Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1881-07-22
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BY Los FOW.

LOUtOuH al'N Lester LOON Tue bCS
of care of jim. who recovered rap
idly. After few DAYS Miss >psldin9
considering her attendance unncces-
sary resigned her place to Loudoun
On the evening that she did so, Lester
asked her to take walk in the gar
den.
Lester was in sober earnest now
All the lightness and frivolity, thai
seemed to be All element in his char
acter had departed. Beneath that ex
terror surface of frivolous Wit and as
sumad nonchalence, Charles Lester
concealed as manly and as noble 4
heart. as ever beat in a manly bosom
Miss Spalding knew the depth OF that
heart. was we'll aware OF the sterling
worth of the man, who WAS ahou. I.
place this heart at her feet, aud otf'i
her his hand. AMI us Lester in all
impassioned eloquence, that such a
crisis could only elicit, poured forth
in hot words, his earnest love for hei
and solicited return. her feelings
were stirred In their inmost depths.
She was deeply moved she sin.
cerelv liked Lester. and ius'inctively
felt that anv womau's future was
safe in his keeping. But she did not
love him with the love he coveted
her heart was net her own 70 5estow.
She bad given il away to another, OF
rather that other had won It, without
having formally and openly asked io'
il. The eyes of MS Sonl looked al her
with eyes of love, and the sympathetic
,throbhing Of her exultaut heart told
her. that heart answered heart, and
that while Leudouu's heart was hers
hers had united itself lrreyocably with
that OF Ioudoun
SO she placed her hand calmly aud
gently. with a sistcrIy ionduess, IL
Ithat Of Lester. and " while she turned
away her lovely heal to hide her feel
ings and conceal h,T tears, she whis
peged sadly the fatal aud final mo
to Testers passionate request.
lie gave her one long. lingering, in
tense. passiona'e look, then druppet
her hand aud literally fled from iht
garden. In few moments the clat-
tering Of his horses hoofs on tn,
: graveled road told that Lester hat
left Rnssdale. Ouly when the nois,
of bis horses fying feet had dies
away in the distance, did Miss Spald
ing recover herself sufficiently to mas
ter her emotion, and stfoll toward th'
house. As she entered il she eucouu
tered I.0uJouu. Their syes met il
one mutually searching glance, aus
1g>..' knew sp3 frl' fnr ih'. fs'e .
his friend. and wondered If he wcrt
destined ,o inees ~iih similar fate.
Simply bidding Miss SpaldInE goo,
evening, he mounted hl. horsn aut
rode ouiy toward Oakland. He ds,
. not rejoice over Testers DISCONTINUE
. Ills was 700 noble nature for ths I
j lie loved Miss >palding with all TIA,
intensity Of his earnest nature, but b,
had determined u speak uousht o
love 10 her. ugtil Lester. his bosom
friend. bad been given fair chance
Had l.csier's suit been successful
Loudoun would have lylt Roselals
without betray,uc by word or sign I,
ANY mortal being. the dcsouriug Iov.
'that consumed his soul. lie knew
uow that Lester. doom was sealed
and lie huew also that the way 40.
clear for bis advances.
When he reached Oakland. h,
learned that Lester had returned, or
A red fresh horss, retired for Few
moments to his room, then started lol
BrayautoWn
There are some SORROWS that over
take man an this ,tr when the SYM
Hpathv cfen of a tried friend is dis
tasteful. when ;he soul longs 10 com
mune with itself in solitude, far from
the busy hauuls Of men. Loudoun fell
mat sucn crisis had occurred for
Lester. and he respected his grief
while he commiserated his afllction
Accordingly he joined the ladies wht
were flirting loudly with their heaux
Neale and Gardiner, and having ,
royal time.
We'll, Mr.. Loudoun, how are YOU
patients doing today" exclaimed
Miss Annie Lester, Charlle's hand
, some and only sister.
They are recovering rapidly re-
piled Loudoun. Jim has aIread,
, given old Steve orders to procure hin
, a pair OF crutches. and the doctor say
: that Young Mr.. tiaddIs will be wei
r enough to be removed to Baltimor,
: ter next week.
Il am sincerely glad to hear sucI
good news" eagerly criel Miss Emm;
Bowling, Testers beautiful and ac
eomplished cousin. Il think that
Providence has been kind to you all
I'd that you should consider your
selves fortunate to have escaped with
out the loss of any lives.
Il trust we all are thankful to ;
kird Providence for His fayors ant
mercies," replied Loudoun, "Colone
Spalding says that the sincere contrl
ton and complete conversion of young
, Gaddis will make amends to HIM toI
all his trouble ana all his anxiety.
As there were no signs of Charlie
return that night, Ioudoun left th'
Young lovers to themselves and re
tired early to his room.
The next day he had the care o
, Jim all to himself. Miss Spaldins
had resigned her position as presldin:
J. nurse and Charlie disappeared.
DR.. Grayson gave jim permission
to sit up aud hobble about his room
on crutches, and told Col. Spalding
that rs far us his patients were con
:. cerned, all immediate danger was ovel
and the youngsters could have thel
party whenever they wished. SO tn
Colonel told Loudoun to inform Les
n ter and the other young people, tha
the Thursday of next week was til