Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-17
A HAPPY DENOUEMENT.

A HAPPY DENOUEMENT.
Adr. Tords Plot, and It's Success
ful Conclusion.
QACT IS land Of
AcSsE gold, Ella! We
shall be fam
DazTfalMvSN\ \seTaH ously rich one
(Ma1NNsssSy u SA of these days.
(S@N3 = ~ III Surely, darling,
va - K8}dI you will not
\MaAc A2G hinder me,when
4SS!e 50 mnsh s sGf to both ] Of
Vs81/%Sn,eIG1 The speaker was a
!SEIEifGS tan young fellow
r<EJ HTJg whose flushed face and
IS:lN XIV earnest manner showed
SES\lC- how much depended on his
.S.H sweetheart's answer.
~. = 81 shall come back rich,
dear one, and then-no more waiting
and pinching, and starving for us!'
It was the picture wrought by his en-
thusiasm-his belief in the resources OF
untried lands, and the girl, younger In
years, but older in wisdom--the wis
dom of experience, could not feel SO
sure of unlimited prosperity as dld
this brave lover, waiting to bid her
farewell. She looked up bravely through
her tears.
s.But it will be two years, may be
three, before we shall see each other
again, Larry!' and she turned her face
away from him that he might not see
| her grief.
Lawrence Rogers took the slight form
in his arms and dried the tear-wet blue
eyes as only lover can.
| 81 must go! There is no other way.
| You will be true to me, dear? You
will wait for me till 1 come back to
you?' . r., m
'.How can you ask me?" she cries. 81
will live on the thought OF You whlle
you are gone. All! The long voyage:
How shall endure the suspense till ]
know you are safely in Australia:
You will write to me often-often,
Larry?'
Eyes, darling, and we shall spend oul
lonely hours planning our bright tut
ure.''
He is gone, and Ella Winchell is left
to the scant consolation which her fan
lily affords. Her parents have opposed
her engagement from the first
Lawrence is poor, and the Winchell'
have been really poorer than they hav'
seemed to be for many years, for Rober
| Winchell has been q man to whom th'
future holds out golden promises which
the present never fulfills. He is nov
deep in new enterprise which N
thinks will be successful. The outlool
has been dreary for Ella, especially
late, when she has had another suitor
old and rich, James Ford by name
. He is lind-hearted man who ha
been bachelor all his life and ha
fallen into the habit of spending a
evening now and then with Rober
! Winchell, the friend of his boyhood. IL
has not seen how matters are going O.
between Lawrence and Ella, but ha
learned that the girls fresh beauty an
| frank, winning manner are fast becoH
ing greater attractions than the COLI
panionship of his old friend.
At first Lawrencc's letters were flu
of hope, and Ella felt that tile time wa
not far off when she could be mistres
of her own home and no longer sui
jected to destinations against her love
Only year had passed sine
Lawrence's departure when ever
thing was swept away from them. NJ
Winchelrs business had failed fro
lack of management, and, the schen
for which he had neglected it havir
failed long before, the family was lie
absolutely penniless.
j. Then James Ford showed his fricn
ship for the distressed family. Whe
they feebly demonstrated, he said:
What in thevvor1d can do with II
money, unless I endow an orph:
= asylum or an old womens' homer B
he looked rather wistfully at Ella as
said it, hoping for some encourageme
in her face.
About this time young Rogers lette
grew more and more despondent in ton
4 and at last he declared that he shou
not write again until his luck HI