New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-17
Distracted now at the idea that

Distracted now at the idea that
perchance he might not so easily per-
suade Evelyn to pardon him Che had
no answer to the one brief letter he
had written to herr he eagerly in
quired her present whereabouts and
learned, with increasing agony, that
Evelyn's mother had seized on a
most unexpected offer, had let her.
house furnished to friend, and that
Evelyn had accompanied her mother
and uncle abroad.
Whittier? That was his cry-a cry
still unanswered
1t was a long time before Mrs.
More's friend, who had taken the
house off her hand, could be prevail
ed on to give him Miss More's adj
dress, and it was also very long be-
fore an answer came TO the impas-
stoned appeal he wrote to his wound
ed betrothed. It was an answer
which threw him into q new agony
Of pain and induced fever which
had threatened his lie.
Evelyn's mother and Evelyn her
self wrote:
1t was impossible after what had occurred
that Miss More could ever again subject her.
self to like suspicious. Her engagement with
NJ. Greenly was definitely at an end.
And after this he, too, had tried to
forget. How vainiy he felt with add
ed force in this most bitter hour as
with swiftest speed all that we have
recorded here shot through his tor
tured brain.
I When he had received that terrible
dismissal from Evelyn hei mothers
note was dated from Vienna, but
now he learned Through the medium
Of the golden key that last year she
had landed in America. He would fol-
low her there! All! long ago would he
have done so had she nothidden her.
self from him. Had he not secured
Italy, Switzerland and Germany in a
vain hope ofsome day falling at her
feet and uttering two words-"F or
give me!''
Tottering to his feet Nigel managed
to retire from the Willows without
breaking down before these stran-
gers. and he carried with him the
small gold key. Would it ever be
the means ofunlocking that door
| which seemed closed against him?
A fortnight later, hoping against
hope, he landed in New York and be-
gan his inquiries.
Would he ever discover her whom
he sought? How, indeed, should he
do SO in this wide city? Was sheeven
here? And SO he wrote an mploring
appeal to the lady who three years
since had become Mrs. More's tenant.
A stranger replied after the lapse
of many days Miss More was on
the point of returning home, as she
wished to die in England. Her ad-
! dress was briefly added.
| To die! to die! Nigel flew to the
hotel where Evelyn was located, and
was about to stammer out an agou-
lied question when he met a fair, tall,
sad looking girl entering the wide
doorway. 1t was Evelyn-once his
Evelyn-his own dear bethrothed!
Changed indeed! No bright smiles
wreathed her lips; no merriment
sparkled in her lovely eyes; she look
ed, indeed, as if happines and she had
long parted company; but she was
heretofore his longing eyes, and
she was not dying!
At sight of him Evelyn uttered one
cry, then fell insensible in his arms.
Reader. they were married a month
later, and Nigel learned to his I'M
speakable comfort and Joy, that it
was not his Evelyn who was expected
to die, but another Miss More, her
aunt, who had been staying with
them in the same hotel, and whom
they had gone to America to see.
The little gold key, which had been
the means of reuniting the estrang-
ed young couple, is treasured equal
~ by both, and Evelyn often, even
now, covers it with tears and kisses.
As for Nigel he is entirely cured ofhis
tendency to jealousy, and there is
not a happier couple than Mr.. and
Mrs. Nigel Greenly.-True Flag.