St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-21

painlessly. Edith closed his eyes and
kissed his fair forehead, with her hand
entwlned among the curlS of his rich
brown hair. The surgeon led her away,
and the burial rites were in exact ac-
cOrdance with her expressed wishes,
after which she found the barge in
readiness, and the silent oarsmen con-
dncted her in the night time, for safety's
sake, to the haven from which she had
so recently embarked. She went to bed
with her sweet, sad memories, from
which She did not rise again for many
weeks. The strain upon her nervous
system. together with a cold contracted
In the night exposure, brought OIL slow
fever and many days of delirium.
Ursula found their old family physi-
clan still in the city, and he
visited her daily. She was sit
ting up for the first time
on the day of the evacuation of
New York by Washington's army, but
was unable to join the thrOng Of refu-
gees that were attached to it, as she
would have done il In health. The Brit
ish army came into the city, but the
little hut in the woods was so far from
town that the fact gave her no disquIet-
ude. Ursula found it just as easy to
obtain supplies as formerly, but asked
In much bewilderment:
Say. missus, watts de worst, bein'
ruled by a clowned head ober de water,
OF by clown OBJ heads on dis side?"
A year and half has passed. 1t is
winter, now, and Edith is quartered in
the house of relative in lower Broad
way. The faithful Ursula is dressing
pretty little maiden Of two years, while
the mother is reading a letter in
quaint kind of cipher, just received
from a lady at Valley Forge. 1t is in
IN which she described the con-
dition of New York, and declared her
self heartily sick of British tyranny
She is interrupted by the entrance of a
servant with a card, upon which, with
changing color, she reads the name,
Lord Dunbarton." She has never seen
HIM since the day he sent her to Ronald
Tremain; and although she made in
quiries after her recovery from the long
illness, wishing to acknowledge his gen
erouS kindness, she could only learn
that he had left the country.
She meets and greets him presently
with the dignity OF a princess and intro
duceS Miss Bessie, who has accompanied
her to the parlor, and who is quite
agreeable to being placed upon his
knee. He explains to Edith in a few
words his reasons for resigning his COM
mission and returning to England-he
could not be concerned in war where
brother was fighting against brother.
Whatever the result of such a conflict,
domestic ties must he severed OH every
hand.
The interview was short, but he came
again, and then again, and again. He
VS. only in New York OH visit. and
the ship would sail in a few days. One
morning he called early, and as Edith
entered the parlor to welcome him he
made his errand known without any
circuh.locutiOn.
am wholly and altogether in love
with you, and have been ever since l
found you at the bottom of the Hudson
river struggling for life; will you marry
me and let me take you and Bessie with
me to my home across the seas? With
out YOU do not care for existence"
Edith was not wholly unprepared for
this. but it had come in an unexpected
fashion, and with face suffused and in
voice hetraying intense emotion, she
stammered:
do you OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
Yes. L mean now, today or tomorrow,
as you like. The ship sails the day
after in the morning." but have your
answer, my darling, and as she reached
her two hands up toward him he caught
her in his arms.
In the autumn Of 1882 New York