Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1880-06-26
She had a lover.

Forget my little oriole? Never! Child.
you do not know how love you. Wear
| this ring for me, Adelaide"
1t was deep and yellow, and bore in
deeply engraved characters the word
Always" And so they parted for q few
weeks, betrOthed lovers.
The summer waned, but Adelaide was
so happy she did not mind when rose
petals fell and the fruit was gathered.
Aunt Resolve, who watched her con-
stantly nowadays, saw that she was
wrapped in dream of bliss. Her nature
of great sweetness was alive, and her
lover and her love life was all to her.
And now, for SOmers' sake-that was
plain-She began to take an interest in
the plans and tasks at the jumpers.
1 "Where does the money come from
that pays the plantation hands. for their
work, Aunt Resolve?'
They have their cabins and corn and
sweet potato patches. pay them small
wages out of the fruit CROP"
"What does that consist Off"
Strawberries, pears, melons and
grapes"
"Where are the sold?"
II send them north by the boats"
"What buys our food and dresses?"
"The oyster beds. They are a great
deal of care / assure you"
For you. You have the care of every
thing. Let me learn to help you dear
auntie; let me learn to be useful to you"
And Adelaide grew busy, painstaking,
and thrifty. She was busting an old
cabinet one day when panel, which al
ways seemed secure, slipped from its
groove into her hand, showing a cavity
filled with compartments behind. In
one was bit of folded yellow paper. 1t
was not worth disturbing, at first AIDE
laide thought. At last, with reluctant
curiosity, she drew it forth, unfOlded,
and scanned its faded characters, and,
as she read, her dark eyes dilated, her
cheeks paled, she caught her breath.
Aunt Resolve was counting out money
on the library table. Suddenly Adelaide,
all white and trembling, entered the
room, the paper in her hand. "What
have you there?" CFck
Aunt Resolve had grown suddenly
CHASTITY at the sight of the faded scrap.
She snatched at the girls wrist, and
drew the paper toward her without
touching it. She saw only too clearly
the minute, quaint characters, clear as
print, though the ink was faded. Then
she pushed Adelaide away and tnrned
aside her face.
The bewildered girl sat down upon the
fOotst0Ol at her feet. +
''Oh, Aunt, what is it?"
ut is nothing" pOrtiOning off the sill
yer with a trembling hand. "The salt
marsh must be cut now; 60 away, child;
/ am busy"
But the girl chung about her knees.
"Oh! this is my grandfather's name
signed to this" she cried, and l am
homeless"
Tut, tut"
"Am not the last of my race? His
father gained it dishonesty" he says,
"and when his descendants shall have
dwindled to single one, let him or her
not dare to marry, but restore the estate
to the rightful family, bestOwing it up
on the poorest member thereof" quoted
the girl, the words of the paper stamped
on her memory.
| Aunt Resolve grOaned and her hands
fell from their task.
Child, childp she cried, "hOw in the
world came you to find it?'
II was busting the cabinet. 1t was
behind panel that fell down. did
not dare to touch it at first. Now 1 have
read it all, and / know what it means
what l have to do auntie." And now the
girl stood up.
"Your father gave it to me for safe
keeping. never meant you to see it
| Adelaide"
THAT would have been very wrong,
auntie."
NO no, dsarie; you must marry and
be happy"
The girl did not speak. She stood
looking around the familiar room, and
her eyes grew dark with agony. Evil
IDENTIFY her resolve was taken.
The dear old place-it seemed part
of my very self. 1t never before was
so dear and beautiful as now,
when 1t was to be my home and his. 1t
has seemed lonely and irksOme-i never
would any more. And 1 must give it
up"
This was fixed as an unalterable law
in her mind. The conditions being full
filled which decreed it to another, the
jumpers must forthwith pass into other
hands. afI-1fI
There could be no doubt that Adelaide
was heart-brOken. She looked as If
some terrible illness had settled upon
her. Aunt Resolve was utterly shatter-
ed by the girls state; but now Adelaide
was the stronger of the two in maintain
ing settled purpose. ~
| The latter had guardian whom she
saw annually. She wrote to him, ac-
quainting him with the message of the
deceased, and briefly relinquishing the
property, as she wished him to take steps
to discover the former owners of the Ju-
nipers-a process which Aunt Resolve
thought would not be difficult, though
she did not know them. lfsf
Il would not have done it, dear" she
said, sick in bed. 81 would have you
live and die upon the old place. l fear
-ah, fear you will miss everything
nOw-fOr Captain SOmers has no home,
and he will rove from and forget you!
1t is human nature. These long deferr-
ed marriages never turn out we'll. You
know your marriage to him must be de-
ferred, don't your"
| Eyes,"
The girl uttered the one mOnOsyllable,
and said no more.
And now the time was flying. Cap
tain SOmers she expected daily, for he
said he would return to her i'm less than
a month"; She finally brought herself to
write to him, and told him what had
happened. He made no reply.
This added pang. She saw plainly
what it would be. He could not provide
for her adequately. Such support as he
could afford her-and which she would
have gladly accepted, sweet, if shared
with him-he would not offer. She must
find home in Florida, with some of
her mothers unknown relations, and
they would drift apart finally forever.
Aunt Resolve was right.
A storm set in. Day by day the rain
beat about the house, and the signing of
of the wind filled the girls heart with