Year: 1868

Chapter v.


We need not linger over the trip. Suf
fee it that naught occurred to mar the hap.
piness ofas blissful hours as ever flew ovel
the lives of loving hearts. Their frat visit
was to Greenwood. With clasped hands
they knelt beside the marble which covered
all that remained of her who was once the
scle existence of Tallula ere Harry ap-
peared in the pathway of her life. As
gentle tears stole quietly down upon the
white marble both felt that blessing
dropped out Of the heavens upon their
united lives on that beautiful morning.


Miss Lyons welcomed them with happy
tears and gushing heart Of joy, for of all
her large family which had grown mp
around her for twenty years the orphan
child of her cid scholar was the cherished
darling of her aged life.


Ny second mother, have come to wed
the choice Of my heart beneath your roof,
and to have you give me away. May the
marriage altar be hallowed within your
sacred walls by dear old Doctor Beckwith." J"
Dearest child Of my heart, this is very
tender, sweet evidence of your love- May
the God of our devotion bless you for it.
Its memory will be one of the most lovely
flowers ia the chaplet of my life, the sweet
breath of which will lizger about me even
in death.n


There yet remained many Of the girls
who were little ones when she graduated
some of her own classmates were within
attending distance, and the corps of teach.
ers was the same who educated her. What
a group of loved ones would surround her
here upon the night which would be the
happiest, save one, of her life.


The night which was to wed their lives
shone out beautifully upon the valley home
at the foot of the mountains in New
England. Loving faces looked fondly on
through happy tears, while unseen angels
smiled down upon them through the clear
ether Of heaven, as the old minister who
had prayed in the school and taught Gods
word since its foundation, blessed the two
lives now uniting into one before God.


Harry desired co commemorate the night
by deeds which should make happy hearts,
and live long years. So he presented the
dear old minister with deed to the lovely
little home which he had rented for twenty
five years, and gave Miss Lyons five thou
sand dollars to be devoted to educating
INDECENT orphans within her institution.
Mrs. Jones, who now had the care of Or
phan grandchildren, received a lease of the
cottage home left by Mrs. Bayard, for the
period of her life, with the promise that
her children should never know want.


Harry again carried his bride over many
spots she had travelled when scarcely more
than a school girl. Around Niagara they
again fingered for weeks, and as Harry be-
held her great delight ia the beauties of
these spots, he asked:


Would you like, dearest, to extend
your travels into Europe?n


No, Harry, l love the scenery of my
native country and enjoy its mystical
spells, but have no wish to pass beyond its
limits. From your graphic descriptions !
can gather the beauties and wonders of the
old world. Evening after evening shall
follow you over every line Of your travels
and the spell of your voice shall engravt
them upon mind and heart. would now
return South and find my joys and my
labors in that dear hOme.D


Harry gladly turned his steps homeward
Gas no%' .h-: his cup Of bliss was SO full hil
heart yearned for the sweet rest within i'll
beautiful lights and shades.


Jeness declared she had not seen spe
like it, and with wild joy hailed their home
ward course, each day asking when they
would arrive.


1.-THE END.l