South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-06-23

and icebergs? And now that he was com
Ing, her heart smote her as if he were s
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 fol
her, she refused to see him, though the re
fCsai almost killed her
Poor Edwardsl How he paced the
shore of Swan Lake all that night. Fol
when love comes into the soul of solitary
man, it has all the force that all the
thousand interests of life have to one il
the busy world. How terrible were the
temptations that sometimes assailed the
religious eremites we can never guess.
hSrneet 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 asa " 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 strangest 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 Breckinridge 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 ne had found
the philosopher, g the uncontaminated
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 a state
bordering on frenzy.
Misfortune always pursues mel" he
began, when he met Edwards under the
hill. FIFTY times 1 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
"O0A0 AAhS SANCA AAO bDC SACdlOSb .lOI.
But-hoH shall / express my griefg"
And here the old man struck a psthetically
tragic attitude and drew out his handker-
chief, weeping with a profound self-pity.
"Mr. Lindsey, do you know why Miss
Lindsey has become so suddenly dis
pleased with me." asked the trapper,
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-
tenn has failed to eradicate. She is per-
verse. 1 fear, sir, she is yet worshipping
the image of a misguided youth, who,
filed and puffed up with the useless learn
ing of schools, ventured. to address her. /
am the most unfortunate of men,"
Mr. Lindsey, can l see your daughter
llone?"
The old man thought he could.
But she was very perverse. In truth
hat very morning Emilia had, in
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 heroically
devoted to him, and thus she had sacri-
iced 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
hat 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
,hange of conduct toward him. And she,
ike an honest and simple-hearted girl, told
he other love story with a trembling
voice, while Edwards listened with eyes
lown-cast
This was five years ago?" he asked.
"Yes, sir" --..
"And the young mans name?"
"Was Edward Brown"
"Curiousl l think, he said slowly,
oausing as if to get breath and keep his
az think if my hair were cut
,ff short and parted on one side as Edward
Brown wore his, instead of in the middle,
Ind if my whiskers were shaven of, and
f the tan of five years exposure were gone
rom 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
n faint whisper. For the setting sun
vas streaming in at the west window up
IN the face of the trapper. His hair was
brown back, and he was looking in her
yes with look she had never seen be-
ore. But he dropped his head upon his
laud now and looked at the floor.
"I 1t might be- =" he spoke musingly, Z" it
night be that Edward Brown failed to
each his ship in time at New Bedford,
md changed his mind and came here, and
hat after Emilia came he watched this
louse day and night till his heart came
high to bursting. But was going to say"
le said, rousing himself, that in case the
ears and the tan and the hair could be
AIKEN off, and this trapper coat changed into
me of finer cut and material, and the name
eYersed, that Browne Edwards the trap
yer, would be nearer of kin than twin
'rother to Edward Brown, the broken
learted student"
What Emilia did just here 1 do not
NOW, and if l did / should not tell you.
70 faint would have been the proper thing.
)0bs pOOl SlIl! .uCI CuuCdtiOh hdu OCOA
reelected, and think she did not faint.
When the old philosopher came in he was
harmed with the situation, and that even
ng, when they two walked together on
he bank of the Pomme de Terre, Emilia
,ointed to the stars and said: "DO you
NOW that in all these years God seemed
o me a cruel monster turning a crank?
md tonight every star seems to be an
.ye through which God is looking at me
S my mother used to. l feel as though
iod were loving me. See, the stars are
aughing in my facel Now love Him as
did my mother. And tonight am GO
ng to read that curious story about Christ
1 the wedding" -.. &c.
For God, who is love, loves to find his
way to human heart through love. And
Edwards, who had been in bitterness and
ebellion during the years of his exile,
istened now to the voice of love as TO that
f an angel whom God had sent out of
Ieaven to bring him back home again.
md love became the Revealer of God to
i'm also. s .. @
Mr.. Lindsey is an invalid now. Lind
leyville belongs to Browne Edwards and
is wife. And old Davy has made will
n twenty quires of legal cap, bequeathing
o his son-in-law all his right, title, and
interest in certain and sundry patents on
hurns, cannons, bee-hives, magic lanterns,
wing machines, etc, together with some
Extraordinary secret discoveries. And the
Id gentleman Is slowly diving in the full