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preparation for their departure, but ere their
arrangements could be completed, the old
man was stricken down with a burning fe-
ver. The unusual excitement had been
too much for him, and fastened a disease,
the symptoms Of which he had felt for two
or three days.
For some minutes after the truth broke
upon the mind of the daughter, she remain
ed Supplied, not knowing whittier to turn.
All their Quaker friends and they had no
others had deserted the place. Her lover
sic knew would fly TO her assistance, if he
could be made acquainted with her situa-
Ition, but his presence butincrease her anxi-
ETY.; and in any case, she did not know
where to find him.
But her strong mind soon discovered the
only course in her almost helpless situatian-
The house, she was aware, would be sack
ed III the morning, and if she was discov-
erred, nothing could save her from public
disgrace. Food and medicine, foo must
be obtained for her father, and the only way
TO get it was to leave him, returning at
night.
To a%little ruined clubhouse, at some dis
lance from their dwelling, she carried a bed,
and having rendered the place as comfort
able as possible, she carried the old man
thither, and having nurscd him until morning,
she carly left him, not without fearful fore
holdings. Nor were her fears entirely
groundless. In the morning the house was
ransaCked and stripped of every valuable.
But the howell, from IFS mean appearance,
was not visited, and the ensuing day, hav-
'irg that day wandered twenty miles for food
and medicine, as she dared not inquire for
it nearer, she returned to her father, who,
although dangerously i'll, appeared to be
sleeping quietly.
For more than 4 week the devoted mai
den watceed by night the sick bed of her
father: and had already begun to look for
ward to the time when he could rise from
it and seek with her and one o'her whose
name was too modest to breathe, a far off
spot where they mightdwell in peace, when
ole dark night when she was las en:ng a.
long the road to the Quaker's bedside, she
felt herself clasped around the waist by no
very gentle hands, and at the time a voice
not altogether unknown to her ears, cried
out. 'IIillo! my darling sparrow, 1 thought as
much from seeing the track Of a pretty foot
around the old place this morning. Going
TO get what we have left, ell? You sighted
me the other day. continued he in a louder
tone, as she commenced faint struggle, and
blythe bones of my mother you shall now
smart fori
Completely exhausted with fatigue and
terror, the little Quakeress was dragged
by the men until she was broughtto a
into which after some delay in exam
the prisoner she was thrust receiving
as she went the gratuItous intelligence that
everything was prepared to give her apub-
lie whipping in the morning.
1t was not until the KEY was turned upon
the poor girl in the lonely cell that the full
horror of Ter situation struck her. Shame
disgrace she felt she could bear when
the way Of her duty: but to be publicly
whipped-it was too much for her. Her
nature Shrrink from the pain and
The old Quaker, too, what
become of him? The forsaken girl
on erknees, and earnestly did she pray
or deliverance for herself and health for
Ter father.
And deiiverancc was not far off. As she
'oSc from her knees, a light tap at the win
arrested her attention. A voice that
he we'll knew pronounced her name. She
to the spot and a joyous kiss through
he iron bars showed that she we'll knew
Tho was there. But her happiness vanish
d when she thought of their mutual dam
.er. She gently reproached her lover for
xposing himself, but William Horseley
listen to no such counsel. Having
of their situation, he had Ihastened
D their assistance, and arriving near the
onse was a witness to the capture of his
etrothed. He delayed only long enough
, provide himself with some necessary i'm
dement's, and appeared, as we have seen
the window of the prison, determined to
his beloved from her p~erilous. situa-
on or perish in the attempt.
Animated by love, he works1 with a zeal
which the presence of the Quakeres ad-
',i not a little. And in two hours their
nitcd efforts had removed enough of the
'rsto enable William to draw her through
'e opening. 1t is needless 70 say that the
'pcS of the blOod-thirsty villains who had
'prisoned her were disappointed, and the
escaped free.
They found the old OuaEer CO f