Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-08-21
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faulkner held out his hand to
her, q movement which the lady's true
knight sought to interpose but she re-
ceived the advance graciously, laying
her tapered ieweled fingers In the prof
fered palm.
horton moved away with gesture of
irritation. 1t was evident, he thought.
that he was being played with, and made
the victim OF some idiotic connubial
quarrel.
The next words, however, that were
uttered arrested his attention, and made
him turn round once more.
" You have so far forgiven the dead
as not to shun the living who wishes you
no i'll"
1t was Faulkner who spoke. She ans
wered, in very low tones.
:" was laboring under great mis-
take, but the resemblance is so very
strong"
He was my twin brother. Though,
from my absence at the time of your
marriage, have never met you till now,
believe me | have searched for YOU un-
ceaslngly, hoping by my devotion and
solicitude to mitigate at least some por-
ton of my brothers fault"
I" heard you had come back, but 1
was afraid to meet you"
Exactly; so Mrs. Dent arranged
meeting for us this evening. l thought
you might be in the hotel, and was
searching for you when"
{" Your terrible likeness to the dead
produced the hasty impression that he
must have returned to life
Poor Jack ! May he rest in peace"
was the brothers pathetic word-trlbute,
but the widows eyes flashed.
And all this while Frank Horton
stood against the wall, rs though thor
oughly petrified. He did not even at
tempt to move when Rose took her
newly-found brother-in-law in to look at
the sleeping child; in fact, he did not
give any evidence of rousing up till
Dick Faulkner, coming once more into
the passage, shook him roughly by the
arm, as he said with laugh
Having supped full of horrors, my
boy, let us to better cheer"
A few seconds more and the five
stranded guests were sitting round Dick
Faulkner's festive board.
He smiled on the beautiful Rose, and
babe her remember that he had or
dered the fifth place to be laid in ex-
pectation Of her coming, and that, after
all the misery she had experienced from
alcohol, the temperance drinks were
also i'll her honor, a remark at which the
other men made grim faces, and, with
the exception of Horton perhaps, wished
that Mrs. Rose Faulkner had not been
there.
As for Frank, he was in such state
of spooniness that if he had been told
that the price of gazing into Roses
lovely eyes was to drink water for the
rest of his natural life, he would have
accepted it without demurrer. But he
had the pleasure of toasting her in some
thing stronger than temperance bever-
ages after all, for was it not an excep-
tional night, as she Justly observed, and,
as such, an exception to every rule?
"Besides, she added, with little,
modest smile, g it is the first time 1 have
ever been to bachelors supper party"
Six months later, when June sun
dispersed the icicles, and all nature
looked glad and bright, there was no
gladder, brighter face to be seen for
miles around than that of Rose (not
Faulkner now, but Rose Horton) as she
and Frank took possession OF pretty
cottage, where we will leave them in the
enjoyment of post nuptial existence.