Daily Republican., 1886-11-03
Fall One With Golden Locks
BY MRS. CHARLOTTE M. STANLEY.

They called her 30 when at only
years 5fl, the golden fleece Of sunny,
shimuering hair fell like q glittering
mantle over plump and dimPled shout
ders half way to the ground; and ten
years later when the wealth of living
gold was bound and coilei in shining
masses like crown rouRd a young
maiden's proud and shapely head, the
woman still retained the name that had
been given the child.
An only child and heiress. At least
it was SO believed until that seven
tecnth year.
Her golden crown was thought to be
but small portion of the wealth that
SHOULD fall 10 'Goldie VIKINGS portion
IN the due course of nature and Of
time, for WiAowdale, her fathers fine
estate with its rich revenues, broad
acres and fair farms-whose should 1t
be but hers?
Mr.. Vining had inherited 1t Gin
place of his eldest brother, lost at seal,
three years after Goldie's birth; he had
been poor and struggling man and
wealth had fallen upon him, from an
uncle's hands, suddenly and unexpect-
eddy.
Fifteen years he held and used it.
and thought it securely bis own, and
then Just as suddenly It took to itself
wings and fed away from him and his
forever,
In other words the long-lost heir
came home.
| James Vining was not dead-had not
been drowned.
| In far-off land, among strange
:. scenes and strangers, he had lived a
life of struggle and adventure; nor
ever heard of the fortune that awaited
him at home, until having prospered
! and grown rich abroad, he returned,
= without warning, like ghost from the
grave, to claim his fair inheritance OF
Willowdale.
His return was his brothers. death
, blow had there been love and kindness
to soften the stern reverse of fortune 1t
would still have been hard to bear, but
James and Henry Vining, though
bound by ties of blood, were never
friends; il was into the hands OF an en-
I lemy that fate babe Henry surrender
his wealth-the future welfare of his
,, wife and only child1
b The man sank down beneath the
blow; lost hold on courage, hope, health,
4 life One year after James Vining
took possession of Willowdale, Henry
!. WIS in his grave.
Then came the old, old, sad storyl
His widow and Goldie, poor pet, proud,
unwilling to parade their altered for
tunes before world whose pity would
insult and wound, not heal, their sor-
rows, slrank silently from knowledge
and notice of their summer-day friends,
). passed out of sight and thought, and
!, were forgotten.
II So utterly that, when Harold Glare
! came home from the long European
Il trip of near two years duration, which
Q he had undertaken in the interests oil
! his fathers business, he sought for the
fair one with golden locks in vain.
The sleeping princess of the fairy story
did not disappear more completely
from the world; the prince, her lover,
|, did not seek for her more faithfully,
! more generously,s more hopelessly al
last, than for long months did Harold
; Glare for Goldle.
;, She, poor childl taught by harsh
and cruel experience, deemed herself
9 forgotten by the man she loved as well
as by the rest. She knew not of his
, long sojourn abroad; news Of the
bright, gay world in which they had
lived and loved, never reached Goldie
now,
"If he had loved me as l loved,'
! she thought, che would have found
me; I am forgotten; life is ended; love
is dead"
Yet, SO long as the heart has some
! thing left to cling to, lite will last
/. Goldie had her mother left her still.
How long that last, and always true,
love would be spared, she feared tc
! think, for Mrs. Vining faded day by
day.
4 Poverty, sorrow, disappointment
care, weighed heavy on the mothers
heart. The elasticity of youth was
\ past with her; she had not hope MOI
energy enough TO rebound and rist
again, from the many heavy, bite
sorrows that had stricken and crushed
her down.
y, Yet, for her daughters sake, sh'
struggled bravely,
Rui for Goliie. death would bav,
/. seemed to her most sweet: she feared i
:, now. however. chung fast TO life a
thew do who are happy. and cherished
" and beloved; to leave her, so young
g 30 beautiful. 30 unprotected, in tn
I, ave will live for each other" sh
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