The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-03

tnat Bne would attempt 10 leave him,
but supposlng that she had started to
return home again, and that II would be
useless to pursue her or try TO win her
back, he went to bis fathers house, and
from that day until the one on which
he met her IN the oak avenue Of his
estate at Chiffon, he had not met her
or known whether she was alive or
dead.
But, on leaving her lover, Eunice did
not return at once to Baslldown. Had
she done 80, she would have saved her
self much misery, for her story, told
after an absence of only twenty-four
hours from the town, would have been
believed. But she was ashamed to
return, knowing well that her mother
and friends were aware of her fight
with Derrick Lsngholm; so she staid
in the city, working in dressmaker's
| establishment, until three months had
passed. Then she wrote to her mother,
aud the answer she received was a sum
mons from an attending physician to
that indulgent mother's death-bed.
A week later she was alone, with the
terrible consciousness that her folly had
! hastened the termination of the disease
from which her mother had long suffer-
ed And no one credited the story of
the wrong done her by Derrick Lang
holm. They, her -townspeople,
believed the worst, and treated her ac-
cordlngly. Her old friends Stunned her,
and even the children in the streets
looked at her curiously as she passed by,
as one over whom there hung a strange
cloud She lived thus for six years, but
1t was great relief to her when her
aunt died and left her the cottage at
Chiffon, to which she went at once
with Bruno, her faithful dog friend.
She did not know, until she had taken
possession of the place, that her nearest
neighbof was the man whose selfishness
had ruined her life. She thought she
hated him, and despised herself for the
strange thrill which passed through her
heart whenever she caught glimpse of
him riding past her humble cottage.
She had often wondered that he had
never married, but when rumor reach
ed her that Isabella Church, the daugh-
ter of a country magnate, was to be his
bride in the autumn, she burst into q
frenzy of tears and sobs. Love is hard
to kill, and poor Eunice, though she
knew 1t not, still, woman-like, loved the
man who had been the cause of all her
suffering.
The day following that strange meet
ing in the avenue, Jacob Hobbs brought
to the cottage dozen hens which his
master had sent to make good the loss
his pistol had caused. Sorely puzzled as
Jacob had been to understand his mas
ter's changable conduct, he was still
more mystifed by the strange behavior
of Eunice, who positively and very
emphatically refused to receive the
fowls, and bade him carry them back to
his master without delay.
Then Mr. Langholm himself came,
thinking it best to patch up a truce with
this woman whom he now knew he
had injured far more than he had i'm
agined but Eunice saw him coming,
and shut and bolted her door in his
face.
The spring drifted into summer, and
in July, Derrick Langholm went to the
city to visit medical friend to whom
he was much attached. He visited the
hospitals, and through his own careless
ness and imprudence, caught disease
which came near costing him his life
He was not aware of the infection unit
after his return to Chiffon, when he wa!
taken ill with that dread disease, th'
smallpox.
The servants left the infected hous,
like rats burning building, and no
one of the rich mans boasted friend
would venture near his bedside. Onl.
the doctor was by him, and nurs
could not be found in all the town will
ling to risk her life or good looks b!
: undertaking the case.
DIR. Hammond drove to a neighborinl
town, and made thorough search for
nurse there, but without success. H
returned to Chiffon, thinking he woul,
have to telegraph to the city for help
but when he entered the palatial resi-
) dence of the sick man, he found hi
patient in cool, clean bed, his hea
bound up in ice cloths, and sad-eye,
woman tanning him gently.
Eunice Grey! you are the onl
woman in Chiffon who has heart,
cried the enthusiastic little doctor.