Connecticut western news., 1883-01-24
CHADSEY'S REVENGE.

Helen Grantham and was refused, he was very angry man. He knew he was homely, ignorant and awkward, that his tastes were not refined and that his home circle was not one in which lady could be happy he also knew that Miss Grantham was very pretty, accomplished and the inmate of home which every one delighted to visit. But he was equally certain that he was the sole owner of small factory that yielded him several thousand dollars year, and he had been taught to believe that no faults of birth, education or manners would prevent man of means marrying into any family that had little or no money.
 Miss Granthamis refusal therefore amazed him, and as, thanks to genera lions of mean ancestors, he recognized no rights but his own, and had never ex- perienced the faintest throb of chival- rous feeling, he soon came to hate Miss Grantham as much as he had loved her, and when the young woman soon after ward accepted and married Frank Hatch CT, the rejected lover swore he would have revenge on both Helen and her husband.
 In any one but 8 brute the desire for revenge would soon have been gratifed by the experiences of MT. and Mrs Hatcher, for Frank, although one of the charming fellows whom all women adore, had in business but little stability and shrewdness. He made bad debts for his employers, spent his salary before he earned it, and ran so heavily into debt that his brightness and his wife's bloom rapidly disappeared. Several acts of care. lessness caused him to lose his situation, and he reached a degree of desperation that would have made almost any vin- dictive enemy pity him. Just then the civil war broke out and Frank was lucky enough to obtain commission, the in. come of which brought comfort to his wife and baby. But even in the army his carelessness got him into many mis. fortunes, the last of which was that he lost his life by not exhibiting proper vigilance at an outpost
 On hearing of Hatcher's death all his creditors forgave him and rendered then sympathies to his wife; but Chadsey instead of burying his hate in the deaG soldiers grave, felt more vindictive thai ever. It seemed to him that hi opportunity had escaped him, so h. added intensity to his hatred and heapet all upon the dead mans memory. Helel bravely endeavored to earn living fo herself and child, aid Chadsey took room from which he could see her ever, cold, wet morning as she hurried to tn store in which she stood all day as saleswoman. Now, he fully believed sh regretted having rejected him; now h could not doubt she would gladly accep him were he to propose. The though gave him the most blissful sensation c his life, and he swore to himself that h would rather die thousand deaths thai let her see penny of his money.
 And he found, to his great delight, new object to hate; 1t was the son 0 Helen and Frank Hatcher. The bab, whom Hatcher had left when he went t the war grew rapidly, and was as mis chievous as boys in general. He had hi fair proportion of quarrels with othe boys in the village, and Chadsey some times was delighted beyond measure D, the spectacle of little Frank bein. severely bounded by a larger boy Chadsey was also pleased Sn recognizin, on the boy, from time to time, clothing that undoubtedly had been made fror garments that Frank Hatcher, Senior had worn years before.
 Occasionally Chadsey would hear ths some one had proposed to the prett widow, but without success, and mol than once, when wondering aloud wh the pink and white fool, as he alway .called her, declined suitors with none, he was answered with:
 Perhaps she's waiting for you, Chat sey."
 This remark was always accompanie by coarse laugh, but the object did n vince, for he took in earnest what WI meant for fun. Waiting for him w that the reason she always passed b lodgings on her way to her work? w it to affect him to tenderness that sl