The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-07-12

things 70 her, and call her pet names
while he was getting strong 70 go away.
II meant nothing at all TO him, and ev-
erything In the world TO Lispeth. She
was very happy while the fortnight
lasted, because she had found man to
love.
Being = Hayage by birth, she took no
trouble TO hide her feelings, and the
knBllshmAn was amused When he
went away LiSpeth walked with him up
the hin ~ fer - Narkunda, very trou-
bled and vegy miserable. The chaplain's
wife, betHg = good Christian and dislik-
iAg anything in the shape Of fuss or
scandal --Liapsth was beyond her man
Agelnent entirely--had told the English
men - tel Aspcth that he was coming
back tosaFEy hes. "She Is but a child,
you know, and, / fear, at heart heath
On, seid the ohNplnin's wife. So all
the twelve miles up the hill the English
man, With his arm around Lispeths
waist ives assuring the girl that he
would coBle beck and marry her; and
Lspeth made him promise over and over
sgnlR. She wspt on the Narkunda ridge
vi le had passed ont of sight along the
MVtti@ni path.
Then Shs dried her tears and went in
10 KotNAFh again, and said to the chap
lain'6 wife "He wfil come back and
marry me. he has gone TO his own peo-
pie 10 tell them 60" And the cbaplain's
wife sOOthed Lispeth and said He will
cOmS bach. AT the end of two months
LdspOth grew impatient, and was told
that the EnElishmen had gone over the
Seas TO EnUland. She knew where Eng
lend was, because she had read little
geography primers; but, of course, she
had no conception Of the nature Of the
sea, being . HAL girl There was an old
puEHle map Of the world in the house.
LiyDeth had played with it when she was
= child. She UneArthed it again, and put
it together Of evenings, and cried to her
self, and tried to imagine where her Eng.
lishman ives. As she had no ideas of
distance or steamboats,, her notions
were somewhat erroneous. It would not
have made the least difference had she
been perfectly correct; for the English
man had no intention Of coming back to
marry a Hill girl. He forgot all about
her by the time he was butterfly hunting
IN Assam. He wrote book on the east
afterwards. Lispeths name did not ap-
peer.
At the end Of three months Lispeth
made daily pilgrimRges to Narkunda to
ses if her Enalisbman was coming along
the rOad. II gave her comfort, and the
ohaplain'a vile, finding her happier,
Thought that che was getting over her
':beEbproUs and most indelicate folly.
4 Htlle later the walks ceased to help
Llspeth and her temper grew very bad.
The shaplaiR's wife thought this a profit |
able time 10 let her know the real state
Of a1Dairs- -tllAt the Enslishman had only
promised his love 30 keep her quiet; that
be bad never meant anything, and that
II waa wrong and improper" Of Lispeth
to think Of marriage with an English
man, who was OF q superior clay, besides
betnG Pronised in marriage to a girl of
his own people. Lispeth said that all
this waa clearly impossible, because he
had said ne loved her, and the chaplains
wife had, With her own lips, asserted
that the AnGhshmen was coming back.
eNOw eaa what he and you said be
HntEUes" asked Lispeth
I'VE EAid II "a an excuse to keep you
quiet, child = said the chaplain's wife.
Then you have he'd to me-" said Lis
pOth, "you and hep
The cheplaiA's wife bowed her head
and said nothing. Lispeth was silent, |
too, for d little time. Then she went out |
down the valley and returned in the
dress o6 . Hill eirl-iDfamously dirty, |
k,usk
had her hair braided into the long pig
tell, holPed cut with black thread, that
HIN women wear.
II am going back to my own people,
said she. You have killed Lispeth.
There is only left old Jadehs daughter
the daughter Of pshai and the ser
want Of TaFka Devi. You are all liars,
you EnGlish"
BY the tSnas that the chaplains wife |
had recovered from the shock of the an
HoUHcemcnt that Lispeth had 'verted to
her mothers GODS, the girl had gone;
and Vhs never came back.
She took to her own unclean people |
savagely, a. il 70 make up the arrears of
!ths lifs she had stepped ont of, and, in
little time, she married a wood cutter
VINO beat heT, afaar. the manner OF paha- |
RE, and her beauty faded soon.
There 10 no, Law whereby you can ac-
eount fpT the Ysgeries Of the heather,
sald The eherlains wife, land believe
that Mspeth was always at heart an in
adSi." Seeing Shs hRd been taken into
the church IT MnRlsnd 1T the mature age
Of ave weeks, this statement does not do !
credit 10 The eh@plNin's wife.
IA9eth was very old woman when |
ahs died. Shs always had perfect com
mend Of HasiiSh and when she was suf- |
Acaeatly drunh, could sometimes be in
duoed 70 tell the story OF her first love
aAaiY.
Il ives hard then to realize that the
blsaEsd. WFisklsd creature, 90 like wisp |
Of OhAEred raa, esdld ever have been
"LAspsth Of Ire Kotgarh Mission -