The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 15, 1882, Page 6

ELM-TREE. MISS EULALIE From Harper's Weekly- It was a magnificent work of na- ture, Miss Eulalie’s elm-tree ; so tall and graceful, overhanging the street banner, lending a with its green charming shade to her little parlor, which gave it the air ot a dim, cool recess in the woods on a summer's day. Mss Eulalie loved it, and ex- cept for her would seem as if she had little else to love. Her grandfather had planted it: it was a sort of heirloom. She had passed her youth beneath its boughs; her name was carved on its stem. She never looked tree without thinking ot the one who had carved it there; of the still, moonlight nights they had spent together in its shadow. both pain because, it remmded her tbat he had loved her once, pain, that he loved her ro longer. She could not guess why he had never returned to her; sged him was still as young ward, it gay what had estrz yreat a myster early days of her bereavement, when to her as sorrow and suspense had been her | daily companions, rising up and sit- Perhaps some enslaven him, ting down with her. fairer women had perhaps he had never really loved | her at all, and she experienced < pang of mostified pride when she re- flected that she had possibly been vain enough to make the mistake. Year by year she watched the tender green of the elm thicken into dark masses of leaves; year by year she watched them fading and falling. like her own hopes and illusions; it was a poem to her; and yet, after all, it was only Miss Eulalie’s elm- tree by permission. The home her ancestors had fallen into other hands; she had only returned to it bv a happy chance, not as its owner. Mrs. Vaughn, its purchaser, had a daughter te be educated, and Miss Eulahe had taken the — situation. When Mrs. Vaugh died, she devised that Miss Eulalie should home with Isabel, be mother, sister and teacher, «ll in one, to that way- ward young person, till she shoula make a marry—in short. and im the gap. Miss Eulalie had been used to standing in gaps all her lite; this was nothing new. And it was a home—her old home where she had dreamed dreams. When she walk- ed at twilight beneath the old elm its leaves seemed to whisper, ‘‘Just here he kissed you first,’’ and **Here you said good-bye ’’ No wonder she loved the old tree! “Dangerous said Capt. Valentine, tapping its trunk with his cane as he walked by. ‘+Hollow- hearted as a jilt, Miss Eulalie.’” “You are mistaken, she rejoined ; thing,”’ it is as sound as a nut.”’ “But it must come down,” he ad- | ded as if his words were law. “Never, while | tive, Capt. Val- entine.’”’ **Yeu forget 1 that I pay ine n Lattleford ; tree in the down, 1f I choose “Then itis o: nature that you ! cut down that cvquisite tee? you know I child. My man of prop- es than any fT can buy ta that rom true good my consent to have loved it from a ‘sTknow that Miss Isabel owns the whole estate, and I know this bone of contention, this obstructs the views from my dows, Miss Eulalie, which is tree, win- more to the point—that its boughs leap | into the air s high and> spread its branches so wide, that it blots out | the yrew ot the sea, ‘the open. sea;’ | frutts that fairly inundated the small | and he passed on up the long green tawnto his new home, with its mar- ble steps and broad _ balconie: which made its humble neighbor seem forlorn and shabby. Miss Eulahe looked at the _ structure. at the parterres of jiant flowers, as the fountain tossed its jets into the sunlight, the velvety bnil- terraces and lawn, and smiled. Why | had Captain Valentine chosen to build nis palace so near her home? Whv had he built it at all time of life, with no family to inher- it, and no wife to . How lonely he mu in the spacious sion, with no- bedy but the servants to speak with! honor: tbe, she thought. do its at the! It gave her | 3 eas —pleasure | ind pleasure—} | up there, Miss Eulalie,’’ he had re- | in those | of | lace, and cut it | Do | grandfather ptanted it! that | imposing ' at this; had he never married? In humiiity of her heart Miss Eulalie never dreamed that it was because she him. That ‘had happened so many vears ago, before he and Anson Andrews had sailed together in the Water Witch. How angry he had been then! how jeaious of “Anson! How bitterly he had sworn thatthe day should come would give her heart’s would not marry when she blood te recall the words—when she should regret her tolly in dust and ashes! But of course he gotten all that—the ravings of an juntamed nature. He had been | only second mate then, with little or nothing ahead in the world: to-day jhe was Capt. Valentine, with that | world at his feet; the richest man in town, perhaps. *You might have been mistress j minded her one day, pausing at her | gateway atter the house was done. |*But you took your choice—you | took your choice, and’’—laughing— | be choosers.”’ | From the very first Capt. Valen- tine had raised ahue and cry about Miss Eulalie’s elm-tree; it almost seemed as it he had selected the site to tease her, as if he wished to strip her of everything she loved, since she declined to love himself. -*I have bought the most expensive spot in town,”’ he said, ‘tand spared no morey, in order that i might open my eyes every morning on my _ be- loved sea, and you refuse to sacri- fice a tree for old friend and | neighbor, a tree which will drop of its own will presently.’’ *-Capt Valentine,”’ she said, ‘-you | have my word. once for all; the elm an | shall stand so long as Iam _ mistress here. There need te no more words about 1t.’” **No more words, but deeds,’’ he answered, and a wicked, angry light flamed 1m his eyes, such as_ she had seen there once betore. The man could hold fire like iron. But thenthe subiect dropped, as she believed. He did not mention the tree again. ‘He has given it up,’’ she thought; ‘the makes a great noise when he can’t have Ins way, and then ” Bat | Miss Eulalie did not do the Captain forget’s about it. justice. One twilight, as she re- turned from a sick neighbor’s it gave her a curious shock to see her pretty Vaughn, talking over {the hedge which separated the grounds. to Captain Valentine, who wore a rose in his button-hole. ““See,: Eulalie.’’ cried-—‘**se basket of ros | Captain Valentine has brought us ward, Isabel dear Miss she what a morrow with Mrs. Van Buff to see Captain Valentine’s Corot?’ Miss E ie could hardly refuse —why should she ?—and_ Isabel re- turned in ecstasies with the medizx- val furniture, the Persian draperies, j the wonderful carved ivories, the |earpets like woodiand moss, the | ; Oriental rugs, and skins of ant-eat- ers and tawny lions. said. | sIt makes home look squahd and ; ‘Itis just heavenly,’? she | mean. come back. Why did you let go, Miss Eulalie?’’ tree does not intertere with more or less; but what of that! me his view j has everything else, He can gallop to the sea in halt an hour. Such jhorse! I've always longed for a | saddle-hors Captain Valentine | has promised to lend me a safe one,”’ } And after a dav ne kept his word, jand brought his horses round for Miss Isabel to try, or left flowers and | house; or perhaps he gathered the } young people together, and gave a fete under his trees, with dancing on the broad verandah hung with fes- ; toons of Chinese lanterns; ; Sometimes Eulalie was obliged to chaperon Isabel, and wall-flow > house suitor. taded her old set a of fo “T wonder why Captain Valentine never marrie said Isabel, after “T wonder how it seems to he so everlasting neh. one ot these fetes. to have no worry spout money: to” “Tsubel’ ws Miss Falalie. “you care too h ter money There are bette **Menti had for- | “they tell us that beggars shouldn’t | And might I go up to the towers to- | It makes me low-spirited to ; And the elm- | He} and j better but love id woman, 1s thousana told. “I don’t know. Leve is very but if you must go without thing else—without pretty gowns nice every- and jewels and splendor—give me money.”” “You are too young to chose. Pretty gowns, jewels and splendor lose their charm when you are use to them, but loye outlasts everythfng.”” But Miss Eulalie’s words were | wasted. ‘I love money,”’ Isabel contessed; “I adore clothes. I know about love. | In spite ot all that had happened | Miss Eulalia was quite unprepared | when Isabel said to her: I have something to tell you. 1 | | dare say | i Z | you know it already, theugh. I | | H | am | going to marry Captain Valentine, and wear cashmeres and sapphires, count my change again. Congratu- late me.’’ “You are joking’? cried Miss Eulalia. m other “Then it 1s the best joke world! It’s no joke on the | girls, let me tell you.”’ **You are going to marry Captain Valentine? De you know hes old enough—’”’ **To know better.” ‘Do you love him, Isabel? ‘+I like him well enough. I love | his money.’”” “Isabel, don’t do it. Yoa will sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. I can’t allow it; the idea of your marrying him! It is too preposter ous, too mercenary. once a loyer of my own,’’ persued Miss Eulalie, forgetting herself. ‘*Why didn’t you marry him and save me the trouble?”’ asked Isabel. ‘But perhaps he was pver then.”’ **It was not that.’” “What then? You love some- body else?’ ‘-I don’t mind telling you now, Isabel. I had another lover—An- son Andrews. I have never gotten over its There have been weeks and months when I’ve tried to fer- get him—to unlove him. He and Captain Valentine sailed together in the Water Witch, and when Capt. Valentine returned he brought me back all the trinkets and letters I had sent Anson Andrews, but never a word more.”’ ‘*You dear old fajthful thing; you shall dress in satin de Lyons and thread lace; we shall live in the lap son Andrews if he is at | Thule. How oddly things turn out! | Fancy my farrying yeur lover.” !j ‘Isabel I beg you not to—’’ ‘Not marry Captain Valentine Would you have me give u» so much for a mere sentiment. You mustn’t ex- | pect everybody to have as intense | just because I’m not in love. | teelings as yourselt, I couldn’t re- ‘member a man fifteen years if he | were the Great Mongul himself.’’ | Captain Valentine and Isabel were house, shaded by the old elm tree, which made pretty dancing shadows ‘on the wall. affair, and when it was over, and the It was a most intormal the bride was trying en her travel- ing hat, Miss Eulalie stepped the garden to draw a long breath. at that hour? **Go into the house, Miss Eulalie,”’ said Captain Vanletine. *‘I am going to celebrate my wedding day. _ Isa- | bel has made me a wedding gift ot | the old elm tree, and ’m cutting it | dewn to burn on the hearth at The Towers, while we look out at the Miss | | dreary winter sea. | at yourperil. Do you think I mar- ried Isabel for love. When you r fused to marry me I swore I would make you repent in dust and ashes.”’ Miss Eu ward the house, Ep: a, = bitk from the door-way. Phere Was a erssh, and when 2 strange blur had cleared away from before Captain dead beneath a tree which had snapped as tt f “T felt so Isabel some montis late lay the her eves, Valentine great arm of aid and Hl posses- awtully wicked,’” avred amed at nding hers sion of the coveted wealth jand go abroad and never have to, the } Why, he was} | of luxury, and I’ll send word to An- H farthest | cast-off | married in the little parlor of the old | clergyman had pocked his fee, an]! into | What were the workingmen doing | j Eulshe, | } when you thwart a Valentine, do it! i turned silently to-; sed to look | ve me conditions. been looding over his papers Mr. Billings, the executor, and we terreted out this letter. Its Anson Andrews. I thought it ex- with trom plained something; at any rate you might like to see it. It’sdated Aus- tralia, a year DEAR Var, Miss **Here I am, but possessed witl Eulalie re leagues from home, an unquenchable longing to hear from the old place, and a home sickness which no money Vm can relieve. Sometimes when smoking in my bungalow, alone, I tancy I am home again under the | old elm-tree with Eulalie, still young | with hope m my soul, and presently | I awake from the dream and | berate myself soundly tor allowing the old wound to ache. Believe old boy, in spite of my bald head and her double-deal- ing. I cannot think of her all I’ve lost without a weight at my heart. Iwasa happy wight when we shipped in the Water Witch. | I'm tree to confess I’ve never seen a j day throb and me, and } happy day since you confided to me | that you were going to marry Eula- lie FE biack you looked when I told you she belonged and there remember how to me,and how we then swore we would-never marry such a heartless jilt! How aave you weath- ered it, messmate? And what Has she befooled After all I has happened to her! any more true lovers? believe that | “My heart could hear her and beat Had it lain ter a century dead,”” ‘Write me about her, and if the old elm tree, where | kissed her first | is standing. ‘Our love is dead but | the tree is alive.’ No, not | dead ; I cannot slay it; It smoulders | ana torments me.** “Miss Eulahe,’’ said Isabel,when | Eulalie had tolded the letter with | trembling fingers, ‘‘there has been a | great wrong done. Mr. Billings and I mean to right it. We mean} to send word to Anson Andrews; we are going to tell him what an an- gel you are. We have talked it all jever. And about this money—I | | couldn’t make up my mind to touch | acent ot it if I were starving. [| shall founda hospital with it. Mr. | Billings isto help me. We have talked it all over; I don’t care fot: splendor any longer; I have found love 1s | | out, Miss Eulalie that love is the | best. An Affair of Trifles. ..... From the Texas Siftings. The following is said to have hap- | pened when the legislature adjourned !some months ago, but we did not | \ hear of it until yesterday : ; A very prominent member of the j legislature who had been paying a | good deal of attention to the Widow | Bombazine, told her, on calling with | his carpet bag in his hand, that he | was about to leave Austin, and she |; must iorgetlim. She replied that | he had trifled with he: affections,and | | now he proposed to leave her dis- ,consolate. 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