The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-06
NE GREAT VERMONT STORY !
PIE RAN GERS ,
OR,
THE TORl'S DAUGHTER.
ny JUDGE u. Y. THOMPSON.
VOLUME ii.
CHAPTER II. Continued.
ny JUDGE u. Y. THOMPSON.

.IIow grateful, - he began. after a
t,oten sautation -"how grateful |
,bould be for this obliging attention
n fine note | sent you, soliciting a
Meeting which,
Which my gallant preserver of old
UjI be pretty sure to misconstrue. |
fear me-" interrupted the maiden.
with half murmured, sportive laugh.
no. Miss Haviland, he replied.
ina intent on serious demonstration
At his feelings TO respond in the same
spirit-"'no, ! am not so presuming
nor do ! wish to count on the former
service, which you SO magnify, and
which has induced you, perhaps, to
rant this Interview
In part, confess, was the answer
Ia this interview"
Il suspected-l feared So. he re-
pined, despondingly. would to
Heaven you could have acted entirely
aside from that motive, and then |
might have found cause to hope. But
now he added, with suppressed emo
tOn-'now--But o, how can | har-
Dor the chilling thought of being
doomed TO love without return Say.
iarest and best, must this indeed be
s0."
The downcast look and the quick
heavng bosom were the only reply !:
and the impassioned lover, gathering
courage even from these uncertain in
dcatlons, proceeded -
Years, eventful years, have passed
away, my dear Miss Haviland, since
your face. like some unexpected
vision, first greeted my sight, and it's
image, at the same moment, as thing
not to be resisted, sunk deep into my
heart, And there, from that hour to
this, ii has certainly remained-re
NAMED in spite of all my attempts to
exclude it for | struggled hard to
banlsh it, as | had so much reason to
do. You were the daughter of
wealth aud prosperity the son of
poverty and misfortune; and, what
was more revolving to my pride, you
were found with my political oppon-
Fnts-my oppressors-nay. in the
closest connection, apparently, with
my bitterest foe. But with all the aid
which these thoughts and associations
were calculated to lend me. struggled
IN vain. And when | was driven,
poor, sorrowing, and desperate, from
my home, by the wrongs and insults
d this same man, of whose position
toward you | was not left in doubt,
carried that image with me. 1t would
not be eradicated it would not even
Jade but became more deeply i'm
Fessed, and grew more and more vivid |
with time and change. In the stirring |
'enes OF military life into which |
hen entered, in the hour of battle, |
De aXhautsing march, the horrors of |
prison ship, the periloss escape,
md the long wanderings through the |
wilderness, till | again reached the |
oil of freedom, in all these, the i'm
less remained unweakened, constant |
! presenting itself to my thoughts by
lay, and shaping my dreams by night
md il was this, when, on my return,
came into this quarter, where | bad
earned our scattered troops were rally
ns, and where | found myself near
out was this that brought me TO
our fathers dwelling-it was this,
Inch, in spite of the GOODNESS of my
7ception by all but yourself. ugred
le to the repeated visit, in which |
as driven with insult from your
ouse
Not by me, Mr.. Woodt urn, " inter
osed the fair listerer, in kindly and
Tnest tones--'not by me, nor by my
)nsent or sanctioning. And it was
AMY to show you this that / was
lduced to grant your request for this,
my part, | fear, imprudent meet
s No! 0, no. sir, | have never
rgotteo-l can never forget-to whom
am Indebted for my life and graft.
de, as we'll as respect for his general
laIacter, will ever forbid aught but
ND ana courteous treatment at my
inds. And / hope you will make