The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-11-06
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From the .Ne,e York Mirror.
MARY ECkAR.
A SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WIDOWS.
CHAPTER '.

SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WIDOWS.
CHAPTER '.
The lempes, had past away, aud when
got utu the street saw day was breaking
IN the east. Tue dispensing clouds reveal.
ed between thelr separating masses lew
stare, which gradually paled IN their lu,,re
before The siieng. denIng hight Of dawn
Here ard there ! observed a wcarled guar.
dian OF the al h', sIumbefus on his post.
II vas still too eurly even for the children Of
labor to come forth 10 their daily toll, aud the
lonely street echoed oaly to the occasional
iootlail Of some sou OF daughter vi dlssipa.
ton aud Nee, Fastening Wua dIsordeIed
step to lhcIf obscure and wtetehed retreats ;
aud rescn,b D. -ul ) ghantoms, p1!ld and
htdeaus, IN tie 81. rucenaln shadows Of
mornings e. twilight, y emerged
from ,hcse dan lanes and noisomc aHeys,
into wider streets and putef atmosphere,
my sgir.is became ligairr, aud | Orealhod
with greater freed LIN. | 90, int die H.,
hackney coach that | mel, ard Oh arriving
al my lodgings rclircJ Immediately 10 bed,
5ul VAS unable 10 siscp. 4 thousand CHI.
meucal images lifted before NY eyes when.
ever | CLOSED them; | was cold aud hot by
turns, and 10 short 'ine became exceed.
,agly al. Ny health had not been as firm.
" re established as had believed 1t 10 be
from my Cumberland expedition. "a.
ugue, aud ne remaining for 50 many hours
IA wet clothes had caused relapse OF the
disorder which had been one cause of my
ufuey thlther, and | was confined many
DAYS 10 my bed BY severe illness.
Du-lu. the deluiun caused BY the Ieve
that attacked ne, vas told afterwards thu
had raNed continually about an unhaPp,
stranger, who with his family was perish
iug through want i-ot dying child, Gn'
many Other dismal circumstances oil o
which they ascflbcd to my situation.
Ten days elapsed before | was sufficient
~ recovered 10 be n5le TO give my attention
10 anything. My first thought, as soon d
recollection returned uud | could arran.,
my ideas 10 any kud OF order, VAS OF Mr.
Johnston, and the length OF time "lnch
found had elapsed since my interview vail
him. became exceedingly ANXIOUS Il
learn his fate which anxiety was not d.
mlnlshed by the sense OF my utter lnsblIiI.
TO go abroad aud inquire personally INTO 1t
and stranger as | was TO the part OF IN
town IN which he dwell joined 10 the dark
ness Of the night, The storm and the circu
.Itous route | had taken IN arriving IN IN
street where | found hint was difficult
nay impossible Tor mc to give any very IL
!. cld directions 10 whomsoever might choos
I TO send III search OF hun. My servant was
Z however, a very intelligent iello" anC
: describing 10 hun as well as could III
place where supposed johnson was TO
found, despatched him with note OF II
0 qulty, accounting al the same time for n'
0 having called on hun as had promised
. and added tina. would see hun as soon q
y | was able again TO 20 out.
After an absence OF several hours jaime
:, returned, TO tell me he had been unsucces
y full 10 his endeayors 10 discover The peIso
for whom | was SO much interested. II
could find, he sad, neither street nor hou;
such as bad described and, in Tact, b.
gan almost TO consider the whole as dream
occasioned by illness but ss | calmIy n
- called tho incidents Of that night, and
each peculiar circumstance gradually n
turned on my memory, | was convinced
their reality.