The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-10-04

| 10 WA3 ~ orphan; md without broth
III II BiStef5. II BE hid Ind y 1W6et-
heart, I would Have sent it ID htf, that
| she piGht HAYS kA8wh what hero she
fAn l66t II this young fellow, whose
| delicate, sensitive nature shrank from
tie conHicts which his great soufurged
| him into. have seen many brave
charges, many, f0rlorn hopes carried,
since that day, H0with, but 1 never saw
/ 8 Drawer charge or more f0rlon hope
! carried than this that led Melrue to his
death. We mourned DAlGell, good fell
low, but thcru was something ii the
loss Of Melroe that went beyond every.
other loss. We loved him better than
we knew. end whom We buried him
there every one Of tis recalled that sen.
tence Of his, / might fpc0il from the
encounter, but / should fecUil ten
times more from the skulhing away
from it,
A mDtneAtAfy silence fell upon us all
| ~ Ire Colonel ceased. But as he closed
his memorandum-book, shutting in the
strip Of blood-stained, faded silk, voice
broke the silence: .
flames, give it to me- Holland Mel
roe's Gordon blenr'
You, Pattyr'
!" Yes, to me, James, Patty an
swered, quite steadily, though white as
| the dead.
Mechanically, perhaps instinctively,
| the Colonel held out the sacred memen-
to without word. But the CUlonel's
wife had no such delicate instinct Of the
truth.
"What do you mean, Patty?" she
exclaimed.
II mean, = returned Patty, with great
dignity, :" that have better right to
Holland Melroe's Gordon blen than any
one elsep'
10 PAttyi and all the time you were
-" But Mrs. Kings discretion at
this point came back to her; it was too
late, however, to save her purpose
I" Yes, Emily; all the time I was en-
who brought me into that. It was
scarcely my own doing, and Holland
Melroe never sought me after he dis
covered that my word was passed to
another. but, before he discovered
this, 1 knew his heart and mine. When
1 got news of his death l broke my en-
gagement to Morton, but l could not go
talking about Holland then. / had no
right to tell the truth then who could
not tell it before-who had to be told by
death what the whole truth meant even
to myself.
| By this time we had all been brought
up, as it were, to Patty's revelation
all but Mrs. King. noticed vaguely
that she looked disturbed, and glanced
uneasily at Maj. Howith. But for that
should have forgotten his presence,
yet even then he did not seem an in
truder, stranger though he was. The
Colonel, always fond Of his little sister
Patty, as he called her, found new
cause for tenderness now. She had
been Melroe's sweetheart Melroe,
whom he had loved! And, leaning
forward, he took her in his arms and
kissed her.
The next morning got the meaning
of Mrs. Kings disturbance. She came
into my room, with the words
/ Just think of Patty's making such q
mess of it!''
What do you mean?' inquired,
thoroughly amazed.
.sOh, dear! what do I mean? Don't
you see that Maj. Howith was i'm
mensely pleased with Pattyp And
now, just for that old sentimental nom
sense being dragged up, it will fall
through, for he is not the man to play
second-fiddle to any other man. dead or
alive And it would have been such a
match for Patty!" wound up the fas-
cinating but worldly Mrs. King.
I turned upon her all the walls of my
wrath. Patty had come out most nobly,
and she ought to be ashamed if she
couldn't appreciate such nobility, de-
clared. But l did no good; she only re-
| iterated her regrets at Patty's g mess"
not whit disturbed by my Walls of
wrath. But in this iteration she was
cut short by her husbands voice, as he
came in from the little library which
communicated with the room we occu-
pied:
EMILY, you don't know men quite
as well as you think you do, my dear
When went into the smoking-room
last night Maj Howith joined me; and
what do you think he said to meP''
swell, what?' inquired Mrs. Emily,
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in Malroa,s crave anv moro than Ia
II was nv storv If Nal tbat moJa
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soa;n And now Mrs Emily don't
vo,, tall th;s over 70 patti = word
mind or Won NAV nayar have No;
How;tb for . hroth.y- 1lawr,
Ms EMILY Ianahad
"(lh can Leen > secret when ,;ka
nc we'll 40 patty and III keen this. and
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