Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-13

| touched galvanic battery. He look
! ed at Huldah, and saw d half painful
i expression on her flushed face.
! For the first time it occurred to him
that Huldah Manners had excited IN
him a feeling a thousand times deeper
! than anything he had felt toward Janet,
/ who seemed to be now in another Yorlddt
For the first time he realized that he
had been more in love With Huldah
than with Janet all the time. Why
not marry herr And then he refienl-'
| bered what the governor had said about
marrying .Woman's, lleart and not her
| head. eJ11as9 fs..-4ff r,,trtt, h.
He put on his hat and walked. ,oitt7-,
! out, into the darkness, the drizaling
rain, and the slush of melting snow,
fighting fierce battle. All his pride
and all his cowardly vanity were Oh one
side, and the irresistible torrents of his
love on the other. he walked away in
to the dark wood pasture, trying to
cool his brow, trying to think, (would
you belive it % trying to pray, for it,
was great struggle, and in any great
struggle true soul finds something
very like prayer in his heart. 5agol 5i
The feeling Of love may exist without
attracting the attention of its possess
or It had never occurred to John that
he could love or marry Huldah, Thus
it had grown all the more gowerfd for
not being observed, and now the I'M
seen fire had, at flash, appeared as an
allAcohsumii1g 6nh. a"a @i'f .,;..,.
Turning back, he stood without the
window, in the shadow, and looked
through the glass at the trim young
girl at work with her pies. In the
modest; restful face lie. read the story
of heart that had carried great Bur
den patiently and nobly.s What q glo
rious picture was she of warmth ana
light, framed in darkness. 70 hisheart,
at that moment, all the light and
warmth of the world centred IN Hull
dab. All the world beside was loneli-
ness, and darkness, and drizzle, and
slush. His fear of his sister and Of his
| friends seemed base and cowafdly,T
| And the more he looked at7this vision
of the night, this revelation Of peace,
| and love, and light, the moro he was
| determined 10 possess it. You willcall
| him precipitate. But when all a mans S
| nobility is on one side, and all his
meanness on the other, why hesitate B
Besides, John Harlow had done more
thinking in that half hour than most
men do ii a iuontn -6a37f.o'
The vision vanished from the window,
and he went in and sat down She had,
by this time, put in the last pie, and
was sitting with her head on her hand.
! The candle fickered and went out, and
there was only the weird end tuddY
freight 1 caiiillot tell yoii waiiaG words
| Huldah, who had thought him already
! betrothed to Miss Dunton. I could
not tell what was said in the light of
! the fire; l don't suppose that Huldah
/ could tell the story herself.
Hulsdah; Tasked ,,that he. should not
say ,htiJthiiig ab6it it ill his sister was
gone, OF course John saw that she
asked it for his sake. But his own
cowardice was glad of the shelter -,
4 Next day brother of Johns (Vbom
/ I forgot to mention before9 came home
from edllbg9g bfEs: ft6lhies's htsband
arrived unexpectedly Aunt Judith,
with her family, came over at dinner
time, so that there was a. large and
merry party. Two hearts, at least,
/ Joined in the deacon,s Thanksgiving be
] fbre diiinaf; Hitk ititloh fstfof ..-.5,..
! 3 At the table the dinner was very much
admired la9Hess2s lH1aAm
+ g Huldah,5' said janet Dunton. G.
like your pies, wish could hire you
| to go to Resten, Our eeeA never does
! Wsli.b e.as .in a.I.gs liia b5r .slA2d
I John saw the well-aimed shaft hidden
under this compliment, and all his man
hood rallied. As soon as he could be
sure of himself he said -4urssf
p You cabhnt, have Huldah. she is al
realty erira6e1 - e. '"il l7'''
.,,.' How is that said Aunt judith d'
/" Oh, I've secured her eelr, serYice,''said
what, said Mrs. +, Holmes, ps, .ongag7
ed your help before yon engage a
| wife "5W s,f,g st,,aF .E,,a -
/ e Not at all,h said John: q engaged
ny help aid via IN 3Assas1 honssthAt
| Htllaah Iallners will be Huldah Har-
] low by Christmas. se.f,asI
/ The deacon laid down his knife and
dropped his lower jaw and started W o..
| What Howl What did yoiti say.
John 3" ,..-.s.. Hoas
L say, 1a6her, that this good girl,
Huldah, is to be my wife" bHn slC
H. john gasped the old man, getting
to his feet and reaching hls hand across
the table, ".yen' 're got 4 plertt dfefase
! / JCu 40 wear a moustachel !. God bless
/ you, my boy; there amt no better
i woman here, nor in New York, or any
| where, than Huldah.. God bless you
! both. Twas afraid that you'd take q
different E resds thstialt' y ,ea 4ara-r3
/ !" GuIfah for nutdal and our John. I"
said George Harrow, the college boy,
land his brothers Joined him. Even
the little Holmes children hJirrahed. o9