The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1878-02-28

Tue prlSOneT, ~ WaS uoe'oc", oS"'no'
to watch for the entrance OF this
person, aud to be uneasy until she
came, when his handsome face
would flush slightly. Ills dark eyes
brighten with pleasure, and he
would resume his usual air OF min-
gled pride aud determination I
When Frank Reeves bright Young
head vanished behind tho igno uin-
ous prison walls, he carried next his
heart little scented note without
address or signature. but written in
an exceedingly delicate feuiniue
baud, and having in one corner n
most dainty silver and blue mono
gram, 20. H." II said : Yen are
hero. am acowardly creature, un
orthy OF ypu But the dsv yon
arc free man. il you do not despis,
me too utterly by that time, | will
be your wife. Every hour of yorr
heroic imprisonment | shall think OF
YOU. lovn You nlrea Is. aud shall
love eou moro crl more till we
meet
Three years from that timo Mr
Duhamel died suddenly aud his
daughtor. still single aul still beau
tiful, came into the possession OF a
large fortune. In the course of the
fourth year. she obtained by privtts
AMI personal appeal to the Home
Secretary, Frank Reeves pardon.
Tue two met at last in Miss Du-
humels own magnificent drawing
room. The beauty and heiress hal
attired herself for the occasion with
an artistic elaborateness sho hal
never bestowed on any party or re-
ception toilet Her loveliness was
beyond description her eyes we're
flashed with tears.
Frank Reeves came calmv into
the room. and stopped few PAGES
off. without Offering 10 approach
nearer. He was very pale, aud his
closely cut hair altered him very
much The years, the confinement
aud the comp tuionship OF brooling
thoughts, had craven upon his face
stcrner lines than had markell that
handsome countenance in the hush
of egar, romantic youth.
Some unexpected expression in
that face seemed TO strike Cleora.
Frank" she exclaimed and in
her naughty voice was 4 new and
pitcous accent, "you have never for
given me Frank have suffered,
too,
He did not say more, but his eve
flashed, and he uttered the word
. suffered after her contemporary.
Il AN a parloned convict, he
said proudly. in this terrible per
. son to which your cowardlce con
demned ne, my young AMI eager
manhood. all those generous aud
ssf-sacriicng impulses which mad,
me your tool, even the heart whicI
/ loved got, have been ono by one
, crushed out of no ! forgave you
/. at first. Afterwards 1 grew bittel
month by month, day by day. 1t
was SO little you needed to do t
. have saved mo all that long hor.
I ror, MY good name, il you had stood
by your own wrong doiug
t "Oh, Frank, | will atone | an
rich. We can so anywhere whcr
, you are not known. Cleora exclaim'
ed, sweeping towards, him and ex-
tondins her white hands entreatinS
. y.
, lie lifted his sombro eyes once (
her peerless face.
= Miss Dnhamel, he said, there
, are some things that even money
cannot buy-that even the love OF I
4 beautiful woman cannot atone for
that is what l came to tell you, anI
Q Good bye.
4 Without as much as touching he
t hand, ho was gone
IN another country, Frank Reeves
redeemed himself from the stain o
9 that Injustice once done him, ano
became an honest member Of s)ciet.
through his own patient endeavor.
Miss Duhamel never married.