The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1884-06-25

i-r -ttH" = 4etsta eAAFsfs eAAsfs y isasNftf ~ ~
cause ] came Of age the other day,
aud ! have much more than my
pay now. Is that what you are
thinking ofY
elbow could | thinkabout that9
Why will you not understand,
KinlochS Your proud old father
and your silyer.haired stately
mother, how could they bear for
one oftheir sons TO- marry an Irish
peasant girl?'
@'You have nothing to learn
from the highest lady in the land,
my darling he said, fondly; and
younger sons are not expected TO
marry heiresses.'
9But sheshook her head resolute.
| lS
"Andis this how you lightly
flung away a mans happiness for
IlifeS
ga few days pain now, TO save
you yeatsof regret IN The future
1.-THE. young man looked at the
girl, perplexed. Where could she
have learned such sentiments2-
where had she gained the strength
to express them so freely2
"He then said slowly and solemn.
ly, as if taking an OATH look yon.
der, Kittyl That is the evening
star. So surely as it will shine in
the heavens Eve, ten or twenty
years, as surely will my love re.
main unchanged for you. Bid ME
come back when you will Kitty,
and If l have breath in my body
and strength to do it, / will come
"'Come back in ten years, Kin.
loch. Twill be trte to you and
wait till then. l will try and i'm
prove myself-make myself more
worthy of your love-
"Keep as you are Kitty-re.
main unchanged said the young
man, jealously, lest when l come
again | shall not see in you the
last look 1 took away with me, my
life, my lovel he murmured pass.
ionately; and kissing her sweet
brow and mouth, folding her in one
last lembraco, he sighed and left
her.
"sho turned to go into the cot.
tage. A large, downy moth which
had been humping against the lit.
tie window sailed in before her,
circled thrice round the candle and
flew up into its alluring bright.
ness. The candle tlickered and
went out. The moth dropped down
with a thud upon the table, dead,
kitty, with her eyes blinded
with tears, and with shaking
hands relit, though somewhat tar.
dily, the light.
"Aitty, my girl said the old
man, pointing significantly to the
singed insect, don't be as foolish
as that silly thing, Its eyes were
dazzled, and it had no strength 10
resist the fatal fascination
"'Father,' said the girl, STOPPING
down and kissing his gray locks,
"yOu may trust me-"
Here Aunt Bell stopped.
"Is it interesting. Shall l go
on2"
"oh, dol Did he come baok2"
said her niece.
"Well, the years passed on, and
the girl was ioked and teased, and
had many offers Of marriage; but
she was firm and would listen tc
none.
"At last the young fellows grew
weary of their fruitless attempts at
love.making and the greater part
LETT her alone.
"a few, more unkind, would ask
when she expected her young gen.
tleman home, and taunted her in
cutting speeches and insinuations
"Nine years went BY, and Then
there came the battle Of Waterloo
when officers and men went down
in hundreds together.
"still no word from Kinloch, ant
Kitty's heart, which had never
failed in lightness, nor step in its
speed, now sank and faltered fol
the first time,
early in the next year-in
fact, on New Years night-the of
ficers gave q ball, and every girl
and young man for miles around
was invited.
"Girls were in great demand
and | went down 10 my aunL't
house especially for that night.
81 was anxious to see Kitty my.
self, and to find out how the years