| Show IIEKLOV1 STORY T WAS In a pretty l7 old fuhlmet won J try church yard I 4 h thai I heard the y > I 1J following toy ty t i v The nemlon had I 1 been lit work al a I V 1 I t little distance but I + he observed the In may teret with which I had iloplcd to K2 I upon a straight Wilt on which shaft of watte marble lIIaocli Inscription cut the simple Morelll igeil 17 i girl sold 1 never beheld a prelller inlny and he eyes no big and dark a complexion like Ivory and the rw dent lip 1 She wee a nne figure of n girl too tall and elegant though light and the regular blueblack hair that ice heard belong to thai kind of beamy Her family contltteJ of an i undo and aunt and their eon lo whom eho wa engaged to be married and whom the seemed to bat wore than I olson It Isnt likely that I would ever have known the family nffttlrt of folks w far above me even In n country place like thli where everything get talked of snore or Int I bul for the circumstance cir-cumstance that I potwetMed a nephew who wai about the handsomest young fellow that over the sun shone upon He wai at fair at the Slgnsrlna Mo I relll was dark hit ore were blue like violets and bit hair like gold and bin you sir when these iwo young people lint taw each olher It wa at clear a case of love at flrtt tight u any other Homeo and Juliet and Just at natural aa Ibo nADIa between Un and towHM My nephew hit name wa Hegl nald and wo called him Ilex for hart was the organist of the llttlo church over yonder and the young lady sang In tho choir though the Will tuch a grand one In that way the two young people Ort met und their acqualnlanc progressed pro-gressed rapidly I it you rosy tuppoif The cousin to whom the Slgnorlna was ngiged used to como to church with her I reckon that Italian fellow loved the girl In hit fierce way u well at he could ever love anything though II WIll thought ha cared moil about her money Of course ho wai at Jealous at a Turk and If looks could have killed poor Ilex would not have llvnl long to be hit rival Hut neither my bravo lex nor Mitt Dlanca cared a bit for the Signora black loukt and then you mutt know oho young lady never really greed to tho engagement It wai all made up by her relative and she al waya declared she would rather ills than marry her coutln declaring boldly bold-ly that she love Hex Ilaywood and would never marry any other man And ono day with hit bright face shining with triumph and merriment lex hurried away to the church to practice hit musk for the Aext Sunday Sun-day jllut Illwu a very dllf left mutl I y I tON t-ON illS IWRS hat he played when that tad day cam for on tho very next morning I lolled the bell for Illanca Morelll who hall been found cold and ttlll and whit whcn her mall entered In drcta her for > r akfuu Thla woo a Friday and the funeral was act for Sunday and you may bo cure In n place like tblt thor was plenty of talk about time sudden death and the hurried burial Hut my nephew poor 1I001lIIld nothing lie wcmed turned to clone Lilt ho played the moat beautiful music that ever wai heard In our church for the funeral semolina of the girl he loved and though they wouldnt allow him to go near tha grand mahogany coal In tho church I took euro he should kelp mn to loner It Into the grace 11I1 I lio stood betldo me and dropped a great bunch of red tear down oa tIt t-It at I began to shovel In the earth Well well my poor Hex I hope I may never tea such a face of dwpal again and at 1 glanced at him frou flue to time I felt sure hit would bo the rut grave I thould III In It war late that night and I wa Just thlnklni of going to bI though Ilex liadnt comu hum and I Will mighty uneasy about him when I heard the click of the loot dowmlalr a It opened and shut and then I recognized rec-ognized hit step quick and hurried III ho canto upttalrtnot a bit like the flow drugging steps of tho lat two night but even lighter and quicker than It mod to bo and I hadnt done wondering when the door opened IInil tho next moment ho Will betide rue wild haggard pale ai death and wllh his great bluo oyet almost ttartln from bit hoadl Im not a nervnui man i but I Jumped up worno tcared than II I I had teen a ghost llefore I could utter ut-ter a word for my voice failed me Ilex caught me hard by the arm and whl pored boartelys Dont tpenk uncle but just Ilitc ninnca Isnt dead I hope you believe the la not dead Lookt read and he held before my eye n scrap of j > peon r I pe-on which nat tcrawlcd tbme words Hex my darling 111 die or seem to die believe Rent not I Hart me I taken from my coflln within twelve hour of my burial anil all may yeti yet-i well You will not fall run dearest I read till extraordinary mewag or more than once before I took In Itt meaning but a It flatbed on me t aw as well aa Ilox bow little time we had to lOOt and I furnrtalled lilt word Come on In heavens namor 1 hlred It mutt be dote on to 12 oclock and at safe as It will ever b > for such a work Fortunately Its a iftchblack night unit all the moon there wan hat gone hour ago Como on I While I poke I found a little dart anleru and wo were already descend i lug the ttnlri nod next moment wir were ilrallng through the churchyard with my pick and hovel In hand whIch I had caught up aa we pae i b y the cralboiM where I bl kept them It was terrible work but In lee l imo i-mo than 1 had PUT teed n tpado bern be-rn the newlymndu grate won opener the roBIn rilled of It t > recants contentr lilrli Hex and I carried 10 our homp rapptl 1 up In a huge thaw I which I had brought for the purpote J iii my Hut It Will the unranlcil ghfa work that ever I did shine tho hour I wat born Vo laid the body oi m y bed and we chnfeil the cold whlln hands and listened In vain at tin ulteleM heart Hut I taw no tlgn ol lie Sho wai ai beautiful at a flgurt of alabaster and at llfelrti for aught I could tee but Sex declared that stir 11 oa not dead So at It wa necettiry that I should rrttoro the empty roflln ind nil In the grave again I Wit obliged to heave him here on his knees betid her wildly I klulng the poor cold hand and calling upon her to open her lovely love-ly I eyes to ice her lover by her Hut I had no hope that anything but soma earful trouble would como of It and marveling and terrified ai to what might be tho end t the butlnett I aliened away to the work that await cd me Hut they were right and like a stupid old man I wot wrong for when I turned the trancelike sleep wai broken and the tout had awak ned within that apparently llfelem form and the lovers tat holding each oUters hand her dead retting on lilt boulder while lie taught to calm Un earful agitation which had taken pot nilon of her now that she began tl realize the horror of all that had happened hap-pened Ah that was a bravo girl and n lorywriter might nil a volume with her binary and all the went through In those tow month from the tints of her Ort meeting with Hex till thin awful night Hut I must cut It thort for the night It I coming on To hut irlef then She had never toll Itei i lalf or Indeed a tanth part of what she suffered with there wicked rola clone of hers especially the coutln wUo wanted to marry herAt her-At last thtlr persecution reached a point when the could bear no more and the discovered a plot by which tin Will to bo hurried away to Italy un mown to any one and iho knew well hat the would novae tea Hex again lu thli world If this plan should U carried car-ried out Sbo Wit In despair Tbe Itnllin taw that cite had dla > ocreel the plot and sir was linunxll ately locluil 111I her room all communication communi-cation with the outer world cut off linen her maid < l Will In the pay of lift eltttUMt at the know but the girl eemed to loco her personally nml driven to the last extremity tut 1 found urielf obliged to niako n confidant ol her und to trust her lIe to thli rills dltcretlon I Mho praed worthy and cove hei I entlio aultunco to her young mlitret They ronrocled tka detprratu plan which by morn ot tome myitcrloui italian drug they managed to carryout carry-out with inch result 01 I havo do ncrlbedi and whllo I war lltteulng la a story more wonderful than any ru I nance I had ocr mad tblt tamo faith tut servant joined cu I found lha door open the aald 10 tho Hlgnorlna and hearing voices know all waa well and came directly I ieroHut Hut It wat easy to tee from the young ladyi agitation that all Will 1101 well and I guoued that It noun changu wai not coming soon mite Will FIn F-In danger of dylug In cariutt from excitement fr ex-citement and consequent oxhauitlon My wind wpm tpeedlly made up I + know our minister to ba ono good man picked out of ten thouiund and I was 1 loan at lilt boiltldo telling him the t whole tory whllo I helped l him to dressNever 1 Never have I teen o man mot y i dated but he soon look In the allun 4 lion and helped ut out of our perplexity i perplex-ity Ho wont with mo directly and especial 1 special llcinte wnt obtained at once bj Ilex to that next day the young coupl were married and driven by mo tin tin mluUtera onehone cordage to a ills r tan raltwny station Of courtn need not ray that Maria j the maid accompanied them She hLC tiroed herself Invaluable In brlnclm clothe to her mlitrett and a box ol tnlunble jewels The next day there woe a great hut I and cry over the dltappearnnce ol Maria whom the Italian called a thlel and a monster of Ingretllude but they never tutprcled the real cuio of th < girls running away Alt tills happened yeah ago Iri but I hear from ra > nephew now that hla wife U I at length aa strong and well that they are golni to make their appcaranrn before thi Italian cousin and claim the Blgnor Inat great fortune which that vllUli had bun enjoying ever tine hit return re-turn to Italy |
