Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-08-04

least, and liked you. ] like you yet.
] have grown TO like you better as
have come TO be better acquainted with
you.
"Now / want you 20 remain with me
and Tighten my sorrow by your pres.
ence. ! am a gloomy, sad, disap.
pointed woman, but my heart Is not en-.
tirely dried up. You can bring back 10
IL some OF its youthful feeling and win
from II a great deal Of the love and
light that have SO long been shut up
within. You can make me much hap
pier than I've been for years, and J
want you 10 stay. II Is for my sake !
ask II, and not for yours, for ! believe
all the happiness and benefit will be
mine"
| stayed. I realized that, however
Mrs. Lawton might be disposed 70 view
the matter, was giving but poor re.
turn for the blessings she bestowed on
me, and excrted myself in every pos.
siblc way TO enhance her pleasure. I
talked with her, read 20 her, and per.
formed a thousand little services that
thought would tend 10 bring her n taste
Of enjoyment ] fiattcrcd myself with
the belief that my efforts 10 augment
her pleasure were not vain. was
certain that she grow lighter Of heart.
and that day by day she gained new
relish for life. Her face lost much
Of its rigidity, and the cold lool, melted
out OF her eyes Sometimes she chatted
quite gayly, and now and then IA soft
smile played over her features.
] noted all these signs Of increasing
happiness with the greatest pleasure,
for loved my bcnefactress with my
whole heart and IL made mo happy TO
see her happy. Every light or shadow
that played over her face had its effect
on my heart, for my sympathies were
so woven into her life that enjoyed or
suffered what she did.
Two years lived with Mrs. Lawton
They were years full OF quiet peace and
contcntmcnt, although they failed TO
bring me that perfect happiness should
have known but for my disappointed
love. still remembered viii Ilanley
and grieved that he did not love me.
During all that two years ! heard
nothing of any of those ! had known
previously. At first | apprehcnded
some trouble from Mr.. BERNARD. for
feared he would seek me out, but In
time became quito easy on that point
when weeks ran into months and |
heard nothing of him. by Mrs Law.
toms advice wrote one letter TO Mrs
Cornell, telling her had left Mr.. Der.
nard's service, and the town, and that !
was comfortably situated in distant
place, but could not, Toe good reasons,
give my address. So | had no news Of
the Cornells, though often called them
TO mind and longcd to write to them.
! am free to confess, reader, that |
often felt that | was not giving the
Cornells the proper treatment, by hid.
ing away from them after their con.
duct to me. thought their generosity
and uniform kindness demanded my
perfect confidence, and IL seemed to me
] was doing them a great injustice by
Withholding II. But Mrs. Lawton per-
suaded me to act as ! did, urging that
my safety demanded strict silence on
my part, and was willing to be gov.
erned by her. ! sometimes wished To
hear from Charles Cornell, and fire..
qucntly ! wondered what he was think.
ing Of me, and whether or not he had
married. OF course his notion In this
last respect could be OF no interest TO
me, since | did not love him and had re.
jccted his suit, yet for some cause | took
AN interest in IL, aud hoped with all my
heart that he had not married.
had made few acquaintauccs in my
new home, and no particular friends,