The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-03-27


isn't her, neither. Wh-wh-where
is the little jade p |
! Poor Clara, at first mortified,
when she saw what perfect mad
man her husband had become, was
so shocked that her feelings over
came her, and she was carried from
the room. o, how bitter was her
momentary repentance of her blind
/ folly, ere her bewildered senses
r lorSook her.
As for Haley, he grew worse and
; worse, until the brandy which he
continued to pour down, had COM
F., pletely supplied him, when he was
r carried off to bed in state of drum
, ken insensi5ility after which the
a company retired in oppressive and
4 embarrassed silence.
h Sad and lonely was the bridal
: chamber that night, and the couch
$ of the young bride was wet with
e bitter, but unavailing tears.
On the next morning, those who
Z first entered the room where Haley
had slept, found it empty. Towards
s the middle of the day, a letter was
II left for Clara by an unknown hand.
t 1t ran thus:
v DEAR CLARA For you are still
dear to me, altho' you have robbed
: me ofhappiness forever, and crush
ed your own hopes with mine. For
: years before I came to this place, ]
had been a slave to intoxication-a
slave held in fearful bondage. AT
: last | resolved to break loose from
e my thraldom. One vigorous effort,
a and was free. There yet remained
small remnant of wrecked for
+! tune. With this | abandoned my
e early home, and fixed my residence
here, determined once more to be a
Q man. Temptations beset me on
e every hand; but while touched not,
# tasted not, handled not, knew that
| was safe. But alas for the hour
Il when you became my tempter. o.
It that the remembrance of it could be
blotted from my memory forever
d When, for your sake raised that
lie fatal glass to my lips, and the single
: drop of wine that touched then
4 thrilled wildly through every nerve
l. felt that | was lost. Horrible wer,
IN my sensations, but your tempting
TX voice lured me to sip the scarcely
Sc tasted poison; | did so and my re-
le solution was gone. All that occur,
rs red after that, is only dimly writer
: on my momory. But was a mad.
h man. And now we part forever!
l. am proud man, and cannot remain
ly in the scene of my disgrace. Ny
W property | leave for you, and 90,
I'll know not and care not whittier
J. perhaps to die, unlamented and un
known, and sink into a drunkard'
to grave. FAREWELL
e. Five years from that sorrowfu
ly morning, Clara sat by window il
J. her fathers house, near the close o
h, the day, looking dreamingly up in
I'd to the serene and cloudless sky
n Her face was pale, and had lool
n of hopeless suffering. Five years
it seemed as if twenty must hav'
tn passed over her head, each burden
It, ing her with heavy weight of ai
n Fiction. O, what a wreck did sh,
n present! Five years of such a life
be Who can tell their history? She wa
IS, alone; and sat with her head lean
i. ing upon her hand, and her eye
nd fixed, as if upon some object. But
evidently no image touched tn
a? nerve of vision.-P Presently her lip
a moved, and few mournful word
lis were uttered aloud, almost involur
IN tarily. %, that | knew where he was
to O, that could but find him if alive
wv A slight noise startled her, an
he she turned quickly. Was it a vision
Or did her long lost husband stan
nd before her, the shadow of what /
mt had been A?
ri Clara! Dear Clara!'
mt In moment she was clinging
,ut him with trembling, eager, convu
10 sive grasp. Tenderly did he 70
led her in his arms, and press his lips
full hers fervently.
ID Clara Dear Clara y
,ed 'My own dear husband 7 was {
ne she could utter, as she sank like
helpless child on his bosom.
in For four years from the night
ev~ the wedding, Haley had been a COZ
his mon drunkard, with no power ov
MT himself. On the brink of the gra,
ats he was rescued, signed the pied
ing, of total abstinence, and set hinis
Mr.. eagerly to work to elevate his &C
dition. One year had suficed
re- ciace many sad tokens of his deg
With dalton, but time could not rest,
the freshness to his cheek nor
? | light to his eye. Then he return
and and SOUGHT his hride who 6