Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-10-17

thelr perfectly haflnless ana quetille might
al least avert for time the storm which
they felt to be gathering.
But these hopes were vain, As the two
arose TO retreat 10 their dwelling from the
night air and dew, their attention was ar
rested by loud voices, and the tread of hea-
Wy feet, Shortly party Of rough, iIi-fa-
vored men stopped atthe door OF Their hum
bIe house, and freely entered and seated
themselves within, began TO pass the usual
rough jests which the presence of unpro-
tected beauty will always excite in the
minds OF the brutal and unieeling.
The visit filled the beautiful Quakeress
with nndsguised alarm; she, wholly un-
protected, for her father appeared stupifed
by the before unheard of liberties with his
property, and said not a word; but by the
occasional flash of his eye at some new out
rage, 1t was easy to see that in his young
er days, a much smaller injury would have
cal ed forth something besides angry Iooks
The objects of their coming was soon
made manifest. "The town can't allow
you, old teler," said the leaderof the gang,
"to cumber this ground any longer, So
stir your stumps and be off. If you're here
al six O'Clock Tomorrow morning, by the
whIskers of the virgin, you shant have a
roof to cover you"
~ obey" said the old man meekly.
"Bat as for this little sparrow" continu-
ed the rnfion, "if she can fancy me, she
shall go home and live with me. What
say you. my dear!"
The girl replied with an indignant ges-
ture.
"Ah! | knOW how the wind lies. I've
seen that Horseiy around here before now;
hut bark ye, you know his fate as well as
do, if he ventures into these parts again.
So warn HIM, for am on the look out"
The distress and aiarm depicted on the
girls counlenance was SO evident that the
fellow stopped, and after reiterating his in
functions to the old man, the band took a
welcome leave.
1.-The Lords will he done, )" said the Qua
ker, after short pause, "let us obey those
who have the power"
A short time was. consumed in making
preparations for their departure, hut ere
their arrangement could be completed, the
old man was stricken down with burn
ing fever. The unusual excitement had
been too much for him, and fastened dis
ease, the symptoms of which he had felt
for two or three days.
For some minutes after the truth broke
upon the mind Of the daughter, she re-
manned stupc6ed, notknowing, whittier to
turn. All their Quaker friends land they
had no others) had deserted the place. Her
lover, she knew would fly to her assist
ance, if he could but be made acquainted
with her situation, huthis presence would
but increase her anxiety; and in any case,
she knew not where to find him.
But her strong mind soon discovered the
only course in her almost hopeless situa-
ton. The house she was aware, would
be sacked in the morning, and if she was
discovered, nothing could save her from
public disgrace. Food and medicine, too,
must be obtained for her father, and the
only way to get il was to leave him, retur-
ming at night.
To little ruined clubhouse at some dis
lance from their dwelling, she carried a
bed, and havingrendered the place as COM
Portable as possible, she carried the old man
thither, and having nursed hin until NOR
ming, she early left him, not without fear
Iul fOrebodings, Nor were her fears en-.
tirely groundless. In the morning the
house was ransackcd and stripped OF eve-
ny valuable. But The hovel from its mean
appearance, was not visited, and the ensus
ing night, having during the day wander
ed twenty miles for food and medicine, as
she dared not to enquire for it nearer, she
returned to her father, who. although dam
gerousy i'll, appeared to be sleeping quietly,
For more than week the devoted mai.
den thus watched by night, the sick bed Of
her father, and she had already begun 10
look forward 10 the time when he could rise
from it, and seek with her, and one otheb
whose name she was too modest to breathe,
a FAR off spot in the wilderness where they
might dwell in peace, when one dark night,
as she was fastening along the road to the
Quaker's bedside, she felt herself CIasped
around the waist by no very gentle hands,
and at the same time voice, not altogeths
er unknown to her ears, cried out, "llillo,
my darling sparrow, what nowl Thought
as much from seeing the track of a pretty
foot round the old place this morning. 60
ing to gel what we've left, ehl You slight
ed me, the other day." he continued, in a
louder tone, as she commenced faint
struggle, "and by the bones Of my mother,
you shall now smart for it,"
Completely exhausted with fatigue and
terror, the little Quakeress was dragged a.
long by the men Until she was brought 10
the prison, into which, after some short de-
lay in examining the prisoner, she was
thrust, receiving as she went, the gratuis
tous intelligence that every thing was preA
pared for giving her public whipping in
the morning,
1t was not until the key was turned upA
on the poor girl in the lonely cell, that the
full horror Of her situation struck her.
Shame and disgrace, she felt she could bear
when in the way of her duty, but to be
publicly whpped@it was 100 much, Her
sensitive nature shrank from the pain aud