Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1874-05-13

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A pile Of rugs. walking-sticks, aud port
munteaus lay on one side: a dog.cart
stood before the door, aud the man servan:
was busily slowing away the luggage,
which was labelled New York"
"Why are you going, Enrol r. asked
Nellie, shyly. H-t
Partly for business, partly for pleas
ure. cousin mine"
What is the business p
"A special suit, which 1 do not wish to
lose if cat help it,"
And the pleasure ?"
He gave her keeu, quick glance be-
fore he answered.
The pleasure p? Well, ar present the
pleasure is to gaih that particular suit.
Ny adversary is rather obstrererous, but
my journey to America will be amicabiy
arranged. What shall | brlug you back,
Nelie-an Indian wampum, or the last
Yankee notion in boDuets?"
Neither, thank you Errcl," she said.
raising her sweet eyes. half repentauty
Il shcgld prefer bear.skin and-and a
bunch of scarlet geraniums."
"Your wishes shall be obcyed. Good
by, Nellie" said he, gravoly, and, spring
ing up into the dog g.cart. he took tue reins.
''Good-by.'
Nellie watched the dog-cart out Of
sight, aud then turned into the house, feel
in. guilty defiant, ,repertant, and mischicv-
Gus half dozen times before she reached
her mothers room.
"Ah, my queen, you are very wilful,"
thought Errol, as he turned his horse into
the lane; "hut my rose shall win the day
yet can afford to wait till the tree
blooms again next summer"
In the old garden Nellie watched the
roses bloom and pass away, the beautiful
golden autumn tints come and fade, and
the grim icy winter draw near and settle
on the land. Her life with her invalid
mother was II lonely onc-ths wiuter had
seemed specially drcary and long; she
watched with Intense longing for the first
gcam Of spring. 1t fingered long, as if
10Th to encounter the chilly winds aud
weather. The snowdrops came in March;
at The end of April there was scarcely u
hedgcworth tinted with green.
"Nellie, said Mrs, Carroll Que morning
looking up from ner newspaper, find me
Errol's last letter, auI see what is the
name of the vessel he intended to sail iu :"
''ll was the City of Boston, mamma"
| Get the letter, dear--l want to te
quite certain,
Nellie opened tho writing desk, found
the letter, and gave it TO Mrs. Carroll,
pointing over her shoulder to certain
passage in it, .a+
t" Yes, | sec you are right it is the
City Of Boston. | had forgotten all about
and now | s,e from the newspaper that
she is very much overdue, and that there
is great anxiety about her safety"
Nellie had not forgotten. Since the
date Of the vessels sailing had she not
counted the days, the hours, almost the
minutes? q? Had not every chance footstep
sent The blood to her cheeks, every unex-
peced knock or liug caused her heart
to beat wildly LatterIy, did no. every
slight noise jar upon the strained nerves
almost painfully? No need he'd she 10
find the letter for names and dates, when
her hear, was aching with vague susp cion
aud dread, her cheeks thin and pale with
anxious waiting and watching. Alas !
she was not the only one. With that day,
when the first warning appeared in the
papers, began time when her own fears
were echoed by hundreds Of sad hearts
all over England.
Once more it was fair summer cven-
ing in the old Priory garden: the purple
twilight shadows we're falling softly, and
birds high note sounded far in the still
ness as in bygone days Terribly cruel it
all seemed to Nellie that the brightness
and beauty could last while hearts should
be so drsolate. She was pacing restlessly
up and down the moss-grown avenue, her
black dress clinging to her in sombre folds
for the mouths had come and gone, and
hope at last had died out. Hero walked
beside her, his head dropping. Presently
she left the alley and sought the old stone
seat under the Noisstte rose. She threw
herself down on the grass beside it, and
pressed her cheek against the cod stone.
1t was piicous 10 see how pale aud thln
she had grown piteous to see the wide
open miserable eyes aud weary, hopeless
/ face --piteous to see the small hands