Year: 1872

''The BuswelIs are nothing to YOU.
my child, and never can be-" said Aunt
Prudence, when they chanced to be dis
coursing one day upon the manner o1
her coming. 'FThey did only what
was proper under the circumstances
just what your Uncle Nathan and
would have done but they are frivol,
GUS, fashionable people, and the sooner
/ you cease even to recognize them, the
better"


/ June thought, with a smile, how Un.
Gle Nathan would look and feel. hue.
glng and kissing blooming girl like
herself. But she only gave another
sigh, thought what might have been.
and answered


They were very kind, aunt. "


. Yes, know, and your uncle and |
wrote them formal letter of thanks
That balanced the obligation.


It was the last time the subject
was mentioned between them, and
at length they passed each other as al
most strangers. Not that Eva and her
brother did so until they found it i'm
possible to keep up the acquaintance.
They reasoned correctly that such a
state Of affairs was not according to the
wishes of june, to whom they had
taken a great fancy, especially Fred.


The devil take the old ogress of an
aunt, he uttered, as he saw June pass
ing, locking even more lovely than on
the first meeting "I wish that some
thing might happen so that [ could
gain the entree Of the house."
a 1.,A
himself, that he had fallen in love Will
the girl at the first sight No, nothing
OF the kind. He only pitied her on ac-
count of her close confinement, when,
like other girls of her youth and beau
ty, she ought to have been enjoying
her life, as bird does sunshine and
liberty to fit among flowers. But trv
as he would to think of some plan of
visiting her, he could determine no
thing, and was about to give up in
despair, when an accident came to his
relief


On returning home one evening from
a ride, he s wv a crowd collected in
front of his door, and upon inquiry was
told that an old man had fallen from
apoplexy. One glance revealed to him
who the man was, and he instantly him
to be carried into the house. and dis
patched his sister to Prudence Girls
void and her niece. They came. Ply
slcians were summoned, but all III vain.
Nathan Grlswold never aroused from
his sleep-was meyer moved until he
was taken to his last restirg place.


Dark days followed. The blow was
a terrible one to his sister He had
been to her as husband, children,
brother, everything. All her love was
centered in him, and she was complete
ly prostrated.


Fred Buswell pitied her sufferings,
and did all that son conld have done
to relieve them. He attended to her
business, would not listen to her leav-
ing the house until everything was ar
ranged to her satisfaction, and then he
and Eva accompanied her and June to
little cottage he had hired, and seen
furnished for her, upon the banks of
the river where she had been born.


"You will not leave?" said the old
lady, whose entire character seemed to
have changed since the death of her
brother, q have not long to stay on
earth, and poor June, what will become
of her when [ am gone 2"


She glanced up quickly, saw the eyes
OF those she had mentioned meet, un-
derstood their meaning, and was salts
fed. All through the summer months
she fingered, tended by her affectionate
niece, and when the leaves began to
fade and fall she died.