Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-07-22

done well enough. want no such characters
in my house.
God help me, exclaimed Mrs. EtheriI, lifting
her hands and eyes in despair.
lie never helps those who won't help them
selves retorted the hard hearted wretch, there
I've got five weeks rent on my hands, and
prospect of five more; for suppose you'll be
whirinr on sick bed month, but | can't nor
won't stand it-you must and shall go to-mor-
row, whether or no; so get ready or the poor
house cart comes after you
But where shall go? | haveat friend
in Boston Edna is worn out, and will die soon;
better that she should find a grave in her youth,
for she'll rest there and no one can disturb her.
You see am sick, Mrs. Clement, too sick to
rise from my bed, and yet, wicked woman that
YOU are, YOU stand beside dying creature, an
honest woman and taunt her thus. You will,
you must suffer for this, Mrs. CLEMENT God will
certainly repay YOU for your unkindness. And
when the hour Of tribuiation comes it will be
awful--it will fall upon your head when you are
least prepared!'
That night the sound Of the merry VOL was
heard, and light feet danced to its music in the
room which Mrs. Miller occupied. Annie Mil
! Ter was to become the bride of the reckless Ned
Lincoln.
Before morning the beautiful infant Of Mrs.
Clement, a babe she absolutely worshippcd,
breathed its last, and in her sorrow, she thought
not Of the afflicted family up stairs. The child
was taken in the night with the Group, and i'll
four hours was a corpse.
Another week passed, and Mrs. Etherl still
lived But SO emacjated had she become, that
she seemed like shadow melting away.
Another shadow glded around the room, or
held the poor mothers head, or pressed the cool
ing draught to her lips. Oscar had obtained
employment, but mere trihe was his recon-
Ipense Some charity had been bestowed upon
them, and physician was in constant attendance.
But weaker and fainter day by day grew the sick
woman and also Edna.
Since the death Of Mrs, Clements infant, she
had not troubled them, and for that poor Edna
was thankful, for it was certain her mother could
not be moved Mrs. Ether had cIung to life,
for the sake of her children, but she must die
now; the fever had left her, and rapid decline
succeeded.
In the calm twilight of an evening in April
she was supposed to be dying. Her bed had
been moved near the window, that she might
3 take farewell look of the glad sky, and the
. bright scenes of earth. No pain disturbed her
> dying moments, but with countenance beau,
y tilully serene, she awaited the approach 0
death.
Edna sat on the bed by her side, the tear
:, streaming down her checks as she gazcd upor
= that death-stricken mother.
y Oscar kneeed at the foot, his arms upon tn
u side of the bed, his face hidden, while he stroy
a. to suppress the low sobs that would burst from
Is ! his bosom.
- Two or three Of the neghbors stood around
they had brought in at different times clear
fresh clothing for Mrs. Ether and had proved
though poor themselves, to be children of hin
who said, Inasrnuch as ye have done it unit
the least Of one of my disciples, you have don
it unto me-
The door softly opened Edna did not NOV,
supposng it was some friend come to make Ell
quiry about her mother. Two men approached
the death-struck woman sprang up in be-
stretched her arms forward, and shriekin,
My husband, sank back upon the bed life
less.
oh my God, exclaimed Captain Etheri
falling upon his knees beside his dead wife, cha
it come to this?
Oscar had sprung round to his father, an
IN throwing himself upon his neck, sobbed aIou
We Edna sat Supplied
ed Where is my EdnaF said the captain, wit
I'd voice almost choked with emotion for he di
a. not know her
tie A low, faint voice replied, Father and IL
poor girl fell fainting into his arms
he There was not a dry eye in the room, an
be many had gathered there, for the news h;
81 spread like wild fire through the house, that II
I'd husband Of poor Mrs. EtheriI had arrived TT
i'll young man who had entered with Captain Ell
er eriI, was the same one who bore Edna from ii
a Mariners church, when she was in that dead
as swoon lie was sobbng like child, so ndee
lg were ALL for the hardest hearts could NJ
have been unmoyed before such scene as tina
n. The captain procured lodgings immedae
SO to which the body of Mrs Elheril was remove,
I'd with Edna and Oscar, who mourned as thos
refusing to be comforted
n CHAPTER TX
n, Frank Durham had set sail for New Orlean
ok as first mate, under Capt. White of Boston,
d, a vessel called the Two Marys
The captains health was very poor and the
e. had been but week out before he was take
nd dangerously i'll, and in another week his bod
he was lowered into the ocean.
en- The command, of course, devoyod upc
young Frank Durham, and well did he assum
ks it, for the few weeks before he entered Ne
en- Orleans
We A vessel arrived at the same time, with p
ce rates on board which had been captured by til
bravery of few determined souls.
at The commander was Capt. Etheril. He Ina