Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-12-31

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World to htea ii sppy n, l. the house
was all trimmed green's and az
presents Kept .ttiining and ras 90
excited y hard knew what i was
doing, and rs had 8 fairly COM
prehen ded Eat: it was my we'd ling
DAY y Yaani night and the girls were all
There dressed ii, white lust e exactly
alllsId until Julia too Il OF her clio AZ,
2nd there, AfqHnd her throat inst cad
ESos the black velvet the others wore,
Was il tiny cold chain, and flashing on
[5she beautiful bare brown neck MAS q,
|siocket set with diamond --a locket
that we, Rose and I, knew held Louis
Daintre' q picture. 81 Christmas gift e
she said when they I'll admired Il.
Poor little Rose! L
lhave been mad ever since to think
that, as we drove of to the station,
gil the old shoes flying after US, the
/ hrst word lever said to my husband
that all the world couldn't hear was:
Ism that Julia Somers q cat!!'' 2ss q
suppose you will blame Rose Tor
marrying John Horton in the spring.
did &c FIRST, but when I found he
Knew all about it and found. too, that
from the minute she married him. you
wouldn't have thought Rose had ever
seen another man, forgave her, she
knew John WAS too good Tor q make
SHIFT. That summer Julia went to live
with an old uncle and we quite forgot
her TIL more than two years after we
heard ofber marriage to rich old
man who adored her and whom she
tolerated as che did the baby that
came after q while. Things went on
very quietly with us all in those days.
Rose was as happy as she could be
with her hnsband and two little boys.
told her one day that I had just
heard OF the death OF Louis wife.
He married in England about two
years after we did, and she said "poor
fellow, / am 50 sorry in such a nat
u l waythat knew the old days
were dead. : 5e.i]i ss +
About ten years ago there came a.
dispatc oh from Julia husband begging
Rose to come at once as Julia was
dying and calling for her all the time.
Rose went by the next train and stay
ed until after the funeral. When she
came home we found that she didn't
want to mention Julia, so her name
died away again. Two or three years
alter Captain Daintre came on to visit
his uncle who was failing fast--we met
him IN the street and he was very glad
/ to see ME, though he hardly spoke to
Rose. As he was turning away she
put out her hand. Captain Dnintre, !"
she said very sweetiy, ''lny husband is
away or he would have called upon
you and asked you to come and see
me: have something to say to you,
viii you come home with us now?"
Louis drew himself up very stifny.
u could hardly think" he said, "that
Mrs. Horton can have anything to
say to me-. You mist excuse me-
Captain Rose eaid, very earnest
~, q haze 9 messagefor you from the
dead" Chen he turned and went
home WITH us in perfect silence We
went into&the library where Rose lett
us, onlanR back presently with bun
Bile ct old letters and little leather
CASE E3S5E% 3@sf
; when Julia was dying" she said,
"she sent Tor me and gave me these
the farewell letter you wrote me, tell.
ing your love-the locket she had
promised so place in my hands as
your first, Your betrothal gift-the
letter had never seen, the locket I
had never seen only on her neck"
Louis gavea great start, but she
went quietly on.
. "She told me OF her advice to you
to send your letters to her, as l had
confided my love to her, and my par.
ents would be angry, thinking me too
young for all engagement. Here are
the letters that came to me, unread
but dy her. She told me how, in her
great love for you, she had written
you SO tenderly when I, as you sup
posed, Tilted you, but in your anger
and Indignation you had cast her of
too. She married man for whom
she never cared, bore him d child,
whom she never loved, and sent for
me to bid me tell you that for love OF
you she had sinned against all, that
in the name OF that love she asked
you to forgive, I put the locket on}her
breast, hidden in her shroud; here are
the letters, will you not say, Il for
give !"
Louis had grown very pale-holding
those old letters he looked sadly in
the calm, sweet face before him. 'She
cost US a great deal, he said at length.
''Yes," Rose said, gently. but it
might have been so much worse-my
husband has been friend as we'll as
lover; / have been a very happy
woman, and your"
& II married." he said, looking down;
"my vile was a pretty child; we were
together six weeks and l never saw
her again; she died while she was in
China. My life hasn't been a. very
bright one, but I've got back my faith
IN human nature-and You-for all
these years I've misjudged YOU"
And now, with good bye, you will
/ Yes" he said slowly, "since you
ask it forgive her." and he went
away. He didn't see her again until
John had been dead four or five years.
Poor John! how he did love Rose and
how she nursed him day and night.
lie left every thing to her for her
life, and to her-not his-chil-
dren when she died folks wondered at
that. EVERY thing was fixed about the
boys to save Rose: they were to 20 to
school and then to college so soon as
Rose was left in her pretty home with
Rosebud her baby, that John had
loved SO. She's been of q good deal
travelling, and last summer when the
boys were home on vacation and were.
no happy wandering about the
woods with Rose and the Rosebud
all children together they met Cap.
tain Daintre, and it seemed to him
the old days had come back, she was
SO young and 50 sweet. The boys