, 1886-12-15
ENGLAND TRAGEDY


A boyish passion, that in mountainous
New England is ever wreathed with po-
etc omance had made lovers of Esther
Carter and Walter Lane. They were
near neighbors; had attended school to-
gether ever since their A b c days. A
love that will blaze forth into alteration
after years of commonplace association
cf careless childhood speaks well for the
mating of eternity, or else, as some
poor cynic might say, it speaks ill OF
ones opportunities.
Esther Carter was II of those mag
n~iiicent beauties that can be found in
actual profusion in New England.
Blonde as the day, with those piercing
electric blue eyes, whose sapphire tints
charm all who would foolishly attempt
to fathom them: with form and COM
plexion as befitted a perfect maiden,
Esther Carter was n beautiful creature.
She possessed one of those peculiar tenn
peraments that so often are found in her
class of beauty, that seems to be cham
eleon-like and takes its coloring from
surroundings. You will find such a
person n perfect synonym of faithful
love, and the exact duplicate a heartlcss,
selfish ilirt; again, Il royal wife and
mother, with the exact duplicate n dis
sipated woman of scarlet. There must
be unfathomable mysteries back of those
fatal sapphire eyes. That accounts for
the variableness of those that possess
them.
Walter Lane was n worthy lover OF
such n beauty as Esther Carter; as be-
fitted the lover of her fair skin andlight
hair. he was n young, swarthy-skinned
giant, with black hair that curled and
black eyes that snapped, eyes that re-
Elected unquestioned love from deep
down in his heart, and that bode evil at
all attempts at trcspass upon his fair do
main.
When Walter was 81 and two years
older than Esther, their engagement had
been announced and early winter men
toned as the time of their proposed mar
riage; but those horrible drums and the
crying for men for defense of the oun
try, came into the pretty New England
home of these young lovers, and with
the persistency OF the furies would not
quiet until the very last young brave
had left for those far away battleiields.
Walter needed not much urging to
tramp away with the rest of them, for
fame and glory are tremendous incen-
tives, even if all philosophers do snap
their fingers at the folly of them.
No soldier left n more fearful sweet
heart than did Walter: tears, kisses, and
eternal vows were as profuse as they
were sweet and acceptable to so ardent
n lover.
The four months that folly held up as
the delusive extent of the war, glided
into six, then slowly dragged into Il
year, and still the end was way beyond.
Home life in New England was stupid
in the extreme to so vivacious n girl as
Esther. The novelty had worn off from
letter writing. The first winter had
seen sleigh rides. dances and parties ig-
nored with n spirit that seemed as full
of love and patriotism as that shown by
our ancestors of revolutionary days.
The summer had come, and contrary
to all plans (and right here is without
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