Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-06-22

,itatedJOOk that surprised the nurses,
She left the hospital and hurried home
to rejoice her sister with the intelli-
gence that her confidence in Willough-
by's honor had not been misplaced.
As she entered the drawing room,
where she knew she would find Miss
Keith, she exclaimed, with breathless
eagerness, 80, Anne, Henry is limo
cent; it was all q wicked-'' but
stopped short on seeing two strangers
engaged in conversation with her sis
tel. and Meenah Baee. Her bewilder-
ment did not at first allow her to dis.
,tinguish their features, but she felt
strange trembling rs she marked the
tall figure of the one who came for
ward to- meet her. No, she could not
he mistaken, and in another moment
her hands were clasped in Henry Will.
loughby' 8, and her tremul0ls, ''Henry,
can you forgive me!'' answered BY
their warm pressure. Excess of hap.
piness was almost too much for In.
diana, after her long trial but by de-
grees she recovered sufficiently to be
able to learn how this meeting was
brought about. And. first, Col. Will.
lie now held that rank
had to present to her his friend Major
~Ndillingsby, who had unwittingly been
the cause of their long estrangement.
CATER you left Agra continued
the Colonel, II went through all the
Sikh campaign, and then my regiment
was ordered to Gibraltar. After that
rather unfairly, as we thought,
though had it not been for, this piece
of injustice, rs we considered it,
might never have seen you again-we
were ordered back to India. This time
SAW no service, beyond the trifling
business of reducing Mahratta chief
whose fort we took; and there we
found poor Millingsby, who had been
prisoner for ten years and more, and
was believed to be dead by his own
people. and so had never been sought
for, and had given up all hopes of get.
ting free again.
eyes,. said Maj. Millingsby, IF you
only knew what that feeling of utter
hopelessness was. 1 could hardly real.
ize that I was free, when the fort was
taken. But 60 on with your story,
Willoughby.'
swell, Millingsby, when he had re-
covered his senses little, began talk
ing of his wife; and when l heard hel
name and birth, the truth suddenly
flashed upon me and, though it was
impossible to account for the substitu
ton of. my name of his, felt sure that
the mistake had arisen from the SINH
larity of sound, and that you, Indiana
had been equally deceived with me-
Of course, l hurried home at once and
I will own that my first impulse was
to meet you with reproaches but you1
exclamation as you entered the room
disarmed me" = ; :
All was now joy and happiness al
No 25, and Meenall Baee, or, as w
ought to call her, Mrs. Millingsby, wa:
in a state of ecstacy at her husband.
return, though most penitent for thu
de1usion which had caused Col. Will
oughby and Indiana SO much misery
Surgeons confession, though mo-
necessary, rs it turned ont, was salts
factory as clearing up the mystery O.
the story and the wretched man, dur
ing the brief remainder of his life
was nursed with tender solicitude b!
her whose happiness he had so nearl!
,'shipwrecked but who was now
! thanks to the guiding of q mercifu
Providence, after long trials, givel
back to her faithful lover.-Chambers
Journal. .F