The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-01-23

the square, where . closely-covered
carriage was awaiting. I arrived Just
in time to hear Walter Reveaux's voice
saying:
"Kate. darling. knew you would
come," when l took her by the arm and
said:
Kate-Miss Marston. you should
not do this mad thing. Return with me
to your father"
Then Reveaux's voice, in passion,
cried:
"How dare you interfere? will
teach you better manners"
Before l could avoid it, he raised q
pistol and fired.
felt dull pain in my side; then
came blank.
When l returned to consciousness
heard voices family whispering:
HE cannot last very much longer.
poor fellowr
had q dim idea that the room was
full of people, but recognized no one;
then camo another blank.
had been badly wounded in the side,
almost fatally, but careful nursing and
q good constitution triumphed. After
returning to consciousness the second
time, mended rapidly. think what
helped me most was Kate's sweet face
bending over me with such q world of
tenderness in it. convalesced rapidly,
and Kate and resumed our rides. One
morning Mr.. Marston summoned me
into the library and told me that must
appear as q witness against Reveaux.
This 1 did not wish to do, for fear it
might complicate Kate, but Mr.. Mars
ton insisted, and the trial resulted in
MIR. Reveaux being sent to the Albany
Penitentiary for three years.
Kate manifested no feeling. Her love
seemed to have yielded to the force of
circumstances.
With Mr.. Reveaux's sentence my
work was done. had gained the end
for which had been employed. told
Mr.. Marston this, and thanked him for
his kindness.
"Do you really wish to leave US. my
boyp"
pleted my mission, and now there is
nothing left for me to do. In leaving
you leave everything, and 60 forth
into the world more desolate than l
came"
"Bat why not staye have proper
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for you to do"
"Can you not sec that it is utter mad
ness for me to stay? have only l e.
neved you of one trouble to drag you
into another. / came here heart-whole;
! shall go away leaving, my heart be-
hind me. / would not have been pre-
sumptuous enough to have told you this
had you not forced me to explain. AS
10 ua., coo tho nn1u nonraa f<,
me is to 90. You have only escaped
one danger to encounter another"
That kind, benignant expression
came into the old gentleman's eyes, as
he replied:
"If Kate loves you. you can marry
her. only ask in my son-in-law ster-
ling worth, and believe that you pos
sess that. care not for money, land
ed estate. or whether blue blood or pie
beian flows in your veins.
1T is worth that makes the man,
The want Of 1t the fellow"
lost no time in finding Kate and tell
ing her the old, old story, and when 1
had finished she looked up and said:
"Can you trust me nowp i have
been SO very, very wicked"
Trust her? No angel from heaven
would have seemed purer-and so /
told her. Anybody looking into my
home to-day and seeing my bonnie,
happy children, would know that she
had not belied that trust.
My sign, david Moss, Attorney and
Solicitor at Law" hangs out once more
in view of the Capitol. It is not now
merely an empty sign. but q reality,
and my practice is not large, but lucra-
tive. have n special penchant for un-
fledged attorneys, and do all that can
to throw practice in their way. that they
may show of what stuff they are made.
-Erchange.