The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1822-09-18


arms over her husbands neck, uttered lew
indi.,inct word. of prayer, and expired.
Marion Scott had never seen death before,
and il wa. now presented 10 her in i,s most
ghss,ly aod fearful shape. Every horror she
had ever heard talked of in tho hiding places
of her father and relations, was now realized
before her eyes, and for eny thing she knew,
it wos now her torn 10 die. Had she dresm-
cd in her sleep Of such trial, her soul would
have died within bsr--snd she would have
convulsiyeIy shrieked aloud on her bod
Bu, the pale, placid, and happy.iooting face
of Cbsis,isD Lindsay, whom she had loved ss
on elder sister, end who had always been 90
good 10 her from the tirnc she was little
child, inspired her now with On utter feorless-
usss and she could have hoc!t down 70 b.
shot by The soldiers, w;,hou, one quickened
pulss,ion at her heart. Bdt now tho soIdies'
were wiling TO leave the bloody green, end
their leslcr told Marion she might go hsr
way snd bring her frisnds to take care of the
dead bodies. No one, he said, would hurt
her--and soon after the party disappeared.
Marion remained ior o while beeide the
dead. Their wounds blcd not now. But she
brought water from the little spring, and
washed them ell deconily, and left not . sn-
Gle stain upon either Of their faces. She dis
iui bed as lnts ss possible the position in which
they lay +; nor removed Chris,isn's srms from
her husbands neck. She lifted one OF the
arms up for a moment TO wipe awsy spot OF
blood, bu, j, fell down again Of isell, and
moved no more.
During all this time the setting suDteh'
was giving deeper ,inge 10 ,be,putple heath
or, end as Marion lifted Up hereyes 10 heas
en-, she saw in the golden west the last sc.
lics Of day. All the wild was silen,--no,
sound was here bot hat OF the nigh' hawk.
Aud the da krnDg Stiffness touched Msrion's
young soul with trembling superstition, as
she looked at tie dead bodies, and then up
to The uncertain sky, and over the glimme'-
ing shades Of the solitary eieO. The poo'
gill was half afraid of the deepening hush,
and the gathering darkness. Yet the splits
Of hose she had tenderly loved would nor
harm her; they had gone 10 hcavea. Could
she find heart 10 leave item thus lying TO-
gethe,i Ye,--'hefe wa. she ,housht TO mo.
lest the dead. No raven inhabited this glen;
nothing bu, the dcws would touch the@, I'LL
she wen, 10 the nearest ,iding place, sod told
beJ father or some other friends Of the mGr.
der
~ that on the morping had been prcsep, a.
their marriage, had assembled ca tue hill
sids before the sh. aling where Mad keir
and Christian Lindsay were now lifted Up tn
gethet on q heather couch, and lying cold and
sill US III thc gravc.--The lew maids sud
msiron. who had been in that happy kcenc ~
The Queen Fahy's Psrlour had not ye. laid q.
side their white dresses, aDd the liytIe stasty
rib5and knots, or brides favo-s, wGte ye;upon
their breasts TIE old Minister had come
fron his cave, and no! Tor many years nad he
wep, ill now--bu, this wsa case even ior
tears of an old religious man OF fcu'score.
To watch by The dead all night, end TO welt
70, some days ill they could DO confined for
was not 10 be thought oi III snch times OF per-
Il, THAT would have been 10 sacrifice tue
living for the dead. The soldiers had gone.
But they mis- hi--no doubt would return and
scatter the fune, al. Therefore, il was no
sooner proposed than agreed 10 IN the aia CT
ed souls OF them all, that the bridegroom and
his bride should DO buried even that
ve,y night in the clothes IN which they had
on, that morning been welded 4 bieT wss
soon formed of the birch teo bapyhs; and
with their faces meesly looking up 10 Hcav.
en-, now filled with moonlight, they were
borne along in so5bing silence, up tho hills
snd down along the giens, ill the party stood
,oge her in tho lone burial.grouaJ, at the
head Of ST. Mays Loeb. A grave was dug
for them there, bu' that wss not their own
burial place. For M.'k Kcrr's father and
mother Icy 10 the church yard cf Ms!rose,
and the parents q! Chtislan Lindsay slept IN
that Of Boutwell,, pear the How OF the boauti.
lul Clyde. The gave was half flied with
heather, and gcnty were they ie, down 10.
ge,her, even as they were found lying on the
green before their own shesling into that
mournfui bed. The Old Nsn aforwards
said prayer, no, over ,hem--but with ihe
living. Then sitting down on the graves,
aod on the grave stones they spoke ag the VIE
tues Of the dead. They had IL is trus, been
Gu, off in their youthful prirne--bu, many
happy days aud years had been theirs---iheir
affection for each other had been q pleasant
solace to them 10 toll, poverty and pe'seeu-
ton. This would have been perplsxiog
dsy to those who had not iaith in Gods per-
iccl holiness and mercy. But ell who mourn
ed now together were wholly resigned to his
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