The Osceola times., 1881-05-14

sell III making lONe ana Geulng married,
/ that burted out impulsiyely:
"Then all I've got TO say is, Cousin
| Ware has dose fine thing! I've lost
my respect for him forever"
/ "IIush, sally" said auntie, laying her
fingers on my lips, don't say anything
you'll be sorry for. You know you love
/ Ware most rs well rs / do.'
"And that makes / worse"
The restraining hand succeeded in
stopping me before had concluded my
sentence, and auntie said, gently
"Ware has passed through great peril,
| Sally, and is now nothing but shadow,
| The girl who is now his wife was the
means of saving his precious life, and
| they would not have been married so
/ soon had it not been that Ware louged
so for home. and could not travel alone.
| A letter was sent to me when he tirst
/ recovered consciousness so as 10 give in
| telligent directions as TO his name and
/ home. But as the mail route was far
away from the cabin where Ware found
refuge, he thinks the man to whom it
was intrusted must have fallen into the
hands of Indians and been either made
prisoner, or scalped or tortured to death
according to their heathenish customs"
ooh! Auntie I'm so sorry / spoke so
/ harshly of poor Ware. Where is he
and-and-his wife?'
uttered that last query with a sudden
shyness, for what kind of a person could
/ this young woman be2 Would we all be
very much ashamed Of her? For a cab
/ n,"-yes, that was auntie's own word
is, TO my thinking, about rs large as faith
ers granary; and one does not expect
much of anybody who has been brought
up in such way. But auntie said,
/ quite eagerly:
Go into the parlor, Sally. and well
come them both Just as cordially as you
can. Mind now, don't be distant TO the
poor girl. She has put faith in a stran-
ger and his kinlolk must try and make
up for what she has left behind her"
"Never fear auntie,' ! answered reas-
suringly, full of a laudabe desire to
prove myself an obedient neice, and also
as kind-hearted and philanthropic as a
girl brought up in Christian land ought
to be to a semi-barbarian, such as fully
expected to find in the person of my new
relative.
But all prcmeditated action was put to
flight when | saw Ware lying on the So
ia, wasted away TO a shadow Of his for.
mer self. and when he said, in response
to my cry of "Ohl Warew accompanied
by burst Of tears which | could not re-
strain
Don't cry, Sally; it isn't so bad as You
think, for Pm on the road 10 recovery
through the unwearied care of one whom
you must reward with your love for it,
As he said this he put one wasted arm
around his wile's waist and drew her
forward.
A semi barbarian indeed! | stood for
m.ment drying my eyes, and trying to
realize that | was not in a dream. If
cabins always hold such beauties, It's a
pity everybody couldn't have lived in
one.
Great, blue, limpid eyes-hair like
golden floss, lips like clelt rosebuds. and
a figure so straight and liSsom in its pli.
ant curves that one forgot to wonder at
her quaint, old-lashioned dress, which
looked rs though it might have been
worn by some good, old-time dame in
Revolutionary days.
|, as usual, obeyed my first impulse,
and put my arms around her, and gave
her hearty kiss
Il will love you dearly if You will only
let me- said. 81 have always longed
TO have n girl cousin
"That's my own little Sally" quaycred
Wares feeble voice. II tsld Annis what
trump you were"
Annis sweet lius quivcred as she
shrank shyIy back to her husbands
side. and tears Welled up into her eyes.
She was evidently rs alectlonate as she
was pretty.
Now il Ray would only come back,
what a happy hearted Sally jd-beagaiu.
April 5. The month OF smiles. aud
tears is back again, and 50 Is ny.
shed my share of tears last month, and
it's my turn TO >nileneN.
All is right between Ray and me, and
we are to be marriefAir the month of
roses" He meant to stay away forever,
but he says he couldn't live without
sight of my face, even if it did look SO
cold and distant.
The oddcst thing Of all is that Ware'e
wife is a perfect r0y0 Gris 10 our society,
even il she was Cabin-bred. lfyou be-
ieVe it, she is good Latin and Greek
scholar, and old DR.. Brown, our minister,
is delighted with her. Her father was
one Of those strange men who are born
to gifts OF fortune and turn their backs
upon them. lie was Il regular misan-
thropo, and chose to live in the wilds of
the wilderness with his family. But he
appreciated books, and taught their love
to his daughter before he died. Her
mothers death had preceded his own, 50
Annis was alone in the world as to rela.
tions when she met Ware She had
been offered a home FOR the winter by a
kindly couple who took compassion on
her loneliness after her father was taken
from her.
1t seems ordained by fate that she and
Ware should have met.
lie did fall in with Indians, and they
were declied ont in their war-paint too.
But Ware is a splendid skater, and he
had Just fastened his skates on to try his
skill on frozen sheet of water when he
found himself surrounded. That is how
he became separated from his party. In
his amazement and confusion he turned
the wrong way, and by that means was
completely cut of from again getting
into camp.
"But, Ware" asked him one day,
"how did you manage to get away at
all?"
"Just the easiest way in the world, ,' he
answered. Indians are very curious
about anything new, and are easily
amused unless in a savage mood, This
| proved. For | made myself as much
of n mountebank as ] could, performing
all kinds Of uncouth, awkward manou-
vers, and pretending to be as clumsy as
possible. But ! took good care TO get
little farther away from the ugly looking