Year: 1866

rived, by which time Mr.. Scott was in
low condition on account of the
wound having remained 80 long un.
dressed. In the meantime, however,
he had been we'll attended to by tho
kind people of the house, who did eve.
rything in their power to help him;
and it was generous, heartfelt kind.
ncss TOO, for they did not at that time
know the rank of the gentleman who
had thus become an inmate of their
house.


Tine wound was found to be severe
one, and the unfortunate young man
suffered much. 1t would be tedious to
relate in detail all that followed. We
need only say that fever set in and
for u time his life was despaired Of
A strong, vigorous constitution, how.
ever, finally overcame the suffering,
and he recovered. Many weeks clap.
sed before he was able to leave his
bed, and even when he had advanced
that far toward convalescence it was
weeks before he could leave the house
where he had boen SO kindly cared
for.


/ Mr. Morris had a daughter Just turn
ed eighteen. If we were writing a love
story for the Ledger we might here
describe all the loveliness this young
lady possessed. We might speak Of
her sparkling eyes, her rosy cheeks,
her ruby lips, her glossy hair, and all
that sort of thing-but We won't
We will only say that she had all these,
and moro too. She was genuine
rustic beauty-a fair, gentle, unsophis-
ticated country girl, reared away out
in the prairies where her father made
his home. She was as good as kind,
and as loving as she was beautiful
During all the sickness and suffering
of the young Englishman, she nurscd
and helped him, Everything that a
woman could do, under the circum.
stances, she did. In strange land,
far from his friends and his aristocrat.
ic home, the kindness and attention ol
this simple country girl were TO young
Scott the ministrations of an angel
and, as he aflerward often said he be.
lieved he never would have recovered
but for her sistcrly devotion and kind.
ness.


Under these circumstances it Is not
strange that the gratitude the invalid
felt should ripeu into stronger feel
ing. After leaving his bed he had ma
nv q long weary hour to while away
in that quiet farm house, for his two
companions, in compliance with his
own earnest request, had started, one
to Canada and tho other to England,
to satisfy his friends regarding him.
He insisted on their going, or othsr.
wise they would not have left him
In those quiet hours in tho old farm,
house on the prairie, the fair and gen
tie country girl would sit beside that
heir to dukedom, the first step below
the throne, and hear him talk of his
grand old home, his great friends and
all the beauties and loveliness of his
native land This constant associa-
ton with each other soon awoke feel
ing in their hearts which had never
been there before. They loved, and
were happy only in each others So
ciety.


The long summer days shortened
into. the mellow autumn time; autumn
faded slowly away, and winter ap-
preached, and still the young man lin
gered at the old farm houst QUITO the
prairie. The honest farmer and his
good wife saw what made him linger,
but they did not tremble for their
daughters honor. They knew the
young stranger well now, and were
not afraid to trust him. In his man
ly, honest face they read his charac.
ter, and saw that he was not man
such as their daughter might fear
And they were right.


He was one of natures noblemen.-
Forgetting all, his great family and
high blood, he told the gentle country
girl how he loved her. He asked her
to be his wife and to go with him
to his grand homo away across the
sea. ...


At first sho hesitatcd; the happiness
was too great to be real, and then she
argued with him, and spoke of the
difference in their worldly positions
and the feeling such an alliance might
produce with his friends at home. He
was not to be moved, however, he low
ed her truly and sincerely, and was
willing to forego all for her sake. She
consented, and they were married
quietly and happily, in the old farm
house away out on the prairie.


This was marriage Of love.


A few days ago the happy couple
passed through this city on their way
to England. The young nobleman
has carried away to his grand home
one Of the faircst of our prairie flow
ers. May she be as happy there as
she was when first the young man met
her in the old farm house away out on
the prairie.


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