Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-04
VOL. XXVII.

eyes, your father; but he taught
school among the worlds people at Mil
ton, and there he saw Helen Raymond,
and she taught him what love is -
Cousin Sophia sighed at this juncture.
She had met with disappointment in
her youth
"Cousin Sophia, 1 cannot credit the
storyl My father always speaks of love
as figment of the BRAIN
&C 1t is often so with elderly men, dear;
but they know better all the time. Pris-
ella Mott forgot her maiden name
was nearly broken hearted. Not that she
died on the spot-women seldom do, Eve;
she's alive now, and her husband, too,
for she hadn't the strength OF mind to re-
main single. She married a shiftless, do
nothing sort of man, and your father feels
as if he couldn't do too much for the fam
lily; he has helped educate ADAM"
"Oh! Sophia, thee cuts me to the heart.
To think that my father, the soul of hon
or, should have broken his word"
"Child, what do you know of these
matters? You should not have urged me
to tell the story. 1 don't know what
your father would say. Don't breathe it
to him for the worldp'
made no reply. l was thinking of
Abraham and Isaac. When Abraham
was commanded to offer up his little son
did he finch? If father thought it duty
to sacrifice me would he hesitate?
My eyes were opened, now, and / saw
which way the straws we're blowing.
Adam was half the time musing in a cor
ner, with those handsome, opaque eyes
| fixed on me. But when at last the declar-
alton came was not exactly prepared
for it. For the quiet Adam to speak in
| occso ,oI
vel. 1t moved me; but whether my heart
was touched, could not tell. He said
he would try and wait with patience for
nay answer. 1t seemed to me he would
have to wait till doomsday.
| sat in my room half that afternoon,
thridding my fingers through my hair,
wondering how girls did make up their
minds? By comparison, probably. For
instance, did l like Adam better than
Solomon Potter? o, certainly, he knew
a great deal more? Better than DR.. Hath
away? Why, DR.. Hathaway wasn't to be
taken into account; he was not a suitor
like Solomon and Job, and though an ex-
cellent man, must be at least thirty five
years old! If lived in that wide and
dangerous place called 1.-The world"
should be likely to meet people more
agreeable than old bachelors and 'preach-
| ing friends?" But this question did not
bear upon the subject My lot was cast
among Quakers.
Miriam Grant came in that evening,
and / longed to open my heart to her !;
but she was not girl to respect ones
confidence, though such a pretty, win
some creature, that loved to watch her
Adam seemed to find her entertaining.
She was not overawed as / was. Why
hadn't he fancied her instead of me, and
! mn oil fhiC fr0I1h1Q of r,,o1yinr
my mind?
Presently DR.. Hathaway, who boarded
at Friend Grants, came to walk home
with Miriam. He talked to me, but /
scarcely listened. I was thinking how l
| longed to ask father if he really wished
me to cancel his debt to the mother by
marrying the son? Not that should ever
say as much to father; could not break
through the reserve which had always ex-
listed between US.
''I see thou art in perlexity," said DIR.
Hathaway, falling into the "plain Ian
guage," as he sometimes did with me
when very much in earnest. "Is there
anything l can do for thee, Eve ?"
"Nothing. o no, Friend Edward, and
l mustn't tell thee what it is" stammered
I. :" am not perplexed at all /; and if 1
am, thee mustn't notice it."
He looked at nae, and then glanced
across the room at Adam, who seemed to
be furtively watching us. In my simple
ity never imagined that the story was
very easy to read.
"My dear child" said the doctor, in his
kind way, I" 1 would not intrude on thy
confidence for the world, but"
What he might have said, I do not
know; something to be remembered after
ward; something to give me little aid, !
do not doubt; but just then Cousin Sophia
came languidly along and desired the doc
tor to pronounce on new symptom"
1 was vexed; I wished to talk longer with
Friend Edward Not that would have
told him anything, but might have asked
afew leading questions / thought, without
betraying Adam While Miriam was put
ting on her things, he found time to
"Be true to thyself, Eve. Let no one
over-persuade thee to any step thy heart
does not sanction. Next time we meet
have long story to tell thee. Good
by"
, rang in my ears.
But was not true to myself any more
than was the great grandmother of us all
/ did not know what the truth was. My
mind was tossed up and down like the
sea in storm. l had no mother whose
advice I could seek. Adam loved me so
dearly-that was what l thought-and
father said to me with such a confident
look:
'1'm glad thee seems to be led in the
3 right path, Eve"
e Cousin Sophia rallied me upon being in
love. John made broad Jokes on the sub
1 ject supposed they all knew better
/, than did. The fates seemed to push me
i along, just as the adverse wind blew me
that first day against Adams drab coat
n I supposed I was led in the right patti
when put my hand in Friend Motifs
and said:
s eff thee wants me, / am thine"
s "Thank the Lord" calculated Adam
''let us pray"
"Thee is good daughter" said father
!; buoyantly; "thee'n make good wife"
g eff thee chooses to be a fool" sale
brother John, doggedly, GIVE nothing tt
I say. If thee would only look straight be
f fore thy nose, thee'd see a man wortl
e twenty Adam Motifs"
/ 81 suppose thee means thyself, John.
e Father and Adam had long talks abou
e my property, which had been accumulat
e ing in bank ever since my mothers death
e AS Adam was to be merchant, fathe
). thought it best for him to take my none,
10 "ho ooo hlllSCll up Ill UucIucSo. Adu u'
r objection to make.
y When father and Adam discussed thes
matters, stole off by myself. loved t,
d keep out of the way on the slightest ez
he cuse. Adam had always been hard to en-
s. tertaln, and now conversation with hir
to was well nigh impossible. We sat in tn
rt parlor by the half hour without speaking
e. Only when he talked about the war, the
n; he was eloquent, and l listened wit
at pride. He said he must leave at the ca
le of his country, and I replied:
''Adam, I'll never stand in thy way"
n One day Miriam Grant gave part,
re 1t was then that our engagement becan
y known, though what little bird whispere
it never knew, unless it was Cousi
le Sophia.
le Dr. Hathaway was the first to congra
ulate ME. The guests were all out
t. doors, and Friend Edward and I wake
er along together toward the sumner-hou
in the garden. I suggested that it was
frr tbo ha