Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-03-13

Her eyes as brown ss forest brook
a tender mouth and md ! sancy look. ~ II.
And pale brown hair with : golden CLINT
.In abort, that my future wife might be
; iGa,, dear little Rose, and only yoh
'sIsn't it funny?-i wished that, too
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a beautiful morning. Miss Olney
thought, g she carried her bird cage TO
the window, and threw open the shut
tiers to let IN the full Hood OF Light.
Across the way 9 fresh young voice was
singing. Little Miss Olney paused to
listen, and Q dreamy smile curved her
lips, and as she tended her flowers,
pausing now and then to inhale their
fragrance, sigh escaped her lips. Old
memories were stirring her heart as she
went about her work to-day, for this
sunshiny 18th day of February seemed
SO like another IN the long ago.
Long? Yes, the time was long count
ed by years; and yet, as memory went
back it seemed but as yesterday. She
was only sixteen then---'sWeet sixteen
Jack - Brown tg7r's called her-and they often
called her a"httle tilrt" In those days.
did she deserve the name?" she Won
'dered; and then she fell to criticising
her own conduct and thinking over those
old days. All, memory was "bitter
sweet, +" as it often is, and as she thought
of her conduct to Jack on that ver-to-
'be-forgotten night, sort OF self-pity
stirred her heart--pity for the young
self that was no more. No, it was not
the Same "Lida" that, loving Jack with
All her heart WAS vet bonnd To torment
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INN and see how we'll ne loved her. She
had never meant to jilt him-never-and
when on that night at the valentino mar.
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take her home' leaving JACK, VINO had
escorted her there, to find out at his
leisure that she was gone. and she fnllv
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day and make 1t all up. 10 ne sure, she
expected to be very penitent, and of
course it was real mean, but then he
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oue "oA o'o ~. 'ome 'no neA. -usty'
nor the next day after that. And then
she heard that he had gone away. Gone
a,vav without seeing her r. Was dread.
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tul'' out' aias u was true, anu h1da
Olney actually cried herself sick. Then
she resolved she would learn his address
and would write to him; but before she
could carry her plans into execution a
terrible shock came to her. Jack was
married.! And, following close upon
the news, Jack sent her letter telling
her of the fact she had already heard,
and inclosing her letters, requesting her
to send back his own. v
Grieving was useless, but Miss Olney
could not help grieving, and as she sent
back his letters and all the dear little
souvenirs Of their broken compact she
felt as if life was hardly worth Che hay
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But though her own folly and Jack
rash haste had married the lives of both,
Miss Olney grew int. q nobler, better
woman for the sorrow she had endured.
Doing with all her might" every duty
her hands found to do, living life of
quiet usefulness. she found herself at
thirty if not positively happy, at least
content. An old mpid they called her
now, but little she cared as she went
her quiet way. She lived in rented
rooms, where she had lived now for
wears, for the spirit of change did not
often visit the quiet little village Of Lo-
raine, and the quiet old couple who
owned and occupied past Of the dwell
ing were her dearest friends. The
modest sign over her door proclaimed
her q dressmaker, but it was hardly
needed. for every one miles around
knew little Miss Olney" we'll. .@@
: To day her landlord and his wife
were away, and her assistants off on
their holiday. She, too, was keeping
holiday all alone, sitting with idle
hands for this one day, and letting
memory bring the t'face Of her Douglas,
tender and true "Poor Jack!' Only
dust md ashes now ; ana vet he never
seemed dead to her. How the tears
would steal down as she thought of his
blighted life: his early death. All. If
she only knew how he died, this .syoung
hero 81 ours" He had proposed to and
married his wife all in one day-married