Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-21
CHAPTER VII.

last ntpfpent and bis grandfather con-
cluded TO go as far as the Mississippi river
with frfna- He was gong for an indefinite
number Of years, for his education had TO
be finished with foreign study and travel.
Anything less won d not satisfy the tas-
tidious old grandfather, aud the young
man himself had no objection TO the
plan.
lie appreciated his advantages, and
Dade fair TO be all his family could wish.
C0rdelia wiped her tears away and
gazed dolefully after the carriage.
''Oh. dear, what miserable, lonely
place this is. l know shall despise 1t
now"
Am included?7 inquired MagdaleD,
laying an arm round the aggrieved girl.
"Of course not, though you DO st nd
tnere as dry-eyed as--as If there were no
such Things as sympathy aud feeling"
II am sorry MIR. Lawrence has gone,
ana am sorry for you, Cordelia"
1es, suppose SO, IN sort OF dim
| way, but you don't know what 1t is TO
nave your brother 20 of. knowing that he
VIII very probably travel all over the
world before you can see him again.
NO, bit II IL were my brother | should
want TO 90 with him"
And cross the big horrid ocean. and
! DC wrecked on desert island and starVe,
I or be eaten up by cannibals? Well, 1
! love Lawrence, but | don't want TO go
with him.
: Tney watched the carriage until dis
lance and yellow dust hid II from view,
then turned back to take the thread OF
/ their daily life.
| Weeks, months, years glided smoothly
away. Never did "a family prosper more
/ Than the Cammack's. Their slaves gave
them the least trouble Of any in the
/ country, and their cotton fields never
Jailed 10 yield them a rich return. Yes,
they prospered and grew ricn in lands and
negroes every year, aud the Old master
| Wliltully smut his ears 10 the rumOrs OF
war which floated over the country. He
! paced the long pleasant yerandas, or
walked over the extensive plantation
| building Tor tho future when Lawrence
would be master, and Lawrence's chill
! dren play around mis- tOttering knees:
! yes, even that. He was bale and strong;
why should ne not live to see his boy
married and settled down family man.
And the overseer followed the hands
and attended TO the business, also seeing
visions and dreaming dreams, only oc-
caslonally reused and troubled by those
warning notes of a coming conflict. He
tolled and saved, one fair image ever be-
! fore him. Magdelen was his bride, his
! hope, his love. Conscious Of bis own
dehclences he eagerly welcomed every
/ chance which presented Itself ID make her
future more assured success.
When COrdelia was II ner mother de-
cidod to make a change in her educational
course; to send her to a fashionable FIN
lshing school. To Magdalen it was a sad
breaking up OF the pleasant time they had
studied together, aud she felt it far more,
though she said little about it, than Cor
/ della, wac lamented one minute and re-
| joiced the next.
/ Social position, equality had never
I troubled the children. They had been life
! long friends and never once mad Mrs.
( Cammsek limited TO her daughter that the
/ overseer's child was hardly the proper
/ one to bestOw her friendship on. She was
/ proud woman and appreciated her posi-
1 ton, but she was not a foolish one. She
did not see any harm IN the friendship
Magdalen neither gave herself superior
a rs over IL, nor humbly cringed at the
honor, but simply acted as though o. a
/ perfect equality with her friend, and Mrs.
I Cammack looked on her With great kind
lfness and won her undyiHg gratitude.
OF course when COrdella went away
the gOverness would return to the city,
and Magdalen considered her education
virtually finished. She did not intend to
cease her studies, but where she had here
tofOre been blessed with good teacher
AID a bright feliow-pupil she must now
dig on alone.
Her father made very few comments on
the change, but ne grew angularly
thoughtful, smoked a great deal, aud said
little in the evening, and often replied SO
absently TO his daughters remarks that
she began to wonder and feel uneasy about
him.
COrdelia kissed her relatives and her
friend, babe the negroes farewell, and
with Miss Evelyn 10 protect and guard
her, departed; and the school room was
closed up, and MagdAlen carried her
books home, and marked out a severe
course OF study for herself.
Two or three days passed, and on Sun
day afternoon Grant went alone to Ma
rie's grave, and sat on a fallen headstone
near it a long time, meditating. When
the evening shadows began TO fall. he
got up and walked slowly back towards
home.
/ Magdalen leaned on the gate watching
I for him, and when he saw her there be
/ drew a hard breath, and such a panied
look rested on MS face as had not been
there since they carried his fair, sweet
wife away from him, and laid her 10
sleep with the dead.
"HOw can do itg Al! me: il VIII not
/ be natural TO come home and miss her
/ from that gate, my sweet girl
She opened the gate for him, and to.
] BetueF bneg went mo lDS mouse. AiU6i
supper be sat down on the little veranda
ia bis favorite chair and called her tC
bear him company.
That's rignt, sit no close and put youi
head on my knee Just as you used 10 dc
when head and knee were OF the same
height. You are growing tall, MagdaleD, y
But not TOO tail TO lind the old position
unpleasant. II does not hurt 10 bend my
neck a little," she said, smiling, aud lean
ing cOutenteOly against him.
He sighed, and another spasm OF long
ing and regret clOuded his sunburnt
weather-beaten face.
you are Is, MagiRlen."
"Ies, sir"
"Almoet grown
She lifted her head and looked with soft
searching tenderness az him.
Are you sorry, iaderY
Baby lips could not manage father
very distinctly, and so was "fader." anC
she still chung " the old name, much {,
bis secret pleasure. r. n
IL am no aglai.mg girl. though II !,
only natural thaUYOe 8nDuid grow. Tim,
docs not Stop 10 human bidding, and
would not hhydlt, tDf bomany would hav,
cause 10 hinder j. that We would stanC
stOckstill til the resurrection. How
would yuM hke 20 10 lO Ge0rgiaY'
"CO liVefi' a Little sinking a. her heart
mo, % schO0bH LOOKING over her heat
into The dusky'rghighf.
cob, falef -bni what would you doY
1rst in voice otrapture, then With hon