The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-05-27


on business | intended TO stay week pu'
| was so successful that | remained longer
finally went into business in TIE CITY, anu
began 10 kBow people. visited al the houses
of wealthy merchants, ahd met 'hc1r WINS
and DAUGHTERS, and bv degrees began to un'
ders,and that, though my Rosebud was very
fair and sweet, she was not mouse Hover
In other words, her dress was not IKE inc
dress of "A fashionable belle; her manners
were homespun, her education poor ohe
was very rood-eXcessively good, but not IN
oIaoont lady Then, too, she sent me notes
in Flo buff envelopes, and used little 81, Tor
mo personal prououn, which should nave
been honored by the capital ~
And Farmer Budd with his uncouth coats
o,I wonderful hats and long Struggling beard
and hair was not the sort OF father.ln-Iaw thal
shonld admire: and there was Miss Hanno.
yer Perhaps that fact was the most power
erful one of al the workings OF my Olsen
cban,ment; for Miss Hanover was beau'i'
full, all millinery and upholstery; and fapa
Hanover was called Prince Hanover oy
his friends, and had his dinner table sci lot
forty every day; and wore fortune III dla'
monds on his bosom, and made friends wher-
ever he went, by his lavish gifts and was the
greatest stock gambler IN London.
Papa Hanover had smiled on me, ana
Icounselled me how to invest and had ulneu
me with his daily forty friends, and had saia,
"Violettc, love. this Is Mr. Markham, one OF
those country gentlemen of whom we are Try
ing to make city men
And Violette had smiled radianiiy upon
me, ,r,
Since then how many tete.a,tetes had not
lhad with her--hOw many rides! | was learn
ling TO dance with her, and had forgotten 10
write to Rosebud for two weeks, when came
an anxious little note on blue paper oesln'
ming thus:
DEAR HENRY: take up my pen in hand
much troubled in mind regarding you KNOW
you would write if you were not SICK,
Henry, if YOU are SICK do tallygraf and let
father come up and see you. Henry will
moi write any more till hear from you
am too troubled IN my mind. We are all
well and in the hopes that you Will enjoy the
same blessings remain
Yours Truly, koSE 81 DID, :,
"P S.-Do let pa come il you are sick i
am so troubled in my mind
FASTENED to reply, the awful dread OF MIR
Budd's fatherly care hanging over me- so 10
sneak, by a single hair. wrote to Rose, but
how? i shall not copy that cowardly letter
here, When it was IN the box did try to
fish it ont again, but it was too late. 1t had
gone and its termination, Thanks Miss
Budd. for your friendly anxiety concerning
nv health am sure that Mr.. Budd does not
share IT," was perhaps the worst OF all the
Lines by which told her, not in frank honest
words. hut in a manner that no woman could
fail TO understand, that | did not choose 10
remember that we were betrOthed.
| After that no more letters came to trouble
me. and paid attention to Miss Hanover
and invested my money according TO Hanno
yers advice And days and weeks and months
rolled by, and If thought of my little Rose
lind fading because the sunlight of my love
was withdrawn from 1t, crossed my mind, |
drove It away with a sigh. | could not help
lit, | said: it was fate. Fate meant me for
Miss Hanover, for Niolette, and we had met,
that was all No, not quite all; one day
remember it was the day after splendid ball,
and | called on NiOlette, whose escort had
been the night befOrc-one day / made this
latter statement to Violete Hanover, and
she having heard 1t, bestowed on me her most
aristocratic stare, and asked me if did not
know that she had been engaged to Mr.. Tween
typlum for six long months.
"And be married next week, Mr.. Mark.
ham," added she. $50 you see you must be
mistaken about fate
"And you have only been flirting with me ~
said bitterly. "Do you know that you gave
me reason to hope everything from YOU"
II know it is time for me to go dress Tor a
drive" said she. 80 you must say good af-
ternCo on; and don't look so ridiculOusly ,rag.
ic, Mr.. Markham. | hate scenes
And felt that | deserved it all, as | went
for the last time down the steps OF the Han
mover mansion.
In fortnight Niole,te was Mrs. Twenty
PLAN. In a month Mr.. Hanover was bank.
rupt-One of those who take a foreign trip
with plenty of money III their pockets, while
others lie crushed beneath the fragments OF
their broken branches at home,
NV money went with his | had come to
London with moderate competence. had
increased ii by speculation until | was abso'
lutely wealthy Now found myself almost
poor.
There remained to me only the MoSswoOd
property, which must be turned into farm,
and myself must leave my hope of being
one the city millonaires behind me, and be
come plain tarmer-a man OF the same So
cial status as Rosebud's father, without his
comfortable knowledge of money in the bank
to comfort me.
However, with the bursting of the bubble
fortune, the circle which gathered about Han
mover had been seemingly scattered 10 the
winds, and people knew that Miss Niolettt
had jllted me, and also that my money was
gone The city had lost many of its charms
and wrote to the old woman who had kept
the house at Mosswood for my father until
his DEATH to make it ready for my return
Then selling the furniture of my bachelor
rooms, and packing my smaller belongings
in few trunks started homeward.
must 90 back to Mosswood and become
a farmer | should find Rosebud fading
III gradually away, OF course, and yet | knew
Il she would be prcttirr than ever. How she
40 Ind loved mellow unCrateiul | had beer
IS for that love Now | would make amends
,e | would write as many repentant letters "a
m were necessary, and she would, of course, for
ID give me. No woman ever torgets or cease
nr to love any man she has ever loved, you know
Yes, after little maidenly resistance, Rose
IS bud would bloom for me again. | was a
ne sure of this as the train bore me onward a
Id | was that the moon would rise that night.
nd There is no adage more true than the on
that declares that misfortunes never com
ch alone, but in troops. Often, of course, on
IL, A.. tln OF ~