Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1845-07-10

while The sickly flame of the diving candle fir-
the sleeper seemed still more wan AID pale in
the oblque rays, while his quick nervous breath
ing broke fearfuiy npon the stiffness, and hr-
eye cleaned with unnatural brightness through
the half-opened lids; yet he moved NOT.
Lee gently laid back the long dark hair from
the heated temples of the sick man, and al er
applying cooling lotion To his ,hrobbing brow.
gazed inenlly into his face, as il striving to ac-
count for the strange resemblance. which he fan
cied he there saw, TO souie long absent friend.
AS he gazed upon that pale face, memory
seemed to awake from the sluubers of years
The Consciousness Of the past. The stranger
seemed 10 form link in chain which bound
him to other days, YET Lee could not solve tho
mystery. As he stood thus, the invalid sud-
denly assumed sitting posture. throwing hI+
arms into the air, and wildly gazing on the va
cancy. The next moment he calm; but
again, as if seeking to embrace some phantom
OF his phrenzied imagination, he stretched forth
his arms beseechngy and shrieked-
"Oh! hope, hope! money and friends, mon
ey and friends--money aud friends and hops
Despair and death! ha ha we'll you fight.
which shall have me. but death shall conquer"
He fell back exhausted, but soon another par
oxysm aroused him from his temporary quiet.
"'Tis bitter, bitter cold! well, ha ha! har
this clean " hi,e snow-bank makes fine dearh~
bed land then that's good, have this wor.Js
charity for bed-felow, for feel its icy en-
BRACE"
He paused moment, gasping for breath
then, less wildly, in more melancholy lone
he continued:
Houseless, moneyles., friendesshas Ed
ward Florence come 10 This !Has---
Gracious Providence y exclaimed ,hs as.
,onished couple, as the strange likeness was
explained, "can this be true the son OF our
benefactor thus deserted z"
"My father mother! bn, forgo, you are
dead, so you can't help me no,--no,---Ill die
here by the roadside"
Again lie fell back exhausted and speechIess.
The two sadly gazed upon The son Of him who
had been their best fIiend
THANK God he has been directed 10 our
roof" al length f.rrenlly CALCULATED The wife.
=" He has found refuge prepared by The be-
nevolence Of his departed father, and friends,
whose love shall be constant as their gratitude!
May heaven restore him :" said The hus-
band
Amen!" subbed the wife.
| The angel Of love bore that heartfelt, prayer
10 heaven and breahed il in The ear OF mercy
A calm ,lumber descended upon the sick man,
and his respiration became more regular. For
hours he lay thus, and when he awoke, his fe-
yer had left him. Intelligence sal once moro
upon his counienance, and mild gratitude beamed
from his eye. The danger was past, ye. his
excessive debility indicated that weeks would
elapse, before his strength would entirely re-
turn.
The kind family did all to assuage his suffer-
ing, ,ha: afFeelonale solicilude could do. Con-
s,antly, day and night. some one watched by
his bedside and when during his convales-
cence,-lhe hours seemed 10 hang wearlly upon
him, the gentle Ellen, with smile, would win
r him from his melancholy, or read from some
book 10 beguile the ledium Of The ''leadea foot
ed" moments What wonder then, if love
reared an alter in each of their hearts, whrreon
burned the pure flame, kindled by gratitude in
The one, and by compassion in The other.
Edward Florence indeed fell growing az
fec,ion for her, who TO him appeared more ''a"
an angel; for in his loneliness and desolaIlnn
sympathy and love were doubly valuable. Bus
a year before, death had robbed hm OF his pa
rents. Reverses in business prior 10 this, had
made his father almost bankrupt. and tho
young man, bereaved by The loss oi all he loved.
and chilled by the prospec, before h'm. had
sought in the West, the few acres OF land. lets
him, which offered The only hope ol support.
He soon exhausted his little stock ot money .
sickness came upon him. and OH The verge nf