The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1878-01-08

ting together at our usuai iice'ihS
place beside the brock where first haC
learned to read the language OF heT eyes
as we gave each other these promises
and it was the very evening before
went away to fish for salmon in Nor
way, Whenever you come back, be
it night or day, Summer or Winter
YOU will always fiud me here, Master
Edward-herr, oh my darling" she
taid, with a quiet voice and an express
sion that | shall never forget.
i was nearly two years away: and
had capital sport. When the season
was over in Norway, Neville, who had
been hard hit at Epson, asked me TO
90 gazelIe hunting with him in Algeria,
and We saw lots of big game round Oran.
Then We went yachting in the Euxine'
and Iamb'cd into the interior Of Asia
as far as the waterfall marshes Of Erzr-
room, where we bagged whole flocks OF
Scion geese. | was just thinking of
.he wild ass hunt in the Caucasus with
Bariatinsky and some Russian nobs |
had met, when my mother wrote Tor
me to come home, because my father
and old Neville had made up their
quarrel on condition that Should marry
my first wife. who was then the Honor
able Dorothy. We found money, which
we cot from our bank and Government
business; the Neyilles found blood, and
MY father was promised the baronetcy.
which he got in another way through
Sam Iiuckster ten years afterwards
from Lord Seymouth. 1t was one al
ttrnoon in July-for the Nevilles were
always glad to get away from London
early-tiat I saw Lucy again. us the
Honorable Dorothy and were taking
ride down that vcry same lane where
| had found The girl gathering wild
flowers after the stceplechasc. | thought
she looked thinner, aud could not ger
rid of an uneasy impression | felt that
she might have been watching us and
have overheard what said to the Hon.
orable Dorothy. l had been coming it
rather strong, too, if the trnth must be
told. and had read her copy OF verses
which had cut out Of a song-book, in
the first instance, for Lucy; and | knew
that she had learned them BY heart.
She used To sing them to some sort Of
music of her own, which was pretty in
its way, for she used to lead the choir
at church when | first knew her. |
acknowledged to myself that this was
not acting on the square by my old
fame, and began to think sof it; and
poor Loo's wistful glance rs we passed
her tilgeted Inc a little. When the
Honorable Dorothy was gone home,
therefore, put spurs tp a ng-reachins
chestnut, which | was breaking for my
father, and can,cred down to Granny
Lethbligc's cottage near the gravcl-pit, 3,
which was no longer worked. | could
not get speech with Lucy. for Doctor
Toogood's 5 ramshackle on '>horse chaisr
was at the cottagc-door, and the doctor
had never been friends with me since |
took up with her.
Il made signs, however, which the
Girl understood well enough and while
pretended to be worrying the doctor
vixcuish Scotch terrier | contrived t"
make an assignaiion with Lucy for twi-
light that very evening. Leave that
dog alone. young Smith, aud be oil.
You have no honest business here,
roared that Radical beggar of 4 doctor
as he came out, in hot wrath; but |
only grinncd at his red face and ill-hu-
NOR, though he hates me to this day.
i took care to he in time to meet
Lacy, for could not but own that
pale and wan as she had looked that
dav. she contrastcd advantageously
with the honorable Dorothy. who was
rather heavy in the shoulder and dceI
in the eir,h fer my taste; besides
did not seem TO care 50 much about
breaking off Lucy as | had done when
.
| was younger and more inexperienced
| sat down on tho stile near the BIZ
brook, Which was angry and swoller
with recent rains, for the Spring and
early Summer had been unusually we;
and whis,ltd where are you going
to, my pretty maid?' just as | had don>
two wears before when was waiting
for her. But she was generally hrs
before | went on my trials, and now
when | looked at the handsome watcl
my uncle had given me, | was nett'cc
to sec that had been left to cool my
heels ten minutes, and Lucy appeareC
to have forgotten that my governor wa.
her landlord. lit a cigar, and prom
ised to give the jade piece OF M
mind when she CONT; but she did no
come, and at last | got nervous anc
anxious about hcr. half think
would have given up the Honorable
Dorothy Just then for her. Every lea
that stirred. every SQUAD that came
from the distant fields and hills, th'
surgling noise Of The brook as it eddle'
and hurried along, the hnttcr Of tn
bat the call of the owls, had a magnets
influence upon me. Perhaps l ha.
smoked too much, and | walked back
wards and forwards between the still
and the water, taking deep draughts o
air. and net knowing that they wcr
sich. or not conftssipg it to myself
for | was half troubled half angry. a
length MY eye fell upon son'ethlu
, stuck upright in the soft ground, an
t tied to it was a scrap of white stu