The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-09-17

oSo"N suSs 4 VSU NV AuooU guy WTOu&e
but I can never talk to him q I used.
There d . constraint between 10 that I
can not understand.
This IL the substance OF what nv dear
girl told me when she returned from her
expedition.
"And what do you think, husband. I
didp" she asked seating herself on the
arm of my chair and looking round into
my face with eyes In which tears and
smiles blended.
~ couldn't guess"
~ invited her to throw up her busi.
ness and 90 abroad with US next sum.
mer and I would pay all expenses"
"My darling, did you do that?'
Eyes, and she has consented"
"spin. spin. Clotho. spIn,"
said I, rising and shaking hands with an
imaginary Clotho In the air.
1.-THE deitics Of fate arc at work for
them, my love; you and I are only the
instrumental"
"Kecp cool, John DEAR" was nv
wife's amiable response, Us she snstchetl
our youngest from the floor, where be
was in danger Of being stumbled over
in my absent.minded and studious walk.
"There's many Slip" you know, "be.
tween the cup and the lip"
Passing over the intervening months,
our first picture shall be photographed
from the deck Of the Cunard steamer
r., in the month Of May, 1880. We
arc grouped about in various attitudes.
my wife and Mrs. Julia engaged in close
conversation about some piece Of femi.
nine handiwOrk, when my friend 40.
pears on deck for the first time. He
had persistently kept his berth, more, I
thought, from dependency than from
the effect Of the mai dc mcr. We were
three days out. Mrs. Julia knew that
he was on board, for my wife had told
her in . casual, Indifferent way while
naming over company, concealing, as
women know how, any intent, under the
innocent words:
"Rev. Julius Hardwood was college
chum of my husbands. He makes one
OF our party. You must meet him."
But had not dared as yet to reveal
to him my treachery. lie had not seen
her.
He was saunterins along in his medi-
tative way past the groups of people,
when stopping to say "good morning +"
70 my wife In one Of his rounds, his
eyes fell upon her companion, who arose
with some timidity TO greet him.
II was q hard ordeal, but be displaved
remarkable self.possession. lfelt proud
Of him.
Had she not been quite preoccupied
with the thought Of his imagined dis.
pleasure she could not have failed to see
that 1t was no common interest he felt for
her. but hers was one of those charm.
ingly unselfish natures that never sun.
pose the elements Of attractiveness 10 be
inherent in themselves.
After . very short conversation he
disappeared. I found him q few
moments afterward below, whittier I
n8u lOllOwed MIN.
GLOW eoula you do this, John?"
''Bring US together again after I had
almost fought 1t out of my heart! Tho
battle oil has to be begun again. I have
found that my first thought was positive
delight for two weeks Of unavoidable
companionship, but how Is life to be
made endurable after that?"
told him then how it hsd all han.
pened; how she had turned out 10 be an
old friend, and had been invited to ioin
our company.
"Then that accounts for her speaking
to me at ALL" he groaned. III had
observed before I left home, Of late, that
she had tried to avoid me, and here I
am forced upon her against my win, and
against hers certainly" This he said
bitterly, turning q little away from me.
"See here, Judas, ! said, taking him
BY tho shoulders and turning him fair
about, ''begging your ministerial par.
don, you are not ct to live. Why can
you not be like other people,"
Horror struck, he turned upon me.
He would not have been 20 scandalized
had he waited 10 hear the end Of nv
sentence. :,
.'Do You forget my duty and her own
to her husbsndp" be asked, angrily. q1
ibid you ever 80 her husband?" I
asked, meekly.
'No; but what difference does that
maker Should I be less true 10 nv
brother whom I have seen than to him
whom I have not seen?"
"Who ever told you that che possessed
that appendage called . husbandp"
He looked Into my eyes, and biz own
began 10 dilate.
"They said-" .#
"Who said" The idea had never
entered his monks cowl to question the
truth Of "They said"
l had the pleasure Of telling him then
her history, from beginning to end, and
Of watching the changes Of his expires.
sive face, and when I ended nv story
BY the words:
And, Julius, II i my opinion, from
various observations, that you are the
one man Of Oh the world whom she re-
CARDS With esteem and-and perhaps
love-" ..e 4Q. NJ
What did the dear boy do but fall ON
his knees then and there, dragging mo
along with him, and "thauk tie Lord. !"
] never tslt quite 20 near Heaven in all
Of my lie be1ore.
4 :" Now, ses here, old fellow" I said,
With the tears in my eyes, - We arose,
for you know 1 always liked to tease
him. "you ore III wrong. You have
thanked the wrong party. You ought
10 thank mel" rs ) - s..i'.1s - 4
"Our lives 90 In His hand" he
aid with solemn gladness; but, never.
theleso, he threw 90 arm about nv neck
and gave me 3 brothers embrace.
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