Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-09


pitied by her friends, Eunice had left
the home where she had been born.
and which she had loved so well.
A brave, courageous nature rises SUI
perior to hardships, and such was
Eunice's.
After time she succeeded in obtain
| ing employment through turning to use
her facility in the dainty art of design.
ing.
Her lovely, refined face, and lady
like, unassuming ways, soon attracted
the interested notice of her employer;
and what he learned upon inquiry con-
| corning her only increased that inter
est.
Mr.. Grey and his worthy wife lived
all alone in stately, childless home.
They were noted for their benevolent
eccentricities, and as such their step
was set down to be by their friends,
when they asked Eunice to make her
home with them.
AS may be surmised, the lonely girl
accepted the cordial invitation extend
ed to her with breast swelling with
gratitude.
She had been with her kind friends
about a year when, one evening, Mr..
Grey said, as he rose from the dinner
table:
"Wife, would like you and Miss
Ray to be ready in a couple of hours to
accompany me to a lecture. / am
acquainted with the lecturer. and in
him the demon of intemperance has
\ of
took tickets. knowing your sympathy
with the cause. and that you could not
fail to be interested"
They went. The room was throng-
ed.
At the time appointed the lecturer
made his appearance.
Eunice had expected TO see a gen.
tleman somewhat advanced in years ;
but instead tall. slight, youthful fig
ure stood upon the platform. With
an uncomfortable start the girl recog-
niZed in the lucturer, whose rich, elO-
quent tones were already enchanting
the attention of that large, cultivated
audience, the lover who had gone
from her In anger four years ago.
A film came before her eyes, and she
trembled in every limb; then stilling,
with a great effort, the tremulOus
throbbing of her heart, she sat quietly
until the lecture was over, and she
mingled with the outgoing throng. But
their seats had been far in the front,
and some time elapsed before the door
OF exit was reached.
Then Eunice found that though she
had not met his glance Claude had
seen and recognized her.
After cordial hand-shake from Mr..
Grey and his wife, Claude turned
to their young companion, exclaim-
ing:
This is truly most delightful sur
prisel did not expect to meet an old
friend here tonight. Miss Ray, if you
will permit me L would like to accom-
pany you home. There is no enjoy
ment so great as talking over bygone
days."
That evening Mr.. Grey's pa1lor wit
messed a scene of happy reunion as,
unrebuked, Claude clasped his recov-
cred treasure to his heart.
"Eunice," he said after a while, "the
anger with which left your presence
was short lived. When it Gained, I
thought over your words, land though
they wounded my pride, could not
help but see that they were only Just
and right. / determined then to do as
you had asked me, to pledge myself in
my own heart to abstain myself from
any further indulgence of the wine
cup; but that until time had proved
the reality of my reformation 1 would
not return toyOu. The year that fol-
lowed in a distant city devoted my
time and my means to seeking out and
striving to redeem cases of intemper-
ence. AS the days went on my love
for my self-impOsed work grew upon
me, and with a feeling of abhor-
renee towards the habit which hith-
ertO had looked so leniently
upon. When / returned to your
home to plead for my old position
in your love and esteem, I found you
gone-where, could not learn. But,
my darling, we will think of the past
no longer, but of the bright future in
which, thanks to the kind Providence
which has reunited us, we may live
and work together"
He paused.
Eunice did not reply in words, but
her little hand sought and found its
refuge in his clasp.
Thus we will leave them-the man,
strong against temptation, devoting all
his noble talents to the fight against
the powers of evil, and the gentle girl
who had saved him from himself.
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