The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-02-26
BELLING THE CAT.

o00 % EVON UP PC1AuCCJ AAtU 11lblC IL
come, paid him by grateful nation Tor
six hours attendance dill 10 The Water
DepaItment Of Semerse lIsuse, was sup,
plemeRtsd by an slmrsl equal amount
accruing from private p,opertv, and he
had married tbs "l,i.rt IF his hearts adj
oratien yons of she lleltleSt girls !. N slI
England to wiz. Felicia Hope bat THAT
piaguy,corjunetion generally steps in as
sa alloy)--6u Felicia mother had per-
mansntly taken up her abode In the neat
1 little house at Bayswater which Valentine
had provided FOR his living treasure.
Fel,eia was she only offspring Of her
mothers union with the late CCltnel
Hope, of the BSln6ay N. l., aad had left
India but year when mischieSons Cupid
threw her in tAe way Of Vel. Hardy.
They met, they loved; he PROPOSED, and
she aeerpted bisa, 1t was quite love
match~ Walls incams was not saSSeient to
make it worth the while OF D. dashing
btun.fte 20 wed him solely fez.- that; and.
eA she o her hand, Mrs. Hope had but
JUS enough 40 maintain her posisisn in
! he Wei Id.
! Fe!ieia's maMRaa was still in what aoat
persens terra the prime OF womanhood;
sha was not vain snoush Tor think she
c,ad pass iDB her daughters slider sister,
bus few woSld have taken nen TO have
! reached the age Of AZ. Her husband
tuenty-twO years previously, had fallen
in icve wsth her te nder byewn eyes and
sose tinted cheeks; even POW the eyes
had not lost their old expsession and
Though The hot Indian sun had driven
away she former fresh, healthy look cav
ing in its place tint more subdued IN
tone, Mrs! Hope was stihl very attrac>
tive woman Grizzled Colonels and tan
ned Majors who knew her amiability,
womsnly sympathy, &nd devotion to their
deceased csmrade, had more than onee
hirted That the matrimonial market was
still open to her; and jealousy aud heart
burning had reigned in the little settlc-
ment OF Borrioboolsh Gha,up the country
ere the Colonel's widow and her only
child resolved to return to England. But
Mrs. Hope smiled sadly and shook her
head; she WIS deaf to all fattery; the citi
del Of her love was impregnabIe and her
future now was bound up ia the happi-
ness of her child. At ore sims-scon
after the Coloneland his wife arrived out,
when her spirits were less busyant than
they had been Of late years-there was q
rumor that had her w isnes been consulted,
she would far rather have been the spouse
Of certain civilian in England than have
|juurned to India the bride Of Colonel
Hope. This, however, was only rumor,
born no one knew where Or how; and
when her ne~ aCquantances witnessed
her assiduity to her husband and saw the
c ,lor returning to her cheeks, the rumor
died away In the obscurity in which it
bad arisen, certainly it had never reached
the ears ot Felicia
The day Val. Hardy sought the con,
sent Of Mrs. Hope to the marriage was
probably one Of the most miserable the
trio had ever spent. Va. (who really
was a solt.hearted fellew, despite hi.
burly fern and thick mustachs) when
ha witnessed the emotion of his future
mother-ln- law, considered himself one of
the most despicable creatures IN the werld
Mrs. Hope amid her tears told him, OF the
yearniak love with which she had watch.
sd the g-owtb of her offspring from in
fancy to childhood, an then to blushing
blooming " mauho cd and how she had
hoped they might have spent marry future
years together; at which the young lover
felt his own eyes taoistcning, and STAN
,n,ring forth the suggestion, that though
Felicia was abaut tn become his wife, the
mother and daughter might still remain
undivided. Mrs Hope shook her head
hencetorrb, she said, Fel,cla's fist care
must nc for her husband, as hers had
'reu twenty two years beforo-that for
him she should sacrifice the home and
friends OF he. youth, existing, trusting
only in bis love; the struggle Of aepara-
ton would be great, but she must nerve
herself as she had done for former trials