The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-08-27

''That night Kinloch made his way
to the gardeners cottage. His face
was pale, but he had determined
look at the corners of his. mouth, he
carried his head well thrown back, and
stepped lightly along. The. girl had
just set her fathers supper before him,
and had gone out to rest in the garden
and enjoy the still beauties of the
night. The air was fresh and the full
moon was hurrying through the star
spangled course. The reeds in the
neighboring streams rustled and shiv-
cred in the breeze, and the night moths
bumped against Kitty's white kerchief
on their way to the fatal candle in the
window. The girls eyes filled with
tears.
"'WhY do you weep, KittyP said
voice at her side.
1.-THE girl buried her face in her
hands and sobbed afresh.
" You are going away she said
-" Yes, l am going away, but you
will come with me, Kitty, for you love
me- said Kinloch.
-" Come back in ten years, Kinloch.
| will be true to you and wait till then.
l will try and improve myself make
myself more worthy of your love-
+" Keep as you are, Kitty; remain
unchanged, said the young man, ieal-
ously, 'lest when l come back again
shall not see in you the last look that
took away with me, my life, mylovep he
murmured, passionately, and then
kissed her sweet brow and mouth, and
folding her in one last embrace he left
her.
GAS she went into the cottage a.
large moth sailed in before her, flew
up into the alluring brightness of the
candle and dropped dead on the table.
CO. Kitty, my girl, said the old man,
pointing Significantly to the insect,
don't be as silly as that thing. Its
eyes were dazzled, and it had no
strength to resist the fatal fascination
80 Father, you may trust me-, said
the Girl sbGnulng down ana kissing the
gray hair.
Here Aunt Bell stopped.
els it interesting? Shall l 60 on?n
"Oh, do! Did he come back?" said
her niece.
"Well, the years passed on, and the
girl was joked and teased and had
many offers of marriage, but she was
firm and would listen to none. Atlast
the young fellows grew weary of their
fruitless attempts at love-making, and
the greater part left her alone. A few,
more unkind, would ask when she ex-
pected her young gentleman home,
and tainted her in cutting speeches
and insinuations. Nine years went by,
and there came the battle of Waterloo,
when officers and men went down to-
gether in hundreds. Still no word
from Kinloch, and Kitty's heart, which
had never failed in it's lightness nor her
step in its speed, now sank and faltered
for the first time.
"'Early in the next year-in fact, on
New Years night-the officers gave a
ball, and every girl and young man for
miles around was invited Girls were
in great demand then, and Invent down
to my aunt's house. especially for that
night. l was anxious to see Kitty my
self and to find out how the years had
passed over her head. You think,
perhaps, twenty-six was rather old to
be called girl-do you, Kitty. Well,
| felt almost as young as when was
sixteen"
"Kate Daly-that was her name
went to help the ladies unshawl them
selves, and to be ready with needle
and thread when the unhappy damsel
with torn skirt or flounce should re-
quire her assistance. She was then
twenty-eight, and the young, girlish
beauty had developed into the most
lovely of women. Only when her face
was at rest, and you,saw the suspicion
of an anxious heart upon it, would you
have guessed her age. She wore
pale, tea-rose-tinted gown, with ruff1es
of lace of her own making at the neck
and sleeves
cit was wild and stormy night
without, Just such one as this, but it
only served to enhance the brightness
and animation of the scene within. The
dancing of the high-heeled shoes and
the silvery laughter rose higher than
the roar of the wind, and the tinkling
wine-cups drowned all sound of rain.
Suddenly there was a lull; we stopped
dancing; chill blast swept round us;
we turned and saw silent figure stand
ing in the doorway.
''He was tall and handsome, but his
large, black cloak, carelessly thrown
over his shoulder, was dripping with
the rain and making large puddles on
the floor. His legs, booted and spurred,
were mud up to the hips.
Just at that moment the, clock
struck twelve, and the year 1916 had
broken. Some of the nervous girls
screamed and ran behind their part
ners. Was it an apparition? Was it an
i'll omen for the coming year?
81 seem to frighten you, friends.
Does nobody know mep'
kitty at that moment was bringing
in a jug of iced claret at another door.
She heard the voice and turned round
trembling, with wild cry:
Kinloch, Kinloch, | knew you
would come backr And amidst a
crash of breaking glass-for she let the
vessel slip from her hands-she sprang
to his side, and disappeared in the
folds of his great cloak
How splendid, Aunt Bell!' said her
niece, drawing a deep breath; ..but if
she married him then don't see why
she should not have done so before
''Ah, but she was a wise girl; she
knew it would test his constancy, and
prove if he really loved her. A young
mans love at twenty-one- she
knew so well would not be his choice
at thirty-one.
"What become of them, aunt?n
"Oh, they married and travelled
about a great deal, and finally both
died out in India within few months
of ZACH other. There was ono son. and