Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-06

do try not to hear them call. L put mine
fingers on my ears, but hear them Just the
sameI'
''Who calls You, Helenoreg'I asked.
'All things out-o'-doors; the birds and bees
and the winds. They call me- always, al
ways; they say, 'Helenore, Helenore, GOMEZ
and must go!" she cried springing to her
feet and looking wildly around.
feared she was losing her mind, and was
much alarmed about her: we tried to divert
and amuse her in every possible way, and for
few days she really seemed to be more quiet
but one morning we missed her. The after
noon previous, hand-organ grinder and a
woman, evidently his wife, entered our
grounds, and Helenore went out to hear
them play; and we noticed that she stood
converslng with them in her own language
Tor some time afterward
They had been hanging about the neigh
borhood several days. and somehow we felt
sure that she had gone with them. Our sus-
plclons were confirmed by a farmer living a
mile or so above US, who said he met them
Just at dusk as he was returning home from
the clty-a man and woman and our Hell
enore. He said he recognized Helenore at
once, and spoke to her, but she made no
answer.
We learned furthermore from her mother.
that an organ-grinder and his wife-old ac-
quaintances of the fannily-had been in the
vicinity for a week past, and had put up a
night or two at her house; and she doubted
not that they were the same persons we had
in mind. She made light of her daughters
disappearance, saying, with a shrug of her
fat shoulders, that ''she would lie back soon
enough" and seeming to think that in any
case we were well rid of her.
But we missed Ter and we
mourned her, and did not
try to fill her place. My livery latest"
as Jack still called her, seemed to have proved
a sad failure.
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was lingering in my rose-garden in the
twilight of a warm September day, hanging
fondly over bed Of pet hybrids-latest and
sweetest of roses-when l suddenly missed
little Ned from my side, and, looking around
for him, l spied him swinging on the front
gate. L started to go toward him, and at
that moment the figure Of a woman sprang
up, as it were out of the ground near him,
and at the same moment heard a glad cry
from Ned: ''Helenore! Helenore!"
1t was our Helenore! She caught him to
her breast and flew, swift as the wind, across
the lawn TO meet NE, and, dropping on her
knees, with one arm still round the Devil
dered child, she clung to me desperately, sob
blng and groaning; but not one word did she
speak
L begged her to rise, but she would not; so
L sat down there on the damp grass, and,
taking her head in my lap, soothed her with
the old touch CT the hand size loved SO well
At last she heaved a long tssmulous sigh
and lifted her face to mine.
81 cannot ask you to forgery" she MIR
INJURED hHmbly; that would be too good for
Helenore; but come to see you once more,
and to tel you what is so heavy here'-press
ing her hand on her heart-''and then to
dien
led her into the house and drew from her
the history of her experience since she left us
in the spring.
''Were the people with whom you went
away kind to you!' I asked.
'tkind!' she cried iercely. "Oh, they were
indeed most cruel! True, they did never hurt
me like mine moder, but they have made me
so to suffer that wish not now to live any
more.n
''But you liked it at first, did you not-the
fields and woods and the music!n
eyes; I liked well to wander and
to be free; but l learned soon that
only children and birds and squir-
rels are truly free-not woman with heart
here and here"-tonching her forehead and
laying her hand on her heart
/ wondered at her words but l understood
them later.
''For few days we had a happy time, and
they were good to me, but then trouble came.
1 could not dance when was tired, and 1
could not learn to sing their songs-and they
laughed at my own poor songs; So they be-
gan to speak only bad words to me and to
care not if 1 starved and suffered
eve were far away know not where
when we came to large woods, where many
men chopped the trees, and some wives and
children were there too, and I begged the
music .3an and woman that I might stay
and work for them and leev in little
hut: and I stayed. They too came back
afterward and worked"
"And were you happy therer'
She clasped her hands tightly over her
bosom. and new and strange expression
swept over her face that did not under
stand
''Happy, happym she murmured; ''Oh, yes!
listen-I Will tell you'll
Gone chopper was kind to me; he said he
lONeO Lue-IOfeO lie. SIZE peaLeQ SOleI1nlV,
with a tender thrill in her voice that ex-
planned all. "And he was so kind TO me. as if
had been queeni It was he, too, madam,
that did teach me to speak so well: for he was
a. Yankee man," she added proudly: ''and
you see do speak much better!n
I assented. "Where is he nowF' Tasl1ed.
sob, I know notl know not!n she cried.
rocking herself back and forth and wringing
her hands.
''That wicked man and woman took me
away one night; they said that he, my Eloi,
had sent for me to go to meet him far, far
off; and when we found him not they Knocked
and laughed at my pain. Oh, could kill
theml liarsl beasts" The last words were
only hiss of rage, and she stopped short,
choked with passion.
''Helenore," said, "why did they deceive
you so! What had you done to them?"
''What had 1 done to themi
Noting, noting; but they hated me
like mine moder do, and would not that
should be happy"
Here she paused and a sudden revulsion
of feeling seemed to sweep over her."
''None are ever kind to Helenore," she said
sadly-'none but you and him" Then lift
ing my hand to her lips she kissed it rever-
emily and made again that sign of the cross.
Twas deeply touched; drew the girl to me
and said, with tears on my cheeks:
Stay with US, Helenore, and try to be
happy again.