Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-05-02
= VOL. XI.-NO. SO.

ed by some one whom he had heard running
behind him, and looking round he beheld,
with cheek glowing from the pursuit, the
young girl he had seen at the goldsmith's.
oh, sir. ! am so happy to have found
YOU she said, at once addressing him, as he
stopped and with pleasure listened to her,
Il was at length enabled to get my pay, and
by other work have earned enough to repay
you the ten dollars you so kindly gave me.
You don't know the good you did, sir,-the
suffering you releved-the evil your timely
aid averted. Here is the money, sir
Nay, my good girl, do not want it. l
made you present oft at the time, and did
not expect you to return it. / am however
glad to find you have had the disposition to
do so, and that was not deceived in my es-
timatlon of YOU
You must take it, sir; she said with in
genuous earnestness. Il should be distress
ed TO be longer under pecuniary obligation
to an entire stranger. Besides, sir, would
like my clasp, ify you please
Did you not take it from the case where
you laid il down 2 he asked, with surprise
and Justly directed suspicion.
No, sir Indeed, sir, | hope it is not
lost 1t is of countless value to me. 1t was
given me by-by-
by, sweetheart 2 he added, smiling.
He is now--dc0d, sir, she answered with
overlooking eyes
You do well to value it, did not take
it up. Are you sure you left it thereY
Yes, sir ; hoping you would take it and
keep it till paid you
We'll, my child, have not got it but
believe the goldsmith has Let US go to
him
On their arrival, Mr. Broochard denied
ever having seen it since she wen; out, and
that he saw her take it with her and place il
in her bosom as she left the shop The
young lady turned pale, and was inconceiy-
ably distressed.
Come with me; / will find the clasp for
YOU said Col. McHenry, offering her his
arm and leaving the goldsmith's with her.
Il do hope shall find it, sir > she said, as
they walked. 1T was Rupert's last dying
gift. 1t was given him in Cuba by rich
lady whose life he had saved by rescuing her
from the water. He was a sailor, sir, and
had little to leave me but his memory, and
my poor clasp. Oh, sir, if it is lost shall
never forgive myself for Offering to pledge
: it, But, sir, our extremity was very great
Colonel McIlenry stopped with her at
Justices Office. and briefly and clearly made
his complaint, and in very few minutes Mr.
Abraham Broochard was brought by an Off
Ger into the presence of the magistrate. He
appeared to be in great trepidation, and was
pale as ashes for he had been suddenly Ia
ken without warning from behind his coun-
ter, leaving his shop in charge of his aston
shed assistants. Colonel McIIenry and the
young lady being sworn, deposed that they
both had last seen the clasp on The show
case, where each went out and left it, the
former further deposing that he had not gone
three steps from the door before he returned
and found it missing, and no one in the vi
cinity but the defendant.
The goldsmith was then called up to be
/, sworn as to his knowledge of the facts lie
Z, approached the stand, where the magistrate
held the Bible, and laid his hands upon il
with perceptible tremor of his whole body;
but love of money was stronger than the fear
of the law, and he took the OATH 1t appear
ed as ifhe would have sunk through the floor
when he did it; but the moment it was done
he recovered his audacity. Al this moment
an officer, who, at the suggestion Of Colonel
! Nc Henry, had been privately despatched
! by the justice with search-warrant 10 the
, shop of the goldsmith, now entered and
. pidCeu soHetHinS III tue mdglstrateS nand,
i after briefly whispering to him.
d Did you ever see this gold ornament be-
1t fore (? asked the magistrate, holding up the
o clasp before the young girl.
>, ooh, it is my clasp-it is nv clasp 2 she
j cried, sprnging forward.
l 'Yes-it is the same, answered Colonel
:, McHenry.
IS And did you ever see it before sir y de-
n manded the justice, sternIy, holding it in the
Il direction of the goldsmith, who had seen it
!, at the first, and was appalled, with fear and
CONSERVATION. Instead of replying he utter
), ed wild, hysterica laugh, and fell his length
:, in commissions upon the floor
n lie was few weeks afterwards taken
:, from prison, and tried and condemned for
e perjury /; but his reason forsook him, and
J. instead Of the gallows, he is now raying in
It mad-house. Thus was avarice and parsi-
}, mony, and indifference to the suferings of
e others punished in this life the acts OF this
p selfish man showing to all how that acqusi-
L ;iveness wrongly directed is fatal TO IFS pos
u SCISSOR.
: Col McIIenry proved TO be a bachelor;
T. and, though little turned of thirty his heart
was keenly alive to all the finer sensibiIities
= ofour nature. He could feel for the down-
!. trodden poor, and sympathize with the un-
II fortunate. To this truth none could more
positively attest than the young friend of the
= golden clasp, for ere two moons had waned
she reioiced in the euphonic title of Mrs.
Col McHenry, surrounded with all the APP
u nlinnce Of wealth that a grateful heart Eka