The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-02-06
few days of Inconsistencies the gentle suf.
ferer was released, and Jessie was alone.

ferer was released, and Jessie was alone.
Every day during the summer her slight
figure might have been found at the sunsets
clarifying hour, kneeliDg by ber mothers
grave, over which her favorite flowers had
been planted.
1t was late in October. One evening, as
she returned TO her home from her loving
pilgrimage. she saw form coming to meet
her, which seemed to have been coniured
from the past. She could not mistake the
free, swing step with which he greeted
her.
For moment her heart throbbed wildly,
then sank in her bosom like lead.
Why had he come to disturb her placid
life?
He put out his hand. al heard of your
loss, Jessie, and though far away at the
time. am here. Have you no word of
welcome for me? You have no idea how
my heart ached for you in your sorrowful
loneliness"
Jessie gave him cold little hand, and
said mechanically: "You are very kind;
but how could you leave your wife and come
to see me?'
Geordie's eyes opened wide. "Wifel are
you dreaming, or am /? / have had no
lady-lOve but nature, since the girl loved
refused me. L have been such q wanderer
that my own land does not own mel'
The poor little heart which had felt so be-
numbed and sorrowful was nigh bursting
with the sudden flood of happiness which
poured in upon it at Geordies words. Her
face was study in the transformation which
changed it from a fit model for a mourning
Niobe to a brightness like the morning.
Geordie understood it, and drawing the
slender arm within his arm they walked ON
together. His tone was very tender he
said
"Do you remember what said about wait
ing for you? Ah! the little unbelieverl" but
the clinging firmDess with which he i'm
prisoned her arm took the edge from his
words. "How did you get the impression
that 1 married? Didn't 1 tell you that a
Gordon never forgot?'
al received paper containing, as thought,
your wedding noice.'
so you mistook me for my cousin! and
sent the paper What blunderl / might
have thought that you knew but little of my
relatives; but il never entered my head that
Grahame ard Geordie had the same initials
Well. its all right now. Were it not for those
sable robes l should imagine the last five
years to be a dream. You haven't grown a
Gay older"
AS the bright tender eyes studied her face
with the expression remembered so well,
and which she had thought never to meet
again. Jessca's began to quiver. They had
by this time reached the porch of her house (;
and Geordie drew her within its sacred
shelter and kissed away her tears.
MY own Jessica, " he said softly. "May it
be my privilege from this time forth to
sOothe your sorrows and share your joys. /
give you warning, though, shall be like a
mser of the society of which 1 have been
deprived so long. You must make up your
mind to adopt another shadow"
Yielding to her lovers urgent solicitations,
Jessica consented to be married to him as
soon as he could complete few simple
preparations.
The good old pastor who baptized her pro-
nounced the wedding benediction.
Need say that the faithful daughter so
fulfilled the duty of her new relation
that, after years of welded life, her
husband and children rise up and call her
blessed