Port-Gibson herald., 1843-01-26

me young lady might give me much, how
much more might the old gentleman give
me hc who has got all the chicks III bis
own hands when he finds tho young lady
Is gone, lost away, as il might Be, Tor ey-
er how much would be he give me to re-
store hcr2 Why, ] reckon, whole for
tuflefaud so / amresolged upon H. And
here's the way we are to managcil il. In
stead Of my running of with her, you arc
TO DO z, pretending to be nc and she
Won I know the difference, because Of the
darkness you are to talk only in whispers,
and she viii think the disguise makes such
an alteration! Then, instead Of taking
hert the cars, you take her right home
TO our house she l.nows no more of the
town than she does Of the moon; then
you can pretend to be frightened and run
into The honse for shelter, and then il Isl
too late for the cars, and she must wait
all next night, you know; and she can
sleep in my room, and there you lock her
up safe till morning. Then ! come and
finish the Business, and get the fortune; ];
and then, Jim, well get married and set
up for oufselvesi'
Here The faithless Abigail gave me an
other embrace, expressive Of delight and
triumph; and then, charging me to remain
quiet until she returned, slipped from the
room, and left me shut upin darkness. !
hesitated whether or not 10 obey her. Ny
first inclination was, certainly, To- creep
out, now that the coast was clear, and find
my way to my own apartment; and yet II
had fancy to follow the adventure 10 the
end, SO far, at least, as to sec that the
clipping lady came to no mischief But
when ! began TO question who this adven-
turess could be, and to remember that,
although ! had seen a great many young
ladies' at the tea-table in the evening, none
of them were particularly handsome, I
confess | lost go much Of my interest in
the matter as to resolve to finish my share
of insianter, retire tobed, and leave the
incognita to her dcstinies, ] began TO
groupe for the door, not without making
some noise against opposing chairs and
tables, when the door was suddenly OPEN
ed, and / was Mortified by a mans voice,
murmuring, in an eager whisper:
i say, Suke, confound it, where are
you? and WHY don't you speak tomea
hly fears told me The new conner. could
be no other than Jimmy, the lettering
sweetheart and confederate If Abigail, or
Susan, her name appeared 70 be. kept
as still as mouse, intending. as soon as
he should have crept by me, to slip out of
the room. But fate, or Jimmy had deter
mined otherwise. q say, Sukey,' he mur-
INJURED, 'why did you bolt the gate? Why
didn't you let me in2 Why don't you
speak7 know you're here, for | heard
you'll Ia fact, he had. But no sooner did
his fingers come in contact with my whis-
kered cheek and velvet coat collar, than
he uttered dismal cry, 'Oh! lord! it's a
man.! and turned to retreat. But had
the advantageof him, and was nearest the
door. just as the scheming Susan, perhaps
alarmed at the busIlc, came running into
the room with light, but al the sight of
me she was so terrified that both she and
her light dropped on the floor together,
the latter going out in the fall SO that !
had Just time to notice that She was Al
buxom wench of eighteen or twenty, that
the door was left wide open, and that the
passage 10 which it led was the exact
counterpart Of thatin the boarding house
on which my chamber was ito which, there
fore, IfeltI / could now make my way with
out further trouble. It was under sud-
den impulse, and with the idea Of pun
ishing the treacherous chambermaid, that,
as L stepped out, closed and locked the
door, for / felt the key was on the outside;
and so left her and Jimmy to settle their
difficulties as they might, together.