The Morning herald., 1878-07-29
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fEqw y0u.ss ~ ID rich, and that nne Egg
nEh 1opdisSallAa humbug, for he is as p3x,
as church mouse. So mind, don't ldse
As4 da His abound bit kSsa you'll PlnAp
Cheeks for q person nearer homo. Beside,
lyouatnsyer hsanfrom him, ssain,i mark hy
Y wofdls. wtoafdtls" aAhd hthenV Y 1frs! Afayhsx Hotla
Sbuykle As.shs thought lof ~ large hlosap
Ssailsd sspysttopr rsl h. .iiss M eDabf
Msyhsy, o'xhich , dy shs.i M ihssd epHsisAsatp lhs
flames only the nightbsfore9 unopened.
q never Issss.h .houg fSh III nome
sssins hs2fg NJ gaa @ 81 siI aKh9K R " vesks
Extended into months, md no lettft came,
shsbsesa toybeliaNes de Massrieht, Ind
a5hat iaift t5syl @ hi lABl} NJ " " Y, n ~ fo1bss
the one he had left behind. But she tas
too proud to say how far her iriendship
for 1.ld bin bad ~ gone for fer Of being thouSht
ojilted3 ind, though nhe ewcplde aiaily stek
the poatsonlys inshepsszof zhsaring ftpm
bin, hsanevsr thought Of suspecting her
mahsselhaad hsd t1asDbesH the means
Of blghting her young and happy life.
. How Mrs. Mayhem obtained those mis-
dves vGsf came slas regularly as the loFer
used 10 come, no one knew. Perhaps she
bribsd the post -mistrosO, perhaps she did
gnos but, atganygra rats, She obtained eaeh
'onsa' it oases, Aoppshsqt IN s9 Shs aos
aware of wkAt slR was wfshdiling from
both Dank and herself. =" ''' 'A &" '
Il ~ hate him.. the proud upstart," she
would muttsr, 4tahd so II | don't read thSm
/, wort know anything about him or his
affairs, abe reasoned; and when at last the
letters oeasea,) Ghe,lbsgan ito, urge upon
Dank the thoughsa ofl ha4riage.0 "It is
time you were settled" shs 3saia; ana Dank,
having 20 ,hlge.stt and no loys tot giye0 away,
finally consented, land became the bride of
Farmer ClsudsI Hopkimon!f while Mrs.
Mayhem went 70 liyewith them. FIIH II
q One. year aftsrvard "a sudden illness,
robbed Dank Of hsr only parent, and the!
ssns Rgsk give INTO her )kseping a baby
daughter which was duly christenedl
HQlaries, Y and, pronounced to be the hand
sohest ohild in 4hs Village!
n Thus sixteen years rolled BY, and Clarice
Hopkinton was the pride Of 'ber home and
the belle of her humbls, village, In form
and feature abe was exactly what her
mother had been at her age, and she in
herited her tastes also. land not one trait,of
her fathers was hers nothing IN fact, but
During her married life Dank had sadly
changed. " Not o thread of her bright
glossy haif Remained. II swas silver now
and sadly kept, for Claude had only mas
ried himself Q housewife, and knowing
this but too WE'LL Dank little cared to at-
tend to herpersonallappsaranc Her. old
friend Bessie (pov married. visited her
often, and With sorrow saw the pain which
onelife hadIbeen called to bear but she knew
nothing of Edgar or his whereaboutA she
had never written to her since his return to
England, and dss tiieA had never been init,
mate, and she nS nhch of Q correspond
ent, she had tHodW but little Of it. But
now she hadG that he was coming to
America, ferhe HID written to her and had
addressed hsr "a hsf maiden name, not
knowing shslvas insrriAd. She had an
swsfsa him % make her home his
dufng is stay.
Sopaak was 10. III sse Edgar Richardson
chos anofe, atd psEA sh Understanding
nh bs brSslls. I. MI MI Aboas between them.
Dank shosk hsr Head What was her life
now Perhaps if shs were single-but
them M steppsa, Was she not wronging
Clauds9 Was hs not Me father Of her
But dsliyasA Anes name s Dank Hopkin-
ton soonS thkH sapadsd, for one day.
while out on thB htrm attsnding to the
moving SfseMs snAil iots Claude fell
from the I1a1hfHS he VIII pervising and
was cauglkE the hSilnery, receiving
such serioqs sin30iies hsisbg that he died
in few hSui Md pank was free-free
once more S l |
Perhaps tsEt Eth9ugl lts ass at once to her
olden love, sna sucl stksais he could
she be blamed whsR asAk came she
met him in hsia&idow's weeds, with silver |
hair and pale, sunken cheeks, as quietly |
and as calmly! as though she had parted
from him but yesterday. ~ '@ |
Edgar Richardson had never married,
and in q atlof teonadenca he ous dAy |
spoke to Bessie of the days which had |
gone by! j He had written 10 Dank lin. /