The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-06

Cne SUNSHINE GOT uOWh INTO ny hnsFf
The old church helped me more
anything else, aud the ministers
were always kind to me and wsn
me to sit in their pew. He neyeressa
back, and we neve heard from NM
the vessel"
This, then, was aunt Lucyis
nance; locked III her heart for
years; filling her life with a serena
gracious sweetness, broken at nv
at last like the alahaster box Of ngs
cious ointment. Now | had a sesFsI
that even Regina couldnot know. fAs,
| would not have her know for AN.
world. Was she not daily duestioe
ing me about lover of mine who 81.
a long way of, and whom she IA
pected OF GOODNESS? / could not H.
her know the tender bond holding AZ
to aunt Lucy.
in my determination to hide M
hearts unrest, | watched the postr2 +
fee, and when she questioned IA
about letters from him, / avoided
direct answer. Regina, in her vonns
content--well, she wanted great boon
to come to all whom she loved. pns
that could hardly be possible. Isl
arthur" as we liked to call him, Ma
q princely man, and Regina had
dro wn a nriza in life's lottery.
The winter days were at length
counted out amid much going and
coming and real earnest work in tbs
home and church. A successful fair
had marked the young minister's frst
winter, and we had made q muitituds
Of acquaintance at the fair. When
spring began to show its green / went
back to my school teaching amoua
the hills, and to the home that was
glad OF my coming. Several years
went by before | again saw Regina.
Indeed l did not expect to visit her
again, so far away. hntshe expected it
and said so. The second baby was 4
girl and named for me. 1t was to BE-
christened in June, and ~beseeching let.
tiers began to pour in upon me again.
l must come to the christening, cons
and pass the summer; ! had kept
school long enough to deserve a rest;
and summer was the time to see Penn.
hollow in all it's glory. AS father and
mother had grandchildren growing
up around them now, it was easier I'd
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 h ebarbor, and
q 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,
his farm took In the beach sands and
pebbles, and the roar OF the ocean
was their perpetual music. | found
aunt Lucy grown older, and seeming
much feebler than when she told ma
her story in the low chamber on Ant
Ter street. But she frightened up
wonderfully on seeing her ~visitors,l
and walked with us along the shore
and clear out to "SpouU4ng Horn,
where she looked into the chasm and
told stories of the height to which The
water would squirt into the air during
a troubled sea at high tide.
| grew quite nervou oyer TUG
stories and the appearance OF the
rocky gorge, and needed TO sit awhile
on the sands and look over the limit.
less and peaceful blue to restore my
usual equanimity. Aunt Lucy sat
down with me, while Arthur and Re.
gina, not yet over their lovers ways
walked hither and thither, hand ~
hand, as happy as two children.
While we looked out upon the sea-
aunt Lucy said, gently, Il am going
to see my captain soon."
"Do you feel more unwell than
usual?" / asked.
'tNot really sick, but weak and
tired. I have not walked to Spout.
] ing Horn before this summer And
it is time for me to go. | am more
than eighty now"
"You will not be sorry, will you,
aunt Lucy, when your captain
cSlls?"
"Sorryl / shall be glad gladder than
/ have been since be went away.
am fairly impatient to 20. II seems
] to me the bridegroom is waiting foI
me, and IKnow how sad it is to wait
/ want to save him that pair"
That was all. A little signal hune
, from the cottage window in token q
the dinner hour. and we hurried III
/, the sands. At sunset we drove home:
all Of us impressed that we had talked
with aunt Lucy for the last time thu
4 side OF the dividing food.
! A week later the bell on the church
3 Of the Holy Cross tolled. We iistenes
} to it's vibrant notes, which, on tn
/ summer air, hardly seemed a knell
Then came the sexton along the hedge
I row, and. scarcely pausinR. heApokl
through the open window. Iner
7 were tears in his voice, and we onl.
! heard .saunt Lucy"
: The smile and dimples which habi
: had fixed upon her lace, remaine'
: to greet ell who looke'
upon her in death. As she Ia.
, in peace before The altar, while th
4 minister spoke her praises, which wer
: in every heart, It seemed to me tina
! she had enjoyed herwedlock in q hlsh
: er and sweetsre way then many res
marriages are enjoyed.
1t has been a tender dream, agra
! cious memory. and for many year
! since she had learned to look fol
X ward and not backwards bcckonin
hope; while through all the slow pass
y ages she had been, in deed and ]
2 truth, the bride Of the church, guarde
q down 20 gentle rest by it's blessed armi