The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-08-22

one At home in the house there. But l
have something here was 20 give you
when you came this way
His fnce was skorn And Get and white
In the ding ng3, - be opok the little
packet lrom - uoman's hand.
"where hove they gons'' was al ne
san: A.
az don't just know. To visit some OF
their kinfolk . great way on" the
widow said. "Ohi but she's close
mouthed one. she is-And nieg's bit
like her. They're not cosby folk. lou
never get mach out.of then" she cid
ed, With an Injured air.
. No; but I've found them good
neighbors enough, but they're rather
high and mighty for commoners."
As soon IS be was out Of sight Mat
thew Erickson opened the packet. he
knew what was in il before ne united
the knot, string Of curiously-carved
beads with strange, foreign, spicy
odor. that he had bought Of wander
ing sailor and faslesed around Meg's
neck one happy night, and two
or three other tribes he had given
her. And he foundthis note, slowly
and painfully written, badly spelled,
perhaps. and not punctuated a. all.
But what Of thats The meaning was
plain enough: ali too plain, Matt
thought. IS he drew his hand across his
ewes As II 10 clear his vision:
~ gave YOU back your troth last
night. Here are the beads, and the sil-
yer piece. and the heron feathers. Now
All is over between u.s. Here she had
evidently hesitated . moment, wonder
ING II her words were strong enough;
for, on the line below she had written.
Is with an echo from the prsyer-b0ok
reyerbersting in her ears:
ssForeyer aud forever, amen Mar
garet Neale.r
Not Meg, his Meg. his proud, high
spirited yweetheart--but Margaret
Neale, Ii set her AZ such an immeas-
urabie distance from him. .All l. over
between Ms, Asif she were dead and
hurled ont az his sight. And he had
snoken 10 James Raw about the snug
cottave beyond the BAY: and they were
10 have been married al Michzelmasl
h Knew enongh Of the Widow Neaie's
habits - AK no more questions Of the
neirhbors. As one Of them had said.
= was close mcuthed. He knew she
had ! sister living IN Scotland, for whom
MEG w.s named but where even he did
No. snow Scotland was like distant,
foreign land TO the people in Rysdyk.
Bur The widow had money enough 70 20
- Scotland or farther II she wished,
even IN short notice. She had never
worked In he mines. neither had Meg
She bad q comfortable annuity, left he,
hV her old mistress: for she hxd served
= : GREAT family before she married
.John Neale.
Month sfrer month passed. Michael
mas WIS over. the winter came and
went. and Rysdyk knew no more Of her
or az Me- than when they left The
silence The void. grew uncomfortable K
Nat With the earlv spring he carries
INTO effect what had been the one dream
~ n;s life before be learned 70 love Meg
America was the land Of promise fol
miners as well as others, and hai he no
Z friend Who worked in the great iror
m;nes AZ Ishpeming. Michigan, on tn
shores az the wonderful Northern lax
thsf was itself almost as large a. al
Fn0landP He had no father OF mother
onlr ! half uncle whose house had Deel
the only home he had ever known.
Whs; better could he do than to seei
IVORY ana forretfulness together wher
there would De nothing to remind hin
Of the paste
So when one fine morning nearly
wear after her sudden lifting, the neigh
bors awoke 70 ind the door OF Wido'
Neale's cottage ajar and the shutter
open. the first bit Of news Meg hear
was that Mait Erickson had gone :
America
. II struck her like : blow. Wow, 10
deed, be had dropped out Of her life
utterly rs, months since, she had droE
, ped out Of his For she, TOO, had hA