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ELLIJAY, GA.
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ELLIJAY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1882.
Drifting Down the Stream.
Ihe sinking 6un, within the west,
Shone with a parting gleam ;
An old boat, filled With merry boys,
Was drifting down a stream.
Their eyes were bright, their hearts
were light;
No earthly care had they.
While drifting down, with faces brown,
And laughter loud and gay.
Beneath an overhanging tree;
That gfew fipon the shore,
An old man sat; a look of pain
His furrowed features wore.
“Alas 1” she sighed; “this life of ours
Is fleeting as a dream ;
How like these thoughtless boys we SIT
Are drifting down the stream !
•‘My form is bent, my hair is gray,
My limbs are racked with paid,
My years have idly slipped away.
To come ho more again.
“I might have been a worthy man ;
Another in my place
Would have devised seme useful plan
To benefit hi- race :
“But I have let those chances pass
That make men goed and great ;
Old age comes creaping on , alas !
Behold my low estate 1
“For he who benefits his race,
Nor drags his comrades down,
W ill hold in Heaven the brightest place
And wear the brightest crown !”
SHADOWS OH THE WALL.
“Come in.”
She gives the permission to
enter, in a low, hurried voice,
looking up from her open wri
ting-desk upon her table, across
which her arms is laid. There is
a newspaper laid there, too —the
folded page blistered as with
tears. “Died at Summer
field ” But those tears dried,
and there are none now in the
weary eyes, that lift themselves
from the blotted line, and turn
wistfully upon the opening door.
“You have a letter tor me Nan
cy ?”
“Please, Miss Gray, it’s some
one ”
But the slip-shod little maid
of-all-work is cut short in her
speech by that someone from
behind putting her gently aside
from the door and shutting it
upon her, as he entered. Some
one—a man, who has removed his
hat in coming forward* and on
whose face the lamplight fall, as
he stands On the hearth-rug op
posite Miss Gray.
“Bessv——”
His face is full of eagerlife, but
she is looking dp at him as if he
saw a ghost. Her hand shakes
so, resting on the paper, that the
rustling draws his eyes to it. He
comes a stepnearer and puts his
hand down firmly on hers, as he
glances at the lines just above.
“ ‘Died at Summerfield’ —Bes-
sy, do yon take me for a ghost ?”
She cannot speak. The color is
stealing back into he* lips, aud
they tremble apart, But no words
come. He says, trying to speak
lfghtly, for her face alarms him :
“You did not know that there
were two of the name. Fathers
house fit dffttfuferfield seemed to
Mx it on me. It was my cousin,
John Hesketh. Poor fellow,
death was such a happy release
to him from his wearisome illness*
that he would not grudge its hav-
ing brought me some good. It
was your letter of condolence to
Mrs. lieskelli, Bessy, which show
eu me where to find you, after all
these weary years.”
The color has died out of her
face as. suddenly as it flushed into
it. Elwd fluttering hand under his
is drawn away, and fblds itself
witjj the other, tightly, on the
edge of the desk.
“Vou left Mrs. Ilesketh very
well I hope.”
“Well, that is hardly to be ex
pected of a yciung widow, Bes
sy.”
I—l do not. understand ”
“That you were as mistaken in
♦ho marriage as in the death.
How coaid yotl be Bessy
She is quivering from head to
foot, flashing aad quivering, as
she says brokenly:
“How should I b6t be ? Some
one sent me a paper long ago,
with the marriage at Bummerfield
marked in it. How could I know?
And when I read the name in the
paper again, last Week —-”
“You wrote yonr little letter to
that imaginary wife 6f mine, tel
ling her that you had known me
years ago,- arrd I hat 6eeiug the
name, you were so gfieved for
her, and could not refrain, though
t slrangor to her, from telling her
so. It was a sweet little letter;
she, poor little widow, showed it
to me, and was not quite pleased
with me that 1 took it away from
her. I have it here. Bessy, if
I read between the lines
She catches her breath.
“I wrote nothing she might not
have read if she had been yonr
wife.”
“Between the lines, I said, Bes
sy. Troiii them she would never
have guessed what the old friend
ship meant. But I remember it
was no friendship; it was love.”
he says the word with his touch
upon her hands again. But she
shakes it off; she has risen toiler
feet, her grasp upon the back of
her chair, steadying her.
“If it were,” she says, hurried
ly, “you never said it so plainly
then, that you need repeat it
now.”
“You cannot boubt I mean it
You knew I was coming back.
And in the meantime, your father
and you both suddenly removed,
leaving no trace—Bessy,” with a
quick light breaking upon him.
“it was in that same summer
tiiat my cousin John Hegketh
married; could that have had
anything to do with”
“My hiding mvselt ?” she sup
plies, quietly. “Nothing.”
Heskelh's face changes as he
looks searchingly at her. But he
can see hers go longer She has
sunk down again in her chair, her
elbows on the table, her head
bent in her hands. He wails a
moment for her to speak, to
move; when she does not, he
draws back a little, and resting
his arms on the manten, glances
round him.
It is a poor place enough ; the
lodging-house eiterior, and the
slip-shod maid-of-ail-work on
the stairs, had not led him to ex
pect much. But yet he had hot
looked for such bare poverty as
this—the uncameled floor, the
small table, the two or three
hard chairs. Turning slightly for a
fuller view’, he catches a glimpse
through a half open door of an
inner room, comfortably although
still plainly furnished. He draws
a breath of relief. That inner
room is a stroilg contrast to the
beautiful home which had once
seemed so aptly to surround her;
but stiil, he is relieved to think
her days are not all spent is this
bareness.
And theh his gaze goes back to
her. While he looked into her
face, he was not able to heed her
dress or her surroundings; but
now he sees that the deep mourn
ing she wears is of the very
cheapest, although Iresh as if re
cently put on. His heart is stir
red within him at the sight. He
says in a low voice:
“Your father ”
“Died three weeks ago.”
This she answers, not uncover
ing her face.
He says arter another pause :
“And you removed here at for
ward ?”
“No. Long, long ago. When
first we left the dear old home.
The room in there was his; he
was never able to leave it after
I first brought him here, until he
left it for his grave.”
“And this was vour ream, Bos
sv
She understand^" him. She
looks up with a faint, wan smile.
“What matters? He never
knew wliat it was like: and coold
cushions and carpets and Sofas
make life any easier to me?”
“My love could have made it
easier—can make it, if you will
have it. J>
She has tried to interrupt him
with a harried gesture; flat he
will not be interrupted. Then he
adds:
“I came to-night to say it. I
would have said it years ago if
you had Dot lost yourself to me.”
“Lost—yes; but not I John
Hesketh, yon do not know.—
There, why should I say more ?
It is so long ago since I was lost
to you, you cannot care much
now. So we will part to-night
V
will not, Bessy.” He says
it resolutely, drawfng her bauds
away now, holding them fast in
his own. For he cannot be mis
taken; there is a look in her
eyes tells him how hard to her
would be the parting—as bard,
perhaps, as to himself. “We will
not part.”
She yields to him in so far that
she does not free herself When he
draws her to him. But then she
turns her sad eyes on him.
“John, will you make it harder
for me ? Let me go in silence—
i have kept it ail these years.”,
“You should not, if I had
known where to find you, my
darling.”
“1 do not know. I think I
should have kept it, even if I had
not heard of your marriage just
before.”
’’Keep silence still theD, Bessy.
You are speaking iu riddles ; but
it is not their answers I have
come lor. I have come for the
answer to just one question : Bes
sy, do you love me ?”
A faint smile crosses her face,
but does not lighten its sadness.
.She says, softly f
“If you care to hear it —yes
Stay.—” her sudden movement
disengages her from him. “I
love you, and 1 will not marry
you. I would rather you would
not ask me why.”
“Yon require too much of me,”
he interrupts her hoarsly. “You
tell me that you mean to spoil
my life and yours, ar.d that I am
to take it on faith that you are
right. 1 wili not lake it on faith.
I tell you plainly, yon must prove
to me that you are right,-of I will
never give you up/’
Again the wao srflile crosses
her lips, but does not touch the
shadow in her eyes.
“I will prove it to you, then. It
is easily done now. If you had
come amr nth ago I might not
have SpoKen. But now, that he
rests in the grave, I may tell you
that I am Richard Lesire, the
swindler’s daughter. It has been
a long time since he was convict
ed, and served out bis term of
ptmishment j btft pefhaps, not so
long, that in your boyhood you
have not heard his name.
Be has ? she sees it in his faftftf-
She goes on ‘ “I heard it for the
first tim'e when the paralytic
stroke came, which: iefipafred his
memory; so that he went back to
the years before he came to this
country, under the name yon
know him by. When I heard it,
yon will understand my one aim
and end in life was to pay back
the people he had ruined in the
old life—to pay them back out of
the fortune he had amassed in
the new : I know he meant to do
it. So much I have gathered
from his rambling speech from
lime to time. The son is nearly
cleared of now, and my poor
father—but I will not speak of
him : 1 cannot expect you to feel
with me there.”
“Do I not!” lie hasOome to her
—he fcas drawn both her hands
in bis. “And this is what you
wonld-have part us. Bes a v ? I
VOL VIL M 28.
cannot bear your burden f—yitd
mast alone f”
She raises her head tjdiefcty.
“I do not refuse yotfr pity; Johif
I take it grkteftfHy. Bat I. wil
not have it in the Stead tit love
And that yod should kv* my
father's dangbte#——”
“I, who loved you# father,
sy ?”
“J ohn—J ohn ■
He draws the sobbing womratf
closer to him.
“We will not make light of the
sin, my dear one, btrt neither wilf
we of the repentance, and Bes
sv. remember this: if yon with
hold vourself from me you w.’l
withhold the one thing I have
looked tor and longed and #ited
for every day of ail these years
since we two parted.” * *
I am still silting in my wiikiom ,*
where my opposite neighoor in
that low room next the fOof ot the
lodging-house across the street,•
comes to her window and dra vs
down the blind. Andi See nrf
more shadows hovering .bout
upon the wall. They are only
shadows, after all that I have
seen, out of which t have beeU
weaving the story of my pale fir
tie opposite nigh bor, I often see
bers thrown upon the wall there
for an evening hour when she
has forgotten to daaw down her
blind—thrown quite alone there,-
until nrgiit. Have ray shadows
auy substauce after all? 1 only
kuow that the paralyliff old mart
about whom seemed to hr
mystery, was carried out ru ii .
coffin not long ago, and I hepe—
I hope the pretty, mournful taefe
over the way is not to dwell rrt
shadows all its life.
CLIPPINGS ,
Canada is anxious to send a regiment ttf
Egypt.
The Germans are mixing somewhat! itf
the Egyptian troubles.
There are only nme members of aiF
Vanderbilt family at Saratoga.
Railroad mail employes' are t* bt (buss
ed as postal clerks bertafmr.
Archbishop Patrick A v . Freeman, Ot
Chicago, is to be a Cartfhraf.
A number of fatal sunstrokes have been
reported from New York Ony.
New wheat is being shipped from' Texatf
directly to Italy and Liverpool.
Hog cholera is creating alarm among
the farmers of McLean coftnty, iiljnots.
The Saltan of Tarkey finally conclude
to ergard Arabia Bey as a traitor.
Jeffersoo lMv is spending Ins tune at
tending camp meetings inf Mississippi.
Tbe farfters of Southern rowa will trf
tbe experiment of raising cotton next sea
son.
Harvest ft now hr in ; Central
DeWhE, aStl fee Crop* are fepertad to bfe
aboye the average
Ex-Public Printer Jefrees, tffcy Wan fo/
a longtime ill, is now ft a fair vtajr toward
recovery.
Mr. Gladstone a 'fery etaeefy guhrdW
nowadays. Even at church be- has two
police attendants. >s-jt-t
IWSfeWifotf mfestotftffar f#Hk Sout#
claim that agitation * helping Attn to ob
tain proselytes'.
The weather in Ireland’ is #p ted as
having improved, and there are no,v fair
prospects for a gooff pWatoe Crop.
Lawlers Turtle Mountain Indians' have
crossed the border from Cauada tato Das
kota, evidently to amuse the settlers'.
Emigration for America' thus far fhiff
year is less than last year. Still, about as'
many paupers are arriving as can Welt be
eared for.
Franklin Simmons, the sculptor, ia at
work in his studio in Rome, Italy, on s
colossal statute of the late Oliver P. ?‘o.'
ton, of Indiana.
The Detroit Free Press ttyi thhV bat .W
are so small m the llttte State of Rhode
Islund that they spank them wWr a tacks'
hammer.
The President haS approved the afct apk
propriating $50,0W for Mb: tobfetia' Gar
fleW, less any amount paid President Oaf
field on account of salary.. *