Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-01-03

we hear of him from the battlefield
of Mexico, from the Senate cham.
Der, as a leader in the councils OF
the nation; but he never returned to
his old hOme-never married or saw
his child again.
Annie's education was finished at
a city in the Southwest; and here, as
if some fatality attended them, at
the same school from which her
mother eloped, she learned to love a
penniless man by the name of
Charles L, the last scion of an
impoverished family, whose patent
of nobility dated back to the Nor
man Conqueror. He had left Eng
land to establish himself in business
in America, wishing first to gradu-
ate from Southern college; but the
rigid caste-at that time more ty-
rannieaI there than in India-barred
his entrance. The Principal of the
school, himself an sspirant for the
hand and estates of one of the
wealthiest and NEST beautiful heir
esses in the State, looked with little
pleasure upon the intimacy between
the young people. At this time a
forgery. was committed upon the
Principal, who charged it to Mr..
l.. A. warrant was issued, and
he arrested. On her way to the re-
citation-room Annie heard the facts,
and glaneing from the window, saw
him pass in charge of an officer. All
the hot, ungoverned temper of her
race leaped in her heart and brain.
She kpesO, though she could not
prove it, that the whole thing was a
plot to ruin her lover, against whom
prejudice already existed on account
of his openlY-expre anti=slaEery
sentiments. That night she had a
council of war with her roommate.
The girls were both rich; but now
the pretty spendthrifts had but emp
ty purses, and no time to lose. Mo-
ney there was none, but fabuleusly
rich were Annie's jewels, and those
stood stead. She dare not leave the
house, but her friend obtained suit
of male attire, shaded her lips in i'm
itation of downy moustache, erept
from the window on to the porch,
clung to the lattice and vines with
the super-ease of q cat, let herself
down on the door of the Professors IS
study, and made her way to a law
yer. g i.e .-a.. -a1
4a In such night ,e.
Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew,
And with an unthrift loYe did run from
30 Veninee
.-5s.a. As far as Belmont, .Esy
seliloquized the laughing masquer-
ader.a The case was laid before the
man of briefs, who listened in 81
lenee, then questioned respectfully !;
but a closer observer than the inno-
cent but reckless girl would have
seen that he penetrated her disguise,
and believed it some love affair of
her own. His services were engag-
ed, and the Jewels left as security
for payment. When the trial came
on, and gossip mixed Miss Mason's
name with the prisoners, he learn
ed his mistake. A most able defence
cleared Mr.. L.; but SO strong
was public opinion against him that
he was obliged to leave the town.
We will not intrude upon the last
sad interview, but vows of eonstan-
cy were exchanged, to be kept sa-
credly by one, whe believed, then
that 31Ao2 A--a t5E
Fate, in its bItterest mood,
Had no pain for her like the pain OF
-ll..A that night. i.- -I s-e-t-.- sr
Miss M spent the winter with
her grandfather, in Cuba, and here
met for the first time the lawyer who
had conducted the case for Mr..
Il Thrown much together in
society, the acquaintance ripened in
to friendship on her part, love on
his, and an offer of marriage ensued.
Surprised and grieved, the gentle
girl firmly but kindly declined the
honor, when, to her astonishment,
he presented a casket containing her
own Jewels. To that moment she
had not known him; and pride, hn-
initiation and regret struggled with
her gratitude. "ForgiYe me-" she
sobbed, shat | cannot love. you"
He listened as doomed man listens
to a sentence he knows. is irreyoea-
ble-calm, firm and pale, too proud
to plead for what he crayed more
than life, then bent over her hand a
moment in silence, and left her alone.
l do not think that then, or ever,
Annie realized that Mr.. LIS re-
gard for her was not the same as
hers for him. She loved him with
all the passionate love of her nature
would have bestowed upon him
her wealth and social rank, or have
gone out from them gladly, as her
mother had done, to share, his exile
and poverty, He loved her as we
love those who are kind to us in the
dark hours of our lives-as one who
had stood between himself and a
blow he was powerless to aVert--as
his angel of deliverance-and with
calm affection that was tempered
by wisdom. He never knew how full
of pain those days were for her, oil
that the thought that came first at
dawn, and last at night, was, 81 will
be true to him."
From Cuba Annie and her father
went to Europe, and made the tour
of the Continent at their leisure.
They looked at the works OF
the masters in the art-galleries Of
the OLD World; ate grapes on the
sunny hill-sides of France; tooB
part in the festivities of her gay but
wicked capital; drank Imperial To
kay of Hungary's richest vintage il
the land of its own wine-press; stood
in the palaces of Moscow and the 81
lent streets of Pompeii; Aoated
down the canals of the "Mistress OF
the Sea" to the dreamy music of the
boatman's song; but feted, hOnored
worshipped, almost for the magniti
cent beauty and enormous wealth
with mobiles for her slaves and Prin
ces at her feet, who have laid dowr