single instant on account of the first letter of a lady's last name. I know, indeed, of an occasion when locomotives could not go fast enough, when thirty miles an hour seemed a

modation; who, needless to say, did not ask him for a ticket, or even a pass. And then the young man went forward and almost shook the arms off of the engineer and the fireman, and climbed into the cab, and actually drove the engine himself as far

nced to be there. In a twinkling the young man is in Mr. Sherman's hack, and Mr. Sherman galloping his horse down Brampton Street, the young man with his head out of the window, smiling; grinning would be a better word. Here are the iron mastiffs, and they seem to

u are a trump, after all. We're both a little hot-headed, I guess, and do things we're sorry for,-but that's all over now, isn't it? I'm so

back, and started to

ut, seizing Mr. Flint's hand, too. "I ca

, kindly look in his eyes that was not often there.

I imagine you know where I'm going. I just thought

s true. It would have been strange indeed if some tremor of sentiment had not

't resist her," said Bob. "

, and his hand began to stray among the pa

ecisions quite in that w

have se

have s

uld not account, and which he attributed to emotion. He did not guess that

he world?" he demanded. "How do

"In fact, I am quite ready to admit that Cynthia Wetherell possesses the qualifi

ed to th

l you how much I appreciate your-your coming round. I wanted to do

nes, Robert," answered Mr. Wo

nsent. By the way," he cried, turning su

, clearing his throat again, "I b

goes to Coniston on Fridays. I'l

his black horses to Gabriel Post's house-as the cottage was still known in Brampton. And having hastily removed some of the cinders, he flew out of the do

deed, waiting for the Coniston stage, and she did not see him. Shall I destroy the mental image of the reader who has known her so long by trying to tell what she looked like? Some heroines grow thin and worn by the troubles which they are forced to go through. Cynthia was not th

failed to unloose within him. Still she did not speak, but her lip trembled, and the love leaping in his eyes kindled a yearning in hers,-a yearning she was powerless to resist. He may by that strange power have drawn her toward him-he never knew. Neither of them could have given evidence on that marvellous instant when the current bridged the space between them. He could not say whether this woman who

he held her away that his eyes might feast upon hers until she dropped her lashes and the crimson tide flooded into her face and she hid it again in the refuge she had longed for,-murmurin

had been working t

e?" was Bob's ans

er eyes: gravely, if such a

ow can

e been through, you wouldn't have held out, I kn

now," she said,

look like th

d up at h

," she said. "And I have th

,-many times. "It's all right now, isn't it? I knew my fath

oubled him crossed her face again,

love you. I am doing this for

course I do," he answered, perplexed. "

low voice, "that I should have married

nth

the locomotive works' tom

lars a month?"

anted me,

ve in a log cabin with

is face to hers

ather," she said; "I could not bear to come be

we are,

ot have been happy if I had driven you away from t

ome; sweetheart," he said, and

st his shoulder into

up the Brampton st

o to Coniston and see Uncl

where he stood waving the most joyous o

get anybody here, L

to show her face just then, "I have to go, I promis

-day myself, Lem," said he "and I'm

ed out of the stage and came up the path and int

him, Cynthy?

swered, "won't you

er did congratulate her in

ushed his own eyes with his coat sleeve. "I've knowed her so long-" Whereupon utteran

happiness, and failed. In less than ten minutes Bob had come back with Cousin Ephraim, as fast as he could hobble. He flung his arms

one it, Cynthy. Siege got a little mite too hot. I callated

," exclaimed

I hain't got nothin'

hr

hing in spite of herself, and glanci

said Bob, laughing too.

e hain't nobody I'd ruther see you marry. Guess I'll hev to go ba

er needn't worry

and all of Brampton did see them. Silas got out,-his presence not being required,-and Cynthia was helped in,

on. Incomparable scenery! I doubt if two lovers of the renaissance ever wandered through a more wondrous realm of pleasance-to quote the words of the poet. Spots in it are like a park, laid out by that peerless landscape gardener, nature: dark, symmetrical pine trees on the sward, and maples in the fulness of their leaf, and great oaks on the hi

nthia that every man and woman and child of the village was gathered at the store. Although she loved them, every one, she whispered something to Bob when she caught sight of that group on the platform, and he spoke to the trotters. Thus it happened that they flew by, and were at

e grass beside him and c

aid, "I am going to m

the initiative for the first time in hi

n my happiness," she said, t

en so happy, Cyn

ill desert you. I shall

ometimes, Cynth

e was sobbing on the pages of th

s a week. There is a spot not far from the Coniston road, and five miles distant alike from Brampton and Coniston, where Bob Worthington built his house, and where he and Cynthia dwelt many years; and they go there to this day, in the summer-time. It stands in the midst of broad lands, and the ground in front of it slopes down to Coni

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ture conditions as they were, and to make the spirit of his book true. Certain people who were living in St. Louis during the Civil War have been mentioned as the originals of characters in "The Crisis," and there are houses in that city

ee that he was a strange man of great power. The author disclaims any intention of writing a biography of him. Some of the things set down in this book he did, and others he did not do. Some of the anecdotes here related concerning him are, in the main, true, a

d families or individuals, and in order that it may be known that the author has not done so he has written this Afterword. Nor has he particularly chosen for the field of this novel a state of which he is a c

rsion to pulling the forelock as well as by religious principles, and the spirit of these men prevailed for a ce

well as men, and it is the most hopeful of signs that in the Unit

tates of the Union, who could not even repeat the names of the senators who sat for them in Congress. Macaulay said, in 1852, "We now know, by the clearest of all proof, that universal suffrage, even united with secret voting, is no security, against the establishme

overnment after government has imitated our example. We have, by our very existence and rise to power, made any decided retrogression from these doctrines impossible. So many people have tried

calamity which has lately befallen one of the most beloved of our cities, there is a theory that earthquakes are caused by a necessary movement on the part of the globe to regain its axis. W

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