American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-09-09

left your roof"
"Vian!n cried Carr, clare you to toll me
to my face that you have harborcd my disobe
{ dent child; will bring a mob round your
housed | know your mother of old know
you, root and branch Niain--basc, coward
ly villain! give me my child" Hc attempted
to push the young man from his path, but
Charles stood firm.
Stay, Mr.. Carr" he said, 81 have a word
to say to you touching yoursclf-nay, you will
do well to listen, for At concerns you deeply
it is matter of life and death. You see that
road Before another hour has passed force
| will come along that road to arrest YOU"
! "Ale?-me?- how?--on what plea? 1t is
tal5s--it is but a trick to get me away" said
the ruiiian, attempting to laugh.
81 will speak slll more plainly" resumed
Charles, as he pointed towards the cottage;
Gin that house there was deed done-ha! you
vince at that The innocent blood has cried
Is heaven for vengeance at last, and the aveng-
ers are on their wey. You know, dark and
evil man, that there was one who saw the
murder done; she has betrayed your secret,
and, ere this, many ears have heard the tale
! There may yet be time for You to escape, and
for the sake of your innocent child | have
warned you. Go,-she is safe, but you must
see her no more. Look" and he pointed
again to the secret road: there was crowd
winding round the hill towards the village
Carr glanced toward them, aud then, with bit
Ter curses on hs lip, he turned away and fed
In half an hour his house was searched, but he
was gone, and every attempt to track his
| hirht failed. Enough was found among his
papers to prove that he had continued to carry
on the trade of smugglcr and it seemed pro-
bable that his fight had been towards the coast,
whence he might escape in the schooner to
which many of his letters referred. But there
was no alluGion anywhere to the present situa-
ton Of the vessel, so the search proved alto
gether fruit!ess. Brice and young Carr had
also disappeared, and as both were deeply inn
plCatod III the smuggling transactions now
brought to light, there was little lear Of their
/ ever making their appearance AGAIN ~ that
part OF the World.
/ 1t was strange that Carr should have retained
a home in that inland hamlet. Perhaps he
feared the betrayal OF bis secret, should he for
ever absent himself from the neighborkoo3, for
he was aware of the terror with which he had
inspired the .imid Mrs Gardner, and he took
pains to renew that feeling at every convenient
/ opportunity. 1t was quiet, lonely place too,
aud there were few TO trouble themselves about
| his affairs. He came and went unquestoncd,
and even unaoticed; and Annie, whom he had
taken to dwell with him six months before, OH
| the death Of the excellent woman who had ed
ucated her, was safe from molestatlon III his abb
Scnce.
HIS property was seized and sold TO pay va
rious outstanding debts, and Annie was left
totally dependant on the kind friends who had
! taken her to their home i'll her hour o. distress.
The poor girl had been soothed into composure
the second day of her stay at the farm, when a
gossipping neighbor dropped before her some
| hint of her iather's guilt. She lmmediateI y
insisted on knowing the whole truth, and the
consequence was, that ere the third day had
closed, she was stricken with brain-fever. Fer
some time she was in tho utmost danger; her
dehiium was violent, and even Charles began
TO despair of her life. But at last there came Il
| BLESSED change; after long, sweet sleep, Annie
awoke, and recognised the kind faces that bent
over her. Slowly her strength returned, till
she was well enough to leave her room, and
even, with Charles help, to get into the gar
den and sit for hours under the blossoming
limeboughs, watching day by day, the opening
Of the flowers in the well-stocked borders, and
listening with quiet enjoyment to the summer
sounds that filled the warm air.
at is too much, " she said one day, when the
sense of her friends kindness was even more
than usually present TO her humble and CRATE
ful heart; chow should bear to live without
YOU and your kind mother, Charles;' and the
tears rolled fast from her eyes.
olive without us, Annie, dear, sweet Annlc!'
exclaimed Charles; "what do you meam--
where DO you wish to go!-what friends have
YOU"
"What friends, Charles? Monochrome but
you! There is stain upon my name, and /
must learn to bear scornlui looks and words"
"Never, Anne-ncver." cried Charles ca
gerly. "Do you know, do you feel, that you
and can never, i'll this life, part again: docs
not your heart tell you that you are minc-my
own bcloved-my own wife: Speak, Annie,
do you love me;"
Faster and faster fell Annies tears, as Charles
drew her to his bosom they were tears OF JOY.
"Yours!n she murmured; land you DO not
dcspse me, humble as | ann And shall stay
here with you always? And you love me-
say again that you love mel"
Aud Charles said it again and again; and
when his mother came to tell them 1t was late,
and Annie must not breathe the night air, she
saw the young girls happy, blushing face, and
she blessed her and called her her daughter
In the genial atmosphere of that happy home,
Anncs affectonate spirit expanded like beau
ttul flower; aud now that the future lay before
| ueIs Il laHd vi nope ana promise, sne gained
degree of cheerfulness such as had hitherto been
unknown to her.
One morning, just as the preparations for the
wedding were coming to a conclusion, a letter
arrived, addressed to Annie, but in so rude and
extraordinary a hand writing, that Charles
thinking it probably had reference to Carr OIL
his son, thought himself justified in opening it
With much difficulty he deciphered its contents
and found that it came from some person liynn
on the sea-coast, about sixty miles off, and was
intended to convey to Annie some information
respecting her relations. 1t spoke of ship.
wreck, and of two men washed on shore, one
Of whom was Carr but from the ill-written
unconnected scrawl Charles could gather nc
particulars, and he determined to go himsel
and ascertain the real state of tho case LIZ