The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1897-01-08

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"'onent; then she opened her lips
! her. oifuPte
An things have changed so in tt
'"S' iour years that 1 sometimes fe,
that 1T will do mo good to 60 els,
"hero Tor little while. The oil
P'"co Is full of pleasant memories. bu
s3metim es L get to thinking out here
Mary" o"' Aoie
She hid her face in her hands bu
III u rev moments she raised it again,
Zee Mary, see!" she continued os
'"o pointed to neighboring mag
mona. do you see that tree? Do
yo" remember how, on these warm
spring nights, the mocking bird used
10 sing among tho blossoms. md how
often you and have sat out here md
listened to its music? Year after veor
~ came whilo the magnolia was in
oioom' then one year it left us sud-
oehIy and has never visited us again
10 you know what happened ON tho
night heard it last? No, no how
can You know? You wero not with
me then, Mary"
Come, darling, calm yourself ro-
her cousin, gently.
iii tell you, dear" continued
Ahhe' moro quietly. at has becp
mat never told you Of 1t is inst
our years ago tonight since sat here
WIN Androw Cclton. listening to the
hochlhS bird, rs you and I SO often
'seu to do, and never before had its
lotcs seemed half SO beautiful An
rev and [ had been talking Of our
n'urc, and of the homo he was yoinc
take me to. 1t seemed to mo ot
NUS 'na' nc was even more tender
u" nifcctIonate than he had ever been
efore. But all the evening L fnncied
had something on his mind thot bo
'sltatcd to tell me of.
AT lnst-while tho mockipp bird
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rs sihSmS-whilc. with my head rest.
g on his shoulder. was looking over
& moonlit lawn and through the dark
's'er OF poplars-at the castles we
Il been building in the nir-be
htiy told me Of his purpose to enlist
the ranks of the men who bid in
'ea our country and laid it waste. a
III ss&oke, R1X - heert reboIled against 4
H. ana pade mo cast him out. I l.
% and ordered him to leave me. Ho h
''eStcd' but refused to listen to W
at he had 10 say. L told him bo n
ncen false to me and a traitor to al
State to which wo both owed al
lance. Then il turned away and W
hlm standing there alone. y,
nc night after our quarrel went CT
inc garden, hoping in my heart II
would find him there, but re- so
cd that if he spoke to me I wouId tb
u iilm "s had done the night be- w.
!. lie did not come again. and -,
g he left have not heard from a.
But. Mary, do you know that be
The moment when / told him fin
All was ut an end between us TINT n
u voice that used to come to us tin
the mognolia tree has not been wa
Il again by nnyouc about tbe fo,
- " hN-t Ia, 4
WI! 'h'S ol" garden saI
become distastcful to me, and dr;
ot "s sorry to lonvo it as you fan. WA,
might be" tio
% you love him still?" nskoJ tbo
softly rs she took her cousip,s so;,
es, answered Anne, as a dirk n's
mantled her brow. "If, after on'
he told me ho had altered his ''''
tentlon because of his fear of VII
me- L should have dcspiscd eve. ever
L mated the convictions he pro-
!, but respected them because ""S
nscicnc, toIJ h;,, tnbl
IL he had been falso TO his con- '
e then he might have been false 81
in later years. mare
n norsod ,, The
9th wcro s;,o,. pose
rhaps-" said Mary, bnt she n"'
more, for at that moment she 'A.''
of 80. '"e drict
foke out full and clear upon
illness of the pcrfumcd air. Noto
lote OF Joyous, soul-thrillinp
Y seemed to awaken the silent m,
to the consciousness of life. nosso
0 and brcathlcss Mary nlntnhaI