New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-08-26

| worn and marked, more even by men
tai conflicts than by the exposure to
which it had evidently been subjected.
The dark hair and beard were lined
with grey, though the man was not
past the prime Of life; and his athletic
figure gave token OF great strength
and power of endurance. Beneath
his cloak he wore a belt, in which were
fixed 3 couple of pistols.
He remained immovable for, it
mighSbe, half an hour, when the sound
of oars in the water fell upon his ears,
passed, then gradually died away.
Still, the stranger remained in his
hldlng-place, nor moved even q finger.
Another quarter of all hour passed;
then a long low, whistle sounded, APP
parently from behind the cliff which
jutted on the bay, aud was answered
by the stranger. ~, ..&. 49,.
Another moment, and slowly and
cautiously, from between two masses
ofthe fallen rock, q man stepped forth,
and the stranger advanced to meet
him. AS he removed the slouched hat
from his head, the setting sun fell up
on his face, and, with loud cry of
horror, the last conner fell back, clasp
ing his hands upon his face.
Eat last, then, Saul Meghorn," the
stranger said in calm voice, cot last
we meet"
"Where is he? I am betrayed"
shouted Saul, horror and despair
painted in his face.
'"There is no one else; we are
alone" returned the other. II came
to meet you, and the appointment
you have come to fulfil is with me:
Aaron Franklen.''
CHAPTER l..
DIsENCHANTMENT.
It was the morning alter Ida's triun1-
plant appearance at the Little Jewel,
and she sat with her mother, over g.
late breakfast, in the pretty little sit
ting-room of the house at Kensington,
which had been set apart entirely for
their use
In our last chapter We paid a brief
visit to the scenes where we made &C
qualntance with the characters OF our
story some twenty years back;
and it would be difficult to mag
inc even two individuals more
different in appearance than the
Nelly OF that golden wedding morning
you may some Of you remember, and
she who now sits at the table before
us, clad in the deepest of widows
weeds, her dark hair streaked with
gray, her soft eyes sunken, their won't
ed brilliancy all long since wept out
and pale -paler, sure, than ever living
humanity was meant to be-yet very,
very sweet, and, in the touching hui
mility and resignation of her express
sion, not far short of saint-like If
seldom she is seen to smile, so never
does even the smallest shade of i'm
patience or WEAKNESS rutfle the calm
OF her gentle features, into which. for
ever and abidingly, they seem to have
settled.
$50 much more than I deserve has
has been the good wrought out OF
evil" she would say; chow can dare
repine?-I, who trihed so wantonly
with my own happiness, and have yet
been so signally cared for!'
From the hour when she learned
that cruel tale from the lips of the
smuggler Yawmans, she had assumed
the garb of a widow, resolved in her
own heart never to acknowledge to
herself even the reality of a tie formed
under circumstances so unhallowed.
She still bore the name OF the hus-
band she mourned as dead, and those
about her who knew anything OF the
past history OF her life, knew just so
much that would caution t.!
against asking more, and, if tne4o
were something OF mystery in it, one
thing they all felt assured of-that
naught OF guilt, scarcely error could
attach to one whose whole aspect
and bearing told Of chastened SORROW,
| and the peace that comes only from
faith, and reliance in a. higher
| judgment than that of this world.
| TO her daughter alone had Nelly
confded the whole of her past exper-
fences, painful as was the effort; for she
believed no other lesson could so
her child the necessity of avoiding
even the appearances of evil, and
warn her OF the dire results which
may be born of but one error.
Ida had heard and apprehended all,
keenly as her mother could have de-
sired; had wept long and bitterly for
the father WhOm-She would never see
in this life, and whose fate had so
mysteriously been linked with her ex-
istence. And from her child, at least,
Nelly had never received but comfort
and an amelioration OF all her griefs
All the care Of her parent could not
have sufficed to preserve her from the
attentions of fatterers and idlers Who
! by one means and another, found &C
cess to her company; for the talent OF
the signor's beautiful pupil had ceased
to be a secret long before Ida made
a public debut. She had even, at the
desire Of her inspector, taken part in
several private reunions; and it was
no part Of his plan, at least, to hide
her proficiency.
But though there we're not wanting
admirers and fatters a he
young singers shrine, OF more or
less pretension, and more or less
i favorably regarded, there had been