The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-07-27
she said, when they all admired it.
Poor little Rose!

she said, when they all admired it.
Poor little Rose!
have been mad ever since to think
that, us we drove off to tho station,
all the old shoes flying utter us, the
first word ever said to my husband
that all the world couldn't hear was:
"Isn't that Julia Somcrs a cat!"
1 suppose you will blame Rose tor
marrying John Horton in the spring.
! did ut first, but when l found lie
knew all aboutit and found, too, that
from the minute she married him, you
wouldn't have thought Rose had ever
seen another man, l forg;lvc her, she
Knew John was too good for q make
shift. Thnt summer Julia went to live
with an old uncle and We quito forgot
her till more than two years after we
heard OF her marriage to a rich old
man who adorcd her and whom she
tolerated us she did tho baby that
came after while. Things went on
very quietly with us all in those days.
Rose was rs happy us she could he
with her husband and two little boys.
l told her ono day that / had lust
heard OF the death OF Louis wife.
He married in England about two
years utter We did, and she said "poor
fellow, am SO sorry" in such u nat.
ural way that l knew the old days
were dead.
About ten years ago there came u
dispatch from julius husband bcss.in.
Rose to come at once as Julia was
dying nnd calling for her all the time.
Rose went by the next train and stay
ed until after the funeral, When she
came home We found that she didn't
want to mention Julia, so her name
died away again. Two or three years
after Captain Daintrc came on to visit
his uncle who was iailing flst-we met
him i'll the street and hc wus very glad
to see me, though he hardly spoke to
Rose. AS he was turning away she
put out her hand. Captain Daintrc,"
She said very swcetly, "my husband is
away or he would have called upon
you and asked you to come and see
me. l have something to say to you,
will you come home with us now?'
Louis drew himself M very stiily.
~ could hardly think, lie said, 'tl;st
Mrs. Horton can have anything to
say to me. You mnst excuse me-"
captain" Rose said, very earnest
ly, 81 have u mcss;l.cior YOU from the
dead" Then he turned and went
home with us i'll perfect silence. We
went into the library where Rose lett
us, coming back presently with IL bun
ble oil old letters and u little leather
case.
"When Julin was dying" she said,
"she sent for me and gave me these
the farewell letter you wrote me, tell.
ing your lovc-tl.c lorket she had
promised to place in my hands ;ls
your iiist, your bctrothal ,ift--thc
letter l had never seen, the lockct |
had never seen only OH her neck"
Louis gave % great start, but she
went quietly ON.
"She told me OF her advice to YOU
to send your letters to her, rs | had
confidcd my love to her, and my par.
ents would be angry, thinking me 90
young Tor IN engagement. Here are
the letters that came to me, unread
but dy her. She told me how, in her
great love for you, she had written
You so tenderly when ], as you sup
posed, Tilted you, but in your anger
and Indignation you had cast her oil
too. She married man for whom
she never cared, boro him u child,
whom she never loved, and sent for
me to bid mo tell you that for love OF
you she had sinncd against all, that
in tho name OF that love she asked
you to forgive, l put the lockct on her
breast, hidden i'll her sllroud; here are
the letters, will you not say, Il for
give.'"
Louis had grown very palc-holding
those old letters he looked sadly in
tho calm, sweet face before him. "Sho
cost us q great dcul," licsaid ut length.
"lcs," Rose said. gently, but it
might have been so much worse-my
husband has been friend Us well us
lover; l have been II very happy
woman, and you?"
81 married." he snid, looking down;
"my wife was u pretty child; We were
together six weeks and never st,w
her again; she died while she was in
China. My life hasn't been u very
bright one, but Pve got back my faith
I,ona -. .aa ,.'',.. I,.: ,tt".c.ano Vo"-,of ail
''ie1e " yc'lls w nlls!o"Scn you. -,
,,,,. nmu ,T nov, now, Ml'l, III, Gooo-'ye' you VIII
'"y' .ois''e 'iel'
les, nc said slowly, "sincc you
ask it-I forgive her." and l,c went
away. He didn't see her again until
John had been dead four or five wears.
ioor john how nc did love Rose ilnd
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