Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-09

nedTbS us pity anger COulu lave lOuIlu
that night in all that great city.
The party was said to have passed OFT
with great eclat, but Meth Kate Cav
erly nor Frank Roche were there. This
fact and its consequents were more than
a nine days wonder, for on the heels of
the explanation that there had been a
lovers quarrel, came the report that
Frank had enlisted, as a special favor
had asked that he Immediately be sent
to the front, and that. this had been
granted him.
The great conflict at last ended, and
War sent her legions home again. But
Frank Roche was not among them. If
he had ever written to his people they
kept the news from Kate, and wheth-
er he was dead Or living she did not
know-nor care? That was another
thing.
Nine years passed away, and it was
New Years Eve, December, eighteen
hundred and seventy-one. The wind
was as cold and blusteing, the streets
just as deserted, the tinkle of the car
bells as clear, and the houses as bright
as on another certain evening long be-
fore.
At the Caverlys' there was another
scene of hustle and anxiety. A party
or merry making was evidently the
cause, and the now grown younger
members of the family group We're
plainly the participants. 1t was the
same scene that room had seen once
before in many essential respects, but
the actors were different. Two girls
with the handsome Caverly features
were in a pretty futter of excitem ent
about somebody's coming in the i'm
pending future, while a sweet-fac ed
woman, whose life history could be
read in the sad smile that at times lit
up her features, sat amid them, never
speaking save when one of the others
agreed to refer the matter in debate
to Kate. a. ..... ..... II
From the names let fall it appeared
that Twins was again to be the meeting
of the merry-makers and if the clock
cared anything for two impatient maid
ems, it would not have moved along as
slowly as if the arrival ola certain mo-
ment was a matter OF small import
ance. If time, however, waits for no
man, it eventually makes all things even,
and the bell and the clock gong struck
almost simultaneously. The one ush-
cred IN the hour of seven, and the other
two youths full. of corked down enthu-
siasm, busting anticipation and hair
OIL. They were evidently the expected
individuals, and IS it was but the work
of moment to get ready soon the
happy quartette were on their way. Mr..
Caverly, with a slight tremor of nerv-
business, returned to his reading, and
Kate, her hands listlessly in her lap, sat
gazing abstractedly at the fire.
q A little while passed, and the bell was
again pulled, this time by timid, hesi-
tating hand. The father, being nearest
the entry, hastily rose and answered it,,
He turned up the gassas he walked out,
and then turned the lock- Kate did
not hear his lowly muttered, "Just in
time," as the light fell on mans pale
face andextended hand. She may have
also been SO deeply absorbed in her re-
Elections, that whenher father re-entered
the room she thought he was alone
But in moment a magnetic something
thrilled her mind, and as she turned
hurriedly and breathlessly in her chair,
her father said: ..-
"Kate, Frank Roche wants to know if
you will go to the party at Jivins'? %
There is sameness OF, reconciliation
in the language of loving and penitent
hearts that is one the world over, and
which has BEEN Natures vernacular
from Eden down. It might have been
that Frank and Kate were adopts in its
use, for, when. soon after she, beaming
like an April sun througha shower, went
to her father, and told she was going to
the party with Frank, he replied as he
fondly kissed her, he supposed he'd
have to yield.
D There are doubtless few women who
would not have forgiven Frank as Kate
did. When he told her Of his suferings
in the war how when it was ended he
would not return, but sought byworking
at his trade, as a roustabout on a Mis-
sissippi steamer and as a trackman on
a Kentucky railroad, to drive away all
thoughts of the past and failed how.
when three years before he had started
to return, but was stricken down by
chills and fever in Arkansas, and lay for
nine months helpless, he came to the
conclusion that Fate, all for the best,
would not have him come back, it would
indeed have been a hard heart that
could close itself against him.
As Kate went upstairs to change her
dress for the party, and saw the salts
fed and hearty hand shaking her
father and lover INDUCED in, she may
have rightfully. surmised that this sur
prise had been prearranged by them !;
but she was too happy to think of that,
or of anything but to thank God for
his goodness with all the earnestness of
her heart. E..#a- & 1893 is.t
AN APPROPRIATE HYMN-The story is
told, and it is said to be entirely true,
that at the recent dedication of Baptist