The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-09-06
Miss Deverney's Husband.
But memories of the dead.

Chester Vaughan loved Edna DeVerney.
She was high-bred, fattered city beauty,
who had fed from fashionable follies for
short time to the quiet of an obscure New
Hampshire village. There q kind uncle
and aunt received her with open hearts.
They loved this city niece, she was SO
warm hearted and impulsive, so unspoilt
by fattery.
Who was Chester Vaughanp The en-
gineer of the ''Mayfower," on the B. B.
& G. railroad, that took in its course the
little village of Ashmont. He was one of
the noblest men that ever received on his
forehead the stamp of natures royalty.
With tall form, straight, massive, power
full yet graceful, dark handsome face,
with wonderful magnetic eyes that had
twice looked full into Miss DeVerney's, he
looked, in spite of coal dust, king among
his fellows.
Viewed in the light of the gigantic thun-
derer, public opinion, he was shades and
degrees lower than she. To the vision fine
enough to discern souls, independent Of
the accident of birth or circumstances, he
was her equal. Miss DeVerney was gen.
erous, truthful high-minded. So was
Chester Vaughan. She had warm, affec-
tiouate nature He possessed the same in
great degree. She loved all that WIS fine
and enjoyable in literature, aud could melt
into tears over a grand poem from pure
sympathy and appreciation. He had the
elements of genius in his own nature,
could create what she could only appre-
ciate. But he was only the engineer of
the Mayfower," and she was Miss De-
Verney, the heiress. Judge, then, If he
was not her equal.
We have said that his eyes had twice
looked into hers. She was at the depot to
meet some friends, and remarked the fine
figure of the man as he stood on the plat
form. she had thought, "What O grand.
looking man he would be in society !" and
he had turned and looked into her face,
she had felt great thrill at her heart,
such as no other pair of eyes had magnet
ism to send there. Was he not far beneath
her? Away from city friends, was she
becoming plebeian in her tastes? Wha,
right had he to look at her at all2 Bu
still those eyes in their wonderful depth
and beauty haunted her.
He had known by the fine sense that
discerns souls, that this woman was his
mate, though had seen her only twice
Miss DeVerney had known it in spite ol
smoke and CRIME and the iron walls OF
,society-known that had he been in hel
circle he would have singled her out from
the others, and that then she would have
Sprung to him and known he was hel
own, not q smaller SOUL"
Miss DeVernay loved nature. fine
free element in her composition reached
out instinctiyely and assimilated the un.
fettered, the unconventional. She was il
the habit of rambling in the woods in
search of botanical specimens and other
curiosities. She knew no fear, and indeed
in that peaceful locality there was cause
for none.
One day she wandered further than
usual A strange confusion seized her and
she found that she was lost. She wan.
dered around with growing alarm, and at
last, suspecting that she was moving in a
circle, sat down on fallen log to collect
her thoughts, and rest her weary limbs.
How helpless she felt. All her wealth was
unavailable in an hour like this. The sun
was declining, and the evening twilight
advancing. She felt the drowsiness of
exhaustion stealing over her. She had
enough preser ce of mind to try to shake 1t
off and keep moving. Night closed in
starlt and beautiful. Kept up by the
force of her will, she staggered on until
she at last struck an open space. By the
light of the full moon now risen, she saw a
road before her. She gained it; it was the
railroad. But which way to go? She was
perfectly bewildered.
II shall not be able to keep up much
longer" she thought, looking along the
lengthy stretch of iron rails, land there
are no houses in sight. I shall have to lie
down and die."
Hark! what was that sound? A train
vss neutrality-suspicious. yet, but every
moment sounding nearer in the hush
] O. the dreary autumn night. It was