Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-03-20

They did not sec. during all this time. a
| pale, haggard face pressed against one
of the window panes, nor the cold. gilt
| tering eyes which were watching them.
| Even If they had. they would not. in
! their wild terror and intense eScitation,
| have given the circumstance single
| thought.
1t WAS not till they knew that the ter
riole danger was past that some one ask
| I'd what had become of the poisoned flow
ers. No one knew. Harleigh, TOO much
| agitated TO know what he did when b.
threw them from the window. had 30 rec
! objection Of the circumstance. The ser
want who had received at the door what
! had so nearly proved a latal gift enter
| ing the room as the inquiries were being
| made. said that he saw Mr. iiarleig1
| throw them from the window
They mustn't remain there said the
Jew. IF they DO. more than one life
| may he lost by means Of them
Edward Eiliston. having called Cor a
| lantern, went in search Of them. AS he
! held the light close TO the ground its rays
| fell on some object which j, appeared TO
| him, was a human form. lying under the
| window next TO the one where lie WAS
searching for the flowers. Approaching
/ it. he found it was a woman. He called
/ for help. and when he had assisted to
| carry her into the house Harlcigh and
Alice saw that it was Mildred Dacres
she appears to be dead" said Har-
leigh rs it possible that she found the
poisoned lowers
There was no need that she should
find them produce the effect you see.
remarked the jew Il can perceive That
! the same deadly effluyia emanates from
the flowers entangled in such a manner
! with the breast-knot she wears. ms 10
make it seem probable taat she made an
/ effort TO tear them thence, as | detected
| in these
In short time slight eonvulsive
movement was perccptible. causing
mantle she had on 10 slip aside. which
would have fallen to the floor had not
corner of ii been wound round her hand.
| Harleigh, who stood near. removed the
mantle, when it was seen that her hand
was closed over the flowers which had
been thrown from the window, with so
| firm and rigid a grasp as to crush them.
An attempt to remove them aw 5ened
her to degree of consciousness.
"No-no,' she murmured. They are
| flowers for the bridal. / lost them some
how, but | shall keep them safe now, till
| | can give them into the brides own
| hand"
Can It be that it was she who sent
the fiowers?" said Edwar Ellistou.
1T must have been" replied Hareigh.
She recognized his voice.
Clarence Harlt Oh, said she, there
was one who stood between you and me.
but she is out of the way now. Don't
try to find how it came about. 1t will
never come to light. Stay--don't go yet.
! In minute I'll be ready to go with you"
As she spoke. with a sudden effort she
raised herself from her recumbent pos
ture. threw out her arms in a wild, inn
passioned manner, as if she wished to
| prevent some ones departure, fell back
and in mediately expired.
After what had taken place, all
| thoughts of the intended wedding were
| for that evening abandoned. When, in
week afterward, the guests re-assemhled.
| il was not alone to witness the bridal OF
HarIeigh and Alice, for ere they return
| ed to their own homes, Edward Elliston
! and Abb Rushton had likewise received
the nuptial benediction.
A few months from this time, Harleigh
| and his youthful bride visited the home
| Of her childhood. 1t was the evening
| after their arrival. and the air, keen and
/ frosty without, caused the encrusted
snow to sparkle in the beams of the full
/ moon, as if strewed with thousands of
diamonds, was tempered within the am
| pie parlor of the Walworth farm house.
to a kind of festive mellowness not easy
TO describe.
1t seemed to Alice that elin fingers
| must have been busy with her former
! guardians face-here smoothing away
/ some stern and rigid line-and there.
| silly giving it little dash Of sunshine.
| It was certain that he had seldom, or new
! er before, so fully given himself up to
| that social enjoyment Whicil develops the
! better and the more kindly feelings of our
| nature, since, by mistake common to
| the enthusiasts of his time. he had. in
| his own mind, confounded even the pure
| and innocent pleasures of the home circle
with those which he considered vain and
sinful. But an iceberg cannot resist the
constant and genial influences of the sun.
| and his artificial GOODNESS and austerity
! had gradually yielded to the gentle and
:
/ over his household.
You don't know who Aunt Jane is
| do you.?" said Ella. who. as in former
/ days. had taken a scat by the side OF
! Alice.
mo. dear, she replied. who is she''
"Uncle Gabricl's wife, You know he
taught my brothers and me to call him
uncle"
And we like to now" said Benjamin.
"He don't seem so strange as he used
to-"
Gabriel" said Mrs Walworth. has
been married to the sood-naturcd, laugh
/ ing Jane Lowering more than year. and
I being strong and healthy, she makes
| nothing of spinning and weaving the
'feeces of his flock which he once, on a
certain occasion. alluded to, and OF man
aging a large dairy to his entire satiafac-
ton
II guess Aunt lanes face fills his cyc. :
said Benjah,in FOR it is as big and as
round as the full moon"
My son" said his father reproyins.
Is, though n smile could be seen lurking
In his eye. 'you mustn't suffer yourself
to exaggerate when you make compari
sons"
For my part, think ii is nothing Vt
| the simple and candid truth" said Sil,s
Watkins. who, hitherto. had been silent
! partaker of the socini enjoyment, and
! who continued to think that if ever there
! was an ANGEL ON earth II WAS s lirn