The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-05-25
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full girl Will you help me, dear Mr.
Ellsworth p ,
"To my utmost" said Harvey Ells
worth, with every appearance Of sin
cerity, and even anxiety.
81 must tell you everything first,
said the child; sand don't know hov
to, but l must. Well, the girls wanted
to play joke on Adele-on Adele, jus
think of it And so they wrote her
note, and pretended that you wrote it
but in reality / did it, for l copy hand
writing. But oh, l never, never viii
copy anything again, for believe it il
breaking the Second Commandments
is making a craven likeness. Oh, ism
it, Mr.. Ellsworth"
$50 on. my child" said that gentle
man, with impatience undisguised.
"And we sent the note, saying that
you adored her, and wanted to see hel
lall alone; and if she would let you
she must come down to tea tonight
wearing yellow rose."
"And did she wear it p
And here George, petrifed again
petrifed this time in motion, speech,
expression. There was something Sc
intense in the way in which Harvey
Ellsworth asked this question, some.
thing so like an electrical shock thrill
ing George in every nerve upon which
his voice fell. Soft as that voice was,
it rang like a violin string that gives
the note and breaks giving it; and
his eyes shone like points of fire-at
least she thought they did.
"Did she wear il ?"
Oh, George, you will never be a
child again after tonight. The terror,
the responsibility, the mingled insight
and apprehension Of this concentration
of experience, forbid you ever to re-
turn to the reckless innocence of fate.
She paused one moment longer. She
dropped his hands, and covering her
eyes stood helplessly before him.
Was it, then, to be either betrayal or
desertion of Adele? One of these two
miseres.
cit is secret" half sobbed the
| child. ga good man like you would
never tell it. Yes, Mr.. Ellsworth, she
wore it. And now"-she changed the
attitude to one confiding and imploring
-'aud now you must help me. She
must not be disgraced, my darling,
noble sister, and laughed at by sll the
house; and my own hand did it,"
She felt again something like an
electrical shock, for she had looked up
to his face; and the face of Harvey Ellis
worth at that moment was in rapture
rapture of happiness.
Her heart lghtened as she went on.
1ou must pretend to Adele that you
did write it; she must never know that
the girls made such a plan she must
think that she was mistaken for, oh |!
she has been crying dreadfully. You
must mn, send her another note. and say
you are 81 cid cha ue.~ H. 900"
"And 1 am so glad," said Mr.. Els
worth.
"And then-for she did consent,n
this George said regretfully-"since
she did consent, you must walk around
the piazza with her, and make up some
thing to comfort her,"
81 shall not have to make it up."
said Mr.. Ellsworth.
"Then come, quick, and write the
message" cried the impetuous Georeie.
By 10 o'clock Adele, re-arrayed in
her lovely costume, with the rose bud
in her hair, and the message, "Meet
me in the Blue pavilion" written by
his own hand, brought to her by her
own Georgie-hb message, with one
trembling kiss upon il, safely slowed
in the pocket of her ivory -colored gown
went downstairs just as the waltz
music in the pailor struck up jubi-
lantly.
And in the Blue pavilion, safe with
MIR. Ellsworth, Georgie, blessed George
for so she felt herself that moment-
left her.
"Adele," said the manly voice, with
that manifest tone in it that springs
from true devotion, 81 shall thank you
all my life for granting me this happi.
ness. May 1 spend my life-are you
going to let me, dear Adele, spend my
life in thanking you for it ?"
These questions followed each other
closely; so cloely because the proud,
sensitive girl, to whom all expression
of that which was really sacred to her
was by her very constitution most diff
ficult, had been this night so tossed
and wearied by pain and pains misgiv.
ings that she melted at loves first
touch. There was no need to ask, "Do
you love me ~ between the dedicatory
questions. The sweet face, agitated
and tender, the hands that he clasped
in his, trembling, told without the
asking that she loved him.
He drew her near to him there in
the solitude, in the shaded moonlight,
in the midsummer air, and went on
with all lovers resistless fervor: "My
darling, hardly dared-hardly dared
to hope for this after our cruel separ-
alton. When we parted last year in
Florence, Adele, and you said 'for-
ever,' knew as deeply as you could
,are to have me know that I never
could love another-not really love an
other. Do you know, my darling, did
you hear, that / was very ill at Paris ?
They called it Roman fever, but it was
ihe fever of fate, Adele. Many weeks
t consumed me. Then I was aroused
myself, or when something beyond
myself aroused me to the fact of living
Igain, took up life simply as a burden.
If can give ray of happiness to
hose unhappy as myself, let me live I |
hought; 'but for me there is no joy in
iving.' And now we have met again.
It was strange accident that brought |
ne to this place. must tell you of it |
ome time, darling. But We have met |
gain, and this time it is forever. Adele |
my love-"
AS little George in her motherly
reatment of her sister had mingled |
With her words and service her tender
'aresses, so Adele's lover now between