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M.-.c.l hint, thv olive l.'-nli I- xill inli u-iir-. iumI y. t I ku-nv Till' l(Mll l.l It illll Mini Ur llirtt NCIll 'I lire to in v illirkflii-il lirin.'lllli'Hl ; M) ki-i-NiiiMV r-iv lliv uliic, My luml Ii iumiliiin1 lnii uinl sIiiitn, 'ni.-J.r.hll-. h,,W ll-pll-lnl.-lll -li,,,., I'm i ii -..-.i ,nol i.-iinii- llm-s, Aii-1 Mii-nimh tin- iiii-Mit;ii;l ttnvi-Niilif- I hi . s iiehiiiI i-U' nl' t'uiii.lim'. i tltlrii r.irT' ' UovM.kK N (... BY Q.UA.nSTI-CEY'S STREAM. A STORY BY E. C. cu.i'Ti:i! xi. A l.lll'KKT AMI A I.KTTKU. Ill M.iri;:iri't's luniu- at Vahfax tlu ru was an ulil wvri-tary and lit,ik-c:isi- nmi liiuril. I'Ai'ii now Miiroari't rilaincil a ri'-ipirtl'iil aH'oi'iiuii I'urtliM stali-ly uVpiisi lury nl' kiiuwlidiji-, tlm tYilinjf, luinj; a survival Jul ln-r n'lisalioiis, wlx-n, a a i-liilil. slm vvciiilil wntcli Iut 1'ailnT. Willi lnvaililrw iiiini'sl. nli.'iii'Vi r. krys in liand. In- appruailii'il tin- wcri'tary." Tim tup dravtvr vspi-cially wiik alninst us inrnmjuc licnsililu and fascinaliiii; as a I'airy-talu, fur, al't.T it had K-en pulled uut. jusi liku any (itlur drawer, "I'apn" would touch a sprinj: at tho dido (a ri'jrular opi n Si'aino that Hpiing wan) and hi lmld the front piiw lell down and became a crwn baizi'-ruvirid writing drak; and iusti-ad of tht) back iioci! there was revealed a howildirinu array of tiny drawers, andcuddieii and quaint little doiitu with the nmallest of keys to unluek them, and odd little pigeon-holm, all no fixed one into another and worked hy mii h iniraeulouit bolts and Mpriun.s, and handle.", that Margaret wan convinced, nobody hut "1'a'uie.s" or ''papa" could ever have under stood the labyrinthine secrets of surh a treasure house. The londiucs which ovurpiiwcrml Mar iHirci low, siuoe. in auMitii'ni (n4itr tuber's death. Ilavid ami Jud''li were both jiono, led her to the old hook-ease one afternoon and seating herself before it she began reading, lint there are times when books, good and true friends as they are, fail to salisly, when the yearning heart dominates the mind, and will not let it enjoy the written iniuds of others. So Margaret put the volume she had tbosen hack in its place; and idly touched the spring of the drawer, opening it with the inti -iitiun of looking tliioiigh, the numerous private let tcis to and from her lather that be had always kept here apart front his law or business papers. She read one, then an other and at ho-l opened a package that had been placed lu liinil the others, and she perceived one letter lull down, as if detached from llie oihers. as if, indeed, it had not been placed willi them intention ally. She picked it up and found it a sealed envelope, the writing within was evidmitly lengthy, and in the middle of ii Margaret could feel a round, hard sub stnneo alxiut the size ot a tilty-ecnt piece. What surprised her about it was, that on it in her Ciller's lawyer-like writing were these words: "In the event ol my duith to be hand ed or forwarded to Hubert Trenton Ksip Margaret sat slill. holding the letter in her hand and wondering over it. She explained to herself how, kuowning as she and her Sitlier's exivutot boll) did, lli.it thii eucf.iftirv wail tl , only , fr private lettiT.HthoJ luid 1rloekl llui oiy iu rrtijging Mr. I amnion's papers. One thing however, win clear, that this enve lope and its contents heloiiged to Mr. Ireutoii. aud acting upon this, Margaret fi soon her way to the (irove. She toiiud Mr. Trenton sitting on the porch iu almost the exact spot where she had been standing when he bad lirst seen her eight luoiuhs before. She told biin the cir cumstances of her discovciiug the letter and how upon limling it she brought it over immediately. Mr. Trenton t,s,k it from her aud re cognising llie writing, rose instantly. -Slay here and wait for me, please," he said, as -Margaret turned to leave, "1 will come back when 1 have read this." And he went on in the house treinhling in every limb, believing, feeling that in this small envelope were words that would solve wrravJiad, until now, scem. d to him mysteries o!v KJ,e revealed to him be yond the gr.ive. N'o living vy might see the rtrong limn wbel he first read this mcsjMl- frolu the deini. Who can lell the emotions (hut were hiJas he sat alone in the pithcrine twilight? Who can sav what ghosts of his voitng manhood, ol his lost love, of his lonely life, passed before him, as ho rfad these lines penned by one who bad himself gone to join the shadowy pioressum : ' Margaret sal on the steps wailing for him until a vague dread that he too had died uii in hs room alone seixisl her, for since her father 's sudden ileal li, and the J waiuks-wM-iWi--!!.. j-(lg;i. M..! rl nil s ',mkltppjrij,-,l:l axuldtn Hut Mr, Trciituu eamo out to her at lust, and was shocked that she should have sat so long iu the chill night air. "My child," be exclaimed, "ibis will make you ill ! ('nine in at once and let me eiyt-fff nliw of, wjiut-r-nnd Uen 1 have anniithiug to tell y-uu.''' ' Jl ' "Is it some new trouble?" she asked wearily; it was indicative of tho shaken atatctrif llt-r nfves tr.al tit idei of trou ble triads her tag-el- alii g ow faint, as she rose to enter the house. When they atoo I in the light from the bright Gro Mr. Tienion an! Margaret uarli started at the white face of the other. "Do not hsik so frighteoel," Mr. Tren ton said, smiling, with an bffort, "you have borne trouble so well, that you can (rarely lH':ir,hnupiti"),'J ' Happiness?" Margaret repeated, "have you found out then (hat " ("Uuvid is innocent," she was about to Ray, conscious that this was the way in which happiness must come to her now, through David.) bill she hesitated and Mr. Trenton took up the ipteslioii. 'i'cs," he answered, "I havu found out, Margaret, the reason for your great like ness lo another .Margaret, lint sit here," be said, "anil I will tell you in a few words; there aie things iliat will not bear much talking about, Margaret," He looked at the girl, and seeing that his serious manner had recalled llie Irighleiicil e.vpivssiou to her face he changed his tone and said more lighllv. "I suppose a mail in telling the story of his life should hogiu at ihe beginning, which is win n ami where he was born, Well, 1 was born in New Kngl and I v than fifty years ago, of puritanical slrait laecd, strict and narrow parents. Whom I got tho wild inline r had I do not know, unless I inherited it from some sailor aiieesiors of which them bad been two or three in my iiiolliei's family. Wherever I inherited it, it was in ine and you can see what the result was. Seeing me so different Ironi their other children my father and mother regarded me as the black sheep of the flock, and not liking ibis, not liking, indeed, any portion of the dull life, I ran away when L was fourleon years old, aud worked, at lirst one thing, than another, until I got on a boat that ran up the .Mississippi. 1 had a genuine yankee talent for nionoy-inaking. I have always made money somehow, .mil so after awhile 1 became a partner in a oout ; and then commenced running one alone, acting as captain, proprietor, male or in any other capacity that might be necessary." "There was a planter living on the river named Lewis, and he and I had inueb trallie together, tine night 1 Weill to bis bouse on business, and there I met his daughter, Margaret," here .Mr. Tren ton wdio had hitherto striven to speak lightly, paused and sat silent: and us (he firelight shone on his face, Margaret could see thai there were tears in the mall's daik eyes, "I have heard people laugh at love at first sight," he continued, alter awhile, "but 1 loved Margaret Lewis the first time my eym ever rested upon her. There is no need iil'.uleseribing her she was much like you u'vpt that she was far prettier and gayer; and 1 think now. she must have had a ipiickcr temper and a weaker nature than yours, lint 1 loved her with ill my soul, and troiu that night my busi ness reipureil more and more iieipiciit visits to Mr. Lewis's. l!y degrees I saw that Margaret was glad when 1 came; then I sold my steamboat and bought a plantation near her father's, and began to do my host to become a Southern planter. You can guess what followed .Margaret and I were married," ("another long pause) "but it was not to live happily ever ufter- wari, tm resumed latterly. "Jhey were heavy drinkers, those Mississippi planters, I and 1 was as loud ol whiskey as any of them. My wife had one brother the only L'liild except herself, and bo and I had many a rollicking spreu together. One day there was a grand ilect hunt, and alt at it the hunters were drinking n.s usual small wayside tavern. Our guns ' weru piled up by us, I remember how they l-Hiki il, though I have forgotten how John Lewis and L got to disputing as to which one of us shot the death shot at ihe finest buck that was Iciiled that day. We were both drunk, I the drunker of the two, 1 think; and the itiarrel grew fiercer and fiercer, until I snatched up a gun mid lired at him. then i beard a cry of 'Ureal I iod he's killed him.' That cry sobered Margaret, sobered me so thoroughly that I'rinii then 'lill uow I have never tasted liipior, but what does that matter ? ihe cry was true, t had killed my wife's brother, a mail's blood was upon mv soul forever." The lire crackled merrily, a negro pass ing outside the house sang a gay air joy ously, hut Margaret uud .Mr. Trenton sal silent and borrow slrickeu as if the awe of that deed, done so many years ago. were fresh upon them both at this moment. Mr. Trenton's last words were despairing, ihey sounded to Margaret like llie wail of a soul in agony, us in truth they were, and when did Marjarot Hamilton hoar a cry of distress, that her kind heart did not return a pitying answer t She felt a mo mentary repugtiauco to touching Mr. Trenton's hand, feeling that there was blood upon it; hut Margaret's was preemi nently a religion of love, aud with the human repulsion, came the thrught that I livine blood was shed for this man, as well as for her; and so, drawing close to him, she laid her soft hand gently on his trembling one. "You did not mean to do it," she said, "you were not youiself you must not blame yourself so." "f!od bless you for saying that," Mr. Trenton said gratefully as he clasped her baud in bis. ' If only my wife had thought like you, how different it all might have been! Hut, when they told her of il, she broke out into lavings against me. When they made rue go home to got clothes and money then that I might leave the country lor a time she refused to sec me. and at lust, iu answer to my agonized pleading, that she would speak only one wold of good-bye to me, she slightly ojs'n ed her door and said in a voice that wilt lie Ihe lust thing 1 forget when am dying: 'Hood bye and 1 Must and pray ihtit I may never agtiin look upon the raco ot my lr tle-i s murderer. Ii she, my wife said this to me. 1 liirn. I and .' lied, yen, literally Ifcd. from the house, feeling that the curse of ( am : was upon mo, since, tht could call mo iniincri r, and having" no Idea save to go. go, go, ns far away aa I could from everything I loved or cured for. Uut the old monev-tnakiiig instinct helped me then, I found w,,rk out there in the West, and begun to grew rich. Alter three years the bitter ness of Margaret's parties; grow less to me and the longing to tun her, w hear of tier grew greater, wrote twice but no notice was Ukon of my letters; and so, conclud ing that my wife still felt as she did when 1 left her I made no farther efforts to find her. Thii letter will tell you tho rest, Margate!. Take it and read it alone, as I have rtona." ' And placing iu bar hand the Idler and s small gold locket Mr. Trenton left her, himself too agitated to witness her agita tion. Margaret opened the locket to find ill it a picture which she readily recogni zed as .Mr. Trenton when he was young, and on tho other side a girl's face, which was like her own, except, as Mr. Trenton had said, it was far prettier. Hut .Marga ret did not stop long over the locket, when she held her father's letter in her hand; and taking it up she read as fallows : l-'Allir-AX, . ('., March, Illst IS llntlKIlT TllKNTnV, KS(., Mr nK.Au sin : "To day I have had an interview with two physicians concerning the slate of my health. Their decision has been ibil there is a serious iill'celion of llie heart which may at any moment result lalally. This was not a surprise lo me. In lh year following; my wife's death while Mar- galet was at sel I I had two attacks, all, r tli.- last of wliii Ii lr. II in- loruied me that there were i lisiakaUe Symplons ,,, heart disease, Margaret was never id uf iliii, ti ir is she yet aware of llie fact. 1 have kept llie knowledge lt,mi her, si it would but cause her anxiety and could serve in g iod I. Yeslerdiy I had another day of aeulu pain; and hence I have consulted llie physicians once more, intending that their verdict should determine my couise towards yourself. What I have decided that couise to be. you will see when you read this Idler. I offer no apology for witholdiiig the knowl edge herein contained, your heart will ask noun wln-n you see thai by wilhold it for, j possiiuy i weeii. certainly not a year, ; I have kept the sunshine that brightens 1 my days, and which you cannot tui-s, since I you never have been blessed with il. This sentence mut appeal enigmatical to you. i and I take the kindest way lor both of us I by explaining in as few words i bio." JiOSSl- I "As you have probably heard, during j your short slay in our inid-t, the cause of my leaving Louisiana where I was born and where I married, for North Carolina, was the fortune left me hy id v maternal grand father, who resided here. M v wile and I had been tuairied live years before the biltll ol our first child, who was an infant girl three mouths old when we started on our long journey to North Car olina." "The dip, more tiresome in those days aB you well kuon than now, proved loo much for our little one, and we were forced to stop at a small town iu Alabama be cause of our babe's failing strength. We had been there but a day when we (lis covcicd that there was a lady in I he house who was extremely ill and who had uilh her an infant near the age of our own. My wile soon made her way into the sick lady's room and during the short moments which she could spare i'roiu her own child did all that she could to aid tho sick lady with hers. This kindness won the heart and the confidence of the lady aud she told my wife her sad story. The portion of it up to the tragic shooting of her only nroiner you sir, Know better than 1 can i'"ai ,lir '"a bave, perhaps, already uspceieii that, that sick lady was your wile, Margaret Trenton." "Shortly after your departure Mrs. Tren ton discovered what she had but suspected before, that she was to beciiue a mother. She went to live once more wiih her tln-r and mother both of whom did all la their power to prejudice her against her husband, and to induce her not to seek him. Hul the hand of death was. h -avy upon the family. V nahle to bear the loss of her only son, .Mrs. Lewis soon followed him to the grave. Six months after her mother's demise Mrs. Trenton gave birth to a daughter. Mrs. Trenton told my wife, tearfully, that when she looked upon her babe, lying Isfaide her, the sight awoke iu her the love for the babe's father which had laiu dormant so long. This awakened love grew stronger and stronger during the month when she lay weak and helpless and thought over the happy days they two had spool to,.ether. When, at length j she was able to go out once more, she told j these things to her father and besought I him to make an effort to find Hubert Trenion's whereabouts. This he posi tively and bitterly refused, and then Mrs. Treutoti informed him ot her resolu tion of herself going with her little baby to seek over the world for her hus band and her child's father. Kntreaties, rewards, threats were unavailing to change this decision and this frail woman and frailer child went forth from her father's luxurious home to seek, what that father believed, an outcast and a murderer. Sho reached this small town, where we found her; then her weak frame refused longer to sustain the strong spirit, and she sank exhaiistisl, I wrote to her father, hut received a reply from his executor, saving that in wrath at bis daughter's leaving him the old man had made a will disin heriting her; and. as if further to com plete the dark fate of the family, had lull one week after the will was made fallen from a horse and been killed. Mrs. Treutoti never lived Ui hear this. She begged 'my 'wife to f.iki- can' of her little one. placed !.i my hands the few valuables and small sum of luoiey hc possessed, aud died lbs ik'atb of n (saint, sir, I do believe. Our poor little baby died the next day, and then il was that the oilier haby, your child and Manniret Trenton's sir, saved tuy wife's life and reason. The uiotlier-lovc that had kept my wife up null! now, caused her alier her infant's death to fall into a stupor of grief. See ing this, her old nurse brought ijio Mail ing, motherless,, ilmilate, - little creature mat lay in the next room; and pl.i I it I 0,1 "'J' '" ' Sl'" . i i... . .... i . ic i I' t" h, r bonuti, she wept aud sobbed over it, she nursed it from her breasts, and looking at me with her eyes full of entreaty she said, -'Let us keep this for nuts, James, No line need ever know." They were Loth girls and Margaret is the name for this one too. And, .lames, I ncisl it aud it noeils nie." I saw that she was right. 1 was con vinced that Trenton was a rockjetsi drunk ard, and above ull 1 saw that my wife needed this interest aud affection to cheer her aching heart. We brought the child (o North Carolina ns our own, wo loved i( as our own, the lovo becoming strongei as the little oue grew; and as, by degrees we lost hope of other children beiug boru wus. , '''! I'lTuilge if you can of mv surprise when on the 7th qf this mouth t found my self face to face with Hubert Trenton, with Margaret's father ! I eamo home in you which I had not open.'d lor years, to convince mysell you were the same, Despite Ihe changes time an I ease had made llie rcsenihlance was sufficient to ideiirily you." "I slept no hour that night, as you may believe. 1 fought, I here and then, the battle of my life, sir. for Margaret liad become as the apple of my eye to me. To give her up into anotler's hands, to tell her, my child by every title save one of blood, that I was not lo r fatlor, this was unbearable to me-aud bad she nut her, ell told in ih it very night lh.it I was worth evciyihing cl-'c in ihe world to her? Then it was 'r the first lime that I reuieiulieivd if, ink fully llie frail tenure of my own life, lie lore I rode off lo meet you ihat Sunday morning I had decided to allow you lo buy the II rove, thus keeping ymi near Margaret; and now I have further divided that, until after my .l.-.illi. I shall keep this s.-iptel to your own history from you. I am dead, how soon that will be I know not, you will lake Margaret to your home, you will shower upon her those beiefils of wealth which Misfortune has forced me to deny to her. Hut, sir, however you love h .r you will never lovo her too well, and as you grow lo know her, as you each day, see her sweet nalure unfold, you will not wonder licit I could not give her up to you, mil )ou will forgive liiiu who now blesses and pravs for you both, ami who signs himself, slill Your friend, and her father, J AMI-IS Ha.vui.thn." Tt took Margaret a long time to nail this letter, when she had finished she slid down from her chair saying through a slonu of tears: "Oh! my papa, my papa why did you over tell? Why did you over give me up. lin youi haby, your baby, papa you loved me I loved you, oh ! why did you ever give tin-up: what made you write this hard, hard letter'." She did not wait for Mr. Trenlon. she run out of tic house through the (irove, and the avenue of her own home, not stopping until she reached Mr. Hamilton s grave; and throwing herself upon il, she sobbed as in all her sorrows she had never sobbed before. When Mr. Trenton returned to the room and found her gone be understood easily that she could not trust herself to speak even to linn yet, while this great change was so new to her, and he made no effort to follow her. "Thai's gum' ter be fallin' weather, iictsy,'' Mr. Kdgerlon remarked as he shivered a little and walked to the door to look out uu the leaden gray November sky. "Thcui clouds look u'timst lak snow an' f reckon I'd better he a-lookin' a'ter them calves iu the upper pasture." "Land bless us au' save us!" Mr-. Kdgertou beard him exclaim, as he reached the hall door "Maigrit Hamilton, how upon e'tb did you get here this time o' uioriiin' ?" "I walked" Margaret answered. "An' walked yersclf down," said Mrs. Kdgerlon, who by this time had reached the scene. " 'Pears Ut in you ought tu bad belter sense, Maigrit. Hut, come in now. llev you conij to stay?" "No," Margaret answered as they went in the house, "I'm hi fir coniin; I'm afraid." to stay, , Any new trouble, Maggie?" the old woman asked, seeing tears in Margaret's eyes. "Yes," the girl answered. "Oh! Mr. Kdgertou," she said turning instinctively to Iiiiii as the more sympathetic of the two. "They say that .lames llamiltou was not really my father." "Who says it ?" the old mall almost screamed, iu his ,uick aud violent anger. "T 'll ine who says it, Margaret, so I kin go, right now. an' cowhide him whoever bo is. for a low-lil'e'd, lyin' " .scoundrel.1' "You can't do that.' Margaret, replied in the same wean tone," hccau,o it is true." "I'll' -ii she told them the story, ending hy saying: "And lwalkulover here this morning, because I am too miserable to be still and because 1 want (o know what you think I should do. How can love Mr. Trenton as my father, when all un love has been given to to my , father, Mr. Kdgertou, who is King there in the grave-yard at home?" "Wy, Maggie it seems lo me you oughtcr be glad said "Mrs. Kdgertoli whose mind was of the practical order and who appreciated things wo see, rather than those we fir!. "He's dead an' gone now, he can't do you no good, an' here's a lib man that can give you everything yon want an' be a father to ye. Tears ter ine I'd la) mighiy glad, slid o' art tin here eryin'." "Folks is differ' nl, lietsey," said Mr. Kdeerton slowly, and taking a chew of tobacco, be went out of the room. When be returned, he had the look of a man who had made a decision. "Little Hamilton." he eonnneuecd by saying, laying his hand on her head as ho spoke, "Itight is right an' jestiee is jestiee, an' w'un a man ol woman sees the right an' jest thing to do, they're 'liligcd ter do it, whether they want Icr or no. 1 dun lin wot you call that, hut I calls it law an' gosH-l. An' Margrit cf Trenlon is your lawful father I an' it do seeiu lak he is) its jest an' right fur you tor go an' live wid 'im an' do a chile's pari by him. Yo kin do it, Margrit, a levin' gyal lak you kin mighty a,aii gil lo lovin' im. Mebls' 'iwotit be llie same foclin', 1 ibsin reckon il will be llie aiime I hat yovt p31) fa deems Hamilton f'taiut nossihlc fur anv body to keer it much fur lorn e they could fur deems, scoui dr met but it'll be true love all the same. Au' it'll be so much belter fur ye. Margrit. 11 tsy was right thai-, its a sight heller fur a young gyal ter hev a father, an' little gva! ils n monstrous good thing ter hev money I kill tell ye. So 1 hi gum ter hitch the mare to the buggy, an' of you'll listeu ter me you'll gil iu an' let me carry you back an' you'll promise ter bu a good daughter, you know how to be, ter this hero rich yankee." This advice was but tho expression in another's words, of what Margaret's own conscieniv had told her. She had fol lowed a restless yearning instinct for help and advice in taking the long walk to these old people and now that Mr. Ed gcrtoq ho firmly ndves ated what hur own sense of right had told her she accented it as final and went back home, reaching it and looked at the locket 1 eiiclo while il was yet so early that Mr. Trenton had not been over to see her, as alio was Bare be would. "WeT, Margaret", ho said, when ho came an hour later, trembling perceptibly as he spoke, "can 1 claim my child'i" "Yes, father '. the gill said llesiluutly, (what it cost her to say it Mr. Trenlon never knew, otherwise the word would not have thrilled through him as it did) "Hut I am not sure you will want me", she con tinued, "when I i II you " "You could tell me nothing that would prevent, my wauling you", be interrupted her to say. "Von think ill ol'-Mi Cha!", Margii ret said, "while 1 love him". Slip held her head up proudly at this. "Will not thai iiiake ib-col'd belwein u-?' Mr. Trenlon was wholly unprepared for such unwelcome new us this, hf already had In i iaul plans lie his daughter. Hut he could tiusi to change mid new ti.cii to lid her of lliis I'oolMi fancy, he thought, at at lcat be would not let it. euuie between them le vv. ' 1 1 ii c y,, ii promised in marry him?" he asked." "No," she said, "because he would Hot Id me. He says he will mtvi- ask me to promise until this suspicion of yours, a stain on bis name he says, is removed." "Then be will never ask her," thought Mr. Trenton, lelicved. His relief taking form iu his hearty assurance to Margaret that Ihi subject should not separate them. "Can my child come to me now?" be asked drawing close to her with his face full of yearning tender iifTec'ion. 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