The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-03-26
THE TIMES NEW BLooMF1ELD, PA. MARCH 2e 1878

to keep Susette In her accustomed luxu-
rles, and himself In toleable comfort.
His ideas of economy were still rather
vague. He would unthinkingly buy
the morning paper, and find himself
obliged to go without breakfast in con-
sequence; or give up his supper for a
segar. Sweet-tempered, cheerful, and
energetic, he never failed or faltered
and, owning the justice of his fate, spent
no time in idle complainings, but In the
silent evening, and during his hours of
leisure, his loneliness and isolation tried
him sorely. Not soul in that great
city knew of, or cared for him. Should
he die there-which many as strong and
young as he had done-he would be hur-
ried into a pauper's grave, unknown
and unmissed. Perhaps at home they
had forgotten him; even his little cous-
in, who was his playmate, and was to
have been his wife when she grew up,
as everybody agreed, and as he had un-
hesitatingly promised when he left her
at twelve years old, frantic because she
was not boy and could not go to school
with him. She was sole heiress now
and mistress at dear old Hudson Hills
her girlish letters, which had continued
to follow him in his wanderings long
after their uncle's had ceased, he had
carefully preserved, and now pored
over for hours, trying to picture in his
mind the new beauties of the place
which she described, and recalling the
old; thinking of the fair little writer
herself, the sweet, generous, unspoiled
nature, sometimes naughty to others,
always gentle to him, the innocent, dark
eyes, so clear and fearless the graceful,
imperious gestures the witching, win
ming ways, the quick, musical tones !;
the dark curls that danced in the wind,
and the light, childish figure that flew
so gayly down the lawn to meet him
when he had been away on short alb
sences, and was welcome home. These
"reminiscences could bring only remorse,
regret, and enervating sorrow, till, VOW
ing against cowardice and useless retro
spection, he locked the letters securely
away, and compelled his mind to live on
sterner stuff than day-dreams, save
when in slumber it escaped his power
and revealed in wild visions, in which
he revisited that Eden-lilxe home, as Eve
in her sleep might have retured to Para
disc.
His novel ideas of economy, however,
happened to do him good service at last.
Seated one evening over his dearly
bought newspaper, for which he had
sacrificed half dinner, his eyes Fell on
the following advertisement:
Wanted q coachnlan and qroom.-A
faithful, intelligent man, who thorough
ly understands his business, and is ac-
customed to the care of horses, will find
good situation and liberal salary on
the estate of Hudson Hills, Hudson
county, n. y. Apply to Melton & Net
ton, 3 Travis Block, New York, or on
the place"
A long reverie followed Hugh's read
ing of this notice, during which he fire.
quently raised his eyes to the scrap of
looking glass with which his landlady
had ornamented his apartment, with an
eager scrutiny and interest that contain
ed no vanity. " It's all Pm fit for, !"
he softly argued with himself, "and
they would never know me. Eight
years have made great changes, and /
should like to see little Fontibell." He
sprang up whistling gayly; the dog
barked joyfully about the room-youth
is elastic and improvident. He went off
at once to throw up the situation at u
hardware mans that was his daily
bread; and the next afternoon the pair
were walking along the high road that
skirted the estate of Hudson's IS Hills.
His heart beat quickly as he hurried
on, and almost stopped his breath while
one familiar object after another came in
view and lastly, the tall chimneys of the
house itself. The broad, winding track
he was pursuing seemed to led to these
too slowly; he sprang over the fences,
and cleared the hedges at single leap,
in his feverish excitement to take a
shorter cut, passing through bloomy
fields and waving woods, whose every
feature was as well known to him as his
own face in the glass, and never resting
till he had gained the grounds, and stood
in front of the fine old mansion, the
gray-stone walls of which had not
grown a shade darker in all these years
of wind and weather; while its later
architectural ornaments of porches, roofs
and bay-windows had been visibly re.
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