New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-04

i ANYTHING else, and the ministers wives
were ALWAYS kind to me and wanted
me to sit In their pew. He never came
s back, and we never heard from MN or
4 the vessel. =
This, then, was aunt Lucy's ro-
nance: locked in her heart for flfty
! wears; filing her life with a serene and
gracious sweetness, broken at my teet
at last like the alabaster box OF pre-
4 cious ointment. NowI had 8 secret
4 that even Regina could not know, that
/ would not have her know for the
1 world. Was she not daily question:
ing me about a, lover of mine who was
i a long way off, and whom she sus-
pected OF GOODNESS? ] could not let
her know the tender bond holding me
to aunt Lucy.
In nv determination to hide my
hearts unrest, / watched the postof-
fee, and when she questioned nae
/. about letters from him, avoided a
1 direct answer. Regina, in her young
4 content-well, she wanted a great boon
to come to all whom she loved. But
that could hardly be possible. SIT
/ Arthur" as we liked to call him, was
a prineely man, and Regina had
4 drawn a nrize inslfe's lottery;
The winter days We're at length
counted out amid much going and
coming and real earnest work in the
| home and church. A successful fair
/ had marked the young minister's first
winter, and we had made multitude
/ Of acquaintanc at the fair. When
spring began to show its green went
back to my school teaching among
the hills, and to the home that was
glad of my coming. Several years
| went by before again saw Regina.
Indeed did not expect to visit her
again, SO far away, butshe expected 1t
and said so. The second baby was q
girl and named for me. 1t was to be
christened in June and beseeching let
tiers began to pour In upon me again.
must come to the christening, come
and pass the summer; / had kept
school long enough to deserve rest;
and summer was the time tosee Penn
hollow in all it's glory. As father and
| mother had grandchildren growing
| up around them now, it was easier to
say yes, and / went.
After the christening, there were
| plans which seemed to have been
made especially for me; drives to the
shore, and sails down the harbor, and
visit to aunt Lucy, whom sadly
missed in the minister's pew. She
was spending the summer at her
nephew's. close by the sea. Indeed,
nabtIa e - e na tha ~ l.a f 3.au .,
p ,was 49, 49,, aan,a1,,ai ,,,,s;a $500
am, ~, oI, nov grawn alaar Nd saan,;nc
n 900, faals,ar 49,, 49, s aha +oId n,s
...sn 800 + .a 49, Ina oulu n,
Ter street R,,t sb eS hr;ab et IN
| ~. aa..e.slI. o sno ~ ~ .loo,iou ~
a snd Ma,ng On seeing ner
a,,d olaan ~ =. soog VIZ $50 ;,
WIZ wbar e eha $3.50 aI p ~ ol
M 49, S4lg 4 4I
$500 a ,eI .,,s ~ G,,s
49,, 49, spul NO ielle aii
= 800. sss; a. Ill o,uV' ~
s+ar;a. 49, AZ lie, sous oYel W.. .he
.eoi.ea civ ny ssp Jsa saliee ~ ene
~ - 1aa1. a. sg 49,
loss a aaoa ss hI,, psea glle li'n,s
$50 sSt'.. pesoolut o1uo ~ ie9oole al
$50, ~; aae.l,ln,.g ~ Aulo Lucy 81
1,,a a 49,, IT, 80
vailed b;tb o rs and IN th;+bor 49, =,
hand &c honr1y &c +ma al;lanan
While wa ,onLed o,1t mon tha COO
aunt Ta1cv said Gently "a am ooino
to see my captain soon."
DO you feel more unWeH than
usual?" asked.
Not really sick, but weak and
/ tired: lhave not walked to 9Spout-
Ing Horn before this summer. And
/ It is time Tor me to go. am more
than eighty now
- You VIII not be sorry, will you,
aunt Lucy, when your captain
calls?
sorry! l shall be glad gladder than
nave been since he went away. I
am Iairly impatient TO go. 1t seems
70 me the bridegroom Is. waiting Tor
me- ana know now sad 1t IS to wait.
! Want wa TO save nm that pain.
lnaG was all. A little signal hung
rom the cottage window IN token OF
me dlnner hour, and we hurried up
1n 1 sanas. AT sunset we drove home.
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