The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-03-22

SHSSl' hSh q SOANSA SAdtS hN'
placed about the slender fnaf, and
the apparently devoted lovetdiscus-
sed plans for their future hole life
together. Home-what a Areary
place it had been since his bother
had slept the sleep that knowth no
waking, and his sister around thom
his tender affections had entSiued
themselves had gone to be the light
of anothors dwelling.
The tender sympathies Of her pa
ture were awakened while shelisten-
ed to his words, and she thought the
place of their future abode wotld bel
as bright as a loving heart and will
ing hands could make it.
"Igave sister such surprise on
the Sabbath when told her /, had
made up my mind to get mlrriod
and asked her how she liked gou.-
(The deep set grey eyes beamtd low
ingly upon his betrothed) She
thought matters were already arran.
ged between myself and another. =
All! Lieut.. Jones, Eva notes the last
sentence. 1t is rent in the clnk OF
Misrepresentation in which months
you have been enveloping your act
ions. Why should the sister who
was ever the sharcr of thy childish
sports, the confdant of maturer
years, think thus? Have you given
reason for your name and anothers
being linked, and by your own rela-
tiuas2- ls's-.
Weeks olapse in which Lieut.. j.
is the victim Of disease and suffering;
indeed there is a brief period when
it seems as though the icy finger of
death points that way. But mer-
ciful God rebukcs the raging fever,
and though he is much weakened,
life rogains its sway.
Again he seeks the home OF Eva,
and he tells her how his thoughts
have been only of her, business and
all else forgotten. This is the month
he had intended for the fulfllmont of
their cherished hopes. September
should have witnessed the merging
of their life paths in one. But he
has met,with more opposition than he
expected. He cannot fulfill his sa-
cred promises. Tthink no one could
feel worse than ! do over the mat.
ter" Oils countenancc the mirror
of the soul, looks wonderfully re-
signed considering the sudden en-
gulfng of his hopos) "You will for
get all will you not Miss Eya?'
The stream is shallow and easily
fathomed; and while he erects bridges
of deceit, the tidal waves Of truth
leave them shattered wrecks,
Eva pursuos the even tenor Of her
way: There are home duties to be
performed, and, after all, if the quail
tiles she esteemed in the lieutenant,
assumed, not possessed, it may be
we'll that a chasm divides them
Though the rose-tintcd castle of light
has fallen she is not crushed meath
the ruins.
Mysteries unvcil themselves
There cometh u time when the final
donoucmont is made.
Eva learns that tho Lieutenant
continues his "fricndly calls" on Miss
Adclia since hisabandonmcnt Of her.
self. If you barely escape the trcach.
crous waters of green morass warn
your ncighbor of its whcreabouts.--
A plain statement of facts is placed
in the hands of Miss Adelia, relative
to tho deception procticcd by the
Lieutenant.
The double part he had acted in
the drama was then apparent, His
treatment of both ladies were .titc sim.
lilies, with this exception; marriage
No, 1 was to have taken place in
August and not in September.
Lieut., Jones was invited down to
hear of the double victories he had
achieved, but "momonts Of triumph
arc not always moments of happi-
ness" Words failed him, and u mis-
cradle mockory of u laugh was the
explanation ho,ga tho women, the
gentle Christian women, to whom he
was under obligations binding in
the sight of heaven. At his right Is