The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-07-29
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JUST AFTER THE WAR.
"A STORY OF TEIE SOUTH
Written for The Week Sentinel By Eleanor Berne
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CHAPTER XII.

Ter. LIS now Ine HrSI OF apf1l, 50 III
only three weeks off. l go nearl,
every afternoon to Mrs. Everest's now
as she says its important to be vel
drilled. Lots of the other girls 90 too
70 practice the carols.
One day last week, as [ left there
/ felt like taking q walk, and came
around by Oakland, where the Living
stones live, that is when they're here
which is about once in twenty years
it seems to me.
The house was all open, the first
time since they've been away, and
work seemed to be going on. My
curiosity was excited, so [ went up to
the house, and asked workman what
it meant? He SAID the family were
coming home soon.
Dear me just to think they've been
gone this time, since / was five years
old, that makes ten years ago. Mrs.
Livingstone is dead, so there's only
the old gentleman, and Miss Rebecca
now in the family.
I've heard old Miss Polly Meggs
tell their history many a time, its
awful tragic. Miss Polly used to be
the house-keeper up there, and when
they went away, they gave her a
little house to live in, right back
of their home. She was sick long
time before she died, which was a
short while ago, and mother used to
send her soup lots of times, and | al
ways used to want to carry it, because
| wanted to hear her talk about old
times.
The story went this way. Years
ago when father ard mother were
first married, and AIR Hugh Living
stone was just grown, there came a
young man, a ,,widower with a little
boy, to be teacher for Mr.. Hugh's
younger brother.
Now there was a young lady cousin,
who lived III the Livingstone family,
and every body said she and Mr..
Hugh were to marry some day.
Well the teacher took nightly with
all the family, until he seemed to be
one of them. At first he was sad and
gloomy, mourning for his young wife
but soon he became gay and happy.
People didn't talk when they all
went on their long horseback rides
together. Mr.. Hugh and his cousin,
the teacher and his pupil were at
length seen daily riding about, then"
Miss Polly said "felks' tongues were
let loose, and they said Mr.. Hugh had
better look out" For Miss Polly al
so said Mr.. Hugh was ugly and awk-
ward and by no means brilliant had
no accomplishments, while Mr.. Deane
was handsome, with graceful fascinat-
ing manners; could sing like a god,
and was likely to captivate any young
lady's affection.
Time rolled on, and GOODNESS
sprang up between the teacher and
Mr.. Hugh. ] suppose the lady told
Mr.. Deane she wasn't engaged, for he
was devoted to her, but it all came to
an end one day, when it was told that
Mr.. Deane had accidentally shot him
self while out hunting, and sure enough
he died at sunset, with his head rest
ing on the lady's lap with his hand in
hers, and as Miss Polly said, "look-
his love to the last, Though too feeble
to speak
When 1t was all over; Mr.. Hugh
buried his I'LL will with his rival, and
showed "the nobility of his nature
as people said, by taking little Emory
and caring for him, as if he had been
his own child, and his parents ap-
proved. Miss Polly said, "he was
very tender with the little fellow, and
always looked sad when he spoke
of his dead papa. .
Two years afterward, old Mr.. and
Mrs. Livingstone, and the Younger
son died of scarlet FOYER, and lust be-
fore their sickness Mr.. Hugh and his
cousin were married. People did say
" he won her love by his Igreat kind
ness to little Emory Deane." After
ward when their little Rebecca came.
folks said there would be another
romance between Livingstone and
Deane," they expected it, because they
grew up together, and the boy had
his fathers fascinating ways, and the
girl tiny image of her mother.
Sure enough, all the folks said this |
time came true, for when Rebecca was
sixteen they were betrothed lovers, and |
strangest Of all was the fathers de-
light, who had 80 manifested his dis
like to the elder Deans, who now |
showed such great qualification at the |
turn things had taken, and had all
along encouraged it, and seemed anx-
GUS for them to marry.
Miss Polly said " he never appear
ID happy man in his own welded
lte, though fortune favored him in
everything, except his wife's health |
who became very frail from her little
mes birth, and never grew strong
anymore
Young Emory Deane became doc /
or and went to Europe to study. His
mother had left him little money, so