Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-08-21

ou iofHiS you yeai dlScI year, Wlluo
strengthened with my strength, withor
hint that you couldn't return ,neasu,
for measure? And then go back upon
| fellow, ank throw hinsoyer because b
{ doesn't live like nabob, though h
loved the ground you walked Oh
thought nothing too hard to do fc
you! If that's what you call treatin
me well, good-by-I don't want eve
to see you again"
! Louisa had been looking at him wit
sparkling eyes. She rather liked to Sc
him angry; it was vastly becoming. An
then he loved her 50 desperately. Sh
| felt a strange, delig esal thrill at he
heafs as if it respondd. secretly: sh
had palf q mind. to gYios Biin and hol
out her<arms and be- |clasped to hi
beating heart, and forget ambition an
luxury and choose rather heaven O
earth; and while she hesitated he SAID
| "Good-by-I don't want ever to Sc
! yon again-good- by"
/ 81 return the sentiment" said she, in
stead. 81 believe can live withou
you, Good-by." And when he wa
safely cut of sight she took revenge il
a gar very. <
now that he was gone she began
to fih,' now muchs she had depended
upon him, how ,ASh more his mere
presence was to her than any dream O.
worldly prosperity, however golden
Perhaps but for this breach she Nigh,
never have known how dear he was te
her, nor how little she valued the
superfuities Of life in comparison
Well, one of the three was to return
before the winters season Of logging
began in order to lay in provisions fol-
the camp-as they had only taken up
enough for week OR ten days-and
perhaps Ben would be the one to come;
in which case he could hardly avoid
bringing her some word Of her father
and uncle. And then who could pre-
diet but he might think II worth his
while to reiterate his love in his eloquent
stvle2 And then Louisa laughed wick
eddy at the prospect, and decided that
if he was enough in love to do thus
and thus, it would be safe for her
beyond peradv entpre to take her own
time sabcut making mp, to show a
supreme Indifference to his regard No
more than an adder indeed! What was
:.es4s s----'-trehed so Gav after -.7a.r +i.n
dull cold November wind sighed abont
the house and touched the neighbor-
lug pines into AIolian halps and swept
up the dead leaves only to scatter them
again ? Why was she always straining
her eyes down the frost-w hitened
country road' And what was it that
trelnbled in her bosom whenever q
speck appeared against the frosty sky?
But Louis had reckoned without Der
host Ben was not the man who wai
fond Of reiterating love that had been
received so coldly. He didn't mean te
leave the woods till March, if he could
hold out so long. Moreoxer, it was
Mr.. Bruce himself who proposed to &C
back with the OK team and bring the
supplies and hire the men.
81 don't feel quite right about the
head" said he, "and want Louisa te
cosset me. Then I'll 60 out to Shoptor
and see Scales and Weight about the
supplies, and be back before you and S
have eatrup all this ere victuals."
'sAll right, sir" ,aid Ben, smother
ing tyinge Of disappointment which
he vs. dn't own himself. "Wel
get tN hovel ready for the cattle while
you're Of, and take tramp through
the woods and spot the best timber fol
telling"
s'There'l be enough 20 d." sale
Uncle Simon. you'll be back in fv.
days, say7"
ssIf I'm lucky. How's the stores, ST?
"Good for week, I should say
such as they are. But the sooner yol
get back the better. It'll be sigh
easier for you if you can manage to &c
up before , heavy snow comes. Yo'
see, we haven't had any thing but spit
| yet, though maybe we're going to he
| an open winter"
s'Ay, ay,' answered Mr., Bruce, a
he drove off through the woods wit
the OK team. ssProvisions for week
eh? That1l tide ye over, I reckon. There
q sight of work to be hired lemm
see-fve cutters, two teamsters, and
cook; that's about it, and to hev 'e1
ready to start when do, and amt S
young as was. Heyday, it's rub an
grind lumberman's life is !"
| Alas! there was more work to- b
gotten through with in weeks tim
than Mr.. Bruce had an mixing Of; S
much that it ran over into the nea
week, as work has trick of doing.
| When Louisa saw that it was onl
her old father trudging along with ii
retaining OK team her mercury Wen
| do,yp RI zorro in half q Spcond 81