Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-06-10

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his arms and sped like q startled fawn W
the long stairway.
Capt. Thornton watched the ghostly
figure, and with deep drawn sigh SLOWLY
resumed his pace.
"Aye, forever" was true version t
his sighs, until from sheer exhaustion h,
leisurely strolled in the parlors.
81 heard you and Miss Mabel in low
converse, Thornton, and were you so un
interesting she bauished you?" asb,C
Guy Marchfeld, jestingly.
81 was not so cruelty treated, Guy, bu
you and Miss Ella would not entertain
anyone but selves; and Miss Mabel had Il
prepare for her flight"
"How heartlesS, " replied one.
"Regret 1t so muCh!" chimed in anothet
guest.
"Not more than ], for Cousin Mabel il
truly fascinating, so deep too, that | al
ways don my thinking cap to keep in he
train, said Ella Hinton, thoughtfully.
"Let me 90 Tor her, Ella2"
"No, no, Susie; she is busy, or woult
not have excused herself" was the de
termined reply. So gayly for a time wa
the merriment continued, until, tired o.
nonsense, the weary party exchanged
goodnight, and retired. ALP no; Capt
Thornton packed hastily his valise-left =
note of thanks, with regrets that business
forced his departure, for Mrs. Hinton
and was on tbe road in the midnight
train, flying fast from his recent object o.
love, and the happy summer passed, but
not forgotten.
Poor Mabel! reaction was too great
and she sobbed out the miserable hours;
truly her glow of JOY was hidden under
the rust of sorrow. Like a tangled skein
of floss, as rapidly as one knot was un'
loosed another still more tangled assumed
its stead. She was woman OF great
depth, and from poverty to luxury she
reviewed her life. She was bereaved
deeply when only eighteen, and left an
orphan, with poverty staring her in the
face. A wealthy uncle made her his
heiress, where every wish and desire could
be gratiied, at twenty; so for six long
years she had been society woman.
From youth to mature womanhood she
had loved Frank Thornton. Occasionally
her hungry heart would be appeased by a
glimpse of him, which made the aches
more intense, and leaving her aunt and
cousins with Capt. Thornton, as she sup.
posed, was very hard, yet an inevitable
step.
1t was scarcely day dawn when she bade
them adieu, with wistful look at the
dear old piazza, which only had heard the
confession made the night before between
the two, and back she was quickly borne
to her home OF wealth, to giddy whirl of
gayety. Not word, through the fall and
early winter, had she heard from her
souls alteration. Not hearing made
thinking Of him more frequent, and she
grew morose and tired out of life.
1t was a clear, coldimorning, and Miss
Hinton was seated by glowing CRATE,
slipping chocolate and scanning the morn
ing paper-the servants heard crash and
fall, and rushed in to find Miss Hinton in
faint, and her chaperOne trying to re-
suscitate the apparently dead form. After
a few seconds she opened her eyes.
"Please assist me to my room--Capt.
Thornton is married." she murmured,
and held eagerly the newspaper.
"a card, Miss Mabel.
'Not at home to anyone"
81 told the lady you were i'll; but she
is here now," as Susie Mays opened the
door.
"How sorry | am you are i'll, Mabel"
"Only the effects of over.dissipation,
Susie. How are all at Gray Cliff"
"Well: but | was so in hopes you would
be my guide for to-day, as we will only
have time to spend one day here. Did
you see my marriage notiCe?"
Eyes; should have congratulated you
before, child, but was feeling so badly had
forgotten you were married"
"For shamel | wanted to tell you all
last summer, but left it for Capt. Thorn
tons secret"
81 am surprised; you are given to Sc
cretlveuess.
mo; the first of any Importance l ever
"You will be deprived of my reception,
Susie, which should gladly have given,
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