The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-21
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URSULA'S YR EASURE.


URSULA'S TREASURE.
ny MINNIE DOUGLAS.
II unkept walks, trsiling,neglecte creep
ers and q heavy overgrowth Of ivy ate
the efsentials Of tho picturesque, Clovis
Court presented them all. There we,c
box trees that had formerly represented
pyramids, garden ssats and lively growing
cocks-but tho hands that had pruned
them wero gone, and the spectator now
only saw ragged and untidy foliage, The
bowling green, once like velvet, had added
nettles and thistles to lis own rank crop.
Could one OF tho beauties who century
ago bowled there have seen It she would
have picked up her dainty skists and fled.
A beauty Of a century later stands
amongst the desols!ion. What picture Ia
the anburn.hRired maiden leaning againpt
an old, weather-bea.en sun. dali Simply
clad in dark gray dresa, q bunch Of pale
yellow chryssnthemums carelessly fixed
near the throat, her white little banda
clasped before her, Ursula Barring looked
sadly over the waste. IA M ~
True lovelincss seldom rests long unseen,
and large rift III the brick wall displayed
our heroine 10 the gszs Of a Young man
who was riding slowly past. it was but a
minutes work to dismount, eecure the
bride to convenient tree and bcale the
broken wall. With heightened color and
quick steps, which caused the fair msiden
to turn with startlad blush, Guy Norman
reached the suu.dial. .,'',..r, ~
MIR. Norman! why are you kere?"
BECAUSE you are here" replied the
young man coolly, snd Of the aame time
hrniy securing one Of the little white
hands. d 7 .l; =, - y ~
But" demurred Ursula, teebly trying
to Iepossesa herself OF her hand, "wS ars
forbidden to meet. Your uncle" a
rs an old reptile! UIsie, be sensible
They keep uaaaart, heaven knows, cleverly
enough; lot us be happy, my darling, while
We have the chance Il IN III. - u.
Inc girls face paled-she trembled and
looked down. Guy, love you-oh /! in.
deed love you but my mother trusts me,
She said your uncle had told her he could
no. hear Of anything between III; and We
are very proud, Guy !" & sF;.i.. !,
Ies young man dropped her hand
hrstily. al. -
"You don't love as I do, or uncle'a
mother would BIO nothing 10 you" he raid,
haughtily. So $3.50
Ursula looked up with erloyely tremu.
loua gszs Of love-" ss[F s =,
."Uncles, perhaps not but mothers Guy!
What are girls good Tor who do not love
and honor mothers like mine 2"
4 handsome; winning face stooped I'd
her own and begged forgiveness. They
had been plightcd lovers q week ago, and
the. break which prudent COUNCILS had
made was 80 recent, will beg you TO for.
give my Ursula, who yielded her lovely
lips to kissthose waiting Tor them. 1t was
brief bliss, though, for she heard voice
calling her. IN - 80
@"Good-bye, my darling" murmured the
yet" u.s. "A 3Fii3 4 80
"Oh, for Dame Ursula's treasure n
sighed the modern Ursula, as, half laugh.
| ing, she sped away to the cottage across
the road. u = =
For to livoiI Clovis Court without a
retinue OF servants snd 8 huge bill for re.
pairs were impossibilitieaj 80 the widowed
Mrs. Barring, her lovely Ursula and q
younger daughter, helpless through spinal
disease, lived with the old servant in a
little cottage which overlooked their
ruined inheritance. .s5.s.5 30, IN
Tea WAC over, and Ursula knelt BY the
invalid's sofa. mora, darling, 1t il 80
hard, 20 hard !" che sobbed, leaning her
head against her eister's band. How ten.
derly that gentle hsnd careesed her rs
lake heart, my Geareet, something will
happen veto help ycu!'
| Ursula raiscd her fearful lace with an
Rttempt OF o smile. IA. z'
do you mean Dame Ursuls's treasuresq''
Atwhich Nora laughed aoftly, for nothing
seemed further uf than that, Now some
fifty yeara before this date Clovis Court
was the dwelling place OF the rich Dame
Ursula Barring. She emaesed riches yea,
by year for her only child, 9 son, who hsJ
gone abroad, anu sho meant to make him
wealthy and prosperous on bis return. One
cad day Dame Ursula had tiding that he,
son was dead. She Immediately became
demcnted and lived is Il wild sort OF dream
for q year, and then died suddenly. Then
came news that the son had lett q wife snd
little boy to mourn him, and search was
made for ths property. Previous to her
death the old dame hsd converted ell she
could into money, and now not penny
could be found for her fighttul heirsI The
excitement became great, and certain dis.
honest and adventurous persons had aurrep.
titiously raised and opened Dame Ursula's
coffin, thinking she Ind tried to take hes
1 wealth with her; but all in vain. In queer
writing, done with her diamond ring on a
window in her bedroom (the ring was miss
ing now we're tho words; thine will show
where my treasure lies.h
at the end Of fifty years her lovely great
granddaughter Ursula could not wed The
nan she loved because he depended on The
will Of her uncle, and abe had nothing
The widowed mother had allovad as nsny
excavations to take place o. Clovis Coufl
90 could happen without bringing down
the wallay then shs devoted herself with
great thrift 10 living on the mex
10 nothing she had, and Interested hersej
in poultry, pigs and repairing linen. She
did not moan over her fortunes, and tried
to mako her girls cheerful and happy, sue
eeeded admirably until that terrible fellow
"Love" appeared. ; $F5.. I
Guy Norman was packed of to the Con
tinenl just as tho dull wiAter days set in
praula could not bear to think Of Chris.
mas, and hated helping to make plum
puddings With q sore heart. She was o.
pitiiul in appearance one day that Nor,
begged her TO go for walk, and not MAXI
The pudding salt with team! y, 3, 81
Glad to escape, Hrsvla hurried out into
the wintry road. Everything looksd dull
and gray, and the girl, alter walking brisk
ly for time, turned by eide path Int,
the garden OF tho deserted court Sht
wandered past the stately windows; then
with natural inclination for eyerythin,
IS dismnl as herself, she resolved to explor
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