Daily Republican., 1888-03-10
A BAIrRLEhs LOVER.

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The shock broke Der fathers heart, SO
she had TO ttsy al home aud nurse him
VII lie her lover got ont on his Journey
alone. Az length her father died, and
TO add to her sorrow the letters from
Iocia became more ans more ooid, 10
~ last che frasd her former lover from
his Engagement.
OHetai asked Phyllis to tea with
me, telling her that she would meet nm
old friend OF her fathers who had Just
come home from India with his 10 yosr.
old daughter.
shs prom ised 10 cone readily, and
we were just sitting down to tea when
Colonel Gordon was announced. He
stepped forward With q smile, and then
cried hoarstly "a he saw my gues.:
"Phyllisl"
II all flashed over ne tia here was
the dereict LAYER Phyllis eEid: IL
think Colonel Gordon aud have met
bGfore"
more lbau fsw min u,es after that, and
whom she had gone ne aaid rather Ab
Iuptlr:
Chow long have you hnova Mise
Trsvariot?
tod him every thing, knowing how
unfoit maze The marriage he chose had
besD ior HI n.
DO cot know ex actly what happened
after ward OF how they managed 1t l
think be must have written to her,
teiliuR his story AMI asking forgiveness
for the wang he had done Ter, aud, II
30, / fefl sura her pardon mnst have
baen foil .nd tree; bet anyhow, they
aeon fell IL to be way OF being ffie, de.
He took house near us Ia 90 low Gar
IDEAS Eud settled thers with bis daugi =
Ter. q pretty sirl, who, according to my
husband. b,reatt oDR Resemblance TO
her mother, poor Phyllis supplsnter
Perhaps for that reason never felt rs
fuud CT the child AZ wished; bat Phyl-
lis was lars' ,elr;td, and the two be.
came great irlends, May Goidou q ndirR
In Poyllis' home III motnerly tender
ross which she had missed ali her life.
Through tina next summer believe
hardly "a day passej when the CO onel
did not call for q moro or less protrAc,ed
oaat vita PM Ills on Liz way home OF
"a Afternoon, snd pr s>ntly there
dawned IN tny brain u scheme which
was to make everybody happy aud end
forever the loneliness OF Phyllis lie.
But when I oouhied 1. to my husband
he rather futhlessly quenohed my little
dream.
mo" 10 sa'd, decidedly; shat viii
never be. My deir, do GU think Miss
Trevauicn would take him nos? And,
any way, DO you think mao y no IilteG
y girl In his youth, emsnbsriag, too,
what One fellow poor Gordon Uas,
would have tue fsos 10 offer himself 10
her aga WHEN no is old AID dyspsptlc?
n thlnk better OF Dota Of them She
10 ss f1rsiVinG Us an angel. graut you,
but aha has much dignity to let her
self como and 20 at any mans beck and
call"
Ifa'd nothing, but all the same !
thought to mysslf, THAT will be no
hlndrAuos III know Phyllis, no feel
ing for her owa dignity Will eger stand
IN the way, all other things being
tqnal; bat psrh pI man can never
quite reasi3- the unBslashness OF wo
maa's Iowa"
s. l watched ard visited, and 1 was
glad 10 sec thu new li2ht Of happiness
that shcns In Phyliis's ,ytf; not the
same ligat, perhaps ma hsr lover saw
thafe tnco 81 long ago, bat subdu sd
reha1tiuu OF the sAius, as bs1ams her
mRturar years, And even tle Colonel's
sttrr, csIe worn face ieisXtd, and as b s
lAugh lrsW IncIe frequsni and Joy
ons c1u d almost fancy what hs had
bsen ike la the old days when his
Bplrlts had made bin thu favorits 6f his
E-s!nlsiit,--A ry way, whatever the and
was h., they w,rs vary happy that
winteIi and whaa, toward the tnt Of
January, family al slr5 called US Gu o.
4 a.. al II IL
ce:isln what rhuu!l fad on my re
turn.
Ons thing after another detained us
and II was three meut1s bs!ore we
found ourselves again Ia town. l had
heard from PLY, Ills from time to me,
but never the news tbs. WAS waiting
for and l was q little impAtisEt TO dud
out wae.her IL vac really as my hus.
band SAID, Eat Colonel Gordon would
not abk foo tina Love which la had en- 70
rejected. or whether, IL deed, he had
spoken and PSyllie had refused. This
could hardly bslisve. and certainly
there had been no break In the frieI d.
ship But when say Colonel Gordon
unds stood 1t all.
tuppose, seeing him from day to
day through the Winter, we had not
noticed how III he looked aud how he
was getting gradually worse; but the
three months had mads a change In
him that nobody oou d fall TO les.
think he saw that wo wero shocked,
lad h, told US quietly, as IL he was
talking OF some Que elge, IL at he has
known It all sluns; that be had come
home from India with an inourab,e di
sease, aud that the doctors had told
D., In. ria tul hR nj
OF tune.
"Pbyilis knew It," no said; "but
thought 1; needless TO trouble any one
else."
My poor Pbylliti almost feared to
meet her. But though there were tears
In her eyes WHEN she spike OF him, II
was Sd bravely and sweetly that sht
said:
Il cannot grieve for hi aud for my.
self. I think the happiness of these
months will last me oil my lif5."
He lived till the SIMMER, nurse0
most lovingly By Payilia and her
daughter, and though re uttered good
deal towA.d the end 1 think no wac very
happy.
much more go than l Deserve" he
said sae ly to me one day, almost the
last Tina l SAY him.
When he died no l.t provision for
Phyllie, appointing Ter sole guardian
and tru toe to his daughter-''the most
faithful friend ever had
AMI for PhJl,is2 j lhlnk she was
ri ht about the happiness lasting for her
lie. Nay Gordon is cherished
ohavge, aud IA her ou,h Phy Ills grows
y.unR again.
sr-z-e-s
Attempted Assassination.
YORK, Pa. March 9.-rhis evening
about z O'Clock, as the Sons q Veterans
were assembling at their rooms here to
hold a nntina. IIr..n. Rnlsinnnr