Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1843-06-01


companying her voice, in ono of hi.
iavorne songs. s ~
That is a pleasure | should have On.
joycd very often of late, Frank, ii ha,
depended on YOU for company replied
Ellen. These long intervals between
your visits are unkind. Surely have
not been 40 unfortunate rs to offend you.
No, Ellen replied he, but from
what witnessed during the last three
or four visits which | made, | should
suppose you were not likely to suffer
for want Of company
There was something Of reproach in
the half playful tone in which he uttered
these words, and she was not slow 10
perceive il.
Frank, she Observed after looking
NJ him moment in silence, when Ellen
Munroe iorgeis her old friends, il will
be time to reproach her with treating
her new ones with that courtesy to
which they are entitled. bad not ex-
pccied this from you.
Il mean moi so, Ellen, he hastily re-
marked, Il only intended-but no mat
teri have no reproaches to make I; if
had, they would be i'll suited TO fare
well interview. have come to bid you
adieu and forever .-
Frank. surely You jest returned
she. 'What means this you are an
CRY, and at me we must not part thus
j am not angry, Ellen. he replied,
and his assumed tirmness fast deserted
him. Il have no cause for anger, not
even the slightest and believe me,
Ellen, il would be no slight cause that
would excite an angry feeling in my
breast towards you but we part to-
night most probably lorcver-tO-morrow
] depart for Texas
She spoke not, yet her looks were
more eloquent than words could possi-
hly nave been. IIe could not but un-
dcrsiand il it told him that the Ties
which the long and sunny years Of child
hood had cntwined around them, were
yet unsevered that with her, as with
him, the heart was unchanged. His
Vows, his pride, his tears were all for
gotten, as he poured forth the wild tale
Of his love. That night he returned
home The accepted sutor of Ellen Nun
roe.
Though her father might not approve
Of her choice, yet he loved her too fond
ly To thwart her inclinaiions in n matter
SO momcntous 10 her future happiness,
aud his consent was freely given to their
union. II was then late in the fall and
Il day was fixed in the ensuing spring
for their nuptinls. But his day dreams
Of felicity were destined to he brief; one
month from the period Of the interview
saw him incarccratcd in a dun
geon. upon the charge ofthat most hei-
nous and fearful crime-wilful and de-
lhernte murder! The evidence against
him was wholly circumsiantal, but at
the same time was so conclusive in its
nature, as almost to preclude the posi-
hiliv of his innocence.
The circumstances were these A
quarrel had taken place between him
self and Captain Henderson, of the
army. one Of the rejected suitors of
Ellen. The quarrel had been doubtless
sought by the soldier in a moment of
piquc, on first learning of the success
IF his rival challenge passed, was
and n day assigned for meet
ng. The evening preceding the day
appointed, Henderson was found mur-
lered by the road side at a short dis
ance from him. was discovered con-
;ealed among the leaves, a dirk, known
~ many TO be the property Of Raymond,
md which had been seen in his pos
session on the morning Of the murder
lie woods in which the body was found,
n few hours before the discovery. An
Of the wounds Of the mur-
dcred man, discovered that he had been
attacked from behind /; and showed be-
yond doubt that Raymond's dirk was
he weapon with which they had been
Another circumstance which
iad M small weight with many, was
he fact Of his making no preparations
or the approaching duel by practising
~ it is technically called among duel
lists. Opposed to this overwhelming
mass of fcircumstantial testimony, he had
nothing to offer but the clearest evil
leUCt ol uU uuDIc'iIiSutu ChuIdC'cT iTOui
,is earliest infancy up to the moment Of
lis incarceration.
There was but one opinion as to his
guilt all concurred in pronouncing him
, cold, bloody, and d cowardly assassin.
Wherefore are you going, Ellen ?
aid Judge Munroe to his daughter as
he passed him in the hall in the aher-
loon of the day succeeding the murder
Wherefore have you your sun bonnet and
loak Surely you are not going out
hrough this rain 9
Il am going to see him, father she
epicd in a voice husky with emotion,
'ut breathing determined resolution in
very tone. n,
'My daughter, dearest child, you =
,ust think Of him no more,' exclaimed =
,e old man throwing his arms around '
er neck and bursting into tears it was
,e first lime the subject had been men u
oned. indeed the first time he had seen o
or since the fatal discovery. u
Father exclaimed the maiden. in the y !,
rm aud resolu,c tone in which she had
raj sn,,k am aud lncinu him with shar ~