Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-12-02
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ed at the door. Is Miss at home ?''-,s' M 81, =
| did not wait to put another question; my Spirits
were in state OF the highest excitement and
rudely pushing op"n the door, ran up stairs.
stayed TO make no preface. Did YOU order me
to be denied, Ioai:a 20 81 did, MIR. /"
:. Mr.. ---- good God and are you too eagued
against me - :. Ton have already insulted ne
once - she exclaimed. rising and trembling So Vi
olentlv, that | expected TIC see her every moment
sink to The Iloor. {. You have already nsulted ne
once, and tie insult shall not be repeated" :. Far
'hc love Of Justice and mercy cried. 9 if >eur
love for be dead, explain this dreadful ystery.
1 What have donewhat insult have oi.cte8 to
Iyoa-as whom do you speak There is. believe
me, some horrible and fatal mistake alt was,
indeed" She replied, "a fatal mistake took
yon fora man Of virtuous and honorable feelings.
Treat Heaven how hive beer deceived Moth
! my but my own senses should have convinced me,
and can gel scarcely crcsit them. We NOW nart
iure,ero-and here she Suffered into tgas, G aud
now give YOU back the pledge which had GRO.
missed myself shoud lie with in the grave
| She slowly drew from her bosom plain soid ra-
which had hung round her neck on that remei.,-
bered evening, when, in the twilight Of her fathers
woods, first told her | loved her. Take it.
God bless you still "--it was the last time ever
met her.
| Ia vain, hy MESSAGE and BY letter, did | entreat
to be allowed an interview, that might, at least
KNOW the crime Oh WHICH Nau DE- en- guilty. LODI
isa maintained the most impenetrable silence. NY
desire to lahom the dark mysterY whcn hung over
me. now became almost ungoyernabe and nv
| while time was passed in the widest and NEST
vague concctuies. as to the origin OF the stranse
events which had disturbed my happiness. !, III
the view oil deertng my melancholy, | had gone,
one evening. to the pit Of the Opera, where aad
scarcely seated myself, when | saw Louisa in La.
dy BIS box. She was very pale. and appear
ed to have suffered from illness. All my previous
feelings were hight, compared with the agony uf
| this moment, when behed her the victim. as il
seemed, OF that ines pcabe destiny by which
was myself pursued. This sentiment however.
acute as it was vanished instantly, on my happen
! ing to tdrn my eyes to the opposite side of the
house: | there saw could not be mistaken-I
there saw. plain as the sun in the mid heavens.
figure which bore every resemblance to my own.
IL was standing unaccompanied in one of the
boxes intentiy gazing upon that IN which Louisa
sat. took but one glance thousand e.notions
were swelling in my bosnm-- mysterious awe IN.
tense curiosity fiery hatred, seemed all contes,,
ing for superiorIty--a film came over nv eyes--s
sickness, like that Of death overpowered mc-S5
yet the sentiment, that THAT was the crisis ur nv
! fate, rose saperiur to every other. hastened to
the box -~-thc door open-the inmate had escap-
ed. hurried into the open air !; examined eve
nv ilguce and every face nett returned into
The mouse. and renewed my search aud my enaui-
res-.the strange and mysterious object Of them
had Disappeared
EiOm this period my prosecutions we're multi
piled. | cannot recount the various ways in
which was annoyed and distressed. Some of
the incidents os ,nch nature, that, could any
thing but anxiety alr horror nave been excited by
them, thew would have appeared luGicrnus. In
particular I@emem,ter, That a Taylor in Clifford
square. Rond street, with whose very name was
unaa uuuiutrd sent tn ms chambers suit of clothes
~. s., N..i.. II.
Imagining titat ny own iaSlor might have sent
them. tried he,u on, aud inrnd that they fitted
me with the most exact precision The man in
Y Clifford Street insisted That | had called upon
him few days before, and giving my address, had
I directed the clothes to be sent to my chambers.
tnund a more seriols annoyance in humber of
bills sent in to me by yari0us tralcsmen Tor arti-
cIes which had never ordered and on my refi-
sal to pay, / was threatened with legal process.
One night, after violent dispute with Jewellcr,
WHO Insisted had purchased number OF valuable
trihkcts at his shop, retired TO bed, and whether
it was owing t0 the scene which had taken place
in the coarse oil tae day, or to some strung green
tea which had drank shortly before went to rest.
| know not; but was terrified with dream, (tor
dream il seemed to bel which ever afterwards add
ed strength to the same impression which these
wonderful circumstances had made upon my mind.
! | dreamed that, as lay on my bed, figure APP
preached me, which, upon my attentively regard.
ing it, seemed to bear my own features; that it
advanced close to my pillow, and benling down
towards my face, breathed upnn me. The icy cold
ness of the breath wakened me, and started ua
With horror ALI was silent as the grave; but in
a few minutes heard steps descending the stairs
a sound which restored nay confidence, as | ina
gined it might be one Of the persons who occupied
! the chambers above inc.
I Soon after this vision. an event occurred which
may be said to have formed the last link in the
mysterious chain which bound me. IN returning,
one morning, FROM Westminster, IA was passing