The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-03-28

dentist found all his efforts to entertain
his companion fell very fiat this even
ing. lie mustered all his town intel
Hgence, together with the last sensa-
tlons from the San Francisco papers,
but Miss French appeared to take no
/ interest in the local news or the sensa-
tlons. At last he proposed they should
/ turn back. The school-mistress assent
eel, and just at that moment little
! pupil OF hers ran out from a wayside
! house and asked her to come in and
! take cup of tea with his mother.
"N ont you walk in, doctor?" asked
the lady, languidly.
NO, thank you," replied the young
man; Il have an engagement in town.
III wish you a good evening! !" and he
| walked away stiffiy, not little mOrti-
| fled. at his i'll success in entertaining
| the belle of Shallowtown.
The moon rose clear and pale over
the cypress trees in the cemetery be-
fore the school-mistress left the cottage
then, instead of walking towards the
village, she turned off into a by-path
| that led to the graveyard.
1t was strange fancy of the young
woman's to ramble on this autumn
evening in a locality associated only
with gloomy memories. As she opened
the gate she paused for several minutes
and looked earnestly along the road
A mile down its level length twinkled
the lights of the village Then, with
all solemnly still in the peaceful moon
I lirrI,t Sho II In
quickly up the main path running thro'
the centre of the enclosure At the
extreme end of this path was fresh
grave, with no ornament or sign be-
yond plain wooden slab with the i'll
scriptiOn:
WALTER KNOWLES.
Died September Both,
Aged 81.
Here Miss French paused and laid
her hands tendeTly on the earth over
the murdered man. Then, sobbing
bitterly, she knelt down by the grave
and murmured: "Walter, Walter, |
did it for the best You wrongcd me
| terribly. and now we are both avenged
But You must be happier than the
woman you deceived"
Putting handful of cold earth in
the bosom Of her dress, she arose. and,
| leaving the cemetery, walked rapidly
| hOmewarCs.
A STRANGE ARRIVAL.
"Darned if | amt puzzled to know
| who that stranger fellow can be" said
! Bronson, a few evenings after the
! school-mistrcss' walk, to a group of
! his customers who were smoking, in
the luxury Of tipped chairs, on his
porch.
'1've heard he's a Frisco specula-
tor" said a tall, raw-boned fellow who
had driven in from his ranch to dis
pose of a few tons of hay to the Shal-
lowtown livery stable.
That's nice looking woman with
him, remarked another; they say she's
his sister"
The last arrivals in the village-a
tall, grave-lOoking, well-dressed man,
and lady attired in deep mourning
had puzzled the good people of that
! burg. The strangers remained in their
rooms the whole of the first day, and
had asked no questions about the char
acter or industries of the town The
HILL w ITO hGDG Tie tSlSJc OlIIce was
| i'll hopes they might purchase town lots
| ana settle down. The NIIIIUI OesI>S L
thev wanted to be buried i'll Shallow
town, for they had made most particu-
lar inquiries of the hotel waiter about
the location of the cemetery.
That evening the objects of SO much
curiosity walked through the main
street and took the road to the Gene
terry. The next morning the gentleman
called on the coroner and made inqui-
ries about the death of Walter Knowles
where and in what position the body
was found, and if suspicion mad fall
en- upon any one in the village.
''He belonged to a very respectable
! family in the East" he explained, 'and
| have been sent here to ascertain the
exact circumstances of his death, and
communicate with them. A female
friend of the deceased accompanies
me-" And of course the coroner en-
| lightened the villagers, and Shallow
! town was most anxious to pay every
tribute of respect to the memory OF the
deceased telegraph operator, and all
| who had known knowles-whlch, in
deed, were all in tOwn-called on the
strange gentleman. Barbara French
alone, when it was suggested to her by
a friend that she too should visit them,
refused decidedly, and indeed, since
their arrival, had not been seen beyond
the school house and the cottage, a few
hundred yards down the road from it,
where she resided A few said that
Miss French had some of Knowles
letters which she did not wish to give
up. Indeed, the man who had been
forgotten few weeks after his violent
death, was now the grand topic of con-
versation in every saloon and house in
ShallOwtOwn.
The trustees of the Shallowtown
Ill Lo,,ro rrnro a hnnt To hold q IN b.