Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-07-12

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| Luke Varney had just SAT down to his
solitary breakfast-made doubly solitary
by the thought of the delicate, snowy
| table-cloth duke didn't affect table
cioths), and the light, delicious rolls
and delicate, fiaky tarts, and more still
the bright, smiling faces that were
doubtless at that moment. gathered
| about another breakfast-tabIe not faI
away-feeling utterly desperate and
miserable. s.What was the nse for him
TO stay there?--he might as we'll go
away and done with Il. Probably no.
body in Brent (meaning nobody bui
Moilie Sterne) would care if he did,
And he swallowed his coffee at gulp-
burning his ritl,yoat ythe operation
and felt Just as psrefctly aiseraple as as
shadow }elf across The table, and he
sGpss gGass "p pS ss u sha s faSh ana then ,ne
fhers came aS1Qws dis upets fap on the
tfloor. - 2
I Lake was not accustomed to receiving
lmornipg cd from The ladies, and a
mope pfayas feeling Of shsme add eInbar-
irassDent Seane oyer him as ne cast his
feye oyer 1ns dos4iciL fopsefous for the
fist tiIae. sofs MS Eehegst dis6rder; for,
like most male 8oSSskeepefss Heaven's
frste Ia@ - vas not paftieAIarly his
forte. Hastily catetG1g sh QhE epsr, two
pairs Of dildpiaafea trowsers, straw
hat, dirty shirt, and two towels and a
pair of well-ventilated, -stpekinSsi from
the nearest and emptiesf eliait, and tos-
sing them in ;Iheap In the corner, he
went to the door and met, to his aston
ishment, Mrs. -Hargrave.
'.Are you: alone, 1Luke2s she asked,
hurriedly.
G"Yes ma,an, )" said Lake. meekly.
''Then will come in moment
He, stepped back and she passed in be-
fore him. She tpSk n seat vat opt .seen-
ing to see tie fodiIi,, or any ytfifng it con-
tained. She did not raise her veil, but
Luke saw through it enough to see that
she was deadly pale, and her eyes were
| unnaturally black.
You saw me last night ~ =, she asked,
abruptly.
Luke bowed, and she went en-:
"You saw also the man-the man who
was with me?" Il
Luxe bowed again.
"You-did you know him?"
81 heard you call his name. ma'am."
"What else did you hear?" she asked,
sharply, and then interrupting ham as
he was about to speak. NO matter!
1 z y D
Hays yon good mepery, Lpke
She took out purse and threw it on
the table.
serhere,'' she said, "wiIl that be any
help to you i'll carrying OH operations
on your little farm? l believe there are
two hundred dollars in it; think you
| will find use for it. learn you antici-
pate making some improvements.
s'Pay me ?''she interrupted. "Imake
you free present of it, Luke, that is il
you can manage to forget any little
thing you happened to see or hear last
night"
Luke took up the purses lis face flush
ling: ,.o
Mrs. Hargrave."
| "Nonsense it is not bribe, you fool
ish fellow. - Yoa- sserel "a GREAT ayoritt
of Mr.. Hargraye's,, and think he woulo
| have liked for you to have it.
| ssBut you brought tito me to purchase
nv silence" persisted Enlke..
| IsI brought it to you because wanted
| to. Luke. But. Luke, I ask you, as :
| great. personal favor, that you will, say
nothing of his being here. lie has al
ready left town, and you are the only
person that saw him. I do not ask it a!
4 any favor to him-I remember you were
not the best of ffriends-but because my
being seen walking with him nigh
give occasion for gossiping remarks
which would be very painful to me t.
bear
She leaned her head on her hand will
a little weary sigh. and Luke, lopkin:
at the sharpened lace, and sorrOwful
detected air. so unlike the old hanghti
ness of manner that all, his olden dis
like and Suspicion was dissolved in pff.
for this pale, sad-eyed woman; and s
he said, speaking very gently:
''Icannot take your money, Mrs Har
grave, but as to that other matter, Civ
you my word of honor,r that, from any
thing / may say, yOG are in no DANCE
of being compromised"
81 wish you would take the money
Luke. Why will you not, let me hel
you?" tfTiI1S} III :
go, I'm getting along nicely smi
ing little.
'sI will not forget it, Luke, she sait
putting out her hand, which was cold :
ice, and trembled as she laid it in hi
lsaying, 81 know l can, trust you. Yo
never did sdeceivesme."
After she had gone, he remembers
that those were the very words whic
Dane Hargrave had uttered, that nigl
when lie sent liim for his brother, an
perhaps little feeling of Honest iprit
stirred in his heart, that he was wortl
to be trusted, for that he was he kne
in his own heart, witch, whatever I'll
worlds Judgment, is. more than ever
man knows of himself.
1t was quite. late in September befo
the doctor and Lena were marie
>tThere was so much to be done to the o
house lit had been Doctor DinsmOre
maternal grandfather'sl to make it
for her--indeed, his love would glad
have Installed her in a palaceso mu'
tearing down, and rebuilding, and mo
ernizing, that he began to grow almc
impatient, and believe that there nev
was before suclfVery, yeryzsIoxy wor
men rs those which droned over t
old house. =. But it was all completed
last, and one bright, autnnlnal Sabba
Basil Dinsmore and Lena Hargrave we
married in the little Presbyteri
church in Brent, and went very qnieI
tothe old house to live. tH was a gre
roomy house, with the cosiest Of moo
and the sunniest of windows, and gre
patriarchal elms stretched their prote
ing arms over it, and the birds set
housekeeping in their .brapehes,, a
sang love songs 10 eaci otHer All
long summer through. But the ne
were lonely and deserted now;
when another spring game, Le
thought-and went singing ga,
through the old house, a sweetes mn
Basil DinsmOre thought, than ali
songs of all the birds that ever sang.
l wish that my story were, done nc
1 wish that l could leave them her
whora stories usunllv feayetheir her
and heroines-standing on the +
T threshold of life, and let the reader fal
them Giving happy forever after"
might be pleasanter, for both reader
writer to believe marriage to be the {
den gate leading into the enchanted
gions from which all sorrow, and pa
and sin are forever debafred; that, Ii
ing once got our favorite heroes or.hs
ines through those charmed portals,