Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-05-29

Horace wrote to his relatives. and hand.
ed me the sheets before mailing them. 1
read them with tears Of tenderness and
gratitude. He received in answer letters
Of AfectiOnate approval from the only per-
sous in the world for whose approval he
cared. bis mother and brother Of hers,
who had been his guardian after his faith.
er's death.
1t was April again. On the afternoon
of Easter Monday, | stood in the door
way, hummiug song, aud saying to my.
self, This time next week, my name
will not be Lull Trask!' | laughed a
little laugh o. joy and pride, when l
thought of the heaps of embroidery. the
tasteful new dressss-ons Of delicate
white stuff, With knots of satin ribbon
all completed and put away without Hor-
aces ever seeing them, and he living with
us all the time. just then he came down
from his room with his shawl hanging on
his arm.
"Are YOU going away" | inquired,
with the vague pang that 1 always felt
when he went out of the house for even
very short absence.
"Yes," he replied, going down to
Monroeville on a hand-car to see a man.
Charley Elers is going with me for the
ride"
"Why not wait for the night train ?" |
asked.
because the man | wish to meet goes
east on that train, SO would barely have
time to shake hands you see. Should
have gone on the two o'clock, but did not
get his message in time. must be of,
for | see our Irish steam is on hand you
der and painting to start"
Still he fingered, and as he stood toy
ing with my curls. strange, irresistible
fondness, such as | had never before ex-
peri3nced, came over me. The painful
shyucss which had always made me shrink
from his pure caresses, even when my
heart subsisted upon them, fed away and
drawing him to seat overshadowed by
rustling vines, laid my arms about his
neck, and told him of my great love for
him in language surprising to myself. His
brown eyes filed with happy tears and
his lips trembled as he thanked aud bles.
scd me with fervency soul-deep as my
own. Such was our parting.
All that night l dreamed of fordine
deep, dark waters, and when morning
came, awokc exhausted aud troubled
The sun arose and shone from O cloudlesi
sky, but gloom was within and arouuC
me. | cheered my heart and bade it b,
patient till he came, whose presence wa
its dearest sunlight. | went up to my
little room and reviewed again the stor,
of useful and ornamental things to b.
worn at c., and many other places
while journeying with my husband. A
the sight of them, the cloud lifted from
my spirit; fingered long in the boudoi
filled with betrothed maiden's dream,
happiness. Taking dainty white Golf
' ture from its nest Of silver paper, sat b,
by the window and was re-arranging
bunch of daisies and fern sprays amid th'
graceful confusion Of blonde and satin
; when my father suddenly entered tn
r room. | barely glanced towards him
. with some playful threat for the unwonte'
! intrusion. He came and stood behint
! my chair, and laying his hands on m
head, drew it backward against him.
!, Still, was not startled by his caress
so solemn and compassionate, more tina
, | had been by his abrupt entrance. Blu
|, when looked up into his face, my Who'll
frame chilled with terror. 1t was whit
. as the dead-his thin nostrils collapsed
: lis lips quivering
! What, tather?" | whispered belo,
my breath.
= "Lull, my dear, they are briugin
Buck home badly hurt, maybe-I don
. know how badly. The men who worke
; the hand car had been drinking at Nor
= roeville and were stupid and careless 0
the way home. They checked speed sue
= denly, down by the burr-oak wood, an
: the boys being unprepared for it. wer
both thrown violently forward. Charlie
J. saved himself by clinging to the driving
! gear, but Horace fell of. his head struc
n the track just forward Of the car, whic
6 was running by its own impetus, and en-
}, Of the metal wheels passed over it."
IS My father, after giving this brief an
II painfully exact account of the accideD
9 still stroked my hair with his heavy, "
n gentle hand, and murmured:
"Don't shudder so, poor Lu.lic. Fatl
d er will love and comfort his one child fo