didn't attend church with any REGULAR
ty, and would draw caricatnres If the
minister and all the ruling elders When
the war broke cut Robert went to the
front among the first, and was made
where he endured some cruel, wasting.
corr0ding years, and when he came ou
at last to find that the mother who loved
him better than her own life had died,
not knowing whe.her or not her SON had
ound a soldiers grave--her only cOnsp.
latiou In death beng that if Robert had
titus been ia ken from her, he had fallen
IN the nations cause and in gallant com
pany. Then Robert Lawton, much
soberized young man, went to Europe,
amt so far as his birth place was con
cered, was wholly lost for some years.
Jennie Was Delighted to see him. ANY
event, anything new, would almost inev-
itably have presented itself as d pleasant
excitement. But this sudden reappear
ance Of an old friend was in itself
genuine pleasure. So she told him;
and she asked him several GREATNESS
questions about himself, and where he
had been, and whether he was going to
stay
ITO stay ~ he said. Oh, no." His way
of living lay in Europe. He had come to
travel in the States with his friend, and
he had been seized with longing to see
the oid place, whore he supposed every,
body bad forgotten him
" For shame Aunt hasn't forgotten
YOU, and you must come and see her.
And | never forg # you-nrvcr!"
As she spoke the words IA her ener
gctically, she found that the dark, quiet
eyes IF the stranger were fixed on her,
and she could not help blushng a little,
Robert Lawton then, for the first time,
presented his friend, Mr.. Louis Savard.
NJ ISIS Jennie had q faint recollection of
having somewhere heard or seen the
name before
They all walked together to Jennies
house, and it was for some Of hem at
least, delightful evening. Aunt Marian
was reioiced to see the son of her Old
friend again, and she and Robert talked
long over the past and the present. Jen-
ME was left to entertain Mr. Savard as
best she could. She proposed to sing to
him, and actually sat to the piano but
they got into talk which seemed to her
&C far ABOVE singing" and the piano re
manned silent. Mr. Savard had appar.
emily lived the only kind of life which
Jennie thought worthy Of human heart
and energy. He was of French Huguenot
extraction he had travelled much, and
always with a purpose; he had foughr
FIR Italy in 1859 and 1860; he bad come
out to America in 1861 80 bear a hand in
the war Of freedom and the Union; he
had been in Libby with Robert Lawton.
Since then he had devoted himself to
educational projects. Jennie remember
ed now having seen his name on certain
books and pamphlets which had made
mark, and having read an account OF a
course Of lectures which he had delivered
by special invitation, in Boston. She
was especially impressed by the all-per-
vading, powerful, quiet faith which
showed itself in him, SO unlike her own
querulods, ill-assured, dissatisfied yearn.
lngs and aspirations. His calm convIc
ton of the reality and the value of the
business of every body's life sent new
courage and hope through her, even while
it made her feel ashamed of herself HIS
life, his conversation, his very glance
seemed to inspire her as though with the
old enobling watch word of he Church,
S~Tsuna coTdG! The girls heart was
indeed lifted up.
But the evening-the rich, thrilling,
happy, hopeful evenlng-cam to an end.
Two other evenings followed and then
the friends were to leave the place. As
they all stood on the threshold the night
of parting, IN the moonlight, and about
to separate, Jennie put her hand into that
of Mr.. Savard, and looked up to him
earnestly she could not help herself
and asked,
"Shall we never meet any more?"
4 A man of different STAMP might have
been fiattered by the tone and manner OF
this impulslve question, might have mis-
construed it and presumed upon il, OF
! perhaps laughed at poor Jennie's earnest