American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-01-03

whirled away. \ remember that she had
on her first hong dress that day, and l
can see the crystal tears that stood on
her cheeks as she turned on the plat
form and moved her lips in mute .food-
by TO me. o. thu lsttcts &e exchanged,
viii ROY ivy to tell you all we said, or
se.her, wrote, in that long interval of
separation. She was away IA whole year,
and when she returned | had lief, thn
village and begun the inevitable t.,ssic
with the hig world. There were no
whalers In il for me, no gold lace, no IA
mantle and Sudden adaniai.;s,ns. OF wealth.
but VERY eafhest, steadfast and plod-
oihg loyalty to very prosy and COM
monplace apprenticeship. ii trmes the
old dresm carie over me with painful
sividness, and l confess an occasional
spasm of unrest and discomfort.
''At those limos I conceived other
grand schemes, one of which, iaStic-
ularly remember, wAs t" write a book
and sena a copy of it to my girl lower,
with the compliments OF tbs n",h.i,Hs'
written on the az !eaf. That and all
Hy other plans for grandeur were bur
led in the common grave, and when, at
the end of my apprenticeship, went
home on briof visit, almost the first
person met was the original "f the
precious image had carried in my
heart during six mortal years
81 am impatient 10 leatn whether
that unesarr'e.s e6nstancy was reward
| ed,' I remarked, in the tone of man
who is conscious of having said some
thing extremely ironical, "Ceme To
Hecuba.'
81 am coming to tho cnd,'' Sarche-
don replied, with the wrapt manner
and far-away look of one whbse .islon
is alight on the raineos"; bent across the
moraihg SKY of life. g She had finished
her school days and been home, think,
about six months. When ] pike ten
derby to her 10 SIR roseate past, and
| booked at my coarse clothes with kind
of sad humiliation, she adroitly changed
the subject. | saw her at church once
or twice after that, but it was all over
between us. The next title left the
village it WIS forever, and about year
later | received a newspaper tontaihing
the announcement OF her marriage to
| the handsome son of the village mer-
chant, whom l remembered rs a lad
chiefly by the circumstance that he al
ways had his hair elegantly dressed
with Lyons Kathairon, n stock of which,
l also remember, was kept In those days
at the store"
s.And have you never seen her since?'
l asked; this time with gen,iihe s5h,pa.
thy.
Yes, once, and only once,' he an.
swered. "She CHANGED to be passing
through the city in which / was living
about ten years ago and stopped to
SPEND Sunday with one of her old-time
schoolmates, a girl, now dead. She
was then a fine, MISUNDERSTANDING wom-
an, and her four sturdy boys hung oveI
her with fondness that brought tears
to my eyes. 1t was such a picture as
remember Miss Mulock drew of Edna
Kenderdine and her manly sons, all
proud of their mother and as careful o1
her as if they had been her lovers.
loved those lads, and told them so,
much to their wonderment.
"But the mother; you surely"
81 merely exchanged few COM
monplaces with her, but there was no
allusion to the old romance. 1 never
saw her again. Good night
He was gone. That was a month ago,
and as l have not seen him since that
night, or heard from him, suppose he
must have gone on another journey.
am well used to his erratic ways, and
while l often feel a strong desire to
spend an evening with him, l content
myself with knowing that he will one
day come in upon me in his odd way.
Then we shall smoke more cigars, and
he will disclose yet other passages in Il
life every singular and beautiful phase
of which I hope to know ut last
iSignor MAJ, in the Detroit Free Press.