The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-06-12

and home, though the old love still re-
malnej, and to. night, somehow, SEEM
ed very near.
"A lady to see you, colonel. said
tall Irish orderly, entering the tent,
and saluting.
II can't see anybody tonight, ser
geant. Some begging refugee, sup
pose, refer her to Major Clinton" test
lily replied the colonel.
"But she's not refugee, or anything
of that soft, and says she must see you.
She's kinder weakly looking and as
pale as ghost, wild the traVeln' and
the trouble she has had; and, begin
your pardon. colonel, I'd rather go to
the guard house for week than to
take your message to het," stoutly ur-
ged the honest orderly.
An impatient flown darkened the
colonel'5 brow, for he had grown stern
and irritable during the past three
years. and was no more the VIII
Thornley, he had formerly been than
the merry hearted schoolbOy is Ike a
gtim, iron handed old field marshal.
"Show the lady in, then, and be
quick about it," lie said, shortly.
The orderly promptly Obeyed, and
soon reappeared, conducting a lady,
who trembed visibly, and seemed half
afraid to enter, though she had but a
moment before begged the orderly on
her knees to procure the interview for
her.
The sergeant instantly retired; and
with sharpinterrogdtive, well, mad
ann" Colonel Thernley turned to know
the pleasure of his visitor.
The light from the single tallow cam
die, burning Oh the table, was so dim
as to barely admit of readily distingu.
ishing tho features of one in the cor
ner where the small, shrinking figure
stood; ds white and nerveless as stat
ue.
"Well, madam" and this time Col.
Thornley's tones were not quite so
sharp, "what is your business with
me7"
The woman took step forward, and
in q second down at his feet fell the
slight, shivering form "a sob, an Inns
plOring out-reaching of two thin, ,tremb-
ling hands, and then from the pale lips
came the wild, agonized cry:
ooh, viii, Will pity me- forgive
me, and let me die here at your feet
1t is all, all ask l''
"Grace my wife, my darling my
poor, sad, lonely child, is it indeed
you9" He caught her to his heart,
and covered her cold, death white face
with kisses. "FCrglfe you, Grace :?
Alas, it is l who should crave your
forgiveness Look up my own dear
one. Do not tremble SO. You are
safe with me. and the past shall be
both forgiven ard forgotten. 1t was
hasty act-hasty ON your part and
on mine; but we are wiser now, and
shall know better in the future how
TO GUARD against anger and Jealousy
the two besettlEg sins of Door, weak,
human nature"
"Mine was the greater fault" she
sobbed. "and the love that is without
jealousy, let them say what they will,
is the only true, believinPj lastin
love. 1 know 1t now; but, oh, Will
the learning of the lesson was bitter,
bitter, indeed! And l must see you
must tell YOU"
''Not that you have suffered, for ]
can see that plainly enough much
too plainly. And Miss Woodward
Is"
married !" Grace turned away
her face that he might not see the
sudden blush that crimsoned it like q
rose, .....
III went to see her. 1 did, really,
and she forgave me. Said l was little
goose, and-and advised me to go and
see you whether you liked it or not. Sc
1 came, and now am here; you don't
mind, do you? And we will begin all
over again, and be as happy as we were
, at first"
Eyes; as happy as we were, at first,
and as / hope to be hereafter"
And you don't care to be bache-
lor again, even If ! am silly?"
eyes and no." he answered, smiling
She laid her head contendedly on his
breast, and smiled, too, though a little
sadly, for she had learned, through
bitter experience, thar
) ''Jnto each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and drearyr