The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-09-01

/ the steps of the altar. He was removed
unconscious, and died the next day.
| Her mother lived for short while
after, always in very feeble health and
suffering greatly from nervous depres-
sion, and Lucy was her faithful nurse.
1t was only after her mothers death
that she felt at liberty to make any in
quiries IS to where Heathcote might be,
but all clew to his whereabouts seemed
to have been lost after he left Italy.
Before that, seeking him, she travelled
good deal on the continent of Europe !;
then feeling of restlessness came over
/ her, and she visited first North and then
| South Africa.
! The wild life in the more remote parts
of the latter had charm for her. She
little of the Zulu languages, and, al
though often intending to return to her
English home, still fingered. She had
her own travelling wagon and her horses,
but from love of adventure travelled
alone, except for her native attendants,
| fearless, because caring little for life.
and al last her wanderings had led her
to him for whose sake life nenceforward
would be dear to her.
That night could not sleep. and
stood beside Heathcote's couch looking
at him by the rays of late moon. Two
short months of comparative ease and
happiness had wrought change in him,
but the greatest change of all was in the
expression of the sleeper's face, as he
smiled in his dream-a change worked
by short watch in the night.
AS [ stopped over him [ noticed that
the ribbon and the little bag were gone,
and guessed that the pledge of ever
lasting fidelity had been returned to her
who gave ito one who would treasure
the worn and time stained sheet of pa
per, which had lain close to his heart for
SO many years, whispering hope when
hope seemed dead.
They we're married at missionary
station which was within few days trek
of our encampment, and then,
leaving their wagon and oxen with me,
started for Pretoria on horseback, having
bought third horse to carry their SIM
pie baggage and cooking apparatus, also
their blankets and lettering line for the
horses.
Both of them good riders, and Injured
to hardship I thought, as bale them
Goa-speed, that theirs was the very
romance of marriage To mount your
horse at the church door, and, free from
all the shackles of society, to ride forth
into the wide veldt, with no one near
you but the one you love best to tether
your horses at night and lie down beside
them with your saddle for your pillow,
and to wake up with the fresh morning
breeze lifting your hair, and the rosy
morning light bidding you welcome to
another day of gladness; to have the
memories of two days like this to look
back on must, it seemed to me, be worth
suffering for.
They were to reach Pretoria on the
evening Of the third day. They trusted
to obtaining food at the houses of the
Beers they should pass. They intended,
when they reached the village, to buy a
light carriage to proceed to Durham, and
thence home to the old place, where
they had wandered in childhood.
| was to dispose of their wagon and
oxen for them, and to arrange for their
heavy luggage being sent home.
As Heathcote wrung my hand at part
ing he said:
"It is you who have saved us both /;
but for you this would not have been ;
but my unhappy past seems to me now
like the shadow which adds to the luster
of the sunshine"
And it is even so. In the spiritual as
in the material world, where the sun
shine is the most radiant, there the
shadow will be the deepest. Those alone
who, while standing IN the shadow, can
realize the existence of the sunshine,
and while basking in the light can be
mindful of the gloom, can understand
what is romance, can see the beauty of
nature, or listen to her harmonieF. AL
! the Year R0Und