The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1879-12-03

1.-THE room, shutting the door carefully
behind her.
Poor Miss Ethel needed her privacy.
Here was herYlovers yindication;
here were all the sweet words for
which she had nearly died. He had
suffered all she had sptiered; ;sh9 had,
poured out his agony and despair in
letters which had never until snoYs
reached her Thc poor lady tooks
them to her room, and never appear
FED again that day But she had ano
hard words for the hands that had
lwfonged her Dear father; he
meant itsfor akindness, siasa al stbaes
ssheisaid. - IS.
Still she grew very restless and
continually declared that she ,siss
sure something WIS going tolhappens.
But coming events often cast long
shadows before, and il, was full two
months afterward ere Miss Ethel's
l'presentment came true. Then she
got a letter one day which threw her
into q wild, feverish excitement.
"Eloise," she cried, almost sobbing
with joy "he is coming; he is at the
village; he will be here'in an hour,
How am | to bear it2"
Women seek each Others sympa-
thy in hours like this, and Eloise-.
perhaps with just little pang for
her ownsorrow-gladly gaveit. But
when she joined the long parted low
ers at dusk, and saw her aunt ling
ering gwith tender cares by the hand
some dark stranger at the freside,
she knew that never again would
Aunt Ethel want sympathy; it was
easy to see her lover was still her
lover; and that they thoroughly un-
.derstood the past.
Perhaps the sight Of their happi.
ness was a little irritating sometimes
to Eloise. She could not help blam-
ing her aunt in some measurefor the
loss Of Harry, and she wondered if
she ever remembered now anyof her
old opinions aboutthe folly of marry
ing 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 togeth-
eff she onlyhopedthat her own blight
ed youth might have some such rec
ompensc given it;for such a joy it
would be almost worth, ,raitins. n,
Little while, but hot sSeAly .sI,9.
years; that was too long a test Of fl.
deity.
1t was not asked Of her. On the
morning of the fifth of June, when
the dew was yet on the grass, there
was a messenger to see her. He had
with him an exquisite basket Of
white roses, and in their midst was
a letter which made Eloise Bruce the
happiest girl in America. And
Aunt Ethel was just as delighted.
Gle must come her at once" she said;
"they would wait breakfast for him
and he must never go away again"
Then the ladies discovered that
Harry and James Early were already
friends. They had met at hotel in
New York, and both having their
hearts in the same little Southern
town, they had speedily became con-
fdential And Harry was not long
in getting his pardon, though his
excuse might well have been consid-
cred by less loving mistress as an
aggravation of his ofense.
"You see, darling" he explained
between his kisses, "you want to test
my heart, and SO l thought it only
fair to let you test your own also.
Do you think you would remember
me, if you never saw or heard from
me for twenty-five years, as Aunt
Ethel did that lover Of her's2"
"Harryl Ishould remember you
forever. / never, never would have
married any one else, if you had staid
away altogether. But indeed it was
cruel to try me so bitterly"
"And how about you sending me
away?"
81 won't ever do it again, Harry;
and | never really wanted you to go.
You ought to have known that"
Afew nights afterward, as theyall
sat topether on the moonlit yeranda