The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 21, 1883, Page 6

MY LOVE STORY. How I regretted I had written, though the words had been few, merely asking if he had been enabled to procure me a certain book we had made mention of together, and the time was more than a year ago when [ had the right thus to address him. And now! O pitiful Christ! another woman was to be his wife, and now I must never think of the old days, or the old dreams, or look into his dark eyes, or feel his kisses upon my = un- kissed lips! Never! aud I might live fifty years. And O the pitty of it, out of all this world’s million possibilities I had on!y the chance of two—either to wed Reginald Dacre, a man old enough to be my father, or to be a companion to some haughty woman. 1 had decided upon accepting Mr. Dacre. The tiny note of barely two lines I had placed between the leaves of = book it was his nightly custom to read. But Alan! but Alan! I had thought him so true, sonoble. Ihad called him ‘my prince,’’ ‘*my king,’’ alone in the warm dusk under the stars. “T will not soil thy purple with my dust,’” I had whispered ‘‘Nor breathe mv poison on * * * *. E in my heart. thy Venice glass.’’ went down to the sea to listen to sullen roar; hear it tell its tale of hu- man misery; of fair taces dead un- der its waves ; of go!d and jewels ly- its ing on kreen beds of moss; of argo— sies gone down, the wail of human misery their requiem. I tried to re- member all this, so that mine not scem such a great thing amid a It was the might world of sobbing and te good thing. But, my misery! misery of the girl called Helen Pres- yon! This girl was somewhat of a_ ge- nius, the peoplesaid. She possess- ed the gift of song and she was hand some, too, men said. And she had two chances in the world, and if she had had money enough to have _uti!- ized her gift of song she might kaye had three. But she had smirched her soul, for all her beauty and gifts: had been false to herself, to God and humani- ty; false, too, to Keginald Dacre, for she kept her love for Alan locked in her heart. *-I have sold my soul for houses and lands,’’ she said, ‘‘and I am wretched. Meaculpa! Mea culpa!’ “ay have sold myself with open eyes,’’ she said, **knowingly, with malice prense. Ihave ne ene to blame. That Alan forgot his vows did not make right that I should tor- swear myselt.”’ But the sea, with its tuss and fret, made my heart ache, and the turbu- lent water seemed wooing me thith- erward. The chimes ot our quaint old church, playmg an old song, caused a choke in my throat. I would go and invoke grand airs trom the organ, and mayhap I should tor- get the se’s roar. It was my wont to go there to practice, and I knew the service would not be held tor a half hour. The lights were turned down to a semi-darkness, an the old sexton, with whom I was a favorite, had left the key in the door for me. The moon shone across the organ keys and across my face; and the trailing folds of my white dress looked al- most ghastly in its light. O quaint old chimes! Too soon I would be far away from you, over the sea to my suitor’s lordly home, carrying with mea heavier heart than my years should warrant. But it was too late to look back; was all | eyes met mine. *Alan!”’ ' my astonishment could utter. “My girl, you have suffered,”’ ejaculated, in a tone of exquisite ten- *Helen, my first and only he} | derness. | love, how we have been wronged. | IT only learned, an four betore I em- barked, that you were not the false | A REMARKA Experin RLE CASE. nent. For (wo Long Yearsa Live Lizard Pre-empts His Stowach. edalia Democrat. THE AMERICAN | Edward Longmore Undergoes Strange woman you had been painted to me. | Mrs. Granger wrote me eighteen | months ago that you had ‘married | Mr. Dacre, anu left with him for Cu- without | b A subsequent letter, date or signature, inclosing the tiny ! | I left England wing no room for doubt. forever, and have been on the ever since, findmg no rest for my Helen, I sut- of heart on sea or shore. fered as tew men suffer losing you, and because of your ap- parenttalseness. But I could not waste my whole life because of a woman’s untruth. sol tied up the broken threads an tried not to look back. It was by chance I met Her- man Sloan, and in the midst ot mu- tual confidences he asked me why I had never returned to America and to the beautiful Helen Preston, who had declined all suitors, and was still unwed. Helen, I embarked that af- ternoon. andIam here, neyer to be When will because parted from my darling. we be married, sweet ?’’ **Married! Alan,’’ and the present recurring to me, I ‘withdrew myselt from his arms, almost unconciously my lips the dreary and framed words: “TI had die | for this last year to know You had loved me. Whoshal! turn fate? I care not it love seek mine tor mate, ” on It is too late **Too late! Helen, my only love, explain your for God's sake.’’ oe Then came a broken, disjointed tale of my sorrow temptation when I heard ot his and high-born bride ; of my wez the hall; of Mrs. Granger ; self, ot Mr. Dacre’s constant wooing and at last ot the little note only this hight thrust between the leaves of his book, making Alan’s coming torev- er too late tor my happiness. Rapid hoof-beats along the road, and my courtly lover came in sight. “Saved! Alan,’* and my words came thick and fast. “Engage him in conversation, Al- an, regarding the hall, Mrs. Gran- ger, the weather, stocks, etc., etc. I will escape by the vestry door, fly tothe hall! secure the note! and then, O, Alan!!’’ “My darling, my bright dariing!’’ but I broke from his clasp and sped away like achamois to the hall. I did not heed that the roses feil from my throat, that a portion ot my lace flounce graced a thorn bush, or that my hair, nsloosed from its fastenings hung about my shoulders. I think it I had possessed a piece of paper I should have held it aloft, and should have shouted a reprieve! a reprieve ; Shall I try to tell of how I secured the note and hid it in my bosom, ot how I ran up-stairs and peeped for one moment into the mirror, twist- ing up my shining hanr, and trying to hush the loud beaung of my _ heart, of how I rapidly traversed the path leading to the church, dodging be- hind au osage hedge to escape meet- ing Mr. Dacre, hurryingon as soon as I was tree, tobe folded close to Alan’s heart? ““And you will not laugh at me Ala “Laugh at you, my darling, and wherefore ?"’ “Oh, for my mad flight, the meaning, and handsome riness of of my- for pearl pin I had given you, left me | and the fault was mme. I had ru- ined my own hfe, and must pay the price. Because I nad been forbid- den the desire of mme eyes, 1 had sealed my fate. I had bound my hands, and had intoned Pheebe Carys **i have turned from the good gifts Thy bounty supplied me, Because ot the one which Thy wisdom denied me: Ihave bandaged mine eyes—yea, mine own hands have bound me; Thave made mea darkness when light was around me. Now I ery by the way ide, O Lord, that I might receive back my sight.” “Peccavi,” I cried, and my head sank upon the organ and tears sta:m- ed the red roses at my throat. tly and Alan Leighton’s tender “‘Helen!’’ and my head was lifted | Every bottl: guaranteed. red roses scattered all along the road, for my unbounded joy at your re- turn; for proposing to run and steal the note and, and—things.”’ tender kisses pressed upon brow and lips, and closed eyes. and Mr. Lord Lovel } (Mr. Dacre) rode forth from the castle gates alone.—Chicazo 7irb- For answer came une. | An Answer W anted. Can any one bring us a case of Kidn or Liver complaint that wi! not speedily cure? VW ; Rot as thousands of cases already perm. nex ly cured andwho are d j mending Electric — itters, Bri_ht’s disease, diab tes, w hy urinary, complaint qu They punfy the blood, reguiat | els and act d rectly on the dis. Soc a bottle by Fy M. Crum]y & Co. City d. ug sto e. Nor { ‘ tused th night to s tors who do not direct. ~; | field that is not open to | everything Edward Longmore is a young man ot and to j about nineteen years age from his own statement it is safe say that he has had one ot pecuhar experiences within the three years that has ever the most last_ been re corded. He was formerly employed Lafferty Bros., the butchers, was and while in their employ he fre- atter stock. | was thirsty he | from springs and it was found, just as have done. little thinking harm would result therefrom. began would drink water revines wherever many that any Over two years ago he to experience a chohing sensation in his stomach and to feel the presence of something which seemed to be alive, moving about from one posi- Dr. FB. Fesler was his physician, and time the tion to another. some ago young Longmore called at doctor’s office and said to **Doctor, there 1s something alive in I know it. him: my stomach, I can feel itcrawl up and down.’’ The young man’s theory was discredited some- what, and le was dosed heavily with cathartics in order to remove, ii pos- sible, the foreign substance, or what- ever it might be. Meantime the pa- tient grew worse, suffering terrible pain, and was a tew we ago con- fined to his bed and became well nigh helpless, his appetite, however, remained unusually good. During the early part of his sickness he was affected with the most offensive nau- | such, in tact. as rendered it im possibie tor others to stay in the | room. On Thursday, almost a ago. he passed, accorling to his own tortnizht | quently riding around in the country | At such times when he | others j} OF by} y RAR [seek es | — —— i — ss See el | Are just opening a full line of HATS AND CAPS, statement and that of his mother, the vertsbra o: something resembling tke bone frame-work of a lizard or fish about three,inches in length, and it is supposed that with the flesh on it would have been as large asthe mid— dle finger on a man’s hand. The skeleton had nothing on it except some muscles along the spinal col- umn and on the clavicle. On Sun- day toliowing, the young man pass- ed the head of the animal, which showed the eye sockets, nasal organs and fins, as large as the finger nail of a grown person. He 1s also said to have passed on Monday a number of fisi-likhe eggs. These w the last of the remains of the piscatorial or reptilian family. Mr. Longmore savs he has re expe- rienced a relief since these strange phenomena presented themselves, and there are hopes that he will soon recover, though he 1s still very weak. Tf the animal was swallowed it was when it was so small as not to be uo- ticed at the time, and it 1s the opin- 10n of the doctor and his patient that its growth and developmeat took place within the viscera. At times during-his illness the left side of the sufferer would bulge out as it there was a longitudinal swelling, and this would change places on his side and vary in size. 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