Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-09-30

This is a good photograph of Miss Julia
raymond: she takes we'll hers is Just one !
If those faces that look best in a picture |
because it is unchanying: She has mere
pretty features but no expression.
Bcs>ieS face Frightened 4 little Some
people admire her very much, She sail
family.
don't know any one who does, | repli-
ed in Il careless tone.
Then there was silence. | saw Arthur
come home. walk up the steps of the house
without even looking across the street, 60
in. and presently appear ut the window OF
his room directly opposite Us. Bessie sat
uneasilv. her color ch ,nging from rel to
white, her bosom hcaving with the tumul-
tuou, beatinys rf her little heart, her poor
hands all in Il qnlvcr.
The young man may have given swift
Glance across, bat it was only glance.
He closed one of his windows. and. Il, tn
wind was now high. closed the blinds too.
all but onc-ilalf. and then disappeared IIc
had been wont TO sit there and with Il pre-
ten e of reading a book, kept watch on the
girl over the way. Both of them happy
in that companion>hip. though perhaps
they did not bow even to each other.
looked at Bessie Is the last blind WAS
close |. and scarcely could restrain an eX-
clamation. 50 pale had She grown. For a
moment, she seemed on the point Of drop
PING out of her chair. But rs She did no
look mp. kept silent. Poor child, That
shutting of the blinds, seemed to her.
knew. like shutting her ont
The wind rose. beat the trees. and twist
ed oil the leaves and branches 1t shook
the windows. banged the blinds. tore of
slate from roofs, and ctrried it about lk,.
feathers UnIcrnelth our windows. it bent
a street lamp of it post, and sc;tttcre the
broken glass about. There WAS Il roaring
in The chimneys. :, crash every moment, a
some Skvlight. shutter. or fence went by
Jhe board. From our sheltered windows
we looked out on the storm. | with that in
tcrc>t that such freaks of mature, are calru-
lrled to inspire; Bessie with the cold list
lc>>ne>> of Il creature half >en>rl,>>. SIC
never >tid 4 word. only glanced Al 4 pee,
Of paper that lay on the window ledge.
Afjcr Il while | BEGAN to suspect thai
Mr.. Arthur Blake WAS not 50 very far AWAY
from the front of the house a> he woul,
nave IL think. \ glimpse OF a coat sleeve
Was vouclI~lfc me from behind the bin
which WI, half shut. and soon got Il com
Portable assurance that not :, look OF mo
ton Of the ptlid girl at the other window
Wa lost on him.
While | looked. the wind lo-e in one o
il most fearful gusts: it caught the ma
pile tree un,o.r thr window and bent it
head 10 the earth; it carried on IL win"
leaves. dust. tiles. slate, everything thai
could catch; it suddenly dashed in Il pan
of ~las-. and the next moment il calElI
and carried ont the -lip of paper on whc
Bessie had been >cribbiing for the la~- Ia
hour.
She started up with a cry. and tried t
catch it back. leaning into tn. tempe
without thought of il fury. wilr awtk
npA AMI ~ red IL >h hal been whit.
moment before.
OH, what >hr,ll do? She cried in IL
res. have been writing every prt ,
npn~,n~e on that Oh. wh,. shall do
Could | @r; it by going ont. do You think
~hould de if any one should read il
Nv name i, written there
The wind seemed furry to laugh 4
lifted III" tlIttcring piece of paper >trli-i
in.o thr air, then lowered it t,ntalizin-l
again. only to snatch it away from thr tw
out~trctchc,l white hands that vainiy c1ugl
Il il through the rain.
Some one besides me WAS watching. \
, thur Blake WAS leaning from hi wln.io1
- now open. and looking over with c1-'
EYES. thtt were full of doubt and question
; M And h-. TOO. watched the ii pltiI
ltnm on which. of course. he had >et
!, Is .->ic bcirIvinr the w:n,lcrin~~ of h
WlVWlr,l thou"iIt>.
l. i my immovablc belief that thr vii
Wa reading that paper while II h".d
suspended during the in>t minute. +
- al the world it looked aS though two i
- visible hands of an invisible winged ere
:, turr held the Slip. then with 4 whlrl II
l.. whistle dl~tcl across tile way. tunr II
:, 10 the opposite window. and flew of
= knock >omcbolv chimney over. or tr
:. away 4 skvli-ht
! On. what Shall lido? cried BESSIE. stan
inw in the millle OF the room. with i
hands over her face. What shall do
- ~ the slip OF paper wa> tlnn~ III III /
~ window. Arthur Blake gra~prd ii ana d
:. appeared for 4 moment. Perhaps il i !
! Whit i called strictly honorable. bat
l. course he read every word of IT,
- couldn't have taken him long either
=" in about three minutes the street door
~. the house opened and out he came into
!, storm: and in spite of the gust and mis-
-. straight across the street into or house
heard L trrmend"u> peal of the bell Il
i. then step coming up the stairs. And
- the time there stood Bessie in the mid
! of the floor with her hands over her crI
=, son face. and her soft. trembling voice
pratinw over and over the helpless exc
nation what shall do?
The door of the room WIS fun" ol
:; without knock, and in stepped the y"t
man. with tn truant paper in his In
-. his beautiful hair tossed and dripping "
, ,'' rain. AMI >;lch :, ligh ftct..a> @la'llencd
-, heart 10 see.
- Bessie he exclaimed. ignoring my /
=, Scncc altogether.
y She uttered a cry. uncovered her face
ns nnr instant. covered it again. and turl
away from him
Ny own little Bessie. he said. going
'au her How could YOU believe that | cl
~ for Julia? Sh. told me that You Ii
~, RAYMOND. but it w;,> false | know n'
- There. dear. | won't 90 80 don hr
'i' vour heart. couldn't leave you.
- rose and withdrew from the room. ;
- neither of them asked me to stay. Nc
~ over. neither of them apolo@izei Tor l'
~ inc me- to entertain myself one full h'
ny But BcS>i.. wave mo IN awful lu@%
when Arthnr went away. ana DetW
tears and smiles she whispered:
49, That blessed wind.
my \pmattrr what WIS written there; W
hc,r; breaking pleldin@~, what coniessl'
T.. The wind knew, and the lovers knew,
~. that is enough So much fer the i'll "
,n. that blew somebody good
18th
nc Think of il. Hammer.
on
the On the train the other day were Il
:, o,fiIiu,r did man and 4 very innocent