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DAVIS & ELVERSO:
Publishers,
Cor, THIRD and
CHESTNUT Bts,
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1868.
renms, (PPE A
IN ADVAN:
x
IN THE SUGAR CAMP.
{omy Fm, SracRrsK,
‘Flow it snows! how it blows!
Quite enough to frees
* Or make one mutter as
How confoundedly it blow»
eis Maren, and the larch
On the rocks and scraggy stones!
1 augers nue
Thro f etd ‘
F Flows the dripping sap?
And such nectar! even.
‘Would have stood
By those vessels Ailing t ‘othe brim,
Pouring over at the rim{
How the smoke {s curling
And unfurlin,
Upwards from the low roofed shed;
re the men with
Under the Kettles and the boller,
Eighteen and twenty gallon boilers
dlazin;
Otledoes onegsod
‘ust to catch the flavor
A
Trthrough carelessness lt should
How tho girls, with eyes ike peatts
ining through their curls,
the
our the sugar Into the moulds,
‘With the dipper each one holds?
‘Verses improvising as they watch it erystat-
Using
1 the ley air of night,
htt
In ssf merysialting ligt,
A sacol lelight.
Thero are footprints in the snow
By the. naples f far below,
‘And peal of laughter ring upon the ai,
Startling tho ‘drowsy hare
| And wating ce and there,
2 care, and bewa
Such h Tears, pretty mission,
ag atoal your hearts away,
‘Some wintry day,
say |
oo
(Entered, according to Act o et Qongress, in the
year 1863, nin. the office of
avis fe hives
Be ihe District. Court of ‘the United
gies fa and for the Hstern Disrse of Bebe
aie
“THE DOUBTFUL HEART;
on,
“THE COST OF A SECRET.
By FRANK LEE BENEDICT,
AUTHOR oF
“Rachel Holmes ;’" “Kedman’s Run ;""
Castel” "Gelling into Societys”
Season ai Saratoga; “ars. . Shonda ‘8
‘Skeleton ;" ‘imson Liver
“etijton,” ete ete
“Dora
“DMaude's
(This Story bewan, tn No.2 Bask, nombers
can be obtained from ail News Deulers throt
out the United States.)
CHAPTER VIII.
Vanoe had been gone two days ; the squi
missed him exceedingly; Birs. Pryor kept |}
Bp a litte sipplo of suuliration opeernig
him ; and betw the two, Rena fo
feol simply Teultated. abd Smpationt when
d his name.
she had been overwhelmed wi
it his previous leetuew and
Gitar ‘eating had been,
Rena was too to have
ior one who loved “her with.
ing the very young to com-
« prehend their oma meidstng 6 renders the
On the third day there came a break to
the quiet, and a ehinge to Rena, doubly
1001 mood in
made. her absolutely:
aste.
guidly, for she was tired
having been reading ‘a
governess several chapters of a ly
nt} penance se had draposod upon
horselt for the snot having been unusually
the morning,
‘From Emily Northland—it came in a
letter to me from the judge. © They’ve a
arty of people aying with Shem, and they
want you and Vance to come ove
yes; Bmily made ws
er ent vetuned
Rona, brightening up at « “
hor letter—Iat mo
Ren
ead eagerly. the “ost ‘writen, »
plontifully crossed pages, while the sa
kept up a running firo of
speculations, as was bia habs
body ‘unfortunate enough to read a
letter in ‘his pres
“(She can’t live a another day without
Is appose,” * he said, laughing, as Rena folded
wp, tie da ty 8 sheets,
exactly what she says—how did
yh, you young women always make
yourselves believe you are so terribly in
carne
Sr ryor cleared her throat and gave a
tite “backward movement to her head—i
Bure sign that she cv templated @ lecture
“Pho habit of exaggeration in . the
ung,” she began—but Rena could not
make even is hh
“Yeu I ve told me b
top thi abitha and she wa
0 lovely i importinence that the squire
Taughed heartily, and. Mrs. Pryor could. not
bring the stately disapproval
that it scemed fairly to
into it.
“You, wouldn’t have any change—you
know n't—nor would Tabiiba,
either,” sai Best. ‘Now, just dar
hint that 3 roan
“Not res quict man, that loves
poace.”*
here was a little playful bantor between
ena went back to
10 do, David?” she asked.
en certainly ‘ou have been
moped here iow ugh.”
alas mie 66
iss Vanity f
ste rid of eee Pr
amir
Litt
any ‘be glad to
ryor and I will have
of quiet,
thought you meant that—”
“My little one knows that I don't,” he
interrupted, drawing hi im—ii
his great love for he
gis
3 L want to go to Overton, 80
} fake more hopeless that anything else.
suervous alarat
° RE-BANDAGING THE SPRAINED ARM.
Nonsen: ‘What should I do in a
howe full of young people"
“Mal yoursel reeable to
ju are much more harming
than any of the young men.”
“an right; prepare to have a step-
moth
vvou wretched man t” I should pity her,
that’s all.
“Well, I think between “us both, ‘she
would need somebody’s sympathy, pussy.”
all, SP my ig th tie arnived the.
Pwo!
to her that this little journey was in
| some myete erious fashion wholly to change
| the current of her life, and send ft off into a
‘hannel 5
made the ,old home so
go—
“Papa,” she said, “I don't want to
Emily—I don’t
let me ct an excuse to
0
Wi course, you must go!
My Mariiugy | tee" Whe death Yo Tore you,
even for an hour, but I'm not going to be
sels old brute,’?
shan’t call uch names !
t bei
Ob, papa,
a dceaty nie of it pent,
ut hi more anxious for h
from the tact that tn bia bea
she was fretting over
Lil
to go
rt he believed
jeparture,
believing that what be esi
he had se
ov
was true, and
—e
1 the
e, Because she evident tried
itand made
gi
appear a8 usual
rally enough, with bis own plane and
witb so strong in his mind, the squire at-
tributed this lange to Vance’s absence, and
accep! ertain proof of her affec-
tion for her cousin. He could not know
that since t time a of fancies and
vague dreams had swept in n Rena
id her old habits. of life and thought,
forcing her so far away from them that no
wer could ever restore the unthinking
joty of that time.
‘The railway journey was something less
les, and when they reached
haps her influence over the wayward
greater than that of anybody
living.
“And so we are not to have the pleas ae
of Mr. Vance's company," Emily said,
I can sce you safe in thelr charge.
“I wish you would go, papa.”
‘men, the squire had a trick of| re
BNo; he has gone to Obi going
Fas
T thin!
permits himself to ha
said she; ‘the has a better
than you, my fairy quecn.”
i Bate Teople with well-regulated
sind: cua, energetically. » “Don't
go too sitvatiog ‘ono, that’s a dear, or shall
yor
OMFS yon ea
good, I stp-
pula mind
8
© me a promise, Emmy, dear.”
at is it?”
‘Don’t mention Charley Vance’s nam
ime fora weok-—I've beard Ble praises nave
Until Tam sick of thom and him.
Emily Northland leaned out of pe care]
ag
1
the Mile, straggle for
of hor cheeks, and
wes ch ‘ane made 80 bra:
0 8
self control
pro
toward Rena asa “My dear, I haven't
bal told y glad I am to get posses-
sion of Sou Snee n more !"”
“And Dm very glad to be with yoa!
There — kins mio — I can't be tend
always turn erasty immediately a
oy girl! veh ‘ave you
You a
been doing? - W Bat has hap
ena was silent—even to "Eats te could,
manded ter frien
I have done nothing—I never do.
PI
thing has happenod—thore never does,"
plied, forcing herself to laugh to Tide the
remor'that would come into
she thought of the events of day whic
soomed so far of, yet 90 Presout and living
2 iufluonce upon bet mind.
trou ungeateful ercature, when you have
had the races, at least | ted to hav
com Sr them, but ‘aunty was not
well.
‘Ta, she better?” ens, asked, oot
because she bad a, proper a
Iuterest inthe of “Mrs. Northinnd's
health, as to oid: her conversation upon
the sbjeet 0 of the
she is quite herself again,"” re-
wily. " suppose you ad's charming
plied e
day 2
“Oh, I don’t know—yes—it was well
enous”
erybody one knows was there, of
they always
position for misan-
thropy you have developed, ‘returned Emily,
gaily,
‘ ‘Ao a vebat very loug words you use!
ad brought one of Charley's Greek
be sone shall uever beable to understand
yo
both laughed out of the gatety
ty for finding enjoyment. tn the
shorent tiles whe belonged to 2
Tile the dens, Besutfal |
on of outh, 1
‘and. bitter, nen
at our
nired |
little, iv srite
wr the Wouble the exining i tinny have bron
us.
“Your father had horses entared as ustal 2”
Bnully as satel,
s—they won !
of ‘aiklg Sdout that too!
that day, and I've
There, I'm tired |
You sco.T was
2 worse
ever
ne.
Miss Northland was too inuch acenstomed,
netom
to her caprices to stinch apy importance to
her words and man}
they drove away.
“There are 80 many subjects tabooed that
readful words should be
thrown
08, you Beedn’'t ugh — I'm
nest really am abominable | ‘The way
I ha ‘them al a x Dome is beyond belief, and
only spoil , the worse I
* y0u seo you have the unfortunate gift of
harm\ny
revents those who 1ove
f my fats"
told o
ST should die It ‘people did
"you a peed @ spoiled child, Rena
i Yes, but I'm nice! Say Van the nicest
you know that you love ine better than
at your cousins put together, with their wis-
dom and their
“You are cer
necessity for my saying i
“Then you m:
Now tell me whois at
do—there's no
emily
them! youl "pe tired of the whole set im ad-
vani
‘Maybe so—I wonder what makes me 50
d 2"* exclaimed
She Iai
Rena,
ged again, then one of her quick
mood passed over her. She leaned
face, te Beaty ould not understan
«What are you thinking about, birdie 2”
| she aned, after ‘wateing her companion for
[st few moments i
rou had gone a
said Miss North-
Soma Cawiy of ow wT
Where, Rena ? what do you mea:
“Oh, Idon't know—T shall have to aay
nothing again.”
won't. take such auswers, Kena
thousand ieagae
nd.
it have e iys been in the habit of telling
me the tra’
“Only T Have noshing to tell
She was silent once more for a a little, and
the vague, wande lering look came into hei
eyes once more.
“Have you gone away again?” asked
Emily, softiy,
(Ne Ed believe I am tired.”
“We are almost at Bria Sroed—you shall
Ho down and rest when we get thé
“No indeed—you're not to think ‘there is
‘ing the matter, » Emily, do you believe
in resenting ents 2”°
“Tn hat proved co:
w what it meant tat lat iti
I had
Irena, what do you mean? What bas
pened ?°*
thing—I was always a little brain
cracked, you know —T' get more demented
y day; that’s all,"
Shue had uttered her confeesion almost with:
out being conscious
aloud, and now she was anxious to prev
Enaily from Neh ing that her ‘words lid any
eal significa
fomothing trouble you, Ren
he would no
and rushed off into one of her absurd m
when not a rational word could be got out of
her, and Emily forgot her anxiety in laugh-
ig at her quaint her mi:
improper perform
cy
o
g
whol
Aaralng brightness.
ad been taken to Mrs. North-
land's room to reccive ber gesting, and
said the proper amount of d
be
5
reparea for her reception.
see they are next to mine,” shesaid;
“rE ent She for you becsiuse 1 thought you
would like
OF course I like it I'd never avo for
given you if you had sent me to the other
end f the house and put me by the long
woged cousins bere
‘There are ouly two in, the
inform you fur your gratiBcation.
T am glad of it—one may as well be
est! They are very good and very wise, but
T always feol ae if they wore 20 many geoine-
tries dressed up petticoats” y
Now you are to lie down whi
unpacks yout franks," said Eamly. =
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