The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-12

bes, and dearest friend, Walter King. know you'll honor and respect him for his own s-ke. as well as mine. when you come to know him.
 .' should be willing to trust to your judgment in anything said Roger, and any friend of yours shall be mine also, if he will"
 "With all my heart, my dear sir said Walter, in his frank, pleasant way. ex- tending his hand, which was most cor dizlly taken.
 "BAssie," said Walter, as they sat alone in the little sitting-room, after din- ner, was on my way to distant town. to engage in business in large machine shop there had an excellent offer. and, after you Jeff home. cared very li,- tic where went: anything was better than staying there, where we had spent % many happy hours together; and 1 felt that our happiness was over. tried all manner of means to secure your ad- dress, but in vain. called at your house one day, and your mother literally turned me out of doors- So many people prefer money to industry, and sheer at the brown hands of the working-man said he, bitterly.
 "But, Walter, so long as am true to you. what need we mind what any one says or thinks. You know am ready and willing to so with you anywhere.
 ''fes, do know it, my darling,"
 Well, to make long story short. through the kindness ofthe rough, though generous-hearted farmers, the passengers were all conveyed to the next station that night. where branch-road would carry them to their journeys end. Waiter. however, remained with us. Many letters which he showed us proved beyond all doubt that he was a mechanic of the first class and his clear blue eyes and brown. toil-hardened hands gave proof of an honest soul within, and steady, indus trious habits. Indeed, his only crime was that of poverty that was terri ble one in the eyes of Harriet H Harrington. Wealth and position were her idols the gods to whom she bowed and she scrupled not to break the heart of one so good and sweet as her own Bessie.
 One quiet, dreamy morning. about a month after the events just related, there was wedding in the pretty church near OUT cottage among the hills. \ little girl with very resoiute face and eyes full of happy. loving light, and man thought ful beyond his years. kind. brave. tender hearted. were made man and wife.
 A letter was despatched the same day. informing Bessie's parents of her mar riage.
 Walter wen; directly to the dis,an, town which he had intended to visit. to prepare a home for his bride, leaving her with us. safely sheltered in the embrace Of the kindly hills.
 Of course, Bessies mother was terribly angry at first her father, a weak little man. who was content to walk in the path marked out for him by his wife, made no serious oblection-in fact, think he rather liked Walter from the first. But such anger cannot last, and reconcilia- ton soon followed. especially when Wal ter was found to be a money-making man. and sure to make his mark in the world
 Every summer Bessie and Walter come to us. for no one is quite like Aunt Linda and d'' Uncle Roger" to Bessie, who will always seem to us the brown eyed child who made our life so bright for few short months, although her own seemed so dark.
 And Roger and have never regretted our part in the work of making two young hearts happy.