The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-04-28

III cNoAJ CAtJ AOA a hSOh OiiO 4Cdu-
ing newspaper contained this adver-
tisemelt:
LEDA: The letter written thir-
teen years has just reached me.
Write again. H.
Waiting, enduring for so many
years became torture, after this no.
tice appeared, and once again Her
bert Payne resigned himself to fu-
ture uncheered by loving compan-
ionship.
Had he possessed Asmodeus'
power he might have been waited to
a home in Paris, where sweet-faced
woman, lovelier in her gentle ma
turity than even in her girlish
bloom, was teaching a class of girls
the hard words of the English Ian
guage.
Accepting position offered by
her old friend, and refusing the as
sistance proffesed grudgingly by her
adopted fathers heirs, Leda Morri-
son had travelled with the children
under charge for nearly six years.
Then, finding herself in Paris and
able to gather class of pupils for
English, she had decided not to re-
turn to her old home, earning more
than sufficient for her humble wants
in her new vocation.
1t was some weeks after the dis
covery of the long-lost letter, and
the class Of girls were improving
their English accents by reading
from newspaper, when one slowly
and hesitatingly read:
LEDA: The letter written thir-
teen years ago has just reached me.
Write again. H.
In moment Leda, white and
trembling, was eagerly scanning the
lines.
Ledal 1t was an odd name.
Could there be another Leda who
had risked her whole life's happi-
ness thirteen years before in letter
to 9H?"
| Were there two Herbert? If it
should be- if it should be
The young ladies wondered at the
perfect impunity with which they
murdered the English language dur
inc the reminder Of the class hour,
inS Viio ieiii''i ie'-'-''s' .-..,...,.
but none guessed the tum6#.8gg hope
and fear in the heart of their pale,
gentle teacher--none saw her, when
alone, write a few words only:
"If it is indeed Herbert who has
put the inclosed advertisement in
the paper, he will find me at No. 2S
Rue Mont Paris. Ever his faithful
loving betrothed, LEDA."
Then she put the advertisement
into the letter, sealed and directed
it and sent it over the sea to the
anxious lover waiting and praying
for tidings.
The English classes were never
neglected; the comfort of the aged
widow who was Leda's companion
was never forgotten the daily du-
ties of life were conscientiously per-
formed, but it seems to Leda as if
her whole life concentrated upon the
arrivals of the mails after there was
a possibility of receiving an an an
swer to her shrot note.
She grew pale and restlessness at
night when the dreams of youth
came again to keep her wakeful.
All the old love, the old hope, the
long ago-conquered despair and pain
came back to haunt her as she wait
ed with renewed hope for tidings.
II am growing old and worn,"
she said one day, looking at her pale
face in the mirror; 81 am not the
blooming girl Herbert loved, but
careworn, paid woman"
And her own sad eyes could not
see the rare beauty of the sweet face.
But still thinking of her love, she
twisted her hair in heavy coronet
over her shapely head, and upon
one side put a knot of blue ribbon.
Herbert liked it SC" she thought.
Then she pinned blue ribbons
over her gray dress under a soft lace
collar, and put on brooch her a.
dopted father had given her, which
was favorite with Herbert.
And thinking sadly of the change
years had made, she was summon
ed to her sitting room to meet
grave, middle aged man, changed
also.
Tears rolled back as these two,
faithful through all, met at last to
know their hearts still young, their
love still true, as it was in those
days when cruel fate separated them
by SO small an agent as a crack in
the wall behind the mantelpiece.
Shiloh's Consumption Cure.
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