Connecticut western news., 1879-10-08

wandering alul0SS1y ADOu6 the nOG6l. As she was handed into the stage she noticed her husband gathering in Minna Storey's draperies within the compass of light wagon, in which he was going to drive her. She was talking and laugh ing as usual. There was not cloud on Georges face. The sight cut Eddie to the heart. She averted her face hastily. Her fellow-passengers saw what she saw. They pitied her. It is hard to a young, proud nature to be pitied.
 The stage clattered off amid 8 gay Babel of voices. A mile down the road there was hill. At the top of this hill the horses took fright, one becoming perfectly uncomfortable. Plunging and rearing, they dragged the stage to the edge of the mountain. The next mo- ment the great lumbering vehicle was overturned and pitched down the mounta 6 side. Then the horses, having done their worst, stood still. The driver picked himself up, and surveyed the scene of disaster. The first object that met his eyes was Mrs. Ls Roy, who had been thrown against heap of stones. A messenger was dispatched to the hotel, who met Dr. Le Roy, first of all. in his no-top wagon. ~s
 "Hurry hurryp' he cried. [" The stage has gone over the side of the noun tain. Mrs. Le Roy is dead"
 George was off like the wind but not before Miss Storey had entreated, with white lips, to be let out. He was alone when he was confronted by Eddie's pitiful pale face.
 They gathered her up, and carried her to the hotel for dead. The rest of the party escaped unhurt, except for trifing outs and bruises but when they laid her on the bed they thought that life was extinct.
 I might quote pages in support of the assertion that the worth of treasure is emphasized by the dread of losing it. Harshneas, indifference, neglect, dogged George Le Roy's steps like stern &C., cusers, now that Eddie lay speechless, unconscious, for hopeless hours. 1t seemed to him that he had killed her. If he had been with her, this might not have happened. Surely he might have shielded her. Shielded her? An had he shielded her from other dangers, other illss The bitter reproach haunted him that he had betrayed his trust.
 How utterly little and contemptible their dissensions now seemedl Only the one truth remained, that she was his, the woman he loved, the only woman that could fill his heart.
 He sent for her father and mother. they came, wrung by the cruelest an- euish but they came just as she began to revive. Youth is stubborn life is obstinate; and love wrestlsd with prayer. aeezge Le Roy had never known before what it was to face a mysterious Provi- dence, omnipotent, and yet hearkening to supplication.
 Eddie was given back to him again given back to him, so it seemed, fro m death. It was second marriage. We often wonder if we would live ou1 lives better if we could live them over again. CertaiEly Eddie and her husband profted by their former mistakes. Fol one thing, they spent their second honey. moon in a home of their own. When Hddie went down from Sweetbrier Springs, in the fall, to Port Royal, she found g. lovely ho use made ready for her. of which she was the urconditiona mistress. G eorge explained to all whom it might con cern, that the situation o1 his~ house suited the requirements ol his practice better than that of the It Roy homestead.
 It was astonishing how easy it was te get on with Mrs. Le Roy mere after this. Sometimes, Indeed, Eddie won dered whether her former troubles haG not been chimeras of her brain.
 As for MT. and Mrs. Clark, they were entirely reconciled to their daughters marriage. They spent the greater par of their subsequent lives in spelling their little grandchildren to their hearts content.