The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-02-18

our old lovers walks, and OF the
winter evenings we spent together,
when neither for a moment were
weary of each other and then
for / was lonely and a little tired
l thought you did not care to be
with me as you did then, and that
you had grown tired of me and l
had made up my mind to ask you
if it was so, and if it were, why Oh
Harry if there are any faults or
failing in me that turn your heart
from me tell me of them, that | may
mend them and win it back again.
If | unconsciously do ought to an
ger you let me know it and will be
all you wish from that very moment
only, Harry, do not let me feel your
heait estranged. Now, when | need
your love so much, love me Harry,
love me as you did when | was a
girl"
And tears would be restrained no
longer, but poured themselves out
upon his bosom, for he held. her
closely there, and spoke in a pas
sionato remorseful way that almost
frightened her. Part of what he
said was so cold that she could not
comprehend it. But while she lived
she always remembered these words.
"You are only too good and pure
and innocent for me. If do not
seem to feel it as | should, it is my
own sin and not your fault. Blame
me if you like, but never, never re-
proach yourself. Oh, my white
rose My spotless blossom Why
am not worthier of you?"
Then he kissed her = kissed her
on her eyes, and lips, and forehead.
And at that very moment there re-
posed at the bottom of Harry Pow
ellis pocket u note written in wom-
ans hand, containing these words :
81 can meet you at your office at u
o'clock tonight and signed,
Amanda
Harry Powell was hot-headed,
impulsive fellow, and had been from
boy an ardent admirer of dashing
brilliant women. When he found
himself in love with the mild, fair
gentle Rose Forest he wondered how
any thing so quiet could have won
it. Still he was in love, and deeply.
Being what he was, he would have
married her if all the world had op-
posed their union. AS it was, there
were no obstacles in his way, for her
heart was truly his; and the rivals
frowned upon him, and the maiden
aunts who shook their heads and
called him a very wild young man,
were disregarded, and so he took her
from the old homestead where she
had been so tenderly cared for, to
his own home, to be its lifelong mis-
tress. At first he had only been
little thoughtless at times, and had
dried every tear she had shed with
kisses. For though champagne and
cigars, and Tom, Dick and Harry
had their old charms for him, he
valued her above them all, and she
knew it well.
Only year before, the spell which
had of late kept him from her side,
had begun to distill its deadly poi
son and claim him, body and soul.
He was the confidential clerk of
wealthy establishment, and, as such
had at times heavy responsibilities
upon his shoulders. Important pa
pers and great sums of money were
often in his care, and he was trusted
as few men are by their employers.
They were right in reposing their
confidence in him thus implicitly;
for, wild though he was, there was
not one atom of the swindler in his
composition. The keys of the great
safes were always within his reach.
and sometimes he was left alone to
receive large payments, and to lock
them up. There had been Il time
when rumors of Il meditated robbery
had reached the firm, and he had
carried loaded pistols in his bosom
night and day.
1t was at that time, twelve months
ago, that he had first met with the
woman who had written the note
which now lay within his pocket.
A beautiful woman he thought her
and strange it seemed to him at first
that she should follow him with her
eyes and seem to watch for him in
the most untrequented places. At
last pcrfumed note came, and he
read that she had invited him. 1t
was daring declaration-all the
more astonishing because the writer
professed herself to be Il wealthy
woman and a wife. 1t would nave
disgusted many men, but Harry