Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-07-30
bye, my love. I'll try 10 be at home
before eleven

Mrs. Lynde was sitting by Carry's
sofa, at her sewing, the next day, when
Miss Priscilla Forbes was ushered in.
Good morning, my dear. How's
Garry? Better, eh? Well, Pm glad to
hear it. Bethian Lambs little girl was
taken with just tie same symptoms, and
Sue didn't live three days. I'd advise
you to be careful, though. There's al
ways danger of relapse. BY the way,
where has your husband gone to-day"
is he not in his ofice:'
No. He went out on the Brigham
railroad this morning. l saw him go by
as if his life depended on the haste he
was making; and thinks l to myself,
III just keep an eye on him to see
where he's going. So 1 followed just
as fast as | could trot, and was just in
time to see him spring on board the
train. What he's going out Of town for
don't know, hut thinks l TO myself
again. Alice can tell me all about it,
Probably he's looking for summer
board for the children, said Mrs. Lynde.
coldly. But she remembered with a
pang that her husband had said nothing
TO her about it.
Charles she said, when he camo
home for dinner, where were you going
out of town to-day?'
How did you know l was out OF
town. he asked, sharply.
Miss Priscilla Forbes :aw you start
L wish Miss Priscilla Forbes would
be kind enough to mind her own busi-
ness
Alice was silent minute. Then she
asked Did you find a place for the
children -
No. was the brief reply.
Alice inquired no further. She felt
hurt and resentfnl, and Charles paid no
attention to her silence. If he could
only have witnessed the burst Of pas
sonate tears to which she gave wav
when she was alone by the couch of
her little ones!
The farm house to which she and her
children were banished for the summer
was not a particularly inviting spot !:
we'll shaded, however, with a stream Of
running water through the grounds, and
plenty of fresh milk and vegetables
But Alice Lynde felt the lack Of cheer
ful and congenial society, the unyarying
monotony Of the uneventful, and plned
secretly even while Frank and Carry
and little Lucy were growing rosy and
and healthy.
Il wish Charlie, could spend little
more of time here thought she, and
/ was scarcely to be wondered at that
she REQUIRED sometimes, with thrill OF
yearning, 10 the old days when she was
an heiIess, under the spreading Linden
trees of beautiful Beech Grove. For
Charles Lynde's sake she had given up
her home. had dared her uDcle's threat
after relentlessly carried into effect
Of disinheritauce had submitted to all
the trials and evils which must surround
a poor mans wife, and now Charles
lett her all alone to amuse herself as
best she might.
So, while the children grew fat and
rosy, Alice grew thin.
He will come tonight she thought
one Saturday evening as she brushed
her golden hair with the shining band
he best liked, and put on his favorite
blue muslin dress with long turquois
PIN in the blue ribbons that set of the
transparent whiteness Of her throat.-
'Oh. it seems an age since | saw HIM
last
But instead of her husbands pres
ence, the up train from New York
brought only this note, hurriedand brief:
DEAR ALICE-I can not come up
tosnight. Business is too pressing
Love to the children. &. L.
The note fell from Allce's fingers
slckening sensation came over her heart.
And l watched fer him so anxious
ly. Oh, can it be possible that he has
ceased to love meme who gave up
everything for his sake:'
On Monday a letter from DR.. Carson
was brought to Mrs. Lynde; letter
en- closing letter from her husband.
Please give this to Mr.. Lynde,'
wrote the doctor. I was at his office
on Saturday afternoon trying TO find
him, but the doors were closed and, the
clerk said, he had gone into the coun-
try. Tell him he's a lazy fellow to
neglect his business so when it is max
inc him rich 80 fast
Alice read the words three times oyer
before she fairly took in their whole
He has deceived me- she thought.
It was net the convenient plea of busi-
ness that kept him away from me. Oh,
Charles! and has 1t come 10 this
She sat down, still clasping the letter
IN her unconscious hand, and gazed va
cantlv out upon the sunny landscape
before her.
lift were not for tho children-if it
we're not for the little ones, would go
AWAY and never look upon him more
lie loves me no longer {! The affection
| so blindly deemed my own is trans
Ferred 10 some other object and why
should | care what becomes of me: On
Iy-the children y
And as the blue-eyed Carry ran up to
...a;,n oua.finu Mrs