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XIX.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, MAY 27, IS77.
NO. 126
I THREE HORNCNRH.
Brn halted the inu befits,
•n #*nt« r* 1 the Ortken door,
•lied lor the welcome (hear
ftt to greet the tr.ueler here.
L* they cried, m the hoe/eca cam*,
V* portly old dame.
B. hoa’e your wine and beer?
r little dkughter dear?"
r the boraemoD fell;
, in thought* he could never tell;
ne by one they crept,
*1 room wheie the ma den slept.
air «m rippling low
re a* snow,
> ha ids «o closely pretend
i to the pulceleaa breast
| er>- the death chill lay
child,” and one turned away;
loved thee,*' the second said,
learned to love me, and lived to
A ways, 1 love thee now,'^
Ci i« d »m he kisse I her brow;
i t<> • oine our soula ahull wed,
* living, I love thro dead.*'
I from the oaken door,
vent to r. turn no more.
—From the German.
A HOLIDAY.
I's Magas Id*.]
» City, far away
T ith rp- lug to-day!—
e tufted with primrose,
* me repose,
It el and w ild violet
>ih tuy soul's fret,
| delicious vernal air
lows away care,
mteruted songs
cal landed wrongs.
fho
rejoicing brook my griof
lire like a leaf,
i gentle murmuring flow
tea glide and go;
J>. iukled bough and hedges,
sprouting redoes
id tbs water’s brink,
•no like cool drink
lips, like fro l> soft mead
that feed.
pier than t’.e kine
> dreaming head
1 koo it far mountains hi
Ike heev'n in view,
rid and sunny sky above
live with love;
[mover came they there,
iviucly fair.
bed
i b tier oracle,
r what str ets tel If
ttnbisiou, fils hood, strife,
Han puts in lif !
a Lite Mtasurer!—1 can say
I've lived a day,"
orv holds it now in keeping,
w »ku or sleeping.
Wt
f.»r tin Sunday Knquisks.J
CLOVER.
BY NKLI. TELL.
( MAI'TEK IV.
^er resolution Kitty, early next
■nglit an interview with the
timidly made her reqneit.
: to Mount Vernon!” he ex-
greatlv astonished. “Why,
[can I get on without you ?”
“Yo« dare your daughters with you
bow,” MBcplied, “and I will promise to
return ghn their absence will again
Wave yoa.qlo n e.''
“PattiaS 1 uiyself quite out of the ques
tion, whaf is Windham going to do?
VhotUfl will tuke your place, Kitty,
Inistratious to the poor fel-
eedon, 1 suppose,” she said,
ecp back her tears,
ooh! Clara will tire of it in a
will never do for yon to leave
ild."
erself baffled in her ardent
h to get away from Capley,
d by nervous ill-defined sp
ot some approaching evil,
ooinposure and burst into a
tears.
ral, completely non-plussed
hihition of her over-strained
oked at her in a bewildered
way and said:
Kitty, my child, you surprise
e, my little girl, stop sobbing,
go if you insist on it. Such
1 melt a stock or stone, much
Id tender heart. Don't you un-
tne? I say you may go; but
any more, it hurts me to see
ing.'
■General, let me weep—let me
ill do me good. O, if I conld
t all the pent-up misery in my
It
her.’
td lie down, my child, yon are,
| and to morrow we will talk of it
hd you shall go back to Miss Mor-
|aro unhappy here."
1 moved off she heard him mut-
f himself:
. understand the child, but she
' she is not content here,though
i how in the world I can spare
pt herself into a violent head-
as she lay in her darkened
' very soul longed and prayed
Jessed rest of death,
are sometimes moments in oar
Lu only the ease and quiet of the
■ms adequate to relieve the tor-
ionizing cares of this life. And
ros dragging her down to the
a, when Hope, God's beat gift
ame glinting like a ray of glori-
hine through the sombre dark
ling an t crushing her troubled
spiring pilience and subrnis-
trunga quiet fall upon her aud
l to straggle longer with des-
i was
i by
hoars passed, when she
from thase painful reveries
ranee of a servant, who handed
It was from Miss Morris,
t good lady expressed herself as
xcetdingly distressed by the sad
ndent tone of Kitty’s last letter
hd amongst much other exoellent
he wrote:
cially bid you to cultivate the
ental feeling the General haa ex-
| himself as entartaing for yon. De~
urself to him,humor all hia whims,
and show himself unmistakably that your
greatest solicitude is to please him. It
will be greatly to your interest to remain
at Capley, for the General is rich, power
ful, and I think fond of yon. He has
the means and I don't believe the will is
wanting to help you in any fntnre trou
ble or emergency that m.y unexpectedly
arise. Don’t misunderstand me, Kitty; I
do not recommend a fawning, obsequious
behaviour, but only a cheerful willing
ness to oblige and wait npon him. Be
true to yourself under all circumstan
ces. Let your own pure instincts guide
you in small matters—those that are
weightier consult and rely npon the Gen
eral. And now, my dear child, I hope
yonr next will be written in such a strain
of hopefulness and content as will re
move my present uneasiness.”
After reading this long, helpfol letter,
Kity felt trnly ashamed of her morning’s
weakness and lale in the evening she
again went to tbe General and said:
“I hope you will overlook and excuse
my childish conduct this morning. My
spirits were then down to zero, and I
thought a sight of dear Miss Morris the
only core for each depression. I have
come now to say that I will not leave yon
if yon really wish me to stay.”
He looked at the pure pale face of the
girl which had a wan, pinched appear
ance, and resting bis hand on her sunny
head, said feelingly:
“1 do wish it, from my heart I do, and
thank you for this change of resolution.
I am getting old, Kitty, and your pres
ence near me is a source of great pleas
ure.”
Tho touching pathos pervading bis
tones caused her to look up and she
found his kindly eyes bent searchingly
upon her.
“I will never mention the subject again
General,” she said, “and Capley shall al
ways be my home.”
“Kitty,” he said, still keeping his pity
ing gnzo npon her, “what is tbe matter
with you of late? Your faae wears con
stantly a white, scared, haggard appear-
anc that affects me painfully. JVhit is
it that has metamorphosed my little girl
into this white-faced suffering woman ?"
Struggling for calmuess she remaiued
silent, nervously claspii g and unclasping
her hands.
“I have some how fniled to gain your
ootidence, I fear my child. Perhaps I'm
not capable of it. but I sincerely wish to
make you happy if yon will show me
how.”
She conld not tell him the truth, and
a flood of crimson suffused her pale
cheeks as she thought bow be would
spurn her if he knew all her folly, for
tbe troth to him would only appear the
most monstrous imbecility. He noted
tbe hot du.sh that dyed even her temples
and neck, and was puzzled more than
ever.
“Won’t yon confide in me, Kitty? I
am waiting for an answer.”
Finding herself obliged to speak she
said confusedly:
“Ob! yes, I would not hesitate to con
fide in you if I had any thing to tell. I
have not been very strong for several
days, and like other sick people I sup
pose have gotten a little out of sorts.”
Ho was not exactly satisfied with this
evasive explanation, but said no more, for
Clara Weedon now came Yu enquiring for
Augusta. “I want her,” she said, to go
with me to see Herbert.”
“Gussie has walked out into the
grounds with Ed. Weedon,” replied her
father, “but Kitty here will go with
you.”
Clara shot a contemptuous glance at
the youug girl, who said, quickly:
“Hold me excused, if you please, I
have other matters to attend to just now.”
Clara's eyes fl lined like lances because
Kitty bad not waited to hear the refusal
she was meditating to her father's propo
sal, and so she said;
“Perhaps you do not know that it is
tbe very highth of bad taste to deoline
anything before you are asked, Kitty
Grover.”
Kitty made no reply to this stinging
observation, aud Clara walked away to
await Augusta’s return. As soon as she
came in Mrs. Weedon began expostula
ting with her for her negloct of Wind
ham.
“See here. Gussie, this will never do;
you must accompany me right now to
Herbert's room. I know be thinks strange
that yon don't go to see him oftener."
“I can’t go now, for I’ve promised Mr.
Weedon to sing for him.”
Clara look fixedly at her. Augusta
went on serenely removing her hat, and
arrangiug her braids, as if she did not
observe her sister's piercing eyes.
‘‘Augusta," she said at leDgtb, speaking
very slowly and distinctly, “this must go
no further. I shall be compelled to send
Ed. home if he comes between you aud
Herbert.”
“Ton send him home!” laughed Au
gusta. “I imagine that will be right diffi
cult to do, for like your ova lord he is
decidedly a man of his own head,”
“You know well enough what I mean.
I can make it so unpleasant for him that
he will leave in self-defence."
“Well, what’s np now? Because I am
exerting myself to entertain yonr good
brother aud walk occasionally with him,
and am engaged to sing to him, forth
with you make another Andes range oat
of one poor little ant hill. I tell you,
Clara, if you are inclined to exaggerate
my every act into preference for Ed., and
intentional neglect of Herbert, yon’U
make me heartily sorry for your visit.”
Clara listened impatiently, her face all
the while betraying her great anxiety,
and thinking perhaps she bad said most
too muoh, and was not pnrsning the right
course to gain her ends, she took anoth
er tack, and smoothing her ruffled brow
said:
“Oh, well, if neither you nor Ed. mean
anything serious, and are only spending
your time in a harmless flirtation, I've
nothing more to aay. But remember
this, it must continue harmless. I sup
pose it is but natural he should find it a
little dull and wearisome here in the coun
try, and seek yonr society to kill time.
Bat you mnst show some attention to
Herbert.”
A few evenings after, as Kitty passed
tbrongb tbe ball, she saw Mr. Weedon
lonngiug on the settee smoking. He
gave her a long admiring stare, and fol
lowed her out on the piazza, where throw
ing himself in a chair he watched her
keenly as she plucked some sprays of
honeysuckle from tbe luxuriant Persian
vine that shaded one end of the gallery.
Her exquisitely molded arms from which
the loose sleeves had slipped, showed
gleaming white amongst the wavering
mass of verdure, and seeing her efforts
to reach a particularly fiue bunch jnst
above her bead, he said:
“Come here, Miss Kitty and sit by me,
and I’ll get those coveted flowers for
yon.'’
She paid no attention to him.
“He got up and strolled over to her
lazily puffiing at his cigar.
“Miss Kitty didn’t you hear what I
said?”
“I did,” tbe tones clear and distinct.
“Coy,” he Cixjght; “I’ll change all
that. I am a great admirer of beauty,
Miss Kitty.”
“Well,” she said, looking at him for
the first time.
“In fact I may say an adorer of it.”
“Well!’’her superb eyes holding him
with their steady, unblinking gaze,
“Flowers too, I love.”
“Well!"’ the white face and shining
eyes opposite wore so peculiar an expres
sion he was a little disconcerted, but
floundered on.”
“And, Miss Kitty, the cloves blossom
is my favorite of all the floral treasures
of earth.”
Again he stopped confused by ber.
“Well, sir, I beg you’ll proceed.”
“Since then I’m a passionate lover of
tbe beautiful in all its aspects, and as yon
are the handsomest of created beings—”
Again he hesitated, abashed by tbe
proud pale face whose expression puzzled
aud annoyed him. There was, be fancied,
an amused look lurking in tbe starry eyes
bnt it was hardly possible. This poor
little nameless dependent must be only
too happy for the notice of sach a man
as himself—the wealthy Edward Weedon.
So bungling on be continued:
“And now I ask what reward yon will
take to allow me five minutes' uninter
rupted view o! your angelic loveliness?”
For an instant she withdrew her steady
gaze from his insolent, smirking face,
and looked at her watch—a gift from the
General—holding it in the palm of her
hand, she still stood before him calm and
statuesque. The fellow was positively
confounded by her inscrutable behavior,
aud watched ber muoh as he would some
strange being from another sphere. But
he was in for it now, and his arrogance
would not permit him to donbt bnt that
she was acting a part to more effectually
secure the conquest she supposed she
had made of the powerful, distinguished
Weedon. He carelessly knocked the
ashes from his cigar, and smiled supercil
iously down upon ber from his six feet of
majesty. “I'll hnmor her awhile,” he
thought; “anything to relieve the tedi
ous dullness of the hoar.”
“Time is up,” she said, replacing her
watch.
“Many thanks—shall I get the honey-
snokle for yon?” reaching for it as he
spoke.
“Yon forget you bargain, sir,” she
replied very curtly.
“What bargain, La Gloria? Oh, ab! I
believe I did leave the reward to your
choice. Well, my word is as good as my
bond, little Shylock. Is it my heart yon
wish, which, photographed with your
charms, will turn the scales againBt a
hundred pounds of flesh."
“You mistake, sir,” she answered sim
ply, and there was now a derisive cnrl of
her lip which he could not misapprehend.
“Pardon my error, and tell me what I
shall offer, rare jewels, or—”
“Stop, sir—I merely desire, in return
for the confidential communication of
your preferences to inform you that
there is something, I too I am fond of
seeing.”
“What is that, Miss Clover?”
“A gentleman!"
“Ab! yes, to be sure, ” smiling so as to
show his white teeth under the covering
of his moustached lips. The little thing
was abouf*to return bis compliment, no
donbt, his vanity suggested. “And so
you like to 6ee a gentleman—a fine gen
tleman, who can properly appreciate
yonr wonderfully enchanting beauty,
Miss Kitty?”
“Sir, I am painfully conscious that I
do not now behold one.”
His florid complexion grew almost pur
ple at this cool and unexpected announce
ment. The man was actually staggered
by her words and manner. He could
soarceiy believe his own ears. Throw
ing away his cigar, and nervously playing
with the flowers he had gathered, be said:
“Oh, I’m not above taking a joke from
a lady—especially from one so fascina
ting as yourself. ”
His towering vanity would not allow
him to suspect for a moment that she
could really mean what she said, and he
appeared as if awaiting bar confirmation
of his vain -nraiise that it was bnt a jest.
She read his overweening oonceit and
arrogance in his pompous features and
qnickly undeceived him.
“I am in no sportive mood, Mr. Weed
on and m; assertion, resting on irrefrag-
ible grounds, must be taken in its most
literal sense.”
As she spoke she threw up her head
with the most iueffiblo contempt, and de
liberately surveyed his insolently pre
suming faoe, then turning on her heel
glided away. /
“Now I have given him a lesson I hope
he will be in no hurry to disregard,' ’ she
thought.
His obtrusive, persistent attentions at
every opportunity, were growing daily
more pronounced and bold, and had be
come such a source of annoyance to her
that unless some one else was present she
rarely showed herself where he was likely
to be found, bnt this evening she bad
intentionally permitted him to bring mat
ters to a crisis.
A week had passed ainoe his arrival
with Clara, aud during that time Kitty
had not been near Windham. Tbe third
day of ber absence, Herbert inquired of
Clara, who was frequently in to see him,
why Kitty didn't come.
“Ob, I don’t know, I'm sore, unless
she's engaged with Ed.”
That was not likely, he thought, but
only said:
“Do send her up, Mrs. Weedon. She
has commenced an article in the last Re-
rieir that I should like to have her finish.
My days are very wearisome, imprisoned
as I am in all these splints and bandages,
and I eagerly accept anything calculated
to cheer my solitude."
“Let mo supply her place—it will give
me pleasure to wait on you,’’she replied.
“Oh, I cant think of troubling yon.
Besides, I am acoustomed to Kitty's voice
and manner of reading,” he said.
“I’ll see what can be done, Herbert,
bnt fancy tbe girl is muoh too glad to be
relived from attendance on you to come
willingly buck.”
A few boors be waited for the appear
ance of K" ”, and a strong suspicion
gaining gr< u-id in bis mind that Mrs.
Weedon wt . keeping ber from him, be
sent Mary to request her to come.
She was sitting with the two sisters
when tbe message was delivered. Clara
immediately arose and said:
“Come, Gussie, let's go and calm the
fretful impatience of your betrothed.
Kitty, you will remain here and complete
that tattiDg; I shall want it to-morrow.”
fche drew Augusta out of the room
with her, closing the door behind her.
“Stop, Mary,” she called to the girl, “I
wish this to be th6 last message you carry
to Kitty from Mr. Windham—yon will
loose your place if it is ever repeated.”
“I didn’t know,” replied the girl in as
tonishment, “ here was any harm in it.
Ho told me to.”
“Enough,” said Clara, sternly, “you
dow have my orders; don’t you dare to
disobey them.”
Instead of going directly to him they
went to tbe housekeeper, and bade her to
instruct all the servants never to deliver
any communication or message from Her
bert Windham to Kitty. “The command
applies to all all alike, Mrs. Bell,” said
Clara, haughtily, “and you will please
notify them that they will promptly be
discharged if they disregard my orders.”
Mrs. Bell was thinking that Jackson,
Mr. Windham’s servant, conld not be in-
clnded in these instructions, and was
likely enough to frustrate the plans of
Mrs. Weedon, bat she did not give voice
to her thoughts, and only signified her
willingness to obey directions.
At length Windham heard footsteps
approaching his door, and as it opened,
supposing it was Kitty come at last, said
“Why Clover, I thonght you were never
coming,” then glancing around saw Clara
and her sister standing before him.”
“Pardon me, I thonght it was Kitty,
whom I took the liberty of sending for.
Why don't she come?”
“She is busy just now, Herbert, and
fearing yon were lonely, Augusta and I
came. ”
He could not disguise his vexation. I
don't think he attempted it, for they saw
plainly enough the shade of his disap
pointment that flitted over his wasted
features, and he said, somewhat iroDical-
ly:
“Y'ou Ddie; are very graoions to think
so kindly of my comfort and pleasure.
My physician has not long left me, and
his assurances that I shall be confined to
my bed weeks longer is not at all calcu
lated to restore my enfeebled and sink
ing spirits.”
“We ll do all that is possible to enliven
and console you during your protracted
imprisonment," said Clara. “But I hope
the doctor is mistaken; they often are,
you know—and that you’ll be walking
freely in less than a month."
“They make no pretentions to infalli
bility. and their opinions are usually
founded on experience, knowledge and
reason. I can’t then flatter and deceive
myself with the hope that they have mis
judged my case. You speak of my being
able to walk soon. That I fear will not
be accomplished in months, and never
without support.
As he spoke he turned his large sad
eyes full upon his affiancee to note the
effect of his words. Augusta stood per
fectly unmoved, her dull, sluggish eyes
coldly regarding him, and as her father
soon joined them she gladly retired.
Clara remained, marvelously exerting
herself to make him forget Kitty, bnt
sbe might as well have tried to “chain
the winds” and calm tbe sea when Boreas
and Neptune had determined on a tem
pest, as delude herself with hopes of dri
ving Kitty from his thoughts.
Two or three more days passed which
seemed ages to the afflicted man. He
grew honrly more restless and impatient.
Nothing seemed to satisfy or ease him.
“Kitty! Kitty! oh, my darling!" his heart
continually cried, “Come to me, Kitty!”
She and she alone, he feit, could only
soothe his wretchedness. The frequent
messages he had sent to her were never
received, and that that was the case he
now so firmly believed that he would
have staked bis life upon its truth.
The morning after Kitty’s encounter
with Weedon, Windham could control
himself no longer, and the long pencil
of light that fell athwart his sombre, rig
id face, showed hia stern determination
to submit no longer.
“Jackson,” he said abruptly to his ser
vant, “Do you ever see Miss Kitty thase
days?"
“Sometimes I sees her, sir, and she
always asks about you. Y esterday I oame
across her on the back verandah, and
says, ‘Miss Kitty, why have you deserted
my mastei? I know he misses you.’ But
sbe looked so white and pitifnl I was sor
ry I said it.”
“What answer did she make?”
“Oh, she said she boped yon would
soon be well and turned away.”
“Mr. Weedon is aronnd her a good
deal, isn’t he?”
“I think not sir. It is Miss Angnsta
he seems so fond of. It may be nothing
but servant’s talk, but I hears it whis
pered amongst them that he is setting up
to her.”
A sudden brightness seemed to illnmi-
r.ate the room from those few careless
words of JacksoD. Windham felt them
soft os silvery bells proclaiming a method
of release from tbe hateful engagement
that bound him to the heartless girl.
‘‘Go immediately down, JacksoD, and
request Mrs. Bell to come to me. You
need not return with her,” he said.
She came directly, her broad, good hu
mored face wearing an expression of cu
rious expectancy from tbe hurried sum
mons.
“Sit down, Mrs. Bell. Here take this
seat near me,” he said, nodding to it. “1
hope yon are my friend,” looking searoh-
ingly at her.
“Oh, yes, sir, that I am,” she replied
all in a flurry.
“Will you tell me the reason why Mias
Kitty has ceased to visit me? She has
never once been near me since Mrs.
Weedon came. I want a plain trothfnl
answer.”
“I don’t know, indeed sir; maybe she
thinks you don’t need her any longer,
and—”
“She oan’t think that; you are prevari
cating, I fear. Answer me, is she pre
vented by others?”
“I expect so, sir,” she replied, awed by
his solemn manner.
“Mrs. Weedon, I suppose is the active
agent in this matter?” he said, interro
gatively.
The woman hesitated.
“Can’t you speak—you'll drive me
mad ?”
“Well, Miss Clara did say that she did
not approve of her being around you.”
“Whj?” his touts sharp and defiant.
“She was afraid the pretty young thing
might compromise herself: leastways
that’s what she told me.”
“Compromise the mischief!” he ejacu
lated bitterly.
“Mrs. Bel), I want to see little Kitty,”
and bis sombre features softened as he
spoke the loved name. Can’t you—won’t
you, for the sake of a poor, helpless, af
flicted man, such as I am, go to her and
beg her to come np, if only for ten min
utes. ”
“I darsn’t, sir; for though I've lived
here many years, it would be as much as
my place is worth to tell her that.”
Windham, greatly troubled and per
plexed, said, quickly.
“They would not Barely turn you off
for such a trifle. ”
“Miss Clara would; and if she said the
word I’de have to go.”
“A curse on this broken right arm of
mine that prevents my writing to her,”
he exclaimed, vehemently.
Mrs. Bell looked at his wasted, agitated
face wonderingly.
“You seem to Bet a great store by Kit
ty, sir.”
He did not reply, but appeared buried
in thonght.
“I know she’s mighty kind and gentle,
sir, and when I've seen her tending abont
you, she seemed a born nurse.”
“Mrs. 15cll," he said, at length, “I’ll
not insist on your speaking to her, bnt
let this conversation go no further. You
understand? Now go, and if tbe General
is disengaged, ask him to Btep np here.”
And Windham, soon as be saw him,
without any preliminary circnmloention,
began npon the subject which he wiahed
to submit to the father of the proud girl
whom ho could not think of without hor
ror and despair.
“General,” he said, “I suppose you
have heard of tho dreadful prospect of
my being crippled for life. My surgeons
have been perfectly candid with me in
expressing their honest conviction of
such a result from my injuries; and al
though I have about reconciled myself to
bear it unmurmuringly, still I can never
hold yoar daughter bound to marry a
cripple. Iam willing to release her from
the contract, and our vows once cancelled
she can unite herself with another, who
I doubt not would make her happier than
I can ever hope to do.”
“Pshaw! my dear fellow, what are you
talking about?” said the General. “You
don’t know Gassie. She loves yon, and
your lameness will only increase her ten
derness and affection.”
Just at this moment some one tapped
at the door, and Clara came smiling in.
“I’m glad you've come, my daughter;
here’s Windham raising a whirlwind of
trouble because he thinks Gassie will hes
itate to marry him.”
“Why should she hesitate?” enquired
Clara, changing color and looking keenly
at Windham.
“He has taken up a foolish notion that
his injuries, which are likely to be per
manent, will cause her to break her
troth,” answered the General.
Clara, like her father, made light of
such a thing happening.
“Ttiese are only a sick man's fancies,
Herbert,” she said, “that will qnickly
disappear, and I wili pledge myself for
Gussie’s honor.”
“Would you,General,” he asked, “men
tion the matter to Angnsta, and tell me
her decision. Explain, please, that I am
ready to release her if sbe desires it, >Dd
for several reasons she may desire it. Oar
marriage would necessarily be delayed
many months, perhaps years, and I do
not wish to fetter her with what may
prove 60 lengthy an engagement. Tell
her all this, and that I willingly leave the
question entirely in her hands.”
Clara rose and said, “I will attend to
your wish. He bert,” and went out osten
sibly to oonsult her sister, but knowing
well enough waat her answer would be,
she never saw her at all, bat in a few
minutes retained, and told him that
“Gassie was greatly surprised that he
should for a moment donbt ber good
fanh in fulfilling her contract to himself,
a?'* that the probability of a long post
ponement of t Ue marriage was not at all
displeasing to ber, as she would much
prefer not to < onsnmmate it while wear
ing mourning for her mother."
Windham lit tened, tortured by a thou
sand wild and bitter thoughts.
“Can I see Hiss Angnsta?" he asked.
“Certainly,” replied the General.
“No,” qnic ;ly said Clara, “she was
jnst going out Diving when I left her,but
when sbe returns I Drill take oare that she
comes directly to you.”
Such were the spoken words of this
false woman, l ut she really meant and
intended that he should not see her, for
some time at 1 ast.
About six o’> look of the same evening,
as Kitty was strolling in tbe flower gar
den, she saw J - okson coming towards her.
“Miss Kitty, ” he said, “Mr. Windham
requests you to visit him. He does nothing
but fret and complain since yon quit com
ing, and told xoe not five minutes ago to
be certain and deliver the message myself
for he wants t< see yon on important bu
siness.”
She pressed her hand a moment on her
aching heart and considered what she
should do.
“Oh, Miss, if you only knew how he
has ohanged in the past few days I know
yon would not refuse him.”
“Tell him to expect me in half an hour,”
sbe said, and continued her slow abstract
ed walk amongst the flowers. At the ex
piration of the specified time she stood
by his bedside.
“Oh, Kitty—little blossom, is it you at
last? Why have you ceased to care for
me?” he cried, gazing tenderly at her pale
sorrowful facs. “Have you been ill,
Kitty? Yen look like a pure white spirit,
and I shall expect you to vanish from my
sight if you don’t give me some token
that you are truly flesh and blood.”
Trying to control her quavering voice,
sbe managed to calmly ask:a
“What can I do for you, Mr. Wind
ham?”
“Put your 1: ttle cool magnetic hand
on my burning brow, and tell me that
you did not v ilfuily desert me when I
most needed y >u. I have been nearly
demented the past week, which has
seemed longer than any ten years of my
previous life, and yon’U never know how
I have pined fe r a sight of your sweet,
soothing presence. Oh, Kitty! Kitty!
how ooold yon treat me so? Promise
me, my darliDg, you’ll never again leave
me,” he exclaimed wildly.
Compose yourself, Mr. Windham, or
you’ll force me to go immediately. ”
“Would yot. kill me, Kitty?” he said,
hia voice chok ug with exeitement.
“No, no—please be quiet. Shall I
bathe your head for you?”
“Yes, yes; bat don’t get where I can’t
see yon.”
It did seem here was really magnet
ism in her soft touch, for as she gently
stroked his brow, his eyes closed, and
from his even, regular breathing she was
aware that he tlept. Afraid to move lest
she would disturb him, she retained ber
oramped positi >n, occasionally renewing
the perfumed waters on her little hand,
as she quietly smoothed his feverish
brow. For an hour she bent over him;
th sun had se:: the crimson glow of twi
light too bad tided, and the room whs
full of gloomy shadows, when Jackson
appeared to light the lamp. The scratch
ing of the mat ‘h aroused him, and open
ing his eyes, they fell npon her still
bending over him. •
“Excuse me, Kitty,” he said, “I didn't
mean to sleep, bnt it was your Baft touch
which alone hes power to tranqnilize my
disordered bra n aud calm and soothe my
agitated uneasy spirits, that has given
this blissful reel.”
“Iamveryg'ad you have slept,” the
replied, “but you greatly over.estimate
my feeble powers.”
“Not so, litt e one. But what is the
hour? Has Augusta been up yet?”
“I think not—I've seen nothing of her.”
“Oh, I can’t rest to-night until I have
seen her,” he said, wearily. But wait,
perhaps a written answer from her would
do as well. Will you please write a note
for me to her. You’ll find materials
there ready on the table."
She seemed fo meditate for a few sec
onds, then quietly placed herself at the
table and drew the paper before her.
“I am going Kitty, to propose a mutu
al cancellation of onr engagement on the
grounds—”
She stopped aim with a hasty gesture.
“Oh, Mr. Windham, yon must not, you
will not do that; and indeed, I can't be
instrumental ir any such proposition.”
“Oh, Kitty, will you refuse me your
assistance?” he asked pleadingly.
“It is but rig;ht I should deny you help
in anything s > dishonorable. If you
would think a moment yon conld not ex
pect it of me.”
“It is but little I ask of you, Kitty.
Just pen the wards as I dictate them."
“Why not a*e her,Mr. Windham? She is
right here in tue house, and it is alto
gether impossible that I should join you
in this scheme, ’ she said while two spots
of flaming color stained the snowy purity
of her white cheeks.
“God help n e!” he cried despairingly.
“Everything si ems to work at cross pur
poses with me. Whe a it was a downright
affliction to loo ; upon her she was always
ready enough to pain me, and now that I
have been exf acting and wanting her,
she delays to approach me.”
“I will indue a her to come,” she said,
making a motl n to leave the room.
“Come here first, Kitty, before you
go, and listen See Augusta privately,
for I distrust Mrs. Weedon, and believe
she will inflnec >e her not to oome, if pos
sible.”
“I will do what I can, though I don't
like the erraod. ”
“Don't fail, Kitty, for I shall not sleep
a wink nntil this matter is settled one
way or tbe other. And if, after the in
terview, sbe still bolds me bound to ber
I don’t mnch care whether I ever sleep
again, or live or die.”
Kitty fortunately found the object of
her search in the mnsio room alone, and
delivered Windnam’s nrgent request.
Augusta replaced the sheets of music she
had in her hand on. the reok, and without
deigning a word or look at Kitty, left
the room. The young girl staid, and
casting herself wearily on the broad low
window seat, listened dreamily to the de
licious notes of a mooking bird that was
warbling in ac ecstaoy of joy bis evening
hymn from a large myrtle that grew near.
The silvery radiance of tbe moon was
twinkling through the interposing foliage
and flooding the park with mazes of light
and the magical effect of these external
influences was to enliven and animate her
drooping spirits. But a few minutes
elapsed before Weedon stood by her,
changing, by hia hateful presence, all the
enchanting beauty of the night into hor
rible gloom.
“Good morning," he said, pompously,
“I am glad of this ohaooe meeting to as
sure you of my forgiveness for your un
kind remarks the last time we were alone
together. ”
“I can ensure you, sir, I have never
onoe repented of it,” sbe said, oareleasly.
“What, now, Miss Kitty, yon surely
can’t be that oruel—I'll not believe it of
yon, at any rate,” he replied, trying to
take her hand.
She waved him off, and rising confront
ed him with the proud dignity of an out
raged queen, and retorted contemptuons-
ly:
“You may believe it, sir, and my opin
ion of you then expressed, I have never
seen cause to alter. So far are you from
beiDg a gentleman that I should do the
most grievous injustice to JohD, tbe foot
man, by comparing him for an instant
with you.”
That stroke told, though even then he
tried to laugh it off:
“Miss Kitty, I’ll swear you are perfect
ly bewitching iu your new role of trage
dy. Y’ou musn't get up such stunning
scenes if you don't want me to suicide.”
The fellow’s impudenoe was positively
astounding, and not knowing how far he
wau'd venture, she had no alternative but
to leave him as he showed no disposition
to go.
Augusta went direot to Windham and
in her usual cold hard voice said:
“You sent for me, Herl ert, I suppose.”
“I did, to hear from your own lips
what influence my accident and injuries
will have on our engagement?”
“Of course,” she answered, dryly, “you
cannot expeot me to marry you under the
changed circumstances.”
“YVhy did you oonvey a different im
pression to your sister if those are your
real sentiments?"
“I don’t understand you. ”
“Mrs. Weedon informed me to-day, af
ter consultation with yourself, that you
had no thought of rovokiDg your promise
notwithstanding there was the disagreea
ble certainty of linking yonrself with a
cripple.”
She comprehended in a moment that
Clara had been deceiving them both, and
highly indignant, she resolved riot to ex
pose her conduct to him, and she ody
said—
“My sister has mistaken me, and I sup
pose misinterpreted to you my views on
the subject, and I now frankly tell you
that I wish to oonsider the engagement
at an end.”
“It is well,” he responded, with out
ward calmness, while inwardly his heart
was jubilantly chanting ita raptnre. “I
am to understand then, that yon willing
ly absolve me from all oDligalion?”
“That is exactly what I mean, and I
thank you for so readily agreeing with
me as to the wisdom of this course.
Though I fear my family will blame me
for terminating the engagement.”
“They I hope will do you the justice to
suppose that your misery or happiness
being involved you naturally chose the
only method of securing the latter,” he
said warmly, his heart so full of light and
life that be oould have joyously added bis
blessing for tbe few ioy words of release,
had she remained with him.
“I’ll say nothing of all this to Clara to
night,” she thought as she left him.
“Time enough to-morrow, when she and
papa must necessarily know it, for the
raging storm of anger with which she
will assail me.”
[to be continued.
Wonderful Jugglery.—Japanese jug
glers do some wonderful things. They
will take an ordinary peg top and set it
spinning in the air, then catch it in tbe
hand and transfer it to the'keen edge of a
sword blade, making it traverse from hilt
to point, and back again by inclining tbe
weapon, tbe top spinning all the while.
Another feat is performed as follows:
They set a top spinning in the air, and
then throw the end of tbe string towards
it,causing it to wind itself with the string,
the other end being retained in tbe hand,
so that the top returns to the one hand
properly wound, and ready to spin again.
—Farmer McGrab—“Dochter, a'll gie
ye a hnnner pown if ye’U keep me livin’
anithor twal month." Amiable M. D.—
“I’m afraid, Mr. McGrab, I couldn't do
it for that. I might try if you make it five
hundred.” Farmer McGrab (emphatical
ly;—“I’d rather dee.’’
—HiB last words to her in the morning
were:—“Wrap up warmly, darling, if you
go out shopping to-day; tbe weather ia
very cold." She said she would, and be
fore she went out she had all her bustles
weighed and put on the heaviest one.
What will not a woman do for the men
the loves?
RAILROADS.
WESTERN RAILROAD
OF ALABAMA.
Columbus, Ga. f May 6, 1877.
Trains Leave Columbus
AS FOLLOWS
Southern Mail.
0:00 p. m., arrives at Montgomery. 9:32 p x
Mobile 6:26 A M
New Orleans 11:2ft a m
Selma 12: 6 a x
Atlanta e: o a x
Atlanta &. Northern
lMLa.il.
7S30 a. m., arrives at Atlanta 3:03 r u
Washington .11::5 r M
Baltimore.... 3:0 am
New York... S:io a m
ALSO BY THIS TKAIN
Arrive at Montgomery.... 2:44 r w
Leave Columbus V: 5 p M
Arrive at Atlanta 8:00 a m
Arrive at Montgomery 6:lu a m
Making close conneotlou tor Nashville, Lou
isville, Ao.
TRAINS ARRIVE AT COLUMBUS
From Montgomery and Southwest.. 11:00 a h
“ “ S:36,P M
From Atlanta and Northwest 8:34 r M
S3* This Train, arriving at Columbus at
S:39 P. 91., leav.s Atlanta at 1:30 p. in.
E. P. ALEXANDER,
President.
CHARLES PHILLIPS, Agent.
declS t/
Central and Southwestern
Railroads.
v '“•] Tii mTiiiu
Savannah, Ga., March 8, 1877.
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, March
11, Passenger Trains on the Central ana
Southwestern Railroads and Branches will
run as toliows:
TRAIN NO. 1, GOING NORTH ANI) WEST
Leaves Savannah 9:20 a m
Leaves Augusta 9:16 a m
Arrives at Augusta 4:46 p m
Arrives at Macon b:46 p x
Leafes Maoon for Atlanta 9:16 p h
Arrives at Atlanta 6:02 a m
Making close connections at Atlanta with
Western and Atlantic Railroad lor all points
North and West.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 10:40 p m
Arrives at Macon 6:45 a x
Leaves Macon 7:0u a m
Arrives at iVlilledgeville 9:44 a m
Arrives at Eatonton - 11.30 a m
Arrives at Augusta 4 45 pm
Arrives at Savannah 4:00 r x
Leaves Augusta 9:16ax
Making connections at Augusta lor the
North and East, and at Savannah with the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad for all points in
Florida.
TRAIN NO. 2, GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah «... 7:80 pm
Arrives at Augusta 6:0o a m
i eaves Augusta 8:06 p x
Arrives at .viilledgeviile 9:44 a x
Arrives at Eatonton 11 30 a x
Arrives at Macon 8:00 a m
Leave# Macon for Atlanta 8:40 a x
Arrives at Atlanta 2:16 p m
Leaves Maoon for Albany and Eu-
faula 8:2 » A M
Arrives at Eufaula 3:60 p x
Arrives at Albany 2 10pm
Leaves Macon for Columbus 12:66 p m
Arrives at Columbus 6:15 p m
Trains on this schedule for Macon, Atlanta,
Columbus, tufaulaand Albany daily, making
close connection at Atlanta with Western A
Atlantic and Atlanta & Richmond Air Line.
At Rutaula with Montgomery and Eulaula
Railroad; at Columbus with Western Rail
road of Alabama, and Mobile and Girard
Railroad.
Train on BlAkely Extension Leave* Albany
Mondays, Tuesday*, Thursdays and Fridays.
COMING SOUTH AMD EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 1:40 p m
Arrives at Macon irom Atlanta 6 55pm
Leaves Albany 9:30 a m
Leaves Eafaula 8.3j p m
Arrives at Maoon from Eufaula and
Albany 4:10 p x
Leaves Columbus ; 11:22 a x
Arrives at * aeon from Columbus.... 3:26 p x
Leaves Macon 7 35 pm
Arrives at Augusta 6:0o a x
Leaves Augusta 8:06 p x
Arrives at Savannah 7:16 a x
Making connections at Savannah with a t-
antlc and Gulf Railroad for all points In Flor
ida.
Passengers for Mllledgevllle and Eatonton
will take train No. 2 from Savannah and train
No. 1 Irom Maeon, which trains connect daily
except Monday, lor these points.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
General Supt. Central hailruad. Savannah.
W. G. RAOUL,
Supt. Southwestern Railroad, Mac .n.
_feb6 tf
Mobile & Girard R. E.
?Tnr T* I!** »* *’
■a* Ito' " ta J u
O N and after SUNDAY, MAY 0th, tho
Mail Train on tne Mobile at Girard Rail
road will run as follows:
GOING WEST.
Leave ColumbUB General Passenger
Depot daily, at 1:20 p x
Leave Columbus Broad Street Depot
daily, at 1:60 p x
Arrive at Union Springs 6:52 p m
“ Troy H:22 p m
“ Eufaula 10 in i* m
u Montgomery 7:65 p x
“ Mobile 6:2 ) a x
M New Orleans 11:26ax
“ Nashville 7:66 a x
44 Louisville... 3:40 p M
14 Cincinnati 8:15 p x
44 St. Louis h:10 a x
44 Philadelphia 7:35 a x
44 New York 10:26 am
COMING EAST.
Leave Troy 12:30 a x
Arrive at Union Springs 2:22 a m
44 Columbus 7:05 a M
44 Opelika 9:20 a m
44 Atlanta 3 06 p x
44 Macon p m
44 Savannah 7:16 a v
Close connection made at Union Springs
daily ior Montgomery and points beyond.
For Eutauia daily (Sundays excepted).
Through c^ach with sleeping accommoda
tions between Columbus and Montgomery.
Passengers for th-> Northwest will save
ten hours’ time by this route.
Through tickets to all principal points on
sale at General Passenger Depot, and at
Broad Street Shed.
W. I*. CLARK,
Superintend
D. E. WILLIAMS,
General Ticket Agent. my9 tf
Billiard Table s.
We have on band an immense stock of new
and second-hand Billiard Tables, and will dis
pose of them at prices that have never been
equaled. Persons i ontemplatins? the purchase
oi tables lor private or public use, should
write for our new catalogue. Wonderful in
ducements ior cash.
L. DECKER A CO.,
12* Broadway, New York.
my8 d&wlm
W F- TIGNER, Dentist,.
Over M a bow’s Drub stohs, I
Randolph Street, Columbus, Ga.^
' iagi ly
AEacli week to Agents. Goods Staple. 10.od
L «%Btesiiinouialh received.Terms liberal.Par*
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