The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-25

hour, and my eyes will be red. never
saw anything so hateful and selfish as
men are. There kiss me and let me
20" And that was the end of it, she
thought But not so.
"I will kiss you, Amy, and will
let you CO." said Harold, gravely; "but
1 am ing to tell you that I think
longer term of this pleasant life will put
an everlasting barrier between you and
me. If you do not want that you will
bid Mrs. Manchester goodbye, and go
home tomorrow. It is not only running
you, but me. I cannot endure to see
you again in Pei1otto's arms; cannot
endure to know"
"You cannot endure, and you cannot
endure |" cried Amy, in a sudden tenn
per; and she flung herself away from
him and he saw her no more.
But the next morning she went home
to her father, having left Harold pen
itent little note in which she said moth
ing about me, however, except to re-
mark that if it were not for good-for-
nothing prudes there never would have
been any trouble between them, not
having quite gotten over o word
or two had ventured to say to my
little sunbeam in all gentleness and
desire for hers and for Harold's happi-
ness. And Harold went down to spend
the night at the judges, and it was all
serene again.
One evening Mrs. Manchester handed
me linen envelope. I" I want you to
, take care of this for me" she said. "It
will be worth your while. It is a mem
orandum of something wish to do for
you. Only the half of what wish to
do, though-remember that. When
you have opened this envelope, which
you will not do while live, you are to
make personal use Of that to which it
relates, and exactly as do, and only on
that promise is it yours And when you
have done that you will find in it the
means to obey my wish. L shall leave
you nothing in my will, for those grasp
ing Manchesters would be sure to break
it if I did"
"Why do you talk SO ?" exclaimed.
GAS if there were any chance of my sur.
viving you'll"
) "But supposing there were chance"
! she continued. "You have been more
to me, with your guileless admiration
and faith, than you ever dreamed. l
love you, Pauline, and because love
! you wish you to have your share Of
all that have enjoyed"
, 81 hope-oh, hope" I cried, "that
, L shall die first I"
! "' shall die first, whispered Hope
) to the Rose,'" she sang. ''And it looks
, as if you would, doesn't it? she said,
drawing up her stately figure to its full
, height, as she waved her fan of black
{ feathers, and surveying the full superb
outlines and the dark, rich beauty of the
face in the mirror, and then turning
with her sweetest, rarest smile to me.
"Well, we'll, Pauline" she said, 81
have had all that this life can give me-,
, and l am ready to try the next. And
,, who knows what day may bring forth
! or night either, for the matter OF
! thatr
T, Who knew, indeed! One week from
: that time looked on Mrs. Manchester in
, her coffin. She had died of an inscru-
! table heart disease, OF which only she
! and her physician knew.
Q What an ineffable loneliness beset me
! then ] had Harold at his desk, 10 be
sure; but Harold's thoughts I saw,
were miles away from me; and Mrs.
! Manchester-she knew me through and
= through. It had been enough for me
to breathe, and she had answered my
6 thoughts; thousand things I could say
! to her that should never dream of say.
: ing to Harold-for was willing, posi-
bly,, that she should know me as [ was,
but wanted Harold to know me better
. than was. Oh, did miss her mex
> pressibly.
; | ayNonoI fhn ~
3 Mrs. Manchester left in your charge ?'
asked Harold, glancing one night from
the ring of light cast by the lamp tc
= where I sat in the shadow of the open
> window, looking out at the night.
, "I will get it now" I said. "If J
had not quite forgotten it, I have ha'l
= dreaded it."
= 1 went and brought it down, and
s opened it, and took out legal-lookine
! paper and handed it to Harold. 1t was
the deed of the land and the house
! where Mrs. Manchester had lived, and
! of all that it contained, moreover-the
house that she had rebuilt and fur,
nished herself, and in which we had SC
long known her. The whole thing was
! properly executed and recorded long
= before, as we subsequently found.
, "Oh, Harold" gasped, "see how
. she blesses us from the grave She gave
me SO much pleasure, andnow she gives
me this. See 1t is the home to which
!, you can bring Amy"
y "The home p exclaimed Harold
= "What have we to entitle us to such q
q home as that ?"
"Why, that is the condition she
made, to make personal use of it ex
=, actly as she did herself. Don't you re-
member?"
! eyes. You have to live in it, 1 sup
). pose, if you would keep your bond. Il
o was the condition"
: "The condition on which it is ours
: "Ours ?" he said, in bitter tone.
> "Why, Harold Harold you DOM
: mean, when yours has been mine 81
long, that. you wouldn't take And
: Amy need never know"
a "Oh, Polly Polly" And there Har
q old's head fell forward on his arms, and
to my amazement, he had burst into
/, tears.
He was tired, and nervous, and worn
a out, said.
[ could not tell what allied me, but
a could no more go to him then, and take
: his head on my shoulder and sootht
!. him, as once could have done, than
!. could fly.