Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-02-07

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Another day slipped by, and ye
another. m.H sta E !.
Alice now ferbore. to speal
with him. His pain became insup
portable. Willis still laughed
and sang, and his gay voice anC
handsome presence still filled th'
eyes of the father. @
Finally, Alice fled from the gar
den, when Nassau, one afternoon
suddenly opened it. The escap,
was precipitate; yet, as she disap
appeared, she turned fullupon hin
gaze of undesirable meaning. 4
Nassau's soul arose in arms. (
But he reflected for one more
day.
Then he went to search for VIII
lis. He was intent upon making
one more appeal to HIM.
If he failed in it, he would has
ten to the father, and, with all the
strength and eloquence that, he
could command, would beseeeh him
to look more closely to the compli
cation that seemed so dangerous and
so full of wrong.
He hastened first to the old dom.
icile. .-....
He found no one there. 1t SEEM
ed Willis had gone into the wood:
an hour before with his easel and
boxes. sI
sWell, but is not the Doctor in
his study2"
''No, sir; he is in the lower gar
den. l heard him say he was GO
ing over near the White-Hiu Pit to
see if there were any trees there
that he could transplant"
"But Miss Alice?"
"She has gone out, too sir. She
has gone for walk, l think"
r. "Alone2" -s.s-T --- -a-.
'Yes,, sir, alone. She asked me
in what direction her father had
gone, and followed him"
"Ahd is she well to-day?"
"She is pale-very pale" aa '.
"Ah!" ,..-.-. --.
Here there was pause.
Then Nassau inquired for the di-
rection that Willis had taken.
He went in the direction of the
White Hill, too, sir. o. l think he
told Miss Alice yesterday that there
was a cliff there that he wanted to
paint"
p Nassau departed on his search. =
He walked rapidly to a path, across
thefelds, gazing here and there at
all the cOpses and groves. The day
was brilliant. The sky was clear;
a soft wind blew over the fields
from the south, laden with the per-
fume of flowers and vines; and the
insects hummed under foot and the.
trees were alive with singing birds.
The rector walked for an hour
Still he found no traces of the man
he sought, or, indeed of either of
the three r sFJ'. r.--f /
He gazed down into the valleys
and upon the sides of the hills, but
still fruitIessly.
He became anxious, and he hur-
ried. He had an indefniable dis
trust of the circumstances which
had led Miss Alice and Willis to the
same part of the place. He dread
ed that he should find them to-
gether. f=s.-;y -ar .r-i-.l
Another half hour passed by. He
descended rapidly a steep incline,
and passed dense thicket, and was
about to keep on down into the
valley, when, on turning his head
to look to the right, he beheld Will
lis seated before his easel.
He was alone. --
Nassau turned about and walked
toward him. They exchanged cold
salutations. .-...C.
ID 81 am glad that 1 have found
you," said Nassau. 81 was search
ing for you"
"Really! Then, in that case I am
glad that you have found me-"
81 wish to speak of a serious mat
ter.
every well"
"It is about our relations to each
other, and to Miss Alice %
''The old subject, eh?'' said Willis,
lightly.
'If you please to call it so, yes,''
returned the other.
"Well?"
81 wish to say barely, and with
out any preface, that l am convinced
that Miss Alice, in her own heart,
still belongs to me and, not to
you"
"That is conviction worth hav-
ing-at least for you. But what do
you mean?" Willis stopped playing
with his brushes.
81 mean this-to express it con-
cisely-I mean that what l have OBJ
served in the past two weeks that
Miss Alice has been made to appear
in a light which is an untrue one;
that she has been forced, by her
love and regard for her aged father,
to seem acquiescent in a plan upon
the consumation of which he has
set his heart"
"Come, come what do you mean?''
cried Wiliss, with heightening col
or. "Speak out, man. Do not beat
the bush! Do not be roundabout!
Come to the point!" .
"Your manners assure me that
you understand eeGctLy what l
meant"
"I take it that you insinuate that
Miss Alice has been deceiving
me 70
81 insinuate nothing of the kind
me"
1t was Nassau's turn to redden.
81 sayI believe that you have
been deemed by her father to- be a
more fitting husband for her than
/. and that she has followed his in
cllnations in favoring you, rather
than her own"
"That belief is not only absurd,
but it is insulting. 1t is Insulting
to all of us-to Miss Alice, to her
father, and to myself.
'On the contrary"
"What do you found your be-