The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-10-24

been abroad with tutor for long while
and is nov coming home. | am so glad !,
she added, looking 50 bright and radiant
through the clear gray eyes | SO loved into
my face, as she spoke.
Then that was to be the end of it all
she would probably marry this Young
Maurice: and I-ah, well, | must make
haste and turn my fuce homeward. Ny
visit to Ireland was sadly fatel.
That night Justice Morgan brough.
back his daughter; and when L saw him
again, ten years seemed t. have been
lifted off his shoulders.
Archie he said, for he was fond of
me, and always called me Archie now,
Il have been very foolish, ger wicked; |
cannot change the past, bat [ will guard
the future fer them
And so he did IL was as though JUS
tice Morgan fancied that he could never be
sufficiently Loving to his daughter, as if
there were long years of absence and sor-
row to be atoned for,-and as if he felt
| that the uncertain future was all too short
to redeem the sad and dismal past
A few bright days fell to my lot, and
/ then an interruption. 1t SEEMS to me
| that throughout life, sunshine and shade
are SO closely allied, that the presence Of
! the one is bat as the dawnng of the other.
/ The days that followed were so full of
! happiness that | might have guessed they
] could not last. They were passed bv Mrs
/ Laurence, May, little Kathleen, and my
| self, the best part Of the time out of doors :
( for had been 50 long an unwilling PRISON
er in the house that seemcl not TO be
I able to breathe enough of the fresh, pure
air. ! had quite recovered my accident
but feeling Of weakness frequently made
me feel weary. The l,ng rides or drives
we took soon made me my 'oulj sell en-
tirely, as Pat used to tel me- Perhaps
that was true il a physical sense: morally
I knew that coul never feel the same
again,
The sunshine consisted in being instant
ly with May, following her about. listening
&c her merry laugh, which had more mp-
sic in it to me than any soanl in life
When the twilight deepencl We would 9"
ta the or-an-room, an | MAY vuica would
awake thoughts and feelings Of better
worii and trncr life. PERHAPS It was
the Influence Of the better nature which
gave ne courage To- Bat we mas
not anticipate
The sha 'e came soon. 4 few DAYS after
wards was smoking oa the terra. q. and
playing gam Of romps with little katb-
locn aal Turk, when tall, handsome
Young fellow of three an l-twentv rode up.
In an instaGt Nay cma fying through the
inw French window of the draw in- room.
her face sparkling an radiant NJ, rI,ls-
urab!c emotion, AMI both her sfnrli hands
out~tIctchel.
'Ilolio. May exclaimed the stranger,
springjag To tho ground an! fastening his
horse, ana then running lightly M III" steps
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