Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29


take passage in that strangcst Of all the
crafts that ever frightened away the elk,
the little scven-by-nine steamer "Anson
NOrthrup when, rs he was strldlng des-
perately along the trail, he Was suddenly
checked by a thought He stood tive
minutes in indecsior, then turned and be-
gan to walk rapidly in the opposite direc-
ton. At Brcckinridge he found stage,
and getting out ut Gager's, he went down
the trail towards Lindsley's.
Now Davy Lindsey had been in a terri.
bic state OF termcnt. When he had found
the philosopher, "the uucOntaminated
child of nature, the self-cducated combina
ton Of civilized and savage man." his
daughter had pcrvcrsely refused him, and
the old man had taken the disappoint'
ment so to heart that he was in a state
bordering ON frenzy.
"Mistortune always pursues met he
began, when he met Edwards under the
hill FIFTY times l have been near
achieving some great result, andDimy ILL
luck has spoiled it all. You see me q
broken hearted man. To have allied my
family with a child Of nature like yourself
would have given me the greatest joy
But--how shall express my grief?"
And here the old man struck a pathctically
tragic attitude and drew out his handker-
chief, weeping with a profound eelf-pity
"Mr Lindsey, do you know why Miss
Lindsey has become so suddenly dis
pleased with me!" asked the trapper,
trembling
"Miss Lindsey, sir, is perverse It is
the one evil trait that my enlig ightened
system of education, drawn from Rous
scau, Pestalozzi Froebel, and Herbert
Spencer, and combined with my own
genius 1T is the one evil trait my sys-
tenn has failed to eradicate. She is per-
verse; fear, sir, she is yet worshipping
the image Of misguided youth, who,
filled and puffed up with the useless learn.
ing Of schools, vcntured to address her. I
am the most unfortunate of men,"
"Mr. Lindsey, can l see your daughter
alonc?'
The old man thought he could.
But she was very perverse. In truth
that very morning Emilia had, in a
sublime spirit of self-immolation VOW
Ell that she would love none but the
long lost lover, and that it Brown
never came back she would die heroically
devoted to him, and thus she had sacri-
feed to her conscience and it was appeased.
But right atop this VOW came the request
of Edwards for an interview. Was ever a
girl SO beset? Could she trust herself?
On thinking it over she was afraid not; so
that it was only by much persuasion that
she was prevailed on to grant the request.
While Edwards talked she could but
listen, frightened all the time at the faint
ness Of her solemn resolution, which had
seemed so irrevocable when she made it.
He frankly demanded the reason for her
change of conduct toward him. And she,
lc, >1o-h -hoo Tod rir1 toll
the other love story with trembling
down cast
"This was five years ago?" he asked.
eyes, sir"
And the young mans name?'
"Was Edward Brown"
"Curious! I think, he said slowly,
pausing as if to get breath and keep his
self control. IL think if 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 shaven of, and
if the tan of five years exposure were gone
from my face, and if were five years
younger, and two inches shorter, think
-" he paused here and looked at her.
"Please say the rest quickly" she said
in faint whisper. For the setting sun
was streaming in at the west window up
on the face of the trapper. His hair was
thrown back, and he was looking in her
eyes with look she had never seen be-
fore. But he dropped his head upon his
hard now and looked at the floor.
"It might be- !" he spoke musingly, "it
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 and the tan and the hair could be
taken off, and this trapper coat changed into
one of finer cut and material, and the name
reversed, that Browne Edwards the trap
per, would be nearer of kin than a twin
hearted student"
What Emilia did Just here l do not
know, and if did should not tell you.
To faint would have been the proper thing.
But, poor girl! her education had been
neglected, and think she did not faint.
When the old philosopher came in he was
charmed with the situation, and that even
ing, when they two walked together on
the bank of the Pomme de Terre, Emilia
pointed to the stars and said: "Do you
know that in all these years God seemed
10 me cruel monster turning a crank :?
And tonight every star seems to be an
eye through which God is looking at me
as my mother used to. I feel as though
God were loving me. See, the stars are
laughing in my face! Now / love Him as
| did my mother. And to night am CO.
ing to read that curious story about Christ
at the wedding"
For God, who is love, loves to find his
way to human heart through love. And
Edwards, who had been in bitterness and
rebellion during the years of his exile,
listened now to the voice of love as to that
of an angel whom God had sent out OF
heaven to bring him back home again
And love became the Revealer of God to
HIM also
Mr.. Lindsey is an invalid now. Lind.
slcyville belongs to Browne Edwards and
his wife. And old Davy has made a will
on twenty quirrs Of legal cap, bequeathing
to his son in law all his right, title, and
interest in certain AMI sundry patents on
churns, cannOns, bee hives, magic lanterns,
tlying-machincs, etc, together with some
extraordinary secret discoveries. And the
old gentleman is slowly dying in the full
conviction that he is beQueathing the
foundation of an immense fortune to his
son, in. law, and more wisdom to the world
than has ever been contribute d to its stock
by all that have gone before. And he
often reminds Emilia that she has to thank
him for getting so good husband. fit
hadn't been for him she might have mar
ricd that sickly student.-Scribner's