Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-29

But right atop this VOW came the request
| Of Edwards for an interview. Was ever
girl so beset. Could she trust herself!
| On thinking it over she was afraid not; Sc
that it was only by much, persuasion thai
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 hel
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 eyei
down-cast
"This was five years ago? ?" he asked.
"Yes, sir"
And the young mans name:"
"Was Edward Brown"
Curious! think, he said slowly
pausing as if to get breath and keep his
self control. 81 think if my hair were Gu,
off short and parted on one side as Edward
Brown wore his instead of in the middle
and if my whiskers were shaver off, and
if the tan Of five years exposure were gone
from my face, and if were five years
younger, and two inches shorter, I 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
hand now and looked at the floor.
ct might be- :" he spoke musingly, lit
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 twin
brother to Edward Brown, the broken
hearted student"
What Emilia did just here / 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
to me cruel monster turning crank
And tonight every star seems to be an
eye through which God is looking at me
as my mother used to. 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 60
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 snd
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.
sleyville belongs to Browne Edwards and
his wife And old Davy has made will
on twenty quires of legal cap, bequesthing
to his son .in-law all his right, title, and
interest In certain and sundry patents on
churns, cannOns, bee hives, magic lanterns
flying machines, 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 contributed to its stock
by all that have gone before. And he
often reminds Emilia that she has to thank
him for getting 80 good a husband. II it
hadn't been for him she might have mar
ried that sickly student.-Seribner
M0nthly.