Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-10-08


10 leave the room.
"Slep outside for few minutes, a" said
the squire. "..
When the room was Oscupied only by
the squire. Kate, Mr.. North, and Luke
Meadows. Tom stood up once more.
r'iI was going to say. squire, hut |
thought mayhap you would not like before
strangers---I was gsiRg TO say, just as it
did my coming here at all, that it yOu had
ended that pretty speech ubont, poor Mr..
Lake Meadows there by saying as. you
loved his daughter-na, no, I'll not be
stopped--that yeu loved his daughter, for
you used to be jealous Of me, and |
knowed 1t, and that you consider her lady
enough and lovely enough to be a 'quire's
wife, then this day would end well, and l
should consider as had done something
at last ... .t 100 ..l .-. 7tI
Tom looked rsund, as he had not looked
before, opening bis eyes and pushing his
hair from his forehead. rttsi a..rE
"You are proud man, but not proud
or than Kate Meadows. Your mother,
they say, was good lady, charitable and
all that, but not better than Kate Mead
ows, who looked like AN angel from heaven
when ! see her the night before last in
my fathers room ana | think it has been
her sorrowful eyes that has brought nae
here to-day, for I've seen them ever since.
I've got no more to say"
Tom sat down. As he did so his fa-
thcr went up to him, and putting his
hand upon his head, and in broken
roice, said: ..'
"My poor lad, may God forgive you as
| do"
Tom bent his head lower, and made no
reply. .-...
"Tom North, my friends" said the
squire, with the slightest possible trcmor
in his voice, g it is true that l loved Kate
Meadows. Three years ago | offered her
my hand. She has kept my secret. |
went away, and thought | had come back
changed in thought and feeling. | have
not. Love levels al ranks, and good
woman is more precious than rubies. l
shall feel proud and hOnored beyond all /
can say, if Miss Meadows will accept my
love and become Mrs. Westbury. What
do you say, Kate y s.f VI. go.
The squire took the girls hand. She
looked up him through her tears, and the
ncxt moment was iyfhg ia mo "iano'
EPILoGUE
The dramatist finished his work with
that third scene of the third act. The
curtain came down naturally and with
due effect upon the public declaration OF
the squire. 1t was dramatic tableau,
the ending with Kate in the squirs's arms
and something was left to tie Imagination.
1t is the privilege Of the novelist to 60
father than this. The story-teler may
pick up the threads of the narrative, and
say what was the untimate fate of all his
characters. / do not propose to add much
to the play. Ycu have sat in the stalls
and seen the drama; while you drive away
in your comfortable brougham, Or sip iced
cup at home, and talk about the piece,
will show you three pictures. Behold
II Eirst.-An emigrant ship. Three pco'
pie, in whom we have an interest," on board
1 Farmer North, Mrs. North. and Tom
: they are bound for Australia. by dint o.
, immense exertions and influence Squire
81 Westbury had succeeded in staying the
prosecution against Tom. Whenihe wal
$ brought up on the following days no ont
! appeared ltcpresecute. .Iasvis had settle(
!, the city detective. "a The squire bad beef
/, to the newspapers, even 7tc those whiel
{ had attacked him. aud explained the whol'
3 case and without waiting for higher POW
D ers being moved, he had, set Tom at .liber
% ty. Tom had sought his mQthers ans
y vowed that if his parents would 60 10th
+ colonies, he would reform and be aison +
them. Farmer North was ofoa bold aanC
h entcrprising dispositions; and the squire
c who had some friends in. Melbaurpe, I'D
t vlsed the farmer to 60. rs Mrs. North go
e rapidly well in the company of herr sou
i ugly duckling though he was ;Tand1 wheI
t the farmer reckohed ap, ,hertound that o
}, realizing his property. heawoulds have
d far sum to start as a farmer in Australia
l And so it came to pass that the emlgran
J. ship had the Norths on board, with fai
d prospect of u certain shareIof happines
y and prosperity fer them after all thei
n troubles. Tom is. Sstillia source of fea
a and anxiety to his father, who can nc
! help thinking what might have been. Bu
n the ship goes bravely ou, and we wish it
j. safe and happy voyage. s4 amu 20
Is Second.--Luke Meadows is restored
his old farm, near the village that adjoin
], Combe Dinge. He sitsin the iuglc nook
a and talks proudly of his daughter. the viii
s1 Of the lord of the manor Of Combe Dinglc
= 1t is winter, aud the fire crackles upon tn
a hearth of the old farm and Luke ha
J, some of the cid servants about him an
: lit is pity he has not longer to live to Ell
II Joy himself and that his faculties are nc
n brighter. and his ankle less painful. Th
., winter, wind moans. at him down sthechnI
'e1 ney. and seems to say this toshInls bpth
? smokes his pipe, and chatters in. shak
NJ voice toihis ibailif, AwboIs glad that l1pk
". is silly old man. because IL enables th
3 bailiff to featherahis nest, and prepare #
~ the time when he teo.will be frosted wit
I'd the dust Of Time, and have nothing 4
id think of but the past. asmsaia aRmal aa
"a 3 Third.--Summer, radiant, Joyous, ha,
K. making summer. The Thames flows snoo
IL and deep by the ClitdenaW Woods;o Ao'
q, smooth and deep and silent past the lEia.
u thorne estate on heaopposite' bank M
p. and Mrs. Westbury are sitting under !