Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-13
CHAPTER MI.

WHICH SHOWS HOW POWERFUL THE WORDS
OF THE WICKED ARE WHEN THEY FALL
FROM THE LIPS OF LOVER THE MAN
BEHIND THE ELM TREE.
No one ever heard Of girl allowing
herself to be guided in relation to her af-
fections, and we never will until the
Tail of time vanishes in chaos!'
They will listen to advice, and probably
with the intention of taking advantage OF
it. Will determine in their own mind
that the advice which has been given
them is for their best and highest inter-
ests; will go and meet their lover with
the firm resolve to break off all further
connection between them, and carry a
blush-rose in their fingers to give to him
as reminder perhaps. of the delicious
heeting moment-"soon to be repeated,
never again-forever" which line we
have extracted from the letter of a bloom
ing damsel to lover to whom she was
about to give the congo.
Now this was precisely the case with
Barbara Glendon. She determined TO act
on the advice given by Gertrude and see
her lover, and put the several questions
to him our heroine had suggested, so she
met him by appointment the following
evening, and was received with such
warm indications of overwhelming affec-
tion, that she forgot entirely her resolu-
tions and purposes, and fell deeper and
deeper in love than ever.
"Have you reflected Barbara, darling,
over the proposition that made you t
our last meetingY' asked Phillip Blake
after his first ELUSIVE greeting was over.
"You cannot but fully understand, dear
est, the strength and integrity of the love
/ bear you. In spirit you are with mo
day and night, and without you life j
not single charm for me. / would W =
lingly have our marriage known TO all g
world, but am surrounded by circum-
stances of such n nature as to make it
impossible for the present. Should my
father suspect it for n moment. the large
fortune he intends leaving me-, would
surely go to others, and, darling, would
be penniless. For that, Of course, 1 would
not care. II is your comfort and pleasure
that I think of-in few months, howcv-
er, things will assuredly change, and you
would then be installed in the position in
which / so much desire to place you-that
of my own beloved wife. And again, Bar
bara, private marriages are very common
events-indeed the union of my father
was of that very kind; have pretty
home already prepared, and / only wait
your consent to bring you there. Think
darling, for moment of my warm devot'
ed affection-of the Woodworking, thank
less life you are now enduring, and the
home of ease, pleasure and contentment
with my answering love, all your own
dearest, that / joyfully offer you-and
consent; speak darling and tell me that
you will marry me-"
The honeyed words of Phillip Blake
sank deeply into the warm and affection
ate heart OF the deluded girl-a vision o.
home amid wealth and splendor--a posi-
ton she felt herself well fitted to adorn--
a life spent in one round of noble enjoy
ment, among associates with whom she
had always longed to mingle-such a life
with its high pleasures and golden prom
ises-contrasted with her present poverty
and obscure position, blinded every facul
| ty Of refection--and such n future with
the man she loved so fervently and fond
| ly, seemed to her almost too pleasureablt
| for belief.
But still she hesitated, not from doubt
not from fear that time would dispel The
| vision-but because of an indefinablt
something which she could not realize OF
understand.
"Ob, Phillip, hardly know how to an
swer you'll do not doubt your love, bu'
something seems to tell me, that to do az
you wish me, would not be well--did ] al