The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-09-25

medicine. She wrote to Herbert that Miss
Croft was going away, and that, from what
she heard, Elsie would soon be married; ex-
cusing the statement to herself by the thought
that so pretty girl was sure to have many
suitors, even though without a dowry. To
Elsie she hunted, and that not obscurely,
that on Herberts return he was confidentally
expected to marry a cousin living near them,
to whom indeed he had been as good as en-
gagged before be sailed. This disingenuous
maneuvre did no good. 1t only made the
two supposed victims of it very unhappy,
though it was received on the part of
both with increduhty, while her son,
IN addition, was very angry, and
wrote her q letter which made her
miserable for months. On the whole, there
fore, she had better not have neddled-a
fact she further realized hereafter.
Elsie was contented enough In her new
home. Her young charges were fairly in
telligent children. and her employers were
on the whole kind to her. True they kept
her quite in the background and apart from
themselves, as If she were hardly of the same
race of beings, but she did not mind that.
She continued her studies earnestly, and
need we say it?-she dreamt day and night of
Herbert Barton.
So some four years slipped away, and she
had never heard anything of the Bartons or
taeir fortunes, when she was startled by the
announcement that q regiment was to arrive
from India that morning-the Five Hun
dredth-and she knew 1t was the one to
which Herbert belonged. She had followed
its career through the mutiny with much
anxiety, but had heard nothing of him, and
now of sudden he must be coming home.
She was to go with her pupils and the rest
of the party to see the troops and they &C
cordiDgly found themselves one bright
morning on balcony which overlooked the
principal street.
A crash of martial music, the cheers of the
people, the huttering of flags, and the sound
of the welcoming bells. and the gallant Five
Hundredth tramp steadily forward Bearded
and broDzed warriors, these who have seen
stern service in the mutiny, and assisted in
the siege of Delhi, and loud are the acclama.
tions which greet them as they once more
tread English ground.
Twill he be here?" is the thought OF one
beating heart there IN the angle of the bal
cony, as she eagerly scans the serried ranks
that pass beneath her. There Is a momen-
tary obstruction, and the head of the col
umn halts, while at the same time the sun.
which had been obscured by passing cloud,
shines out brilliantly. young officer
marching with his company, who has been
looking rather listlessly at the crowds OF
strange faces, marks how the shaft of sun.
light strikes upon the vivid gold hair of
girl above him. and as he looks up she turns
aud sees him.
ELSIE"
HERBERT
That is all, and the column passes. He has
come, then, and in that momentary glance
she knows there is the love for which she has
waited patiently.
What need to say more2 Be sure Herbert
lost no time in fading her out. Be sure.
also, that his mothers maneuver failed and
that in after years the little girl from the
High Farm ruled at Barton Towers. The re-
gard for constant and enduring love was
theirs, sweeter for the patient time of trial
which had preceded it. She had waited and
he had won, aud both experienced, to use a
poets language
The heaven Of happy hearts and faith I'M
broken"