Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-03-21
VOL. XI.-NO. so.

want who departed with the lie. The next
day at the same hour, the card was again
presented, and again Elmira Warren WAS
not at home. The next day, for the third
time the card was handed her she took Il
and tore il to pieces, aud seating herself at
the table, she wrote as follows
Mr.. AsHBuRN :-Sir,--You will obIiee
me by troubling ME no more; / do not wish
TO see you, neither will l.. Twice / have
returned your card the third I tore to pie
ces. The engagement that has bound US, 1
now snap asunder. Your wife | cannot be,
for reasons which I shall not state. CaTl
me false, If you will, | care not you have
your ways, | have mine. Henceforth | am
nothing to you. trust this will answer.
ELMIRA WARREN.
This letter was delivered. George Ash
burn never called again.
Gustavus Hamilton, whom this disappoint-
ed young girl had hoped to entrap by the
art which had b~eguiled no small number Of
young men, was lost to her forever. In d
short time he was TO leave for Havana, and
rumor said, with a wife ; a lovely bride
Eliza Morrill,.
Exactly four months from the night Of the
ball, the marriage ceremony between Gus
tavus Hamilton and Eliza Morrill, was TO be
celebrated.
Eimira Warren received an invitation.-
Her first impulse was to decline il but al
tering her mind she resolved TO 90.
Yes, | will go, said she, as she read the
invitation a second time. l will see them
married. Gustavus Hamilton, the man I
love, | will behold welded to Eliza Morrill,.
Although my heart would fain be spared the
scene. But for George Ashburn | might
have been his wife.
Her own words had sunk her in the esti-
nation Of Hamilton but she vented her
spite upon George Ashburn. The wedding
night was al hand. A brilliant throng had
assembled to witness the n%uptials. The
company bad nearly all arrived, as Elmira
Warren entered. She bowed slightly TO
Hamilton. He as lightly returned the salu-
tation.
All was now in readiness, the nuptial GER
emory was about to proceed, as Hamilton
rose from bis seat beside the one WHO was
soon to be his wife and fixed a piercing
look upon Elmira Warren.
My friends, said he, as he turned to the
assembled tbrong, you have hitherto. kerops
aoe Def0ng to me-know me by my rightfuI
name. George Ashburn.
Elmira Warren was thunderstruck at this
avowal. The knowledge that Gustavus
Hamilton and George Ashburn were one,
was too much for her. She tainted uttering
the name of George Asliburn in a wild pier
cling tone. BY the aid of those around, she
soon recovered, and Immediately left the
house.
The marriage ceremony was begun-pro-
gressed-was over. Eliza Morrill, was the
wife of George Ashburn.
II was, indeed, he-two years residence
in the West Indies had so altered him, that
even his most intimate friends had not re-
cognized him. He had grown much larger
and taller. His face, which was as clear and
beardless as a woman's, ere he left this city,
had yielded him a superb pair of whiskers-
these, with the rich brown hue his face had
acquired beneath the influence of a tropical
sun, he had completely disguised him. The
business like air. and the rich dress he al
ways wore, also added much 10 the disguise.
Three months after his marriage, he, with
his bride, sailed for Havana. The fortune
left him, he had invested with the former
partners Of his father, with whom he was
now a partner.
The young men of her acquaintance had
nearly all Of them married-but not one had
offered himself to Elmira Warren, the Co.
quetie.