The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-13

IOuSly,
A sudden fancy seized her; she would
throw back the closed blinds, and letthe
spring sunshine into the dark rooms. Be
sides, there were all kinds of curious orna-
ments there, and great many books; to
examine them would pleasantly pass
few hours. Miss Ethel readily agreed.
She was glad to see her niece interest
herself in anything that could beguile
thought from the one sad, Notifying
subject of her desertion.
Toward noon she went to seek El0ise.
Her first glance showed her the girl sit
ting thoughtfully upon the hearth-rug
with her lap full of letters, and queer
tarnished Hindoo jewelry. She sprang
up to meet her aunt and with strange
ly solemn excitement cried out:
"Oh, auntie, they are yours, all yours!
l was looking at that queer cabinet, and
my dress turned it over, and piece fell
out of the bottom, and these things were
scattered about" Then she run out of
the room, shutting the door carefully
behind her.
Poor Miss Ethel needed her privacy.
Here was her lovers vindication; here
We're all the sweet words for which she
had nearly died. He had suffered all she
had suffered; he had poured out his agony
and his despair in letters which had
never until now reached her. The poor
lady took them to her room, and never
appeared again that day. But she had
no hard words for the hand that had
wronged her. "Dear father; he meant it
for Kindness" was all that she said.
Still she grew very restless, and con-
tinually declared that she was sure some
thing was going to happen. But coming
events often cast long shadows before,
and it was full two months afterward ere
, Mss EthePs presentiment came true.
Then she got a letter one day which
, threw her into a wild, feverish excite
ment. "Eloise," she cried, almost
sobbing with JOY, che is come; he is in
the village; he will be here in an hour.
r How am | to bear it?'
Women seek each others sympathy in
hours like this, and Eloise-perhaps with
Just little pang for her own sorrow
. gladly gave it. But when she Joined the
long parted lovers at dusk, and saw her
t aunt lingering with tender cares by the
: handsome dark stranger at the fireside,
she knew that never Hgain would Aunt
: Ethel want sympathy; it was easy to see
her lover was still her lover, and that
5 they thoroughly understood the past.
t Perhaps the sight of their happiness
was little irritating sometimes to Eloise
: She could not help blaming her aunt in
some measure for the loss of Harry. and
she wondered if she ever remembered
now any of her old opinions about the
folly of marrying for love. Many women
would have reminded her of them, but
Eloise WAS not ill-natured; and when she
saw the old lovers wandering about the
gardens so happily together, she only
hoped that her own blighted youth might
have some such recompense given it; fol
such joy it would be almost worth
waiting little while, but not twenty.
two years; that was too strong test Of
, fidelity.
1t was not asked of her. On the morn
ing of the 9th of June, when the dew
was yet on the grass, there was messen-
ger to see her. He had with him an ex-
quisite basket of white roses, and in their
midst was letter which made Eoise
Bruce the happiest girl in America. And
Aunt Ethel WAS ust as delighted. "He
must come here at once" she said "they
. would wait breakfast for hi1n-and he
must never go away again"
Then the ladies discovered that Harry
: and James Early were already friends
They hao met at hotel in New York
and both having their hearts in the same
r little Southern town, they had speedily
! become confidential. And Harry was no
l long in getting his pardon, though his ex
t cuse might well have been considered b,
a less loving mistress as an aggravatiol
7 of his ofense.
. "You see, darling" he explained be
&. tween.his kisses, "you wanted to test m,
e heart, and SO l thought it only fair to lie
y you test your own also. Do you thin
e you would remember me, if you neve
! saw or heard from me for twentytw
4 years as Aunt Ethel did that lover 0
i her,9
/ Harry! should remember YOU fo,
ever. never never would have marie
y any one else, if you had staid away alto
l. gether. But indeed it was cruel to tr
t me so bitterly"
y "And how about you sending m
e awayT
y 81 won't ever do it again, Harry; an
II | never really wanted you to 60. Yo
IS ought to have known that"
A few nights afterward, as they all 81
d together on the moon|it veranda, Aur
y Ethel said very tenderly, "Childrer
l. James and | will be married next Thur
, day, and we shall sail for Calcutta in
e mediately. Could not two marriages b
1. made at once? Then, Harry, Eloif
o could live on the old place and keep
t. from going to destruction. 1t is Eloise
l. now; / made it over to her to-day, an
Mr.. Green says you are going into par
1t nership with their firm, so / hope yo
l. will have enough to keep love from fl.
1t ing out of your windows"
l. Little more was said at the time, fl
70 Aunt Ethel persistently turned the SUI