The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-08-25

throw around her waist and draw her
close to bis side.
Julie, you are glad to see me?' He
bent his lips to her forehead.
sob, Ray, would [ have denied my
self to Mr.. Mortimer for any other rea-
son than seeing you p
He has been here? Julie. darling,
when are you going to ship that fellow
Cor e,y sake?'
''Tell me how I can Go it, Ray? You
know our engagement is widely known,
and papa and mamma would nerer con-
sent to its being broken"
"But you, you would consent, birdie
And if you want me to tell you how,
why, listen"
So, with his eager eyes watching her
| own, his low love tones coming SO sweet
ly to her ears, he asked her to surprise
everybody and delight him and herself
by secret marriage-xn elopement, If
she would consent.
He told it all SO plausibly; he painted
pictures of their tour to Europe; the
gaieties Of France, of Paris; the coming
homo, freely forgiven, and all their lives
thereafter SO brimful of happiness. And
Julie demurred ever SO family.
But Ray. if they should not forgive
me p
He smiled very mangniicently at that.
"WelI, If they should not, why, |
think | can keep US from starving. can't
[? But how can they help receiving
you again, nay darling? Who could
steel their heart against yo's 2
So with his unansverable batteries he
prevailed on the beautiful heiress to fly
With him.
And the first that Harvey Mortimer
knew of his sudden bereavement was the
announcement in the daily paper of their
marriage snd departure for Europe.
Of course it was an awful blow-one
that made him fairly stagger under the
crushing weight Of shame and wounded
pride and murdered love-one that ad
ded the first stray silver thread among his
jet black hairs.
But Harvey Mortimer was not man
to die under any accumulation of trouble.
His was not the temperameps to sit down.
idly fold MS hands, waste bis life, and
then say Fate had wrought the desola-
ton.
He just went right ON, in his accus-
toned ways-perhaps haltipgly at first,
certainly more determinedly every day,
as his soul emerged more and more from
the cloud Julie had cast over it, until,
after FIVE years had added their record to
his pure, noble hfe-until three times he
had seen the winter SHOWS. and summer
grasses cover the double grave Of jules
heart-broken parents-he could say,
calmly, trutnfully, still seriously. that
human love vas never more to him.
He was content--five years ministry
of sorrow, five years discipline had noe
been for naught; and despite his lone
illness, he felt be was not cipher N the
busy world. His married. widowed sist
er aud her boy lived In his elegant house
the very house where Julie Dayton
had lived SO many years. from which she
had gone one afternoon five years ego; to
which she never returned; to which no
letter had ever come; from which they
had carried two collins within six months
of each other.
It had been a pitiful ending Of the
familg-a heart crushing breakup. MIR.
Dayton had been demented; he had
entirely ne elected his business for months;
then. with wild frenzIy, he had rushed
into hazardous speculations that took I'm
meuse capital, aud the end was be snd
his wife had been buried at Harvey
Mortimers expense.
He bought the house anG furniture
Just as it stood, and brought Mrs. Arm
itage and his nenhew and name sake, lis
tie Mortimer, to such a home as they
never had dreamed of before.
He was content, | have said. His
gentle, sympathetic sister knew his heart
story, and while she forebore to mention
il at any time, BY her tender dellcacy and
and touching care fer bis welfare she
manifested her womanly desire TO be all
and 10 all to him, her kind. beloved elder
brother,
So their lives flowed on. Ga deep quiet
current. uabroke by cddie,-until one
night-one da (, stormy night. when the
March winds tore through the leaf less
tree branches. and shrieked aud moaned
and walled at every window with dis
NAL 1roarippcS that made Harvey III or