Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-01-26

ing the large dark eye, ana half smile lowering
bout the mustached lip, that told how capitally III
stranger enjoying his part of the aiIir; while III
troubled counteuance AMI dlated pupils Of Mrs Russell
showed that the passing moments were hours
agony her Still they looked if made for each 9th
er, both young an! beautilll-and they un
like in features. The stranger broke the silence
My name is Harry. yours is Bertha. think
This time Mrs Russell fxeI her eyes his, no de!
an assent, and turned away with sigh.
Il think not unlike. Bertha, that is think ou
tastes Will be congenal than yours and your hus
band | very fond of gaiety and not at al!
given domestic life If you would like and
live with me, Will promise devote every evening t.
amusement We viii suit ourselves in our choice Of en-
tertainment, and leave this lum-drun husband of yours
suit himself You very handsome, to nay thinking
and l willing to make the arrangement. What say
YOU Bertha"
NV God. this is too much and Bertha Russell ros.
from her seat
The stranger would have stopped her, but before he
OWNED her purpose she had opened the door gde out
closed it after her. and turned the key upon him. At
the moment merry laugh from within The room.
and wild shrek from without rang through the house
and Bertha exhausted with those hours OF Watching
sank lifeless upon the stairs. The fgh. Of the last
hour had unstrung every delicate nerve AMI FREQ the
grered spirit from It's beautiful cags-Jut scared
far from It's earthly dwelling place Bertha felt
b"I HSDiIu arms ABOUT her,
lips the marble face lost It's rg1t the heartpulse
but the quickly, for its slight cessation and from
the dark blue eyes the soul looked forth with renewed
vigor after its short wander rings.
Ny husband! my husband was it dream
Mr. Russell lifted Bertha in his turned the key
Of the door, and there, before Them still stood strsn
gcr-hIs handsome face rather deinure than when
Bertha locked him in. Mrs. Rnsses forl.1 quivered
and she cang to her husband, with tight grasp.
The stranger StnpDgI closer {, hem,
head, said
Bertha, has your own brother Henry altered SO much
in the last five years, that you hay, smile OF re-
coguition for him
Harry, darling brother Harry, it possible that it is
you! and she claspe to her brothers heart; for she
stayed not to chide him for cruelty frightening her
1t was enough for her to know that the brother whom
they had mourned as lost before her.
When the excitement Of meeting was over and Harry
had the reason of the report of his DEATH
saying II had arisen from wound winch he had
received in the Crcassan service while lighting aseia1s
'- '~"shty Russian opPressor. Bertha asked her hus-
band bow he ciaseu Mr.. Russell said he
the fremont with few friends, and they
about to leave the hotel, the carriages from the night
line up. and his eye fell upon baggage mark
ed C OIL Henry Gorion. He long, he said, in
making the acquaintance of the gentleman for in their
youthful days they had been and
wards, Mr. Russell Ind explained to his brother in-law
the OF iiS absence at so late hour from
young wife IL also told Lal Of his discrimination
make Bertha domestic wifi; for he sure II would III
the end, increase her happiness we'll as his
Harry conceived the plan Of proposing exchange,
he his bronzed and altered figure
would sufficiently disguise him. Mr. Russell dil OBJ
he knew that his wife seldom los, her presence
mind any emergency for she had strong intellect.
well loving heart. and the harsh words she had
used he knew from angry spirit, disappointed
he thought il might have happy effect her He
right for again did Bertha pleasure
preference her husbands; rather what constitu
ted her husbands happiness seemed also constitute
hers.
know not whether it the fright of the evening
or whether the spirit those of unconscious
in the husbands heart such OVERLOOKING fer her
that she could do aught but devote her life his
happiness. Be that may, Bertha after made
most domestic and loving little wife.