Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-07-26
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The Grandfather 8 Will.


=" Little Blossom, it is SO hard for me to say
goodbye TO you"
9 When2'
The innocent, surprised REORGANIZATION
was indeed, difficult for John Burrows He
touched Il dimple in her cheek, and then a curl
OF her hair, as he might hnye touched flowers
on grave perhaps
She shook back The silky ripples mpatienty
. When, JOhnP'
He looked AT her a moment without smile,
pretty rs she was.
" Nelly, sit down here moment
They sat down on the pretty crimson couch
before the fire Seeing trouble in his face, she
put her hand in his, and he smoothed out the
little rosc-leaf member upon his hrond palm,
more than ever confident, rs be locked at it,
that he was right.
Nelly, you know love you "
Yes" with blush, for he had never said
it before
Aud am very sorry
WhyY aiier pause Of hewillermcnt
Because you are delicate lillle flower
needing care and Nursing to keep your bloom
bright; aud am going 10 hard rough life
among privaioBs, fever, and malaria, which
viii Try even my powerful constitution and
where you must not 20"
" You are going TO the Far West2"
Yes. My mother must have home in her
old age. She is strong now. but time is tell
ing on her. You know all that she has been
to me ~
''Ycs she has been good mother. But
you shall take me too, John "
She won her way into his arms against his
will
" Yon will take me. too p
mo. DID ! not tell you that you made il 50
hard for me to say goodbye to you2'
lie took the little, caFessng hand down
from his face.
:" Don't you make me weak, Nelly. Do you
think that it is nothing to me to leave my
eiolet-the only woman ever loyed--for a
hard cold life and unccasiug toll? | cannot
marry for ten years. Nelly"
- And then | shall be thirty years old"
Yes, married, aud with little children
seeing at last, that your old lover, John Bur
rows, WAS right"
g He rose to his feet"
John - in terror
. Yes, am going. Nelly. Little one-you
look so much woman now. with your stead
last eycs-nelr me. did not foresee that you
would love me-thai should love you. You
were little schoolgirl when I saved you
from drowning last summer, aud your satchel
of books floaied away down The river and was
lost ! come to see Gregory, not you ! could
not help loving you; but did not think until
Tonight that you cared 50 much for me, Nelly.
But, child, you viii forget me-
Never ~
He went on. " Nelly, ! shall hunger for
you day and night more and more, as time
goes on, and get older, onelier, more weary.
But shall never hope to see you again Now,
give me your baud !"
She gave him both He raised them TO his
lips. but before she conld speak, he was gone.
Shlverine violently she went to the fire,
and stood there trying 10 warm herself She
understood it all How--his strangely eabor-
ate arrangements for "trip to New York lie
had known that he was not coming back when
she had begged him to bring her bis photo
graph from the great metropolis but was GO
ing on--on into the dim distance. This is
why he had not promised.
u was getting late--she was so cold she
had better 20 TO bed. She would not 70 into
the parlOr 10 bid her father, aud amt aud
George good night; so she crept silently up
TO her own room. There the very weight Of
grief upon her lullcd her to sleep.
But when she woke, her grief sprang upon
her Ike some hidden monster who had lain in
wait for her all night. Her misery terrified
her. Why should she not dic2 Why should
she ever rise from that bed
But when they called her, she sprang up
hastily, dressed, and went down and :hcy
were too busy talking to notire that she did
not know what she was doing Bot by-and-
by. when her brother reached for more coffee,
aud observed, " Burrows and his mother went
10 New York in the first train this morning"
she tried 10 rise unconcernedly from the table,
aud fell in "a dead faint upon the carpet among
them
When Nellie came to- she was undresscd aud
in bed, and Aunt Mary was darning stockings
at the foot
Oh. let me get up, Aunt Mary don't
want TO lie her."
Now Nelly, he reasonable. You re ILL.,"
"Oh. Aunt Nary. I'm mott
Nellie. If you will lie still to-day I'll let
you have that old box 81 euriosities in my
room 10 look over. win you ~
q" don't know