Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-27

love-whispers make all girls eyes shine,
whether they be white or black.
| don't know why [ never told Jude
of these meetings, unless it was that |
had heard SO many sneers about the col
onel's niggers, and even about the col
onel himself, that felt afraid that |
should be forbidden to meet Lilly again
if I did. We were very constant chill
dren; year IN and year out we met IN
the same place, and talked together much
as we had talked at first.
After a while we heard no more
whistling. Penny's young man had
been sold and carried away but Penny
used to get over the low fence still and
leave us alone, as before. [ think, from
my remembrance of her face when she
returned from these expeditions, that she
spent her time in crying.
went to the district school. Lilly
had governess. She grew tall and
fair; | grew tall and stout and
dark. My clothes grew coarser
and more shabby every year
her dress grew daintier. She wore jew
els in her ears and on her fingers; but
we we're dear friends, nevertheless and
in my heart began to arise faint, fond,
foolish fancy that | might be her lover
some time-might make my fortune and
claim her for my wife. and restore old
Live Oaks to the splendor of those days
Aunt Jude so often talked about.
was sixteen, she was fourteen, when
one day. did what | had never done
before, and entered the gates of her
fathers mansion. She had asked me in
to look at a great parrot that swung
chattering on the veraEda. We were
looking at it and listening to it with oul
heads very close together, when sudden.
ly great hand came down upon my
shoulder and flung me away from Lilly's
side, and voice, that knew to be Col
onel Grey's, cried
whats this? What do you wan
here, young man 2,
1T is Claude Fairbro, papa" sait
Lilly.
s.I know who it is" said the colonel
"What are you doing here, youngster
"You have never been invited, that
am aware Of
Il invited him, papa" said Lilly. 6
have known Claude ever since l was
little child
What has your governess been think
ing of to let you make companions c
boys p cried the colonel, perfectly I,
gardless of what | might think or fee
s.I am shocked. Young ladies shoul
have friends of their own sex. Let n
never hear of this again. As for yo1
Master Fairbro-there's the gate"
He spoke as though l had been tt
merest child, and beneath him in evel
respect. At sixteen this was not to
endured. Yet what could l do? | sale
"You are insulting me, sir! V
have no right to do so; and I walk
out Of the gate with as much dignity
possible; but his laugh rang after me
!. l strobe angrily down the lane, and
could have killed him had it been in 4
}. power.
From that day I saw nothing of Lii
l for long while; but at last my lon
ing to see her got the better of my pri'
One morning I saw the colonel II
away toward Charleston, and knowi
o the coast was clear, I loitered about
gate Of the garden until | caught
IS glimpse of her. Then / called to
:. softly, and she answered me. Pen
le was in the garden also, and when
heard me speak, and saw her young n
7. tress hurry forward to meet me.
IL shook her turbaned head and rolled
Us big eyes alarmingly.
s.The colonel rode into Charleston I
J. hours ago." said. 81 must see Lii
70 You want to see me, don't you ?"
- "Yes," she said, II do. Papa '
- not return until night, Penny.
IL Claude, I'm sure he could not h
~ spoken as he did, if he had known
y better"
81 Don't talk of that | said.
time shall come when he will not be
"a ready to insult me; but now, Lilly.
us treasure these few moments. | c;
to tell you something. am &C
away. | will not stay and mou'
,,t away with the old place. | am g
&c to seek my fortune somewhere in
~ world and ] mean to find it. The
- will restore Live Oaks to It's old posi-
,,s in the neighborhood, and men will
an spect me who despise me now. Pei
90 | am going to ask Miss Lilly to go
tho me to the old graveyard for an houl
so. 1t is the last time You will
W. betray US. I know you will go, Lii
ont s'Yes,' said Lilly. ut may be WI
,. but if it is the last time must 60
to She gathered great handful Of v
,;tb flowers as she spoke and dropped
hot loosely into her little white apron, W
and she gathered up by the corners.
and l shall never forget her as she wa
by my side along the river path,