Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-14
HETTY HOPES LOVE AFFAIR

fallen IN love WIN MA iittN hlli i'Ht NbH
her heart She wore his ring, and la a
year they were to be mar rird. But alas,
that year was 10 he Hpent apart, Harry
was going tn Chi;la IN the interest OF the
firm of which he at present WAS only an
emplOye On his return he would he
made junior partner, and would he able
to marry oomioria' ~,
In her secret heart Hetty wished that,
poor as he was, Harry would ask her to
marry him then and there, and 60 on The
voyage with him But girl must keep
her thanGhis to ho,soH Aud now size
had driven with him 10 the depot, to see
him of rpd Tho ln,in had romr and be
stood beside BE Hght wagon holiing beg
hand and whispering THESE words
Its ~ hstd HAT I cannot ki7s You ut
the Inst Good by, darling goon-hy
Ietty WAS try ing not 10 cry, there at the
depot, before al those 7iran4ors. She
almost wished she hnd NOT driven down tG
see Harry oil, though If SIR had not come
sho would never have forgiven herslt
Good by, she whispered family.
Then Harry jumped upon the train, not
an instant too soon, and IN moment
more hatty only Jaw handkerchief nut
tering from the window as tue engine
pniTed its way out of the depot, and ile~
around the curve OF the ROAD.
Drive home Peter, she said to tho
boy VINO held the reins and happily she
had power to keep the tears from her
lashes until the people who hnd stared at
her at the depot could stare no more.
On the platform shade hats aud sunbon-
nets were gathered in group discussing
the fact that iietty Hope had been down
to see her beau oil, and that there was 10
longer any doubt that they We're engaged
but Hetty did not know or care for that.
She was crying softly in the back of the
little light wagon, while Peter drove on,
whistling the Star Bangled Bauuer all out
OF tune, and now and then stopping to
break oil branch full OF wild cherries.
1t seemed so hard that Harry should be
going away for yesr--a whole, long
year. 1t was almost as dreadful as though
he were dead, for what might happen in a
year No one could ever tell and the
tears fell again.
The only comfort Hetty could think OF
was her first letter, and it would be three
days before that could come.
However, it came. Grandpa brought it
in his pocket, and gave it to her with a
slow nod and slower laugh, and Aunt
Maria inquired with her usual downright
ness whether that Twas from her beau p
and cousin lilly, by and by, in privacy
in their own room, asked if she
would let her see it, and was offended that
she did not These relatives of hers were
not always delightful to poor Hetty, but
her father was busy man, who travelled
the world over, making q fortune for the
daughter he saw scarcely twice year, and
her mother died in her babyhood, and
Hetty had no other home than Grand
fathers" They were very good to her,
that old man and his widowed daughter,
Aunt Maria. And Cousin lilly was soft
and pretty, and silly SIS little white
kitten. 1t might have been very much
WORSE, yet who can blame Hetty for look
ing forward to the time when she should
have home of her own-a home
that suited her? Papa sent her plenty OF
money now. She could do what she
pleased with il, and she bought smart caps
for Aunt Maria, and gay ribbons for lilly,
and slippers for Graudpa-but the home
was not under her control. The prim
parlor was not to be touched by her hand.
The blue shades, and red and greer
carpet the wax fruit under glass, anG
the portrait of Washington over the man
tel-piece, remained as she had first seer
them, when as child she regarded tina
parlor as a sort OF sacred place not to b,
played in. She hlled her own tiny sleep
Ing room with what aunt Maria denomi
ueted jim-cracks but the family dlsap
proved OF vines about the house, ana Their
was not tree within the small, prln
garden palings, and good as they all were
the people WHO lived IN the house wer
exactly Ike II. Tuey had no sense of tn
beautiful and 40 yesrniug for 1t.
So Hetty dwelt iuwsrdly alone ana bull
her air castles, and lived on one lette
until she lad another, and the time of lac
lovers absence wore on YEARLY until 81
months were gone, and then came lettt
which made Hptty hold her breath whnI
she read it, ana burst into tears al soon e
she had finished it,
Dear Hetty,' it 5,id, "an uutorsseo
thing has happened. My employers a 81,
me 20 remain III China for some years.
do so, they will make me partner, a.
shall be able to live well and comfort
ply, and to grow rich in time but "
you be willing to live here with mt
Will you come out to me under safe pr
lection and spend years Of your young Ii
in this strange land Think it owe
darling. The case stguds Just this
YOU refuse, will return, but shall til,
have no prospects; DO means whateve
A penuiless man VINO must take gny 30
ton that offers will be your husband
that case. The choice is in your hand
or, perhaps it would be honorable in T
TO set YOU free. The thought almc
breaks my heart. Dear Hetty, what sh
say | think / could make you hap
even here, II Won are willing to COZ
write TO me. II vow desire that shou
return and seek my fortune in our natl
land, write that frankly; but if you f,
that neither alternative pleases YOU q,
desire your fraedom-do not write at
let silence be nv answer confess IL
| have hope that even under my alter
circumstances Won will still be true.
. More acknowledgements viii
we have nothing to do and Hetty chi
over the letter and was sorry. bnt )
wrote al once, and the last words Of /
letter were these
~ will come tn China whenever Y
send for me"
The mail bao was nearIv ready at
most ntfice which was also the nroo,
store. Grandfather Hone stopped
wagon et the dnor AT that moment
|Hullo )" cried he "here's anotl
letter for We Nv niece has written
her hem in CHAM and von'vc ont IN ~
that
The nostuastar Iouobed and tooh
missve slammed il nrSnerIv and fnok
silver coin from C;rsp3f,tber UoD,'s n
atretcbed hand