Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-06-22


should have been so wicked as to be griev-
ed. Had she not prayed against storms
and icebergs? And now that he was COM
| ing, her heart smote her as if he were a
| ghost of some one whom she had murder
/ ed Whether she loved him, or Edwards,
or somebody, indeed she could not tell.
But she would do penance for her crime
And so when next she heard the quiet
voice of "the long trapper,.' asking for
her, she refused to see him, though the re-
fusal almost killed her.
| Poor Edwardsl How he paced the
shore of Swan Lake all that night. For
when love comes into the soul of solitary
man, it has all the force that all the
thousand interests of life have to one in
the busy world. How terrible were the
| temptations that sometimes assailed the
religious eremites We can never guess.
Sunset of the next day found Edwards
in the Red 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 him, or he
might never find her. And she had thrown
away her paradise, and there was only
| blackness left
Edwards had already come within few
miles to Georgetown, where he was to
take passage in that strsngest of all the
crafts that ever frightened away the elk,
the little seven-by-nine steamer "Anson
| Northrup," when, as he was striding des-
perately along the trail, he was suddenly
checked by thought. He stood five
minutes in indecision, then turned and be-
gan to walk rapidly in the opposite direc-
ton. At Breckenridge he found stage,
and getting out at Gager's, he went down
the trail towards Lindsley's.
Now Davy Lindsey had been in terri
BILE state of ferment When he had found
the philosopher, "the uucontaminated
child of nature, the self-educated combina-
ton of civilized and savage man." his
daughter had perversely refused him, and
the old man had taken the disappoint-
ment so to heart that he was in state
bordering on frenzy.
Misfortune always pursues mep he
began, when he met Edwards under the
hill. Fifty times l have been near
achieving some great result, and my i'll
luck has spoiled it all. You see me a
broken hearted man. To have allied my
family with child of nature like yourself
would have given me the greatest joy.
But-how shall l express my grief?"
And here the old man struck pathetically
tragic attitude and drew out his handker-
chief, weeping with a profound seHpity.
"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. 1t is
the one evil trait that my enlightened
system of education, drawn from Rous-
seau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, and Herbert
Spencer, and combined with my own
genius-it is the one evil trait my sys-
TEN has failed to eradicate. She is per-
verse; I fear, sir, she is yet worshipping
the image of misguided youth, who,
filled and puffed up with the useless learn
ing of schools, ventured to address her.
am the most unfortunate of men,"
Mr.. Lindsey, can see your daughter
alone?"
The old man thought he could.
But she was very Perverse. In truth
that very morning Emilia had, in q
sublime spirit of self-immolation VOW
ed that she would love none but the
long lost lover, and that if Brown
never came back she would die heroicaily
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 6
girl so beset? Could she trust herselft
On thinking it over she was afraid not; Sc
that it was only by much persuasion tina
she was prevailed on to grant the request
While Edwards talked she could bu
listen, frightened all the time at the faint
ness of her solemn resolution, which haC
7 seemed so irrevocable when she made it
} He frankly demanded the reason for he
change of conduct toward him. And she
like an honest and simple hearted girl, tolC
the other love story with tremblin!
: voice, while Edwards listened with eye
) down-cast
"This was five years ago?" he asked.
"Yes, sir"
t "And the young mans name?"
"Was Edward Brown"
r "Curious! l think, he said slowly
pausing as if to get breath and keep hi
self control. "I think if my hair were Gu
{ off short and parted on one side as Edwar,
r Brown wore his, instead of in the middle
: and if my whiskers were shaven off, an
if the tan of five years exposure were gon
e from my face, and if | were five year
c younger, and two inches shorter, thin
J. =" he paused here and looked at her.
/; "Please say the rest quickly" she sal
e in faint whisper. For the setting SUI
J, was streaming in at the west window ur
e on the face of the trapper. His hair wa
;, thrown back, and he was looking in he
eyes with look she had never seen be
e fore. But he dropped his head upon hi
: hand now and looked at the floor.
g at might be- =" he spoke musingly, al
l. might be that Edward Brown failed t
IS reach his ship in time at New Bedford
l. and changed his mind and came here an
t, that after Emilia came he watched thi
d house day and night till his heart cam
J. nigh to bursting But was going to say,
IS he said, rousing himself, "that in case th
e years and the tan and the hair could
8 taken off, and this trapper coat changed int
IS one of finer cut and material, and the nam
d reversed, that Browne Edwards the traI
e per, would be nearer of kin than twil
i, brother to Edward Brown, the broker
1t hearted student"
y What Emilia did just here do NJ
e know, and if 1 did l should not tell yo1
d To faint would have been the proper thin!
er But, poor grill her education had bee
7r neglected, and think she did not fain
er When the old philosopher came in he W;
TX charmed with the situation, and that evel
e. ing, when they two walked together G
of the bank of the Pomme de Terre, Emil
he pointed to the stars and said: "Do yC
in know that in all these years God SCENE
er 10 me cruel monster turning cranE
I'd And tonight every star seems to be 8
lie eye through which God is looking at II
OF as my mother used to. 1 feel as thoug
n God were loving me. See, the stars a
a laughing in my facel Now love Him
in l did my mother. And tonight an G
ing to read that curious story about Chri
at at the wedding"
VI For God, who is love, loves to find b
in way to a human heart through love. Al
rt. Edwards, who had been in bitterness Al
ce rebellion during the years of his exi
" listened now to the voice of love as to tn
sy of an angel whom God had sent out
heaven TO bring him back home aga
in And love became the Revealer of God
1T. him also.
to Mr.. Lindsey is an invalid now. Lin
ne sleyville belongs to Browne Edwards a
to his wife. And old Davy has made W
Id on twenty quires of legal cap, bequeathi
re to his son in-law all his right, title, a
of interest In certain and sundrY patents