Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-30

hing with love and virgin shame TO-
-rthr-. that il would have been worse
than sacrilege 10 show lit would have
been gross. improper. Ereacle-oas, every
thing most vile and terrible.
William Ma~nus was no. s patient man
There had been time when. kind and
brave Is he was and fraii as vas his op-
u,snenr. he would have taken from her ~
force what she refused new - his request;
lRst a change had somehow come over
him Of late. and. without another word
hut with curious pallor on his hronzed
face. he rose from his seat and left the
room. leaving Grace so far the conqueroT;
yei leaving her more unhappy than II she
had welded. IS perhaps she ought 10 have
done. and had given him the confidence
he had claimed And yet how co.iid she
show .Addys setters You might IS well
have asked her 10 lav bare her heart IS 1t
beat In her bosom she was unhappy
because Of her disobedience, truly. and
vet -he did not feel as if she ought TO have
been more tractable. Addy and her
guardian: love and duty; fidelity and
obedience Oh. why Is not the path made
palmer for tender souls who would fam
do right 10 every one all round, yet who.
If they are loyal 10 one, must needs fan
the other
Grace. l am surprised az you" said
Aunt Maria, with vague dispieasure; and
she too got up and went away, not car
ing TO venture on a question which she
was dimlv conscious had depth beyond
her sounding.
So Grace sat down and cried, feeling as
If her fairy palace had suddenly melted
away. and had left her standing in the midst
Of ruins. And vet had not Addy said he
lo-ea her: and was she not hidden 20 wait:
And wait she would, though she Lad TO
wal, in sorrow and tribulation, and with
only ruins for her souls habitation for the
rest of her life. Meanwhile VIII Mangus
wandered about the garden, perplexed,
disappointed. angry, and most mis-
cradle. Yes. most miserable. II seemed
to him that no ore in this wide
world Of suffering was 50 wfetched as he
was at this moment lie had known full
well the truth of his own heart, but he had
resolutely shut his eyes 10 the state of his
feeling, and the hostile chances of the fu-
ture: and now he had 70 pay for his blind
ness. Yet she was such child! He could
not have acted differently. How could he,
a man Of forty with the silver beginning TO
spread over his gold, how could he make
love to child not yet seventeen, and his
own ward? And yet he loved her: better
than his own life, better than his past
than his dignity-if not better than his
honor. And she. whom all this time he had
thought a mere bit of wax which he was
moulding to his desire; she whom he fondly
hoped he was leading, as yet unconscious
", 10 love him, so that when she was
II 81, Tho n
him of her own free will-his child-love,
his delight, his darling, she had already
given her heart away; and what he thought
he held safe in his own hands proved to be
the mere outside appearance, no more!
And now what could he do? Play the ty-
rant, and forbid her young lover ever to
think Of her again? or be magnanlmous
and give up his treasure to the earlier
claimant? Yet why should he? She had
shown no feeling for him: she must have
know what he suffered; and she had placed
no trust in him. And at this thought his
anger began TO rise. She had placed no
trust in him, he, who of all men, priced and
desired confidence. Why, then, should he
show her kindness? And was il not his
duty to look into this matter narrowly, and
to forbid it absolutely, Internationally, at
young scoundrel might be? He was scoun.
drel; viii Mangus made sure of that be
forehand, else he would not have written to
her, child as she was, without first asking
permission of her guardians and care-tak
ers. Yes, the sense of duty cleared off his
perplexities; he would forbid the whole
affair
So, armed with this resolution, he turned
anlr ln iyriv,
room as he had left it-by the window.
Here he found Grace sitting alone among
the debris of the breakfast, looking, in his
eyes, more like the picture of a naughty
child sulking for toy, than the dignified
presentment Of woman, resolute to &C
ccpt all manner of evil for loves sake.
Grace" said Mr. Magnus, sternly. She
looked up and read her doom. II asked
you, just now, to tell me who this young
man is, to give me your confidence, tt
make me your friend; you refused and
now ask no more. l want to know moth
! ing for whatever you were to tell mt
would not change my decision hairs
breadth; positively, and with my whole
authority, forbid any correspondence, any
communication between you and this
young fellow at least while you are under
my control. So now you understand. II
you disobey me, will make you ward
in chanccry, where this precious scamp Of
| yours will find matters even little harder
on him than can make them. No re
remonstrances," as Grace was about to
speak. You had your opportunity ;you
neglected it; and now you must abide by
your own choice of action Mine is made
and nothing that you could say would alter
I my decision"
Saying which, he again left the room
and before the evening had come he had
left the house, for two years travel in the
wilds Of Abyssinia, giving Aunt Maris
strict orders what to do and what to for
bid, should Grace prove disobedient, OF
young Addy Caylcy troublesome.
But Grace was good girl in her owr
way. If she was rebellious in her fidelity
she was not disobcdient in act, and as hel
guardian had forbidden her to write, sc
that she was unable to do 80 openly, she
scorned to have recourse to any mean de
ception SO simply held on and trusted
and hoped that Addy would hold on and
trust too. But it was weary work and by
the time the winter had come, the suspense
and sorrow in which she lived had begun
to tell upon her sadly, and the rose-leavcs
were fast fading from her face, leaving
her SO pinched, pale, distressed, that Aunt