Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-09-27

receipt ofthis letter. can b. h -. imagined
than described He saw ~ mar oppceA
an ouleae,, spurned BY his H'isss>. aron
and his family, to one Of whom he lad an.
ticipated to be in Few days upjsedl by the
lender ties 81 vedlock; Ia vain be wrote
10 Mr. MefeIah aud bic daughter attesting
his innocencez-~his letters were returned
unopened. Finding his reputation aud
prospects entirely blasted IL Cincinnati. he
threw himself carcessly OF board of steam
boat bound for New-Orlesns. and no more
heard Of until six months after, when Win
over, stating that he had received informa-
ton of his death. FASTENED TO communicate
the news to Emily, whoever since his alb
sence had asserted her doubts Of his guilt,
retired from all gay society, and seemed
pining under disappointed love, and broken
spirits. A
Ladlock was now entirely forgotten,
and the business in the mercantile house of
Moreton and Winover went on as usual
for another year, and nothing extraordinary
occurred till the sad announcement of More
ton being drowned, as related above. All
the news Of the death ofthe principal OF the
mercantile house, business was carried on
by Winover alone, and week after week pas
sed, in which few things worthy of relating
occurred in the bcreaved family, except
some particulars respecting Miss Emily
This lovely flower which had been doomed
10 receive another shock from the news Of
the death OF her beloved father, was fast de-
|clinipg in health. and syas seldom s-~n from
her home. o.
About three months after the loss of her
father she was sitting pensively one evening
in her retired room, when a distant relative,
and friend Of her father, who lived In a re-
tired part Of the city, called 10 see her. and
requested she would accompany him home
To his earnest entreaties. she at last consent
ed, after being told that something Of the III
mos, importance 10 her family, required her
to accompany him.
Alter remaining few minutes at the
house Of her friend. she was conducted to a
back room, and had no sooner raised her
eyes to perceive TO what company she was
10 be introduced. than with sudden shrek
she fell TO the hoor-and no sooner were her
astonished senses restored from the nomen-
tary swoon of unuterable amazemens, than
she found herself held in the warm embrace
Of her own fond father. whom she hid en-.
tertained no doubt Vas in his watery grave.
How was he- establishment increased when
she beheld that the person who now stood
beside her, and extended his welcome hand
was one long fondly cherished in her recol-
lections. though also supposed 10 have been
10 his silent ioomb; formerly her beloved
Ladlock.
As the reader is perhaps now almost as
much astonishedas was Emily. at what had
happened, he shall be kept in suspense nc
longer than is necessary to give an explana.
lion for which purpose his attention is re
called to the solitary hut Of the woodcutter
on the lonely banks Of the Mississippi
II will not require an extraordinary de
gree Of sagacity to anticipate. from what has
been already related. that the woodcutteI
will prove TO be no other Than George Lad
lock himself Instead OF being dead, as had
been rumored partly by design, to allay the
agita,ed mind Of Emily, he left the boat on
board Of which he departed from Cincinnati
on arriving a. the wood yard of his predeces
sor, without any notice being taken Of the
circumstance. except by the clerk with
whom he settled his passage Here with
spirits much depressed by his late disap
pointment and digrace. he assumed the wood
cutters garb. habituated his athletic limbs tc
the use OF the axe. and determined for a time
at least to exchange that society with which
he had become Disguised. for life nearly re
scmbling that of hermit He had. in les:
than a year become the owner of the iittls
cottage which he first entered as helpmate
and we know not how long he might hav.
| L.. 4 IL, ~ lo,s,lu onn N ~ m nj
had il not been for the catastrophe OF Mi
Moreton. in falling overheard from the
steamboat, as above related, to rescue whom
he plugged into the water, but could not sue
coed in finding. ill after the steamboat de
parted. 1t had scarcely got out of sight
however, when the body was found appa
rently dead, but being conveyed into the hut
and, after being rubbed and chafed. having
received the application of such remedies al
the good sense of Ladlock suggested, was a
last restored to animation and health
will be impossible to describe the astonish
ment as well as gratitude ofMr Moreton, al
ter recovering his senses, in finding hinsel
in the hands of his formerly discarded clerk
who was bestowing upon him every kind OF
! fee and attention in his power. Being en-
tireIy restored, and finding little else 10 pass
away his time than to converse with the pre-
server Of bis life. an explanation ensued by
which Ladlock entirely eradlcated every
suspicion as to the charge of his previous
crime. After exhibiting papers that no haf
latelv procured from confidential CORES
pendent. by means Of a post Office at tho
nearest settlement to his solitary residence
| il was made TO appear most unequivocalily
That the fly dollar note he had laid out at the
IN; lars thouph on the same bank as the one