The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-21
EPILOGUE.
AFTER LONG YEARS.

"Grandpapa! Ives, surely | see a
carriage approaching now between the
clumps of leafless trees marking the
meeting Of the crossroads. think it
is a carriage, butch. take the glass
yourself, grandpapa, and see whether
-
The speaker, a slender graceful maid
en-, half-girl ELECTROMAGNETIC all siren
surely, if symmetry Of form and per-
lection of feature may still be supposed
in this degenerate age to exercise their
word-old influence over the SONS of
men--turned flushed and glowing face
towards the grey-beard standing close
beside her, holding ont in hand which
trembed somewhat. the costly mother
of-pearl opera-glass through which
standing on tlptoe on the broad win
dow seat she had for some long mil
utes past been anxiously scanning the
horizon, in order to obtain the earliest
possible glimpse Of a certain convey
ance which was expected to make its
way about this time through the snow
covered country surrounding Burn
ham. For. reader, once again 1t is
Christmas Eve, albeit five long years
have rolled away since the events mar
rated in the last chapter London and
the adjacent hamletS are once more
covered with a spOtiess frozen pail Of
snow, the service OF trains between the
metropolis and the nearest station"
is still girt with many inconvenience
for the inhabitants Of the Burnham
district, 50 that travellers in many in
stances yet avail themselves of the
hackncy-coach mode Of progression,
despite OF obvious drawbacks, Drawing
the perils of the road in preference to
being deposited by trains half-a-doZen
miles right or left of their immediate
destination, in land where cabs "are
mott and Che friendly omnibus is un-
known.
mo, child" returned the baronet--
for he who stands beside the girl is
none other than Sir Jasper, marvellous
ly mellowed, softened, chastened by the
years which have sped since we saw
him last-as with tender smile he
pushed back the proffered glass.
Your eyes are younger than nine
besides. It's you, not |, who should be
privileged to obtain the first glimpse Of
the coming guest
glance at those incidents, strewn thick
as h'ackberries along life's high road,
which bad marked the intervening
| years; it viii be sufficient for our pur-
pose briefly here, and now, to state that
the fullest investigation, Instituted by
the baronet through properly-quali6ed
agencies, had but served to confirm and
! suhstantlate beyond all manner or
doubt his original and. in the first IN
stance, almost unaCcountable susplc-
ion that the girl Greta--incidentall
mentioned by DR., Hollngshead III his
| painful account Of the death OF the
| pauper at st, Georges IIospital--WaS
none other than the sole surviving child
Of Sir Jasper Eare's own Inflated
daughter, that fair frail Greta who had
50 tragically e$piated, not only AL tillal
delinquencies, but likewise the follies
Of her msspent life,
The chain Of evidence extending over
some half-dozen years, was easily
traced back to the poor young mothers
death, Greta's memory proved remark
ably reliable; her shrewdness and pre-
cocity, Of which ample proof has al
ready appeared in this narrative, faI
beyond her years; aud thus aided, the
astute head Of that private enquiry Of
flee to whose hands the conduct Of the
case was at once coniidpd, experienced
but little difficulty in pccng out salts
factorily the whole OF Greta Reinhart's
brief tragic history.
The child, moreover, was found K
have in her possession, when first sh,
was taken prisoner by Dick Carlisle!
strong arm on that henceforth ever me
morable 18th Of December, her unfor
tunate mothers Woodworking, as vel
, as the plain gold engagement Keeper,
I engraved with name and date. which
, In accordance with the primitive Gus
. tom of that part Of Saxony. Sir Jaspe
| Earle four-and-twenty years before LA,
0 placed on the finger Of that happie
"Greta,N whom he had loved and woI
E beneath her native lindens, and made
l proud English baronet's wife. Thes
. sacred symbols of the days which wer
A no more, the dying and deserted wife O
0 the Polish musician had sewn into
: scrap Of wash.leather, with some dir
: provision, 1t may be, of what was yet I
Q come, and suspended by piece OF tap
!. about her chiId's neck, enjoning he
d with her last breath to guard at til