Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1872-10-04


Dalton had met him at the train, and brought
him at once to the house wlrnnAhe. one love
Of his life was waiting. y nnNel went
up to speak to Helen and ple pr
guest.
al know" she said, looking with her
bright eager eyes, and the flush upon her
cheeks, almost as if life and health had come
back to her. "Send him up; want to see
him all alone. But 6rst let me bid you
goOd-bye-Jou, who have been so good to
me- | shall be too tired to see you when he
goes, and we do not know where shall be in
the morning"
She put out her hand, and he took il.
Then he bent down and kissed her forehead.
Goodbye" he said. You have been
to me the one woman in this world think
you will be the one angel in heaven"
Then he went away, and in moment she
heard on the stairs football which she
thought would make her dead heart beat
again if some day it should walk above her
grave.
He came in swiftly, and knelt beside her.
Her poor wasted arms fell about his neck,
his lips touched her diving ones, and for
time there we're no words.
At last she asked
Your wife does not know"
She knows nothing"
"And you make her happy p
al think 80"
THANK God This is my true soldier
And then again she lay very still, too weak
for many words, but finding in his presence
an ineffable content.
How blessed i is, and how easy !" she
whispered, after another long silence, going
back, as he knew, to that last evening at the
seaside. al hear the waves pulse in," she
said and see the line of light across the
waters, and it leads to the silent land Of all
delights. l am so glad to go!"
take me with you, my darling, o my
darlingw he cried, in the passion of strong
mans pain.
You will come in Gods good time. when
the victory is won. Kiss me once more, my
darling, my lifes one love. am going
straight to God, and if we have been wrong
He will forgive us"
And so he held her there for hours, with
> scarcely another word, while the life that had
struggled Sc desperately to wait for his CON-
ing went out upon the tide" In those
hours he lived lifetime, he thought, of pas.
sionate woe aud joy. He coul never be the
same again as before those waves which Dor,
3 herout upon the infinite sea passed over him
. At the very last; she lifted her face mo
ment. He saw a food Of light break sea
, like, into her eyes, aud her voice cried out
r exultantly, the old words
e =" And at the end there is heaven, surely
q Then she sank back again upon the pillow
and he knew THAT she had gone out upon tn
n Infinite sea, into the light OF God
The story of three lives was told when tn
dawning came. When Helen was gone, I
stay in the world she had left was no longe
living for the two men who had loved he
with all the might of their hearts.
!, But Margaret Desmond was happy, 70
she never knew. Thank GcAakat she ev
err knew!" her husband says 20 himsel
sometimes, watching her pure ~ ,placi
' content He can rejoice in her JOY, thong
all gadness aud all hope whi9kussis aor
held Tor him lie buried in the far-aS gray
:, of dead woman. He knows he is Sshtiu
Helen's battle still; aud in Gods good I'm
he shall go to her for his crown of victor.
>, Aud often on still nights, while Margar
sleeps placiily, he hears the soft waves plas
> upon far-of shore, and sees line Of ligt
= across a dim, uusounded sea, aud listens to
" voice that seems to float downward from Il
oeoding sky, aud call to him, in the old b,
loved tones
p" ~'And at the end there is heaven. surely ,