Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-24

seemed to have seen many chimes anu to
have done many great deeds, if one were
to Judge from the capacity and energy
that were craven in his handsome face.
Whether he was an Englishman, French
man, native of the Colonies, or ''only
a citizen of the world" did not appear,
although he spoke English with a foreign
accent Mary Twas exceedingly
taken with this person from the moment
when she first saw HIM. must describe
Mary F--to you, for her fate became
Intimately connected with the doings of
these men, while they were at her fathers
house.
She was high. minded, kind and affec-
tionated girl, with great degree of beau
ty, but of great independence of charac-
ter, which extended to and influenced
her feelings, as we'll as her every day
conduct. She had had various sllitors
and admirers, among the neighboring
young men, and one young fellow had
succeeded So far as to take her to a
sleigh-ride and to spend three whole even
ings, at Thanksgiving time, assisting her
to peel apples or rather in peeling them
for her, for Mary was altogether to indo
lent to work herself, and if she could
make any other numerous lovers work for
her, she never failed to do it. But at
length they all gave up in despair; for
she evidently, as they thought, was very
unfeeling girl, and it was really too bad
to spend one long evening after another,
when the old folks had retired, peeling
apples or reeling yarn, for young lady
who kept swinging back and forth in the
rocking char without saying more than
to indicate where they might find more
apples or more yarn, although she uas
the prettiest girl on the river.
But Mary f was not a proud GIRL.
nor did she want feeling. Her character
needed only to be aroused by something
new Or exciting, and it would soon give
evidence of as much feeling as is compa-
tible with safety. It resembled that clear
and placid lake, somewhere in the inte-
rior Of Vermont, which had slept on in
beauty and repose, until some accident
caused its waters to break away, when it
suddenly rushed from its basin, tore its
way over the surrounding country, and
was finally merged into a river that bore
its impatient waters to the bosom Of the
sea. There are few Of us who can say
what may be the resulting destiny which
some latent principle or energy in our
own characters will produce. We pass
the first years Of life III Indifferent re-
pose; accident rouses US from this tor
por, and we go rushing on to the great
ocean of Eternity, in that path which the
headlong intensity apd weight of our own
feelings ploughs through the obstacles in
our way, to be once more at rest and at
peace.
Very early the next morning after their
arrival, the strangers left the house and
took their way into the woods, CARRYING
the trunk with them.
They were gone nearly the whole day,
and when they returned in the afternoon,
Medad r, who was standing before
the house,. observed that they brought
back the trunk, which was evidently
much less weighty than it had been. The
leader of the three took the old deacon
aside, and told him that he found it
necessary to change his plans; that in
stead of going directly to Canada, it was
necessary for him to send his men back
to the sea-coast to get new instructions
from his employers, whom he represented
to be some English merchants, who were
sending him on secret expedition into
the then territories of the French, and
that, if possible, he should be glad to re-
main there, until his men should return
promising to remunerate the deacon for
entertaing him. The deacon gave re-
luctant cOncent, and the two men did not
return. In the meantime, the stranger
had become interested in Mary, and the
daily habits of the family, as we'll as the
intercourse with her, began to soften the
distant character of his manners, and to
relax the lofty expression of his counte-
nance. Mary become more and more Gu
rious, or I should say, ercited about him.
His strange and forei en- air, the energy
and fire that seemed to Turk in his man
ners, and the mystery under which h
had come there reused and fixed her whole
She thought it all very strange,
and thought him the most of character
that had ever crossed her simple path,
and from Ter very. wonderment and Gu
rlosity, she became fascinated. This
worked an entire change in her whole ap-
pearance. She was constantly occupied;
her mind had become reused and kept
her constantly IN motion. and she could
only relieve it by having something to do,
when she was not listening to the marvel
Gus stories of the stranger about foreign
countries.
The stranger was absent in the woods,
for considerable time every day. What
he did, where he went and for what pur-
pose, no one knew. Mary's curiosity be-
came so great on the subject Of the expe-
ditions into the same wood, that She
could not resist the impulse of following
him one morning tor short distance
only, in order to Sc whether he went far
from the house, for she observed that he
never seemed fatigued on returnieg, after
an absence OF whole day. According
ly, short time after the Stranger had
gone, she tripped lightly along a narrow
path, made by the sheep, into the woods,
and after crossing small brook, soon
discovered the stranger seated on fiat
stone that lay embedded in a bank, and
withvarious tools about him. He started as
he saw her coming forward and endeav-
ored to throw some light brush over the
stone, before she could discovered what
he was engaged in. But she saw the
movement, and told him if he was pre-
pairing gravestone, she should see it
some time or other in the burying-ground
and he might as we'll let her see it now.
The stranger withdrew the bushes he had
thrown over the stone, and discovered a
number of letters and other characters
engraved upon it in no order or language
that Mary could understand.
"What's this nonsense z" asked she.
"Sit down here, answered the stranger
"and you shall hear"
But what he told, or what he said in
those few minutes that they remained to-
pether and whether If woo roollr NON