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>THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: JULY 17, 1877.
WON AT LAST.
11Y YEI.ONA 8.
Byrne Moulton leaned out of the
window and listened. No sound save
the steady break ol the sea broke the
silence of the night.
“ Strange,” she muttered. “ I
would have staked my life upon the
fulfillment of his promise.’’
She stepped into the light, and
drawing a watch from her belt looked
at it. The hands pointed to eight,
ller eyes showed that there was a
frown somewhere, though it was not
upon her face. Nothing could have
been more faultlessly beautiful than
that was always. She stood a nio-
meat irresolute, then stepping across
the room touched the bell.
A servant answered the summons
i nmedia ely.
“Tell Captain Dunn to bring up
the skiff. I am going across the
bay,’’ she said.
At that instant quick st eps sounded
up the walk, and a second afterward
Burt Atherton appeared in the door.
“ I hope yon have not incommoded
youraelf,” Byrne said, haughtily.
“ My horse threw me, and I lay
stunned for half an hour. That is
my only excuse.”
He watched her face as he spoke,
to see if she really cared whether he
had been killed or not.
The slightest perceptible change
crept into it, and the haughtiness
was quit e gone from her voice as she
answered him:
“lam very sorry. You are suf
fering now, I fear. ’ You will not
think of going to-night.’’
« I promised Arthur I would bring
you ”
“ But if it is necessary I can go
alone. Indeed I bad intended to do
so before you came.’’
“ Perhaps you had rather,’’ Burt
said, his voice changing, as a jealous
pang shot through his heart.
“ It is quite immaterial to me,” she
answered, coolly.
She krew well that there was little
danger of his remaining at home.
.lust a year before, his cherished
friend Arthur liilmouth had wor-
sliidkd at the Stimuli throw ".
dottn gladly nil \hc wealth of
proud young heart at Byrne Moul
ton’s feet, o ly to have it spurned
from her like a worthless thing. In
the agonv of his first knowledge be
had cursed her most bitterly, but
after a six months absence in foreign
lands, he had returned, sick and dy
ing, bis physicians su’d, and—love
will stoop to such humiliations !—be
bad begged Burt Ariherton to find
her out and beseeching her forgive
ness for his cruel words, ask her to
come and let him look upon her face
once more before he died.
Burt Atherton had vowed venge
ance against the woman who could
so trifle with one of the noblest ol
hearts, but he had forgotten that
weeks ago; and, but for his promise,
it is doubtful whether lie would have
been the means in the slightes degree
of a meeting between her and her old
lover again. Not that he had much
to fear from a dying man! But
somehow there was a different look
in her eyes that he had never seen
before. Could it be that she had
loved Arthur Falmouth. Ho would
never believe it.
The moonlight shone full upon
them as they glided over the water.
How radiantly beautiful Byrne look
ed. Burt felt her presence like an
(aspiration.
He had ample time to think, for
nothing was said until they had
landed on the other side of the bay,
find were quite at Mr. Falmouth’s
door. Then Burt asked Byrne if h-
should accompany her into Arthur’s
room.
“Certainly,” she rnawered, and
they went in together. In a long
room ornamented with rare paintings
and costly, fragrant flowers, sitting
the room and left them alone.
She went up to Arthur, and lay
her hand softly upon his forehead.
“ Did he tell yon I begged for
giveness, Byrne ?” he said, dropping
his hands. “ I was hasty, but a dy
ing man secs with different eyes.”
“ It is I who should beg that, I
did nbt know you were so ill,” Byrne
answered, her eyes growing humid.
■‘Don’t look at me in that way !”
He put up his hands deprecatingly.
“ It is too much like the old times.
I thought I could keep cool—but, O
Byrne ! how I have loved you.”
She put her hand in his w. : lhoul
answering a word. He clutched it
tightly.
“Just for one moment no one shall
dare to come between us.”
“You may be glad you are dying,’’
she whispered. “ I wish I was as
near my end.’’
“ You ! O Byrne! the world must
be very beautiful to you ”
“ It is not. I have found nothing
hut bitterness, nothing.’’ She was
weeping. “ Let me come and see
you to-morrow. I will tell you, at
any rate.”
“ Will yon come again his eyes
growing lustrous. •
“I will be here to-tnorrow by
nine o’clock.” She bent down and
touched his forehead with her lips,
and glided out of the room.
Burt Atherton’s face was almost as
white as the invalid’s when he came
out after her.
The next morning, Byrne, true to
her promise, was at Mr. Falmouth’s
at an early hour, but her courage
almost failed her when she came into
Arthur’s presence.
“ I am afraid I can never tell you,'
she said, trembling. Then, before he
had time to answer her, she hurred
on:
“ You never knew anything of my
early history, but”—her face was
crimson—“ I was picked up when an
infant in the streets of New York.
When my adopted father died, he
told me of my origin, and then for
the firrt time I knew what my fate
would l<e. But my face was bcauti-
nl and my purse was full. Little ,
anger but the worffl would acknowl#
dge tuc. 1 was *ofeul of thaL. -A
ife I eoirtd ncvcf' t l)0,'Out love I
nnst have; and I determined, coolly
and deliberately, to win hearts and
then throw them away as I did
yours. What else could I do, when
I might never look into any man’s
eyes and say “ I love you ?”
“You shall be my wife to-day,”
lie broke in.
“ Don’t tremble so. You are
tired. I should not have told you if
you had not loved me so; and if I
had dared—surely there is no harm
in saying it now ?—I should have
loved you. Never mind now, I am
glad you know the truth. We shall
part happier.”
“ We shall never part, Byrne.’’
The first thing Burt Atherton heard
of Byrne was her marriage with Ar
tur Falmouth; and in a year the man
whom all had considered dying was
nearly recovered.
before' an open fire, was Arthur Fal
mouth, the one they sought. He
rose feebly aa they entered, and giv
ing his'hand 'silently to (each,'sank
again into his chair, and covered his
face. *■> ‘ '• • * ID wjr'-r*
Burt went back into the far end of
The Value’of a Dollar.—A sil
ver dollar represents a day’s work for
the laborer. It is given to a hoy.
He has no idea of what it is worth.
He would be as likely to give a dollar
as a dime for a top or any other toy.
But if the boy has learned to earn the
dimes and dollars by the sweat of his
face he knows the difference. Hard
work is to him a measure of values
that can never be rubbed out of his
mind. 1 Let him learn by experience
that a hundred dollars represent a
hundred weary days’ lalwr, and it
seems a great sum of money ; a thou
sand dollars is a fortune, and ten thou
sand is almost inconceivable, for it is
far tuoro than be ever expects to pos
sess. When he has earned a dollar
he thinks twice before lie spends it.
He wants to invest it sq as to get the
full value of aday’s work forit. It is
a great wrong to society and to a boy
to ; biing him jup to man's estate with
out this knowledge. A fortune at
twenty-one evithout it is almost inevk
tabljr thrown away,: With it anda
little capital to start on he will make
his own fortune better than any one
make it for'■••him.—Merchants
NEWS SUMMARY.
—About 700,000'tons of Bessemer
steel were made in England last year,
and about 525,000 tons were made in
the United States in the same period.
—It is stated that the loss in the
valuation of the real estate of Boston,
May I, 1877, compared with May 1,
1876, will lie $40,000,000. It is esti
mated th-it the loss on persona! estate
is about §20,000,000, nfnking a toial
loss of $60,000,000, and reducing ihe
whole valuations to about $670,000,
exclusive of bank tax. -
—The newspaper press can now
apologize for all the mean things that
have ever been said against Vermont.
A young lady in that. "Stkte refused
to marry the man she ltfyed till he
subscribed for a daily paper and
promised to always furnish the family
with this household necessity.
—In seven years 94.000,000 notes
of the Bank of England have been
pflid, and they are contained in 1**,-
000 boxes, which, placed side by side,
would extend a distance 6f three
miles. These notes are’ wot made of
old rags, but of pure white linen cut
tings, and their manufacture for near
ly two hundred years, has been placed
in the hands of the Portals, of Lav-
erstoke, Hampshire.
—Electricity has been applied to a
strange use in the East Indies. A
platinum wire, connected with the
(Riles of a battery, is stretclifed around
a tree, and, as it becomes immedi
ately red-hot, it is gently see-sawetl,
with the requisite pressure against
the ttee, and rapidly burns its way
.through. It is thought that a tree
can be cut down, without any waste
of timber, in about 15 niinytvs, that
would require two hours to Yell in the
ordinary way.
—The divorce industry does not
prosper as it might in the Western
States. Since the 1st instant it is a
punishable crime for lawyers in Illi-
noise to advertise that t hey .will pro«
cure divoiees, and the Indiana Su
preme Court has ruled that a decree
of divorce issued iu Utah between
pers ns neither of whom i^vresident
-of the Territory is
live. A /statute -of
4 that win*-* • t— a di*
rorce, if the Court is saiWfled that
the applicant is a resident of {Tic Ter
ritory or “ wishes to become one,’’
the Court may grant a divorce. The
Supreme Court of Indiana hold that
this statute was ultra vires and void,
and that a Court of Utah cannot thus
obtain jurisdiction of non-residents.
—J. M. Lewis, of King William
County, Va., plants his tomato seed
in February in hot beds made of rich
earth. He seldom waters, as they
will stand drought better and bear
transplanting more successfully if not
so succulent. The early plants arc*
set out in five-foot squares, from the
20th of April to the 1st of May, each
square receiving a good supply of
manure. Fora late crop the seed
are planted in these squares^furrows
having been five feet apart each way.
The greatest enemy to the plant is
the tobacco worm, but he grows
large droves of turkeys, which act as
great scavengers in this respect. Ho
is preparing next spring to plant 700
acres in tomatoes, and has now seed
planted in hot beds covered by 600
sashes, containing 17,000 panes*of 8
by 10 glass.—Southern Planter.
—That marriage is a lottery is a
common-place that most (ieople utter
without believing. A little reflection
usually shows the lhllacy of the pro
verbs which pass current as solid
ingots of wisdom among persons too
thoughtless to note their own conclu
sions. That it is not really recog
nized as a lottery is. shown by the
deep disgust felt by all but vulgar
people at the effort of a Missouri
newspaper, published in Kansas City,
to make it one in deed ns well as
name. This concern invited young
women on its subscription.list to offer
themselves, with 1 their own recom
mendations, as premiums to sub
scribers ; and receiving- several hun
dred * names of candidates, raffled
them ofl^ as fiw as tim? wotiid go, to
one thousand young m$iv—who will,
it is expected,- retain" the* impetus
given by this jaurnaUatfc jpsUderer
till lit exhausts ; itself Rtthe' altar;
There danke-no doubt that" many of
them — ” ’ * *
brol
nLuftage seed be considered anything
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