Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-05-27

forgctfulnoss to Will Thornley's troubled
heart. N
Graco was 80 young and impulsive. IIo
should have been moro patient, moro for
boaring, moro forgiving. Io fclt romorse--
full and self condcmned; but how make tho
matter up now?
Somo such thoughts as these wore passing
gloon,ily through his mind ono ovoning, ns
lie sat alono i'll his tent, pondering over tho
subject. What sad, sad ruin tho mad
ness of IN hour had made of his life.
True, ho had now no small share of famo
and it was not altogether egotism, perhaps,
to sny it was fairly earned, but happiness
ho hud lost, and wife and home, though the
old love still remained, and Tonight, some.
how, seemod very near.
ga lady to SEQ you, Colonel" said tall
Irish orderly, entering the tent and salut.
ing.
II can't SEQ anybody tonight, Sergeant.
Somo begging refugee, suppose. Refer
hor to Major Clinton" testify replied tho
Colonel.
"But she is not a refugee or anything of
that sort, and says she must SEQ you. She
is kinder weakly looking, and as pulo as
ghost, wid tho trayelin' and trouble she's
had; and, bcggin' your pardon, Colonel, I'd
rathcr go to the guard house fora week than
take your message to her." stoutly urged
the honest orderly.
An impatient frown darkcncd tho Colo.
ncrs brow, for ho had grown stern and
irritable during the past thrco years, and
was no moro tho Will Thornley, hc had
formerly been than the merry hearted
school boy is like grim, iron handed old
field marshal.
Show the lady in, then, and be quick
about it, ho said, shortly.
The orderly promptly obcycd, and soon
reappcarcd conducting lady, who trcu-
bod visibly, and seemed half afraid 10
enter, though sho had but moment before
begged The orderly on her knees to procure
the interview for her.
The sergeant instantly retired, aud with
a sharp intcrrogatiyc, "Wc!l, MADAME"
Colonel Thornley, turned to know the
pleasure of his strange visitor
The light from the single tallow candle,
burning GU tho table, was SO dim as to
barclcy admit Of readily distinguishing the
features OF ono i'll tho corner where the
small, shrinking figure stoud, aud whito
| and ncrvclcsS as a statue
"Well, madam" and this timo Colonel
Thornley's tones were not quito SO sharp,
"what is your business with mc?"
The woman took step forward, and 10
q secoud down at his feet fell tho slight,
shivcring form-a sob, an imporiug out
reaching of two thin, trembling hands, and
then from two pale lips came the wild,
agonizcd cry:
"Oh, Win viii! pity me, forgive and
lot me die here at your feet! 1t is all, all
I 0sk."
"Graoc! my wife, my darlingi my poor,
sad, lonely child, is it indeed you7'' no
caught her to his heart, aud covered her
cold, death white faco with kisses. "For-
giyo you, Grace? Alas, it is l who should
crave your forgiveness! Look up, my own
dear ono. DO not tremblc so. You arc
safe with mo, and the past shall be both
forgiven and forgotten. 1t was hasty
aot--hasty on your part and on niue; but
We arc wiser now and shall know better in
tho future how to guard against anger and
jealousy-thc two bcsotting sins of poor,
weak human nature"
"Minc was the greater fault" she sobbcd
"and the love that is without jealousy, let
them say what they will, is tho oply true,
believing, lasting love. know it, now,
but oh, VIII, the learning of the lesson
was bitter, bitter iudocd And must sec
you-must tell you"
"Not that you have suffered, for I can
sec that plainly enough much too plainly.
Aud Miss Woodward is"
| "Marricdm Grace turned away her face
that he might not SEQ the sudden blush
that crimsoncd it liko rose. "I-I went
to sec her. did, really, and she forgave
me. Said was little goose, and--and
advised me to 20 and sec ~ou whether you
liked it or not So came, aud now | am
here; you don't mind, do you? And We
will begin all over again, and be as happy
as wo were at first"
eyes, as happy as VIC were at first, and
as [ ever hopo to be hereafter"
"And you don't care to bo a bachelor
again, oven if am sily?'
| eyes and no" he answered, smiling.
She laid her head contcntcd on his breast,
and smiled, too, though little sadly, for
she had learned, through bitter experience,
that
"Into each life somc rain must fall,
Some days must be dark aud drcary!"
Rhode Island is tho only State in which
dog tax wns ever successfully collected.
Three constablcs surrounded the State and
held tho dogs in while they could be
counted.
The negro physicians Of Ten
ncsscc have organized a State
Medical Association.