The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-07-19
A TALE OF THE HUDSON
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not many miles above it's mouth, LIVED
Graham Stiles, retired moneybroker
rich, proud and INSCRIPTIONS. He was
past his sixtieth year, of spare, bu
siuewy frame, and with cold, steel-gray
eyes that gliltered with restless, I'm
easy glance from beneath close drawn
and shaggy brows.
His house was large, though occupied
only by himself and an invalid widow
with her daughter, besides a few serv-
ants.
None save himself knew why Graham
Stiles had given shelter for so many
years to the Widow Lee and her daugh.
ter Emily. AS Emily grew from lovely
glrlhood to still more lovely woman.
hood, becoming the exact counterpart,
of her mother, Graham Stiles found
the hard faced demon OF avarice Yield
ing ample room IN his bosom for the
softer passion OF love. This prompted
him to seclude her as much as possible
from society, that he might so educate
her that she should look upon him more
as friend than guardian, and, that
step attained, to become both friend
and lover.
In the summer of 1850 Graham
Stiles was strolling, at sunset, upon
The grassy lawn that bordered the lofty
banks of the Hudson, chatting bitterly
the consciousness that Emily rather
stunned than esteemed him, when,
hearing voices as if from the face OF
the rocky bank, he drew near and
looked cautiously down.
Not ten faet balpvv hin, oaata1 r,nop
ledge of rock coated with soft and
thickly growing moss, sat Emily Lee
and handsome young man of twenty
tour or twenty-five years of age, named
William Lewis, conversing III a tone
gentle and thrilling, yet distinctly aud
lble to the keen ears so Jealous above
Graham Stiles set his teeth ha d,
and his cheek grew ashy white, while
his knotted brows grew crimson red,
as he saw that the beautiful girl rested
her head upon the manly shoulder OF
her companion, whose arm encircled her
waist with an accepted lovers freedom.
The listener soon learned that the love
OF the youthful pair had been phghted
Some of the remarks of William were
so uncomphmentary to Stiles that he
made his presence known by an angry
exclamation.
The lovers were upon their feet in
an instant, and Willie found all his
muscular nerve necessary to sustain
the form of Emily as they climbed the
rugged path leading to the lawn above.
Had you not listened you would
have been all the merrier," said Willie
as he stood near Graham Stiles. Il love
this young lady-have loved her for
months. She loves me. Face him,
Emily! He is a man and so am /. You
seem to have some guardianship over
her, real or assumed, and so I ask you
to consent to our marriage. | ask moth.
ing but herself, for / have enough"
Graham Stiles had listened to this
speech with his usually restless eye fixed
upon the frank and handsome visage OF
the sloop-owner, as if he lOnged to turn
ann to stone, to dust, to anything that
he might set his foot upon; and as Willie
concluded he pressed his sharp teeth
hard upon the neither lip until a drop OF
deep red blood trickled down upon his
chm. Yet he answered nothing to
Willie, but turning to Emily he said
with burst of wrath that expanded in
w ShEIlI scream OF rage:
10 your mother, ungrateful girl and
II ever again you dare to exchange &
word, glance with this presumptuous
Insolent, rascally-"
STEADY as You are, said Willie, cor
may forget the color of your hair. ant
thnk | am striking bully of mist,
morning"
Go, Willie, pleaded Emily ma,
seem ungrateful in his eyes-perhaps
am-but | have no serf drop in m,
veins to be thus addressed, and l tel
you that l love you, here before him
and will ever love you, Willie Lewis
We shall meet again"
She gave her hand to her lover a
they parted, she going rapidly TOWARD
the house, he toward the path that lie,
to the river road; but first he exchange,
defiant glance with his enemy AM
said
Neither you nor hundred like Vol
can take her love from me, Graham
Stiles"
"Ihere'll be blood from your heart o
NINE when we meet again, William
Lewis" muttered the other, as he turne
upon his heel and paced slowly to
ward the house, planning a way to re
move this formidable obstacle.
When Emily reached her mother
SIDE, she was surprised to see the inva
lld sitting III her arm chair, with tn
clear and unmistakable light of fully re
stored reason III her eyes, and a hus
OF Joy upon her pale cheeks tina
seemed like the heat of some inwar
and lasting rapture.
On, mother cried Emily, "vo,
look so well, so happy! You have no
looked so since poor father was lost q
sea ten years ago"
You remember the day. the dark
and bitter day, nv child repIied In
mother, and with a voice clear and mn
sicai' when we were told of our great
our infinite loss You were but a chill,
SlSht Years old, and then we lived il
New York"
Mother, motherl" exclaimed Emily
ciaSplng her parents neck and kissin,
her fondly, 'you have regained one
nan OF all lost then, for. dear mother
you nave regained your reason. Ipra
our Heavenly Father that it NAV neve
wander again"
L ieeI that 1t will not, nv child
now hsten TO me and hear what has. b
the mercy of God, restored nv long
lost reason. Ten years ago we wer
happy IN New York, for each dav W
looked to see your dear father return
and, when his ship was signaled in tn
bay, do you remember how we rompe
and danced?"
All, mother, do not recall it now
sobbed Emily, as her mind sketched III
scene with memory unfailing pencil.
Then came, not your father, bu
Graham Stiles, who had been his mate
de told us that your father had bee
slain among the islands of the Pacif
by the savages, and that You had n
father, no husband, We no home. an,
thst l swooned, and revived to swoo,
again, and so on l suffered till nv res
son was deserving me, and I consciou
that was going mad, and fiercelv struo
Cling against that madness; but mad