Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-02-24
DruutcO TO 1)Olitirs, Neus, Giteruture, ae
BYB. W.&P.C. JOHNSON.

gliuer was passing, she could only creep into
some corner aud dle Oil how the heart aches
when ills first startled from its glorious dreams
of seeming love, and finds that love idolaTy.-I
How il longs for, yet breads 10 meet return OF
the deep food Of feeling which is wearing the
quverng chords Of life! The power Of intel.
lecI may control any outward manifestation oil
feeling but when alone, with the memory of the
loved one lingering like sunshine around the
heart, if there is moment Of entire happiness
on this side Of the grave, it is then, when soul
and spirit and intellect are melting away into
beautiful dream of love. Lolah was the first 10
break the silence, for woman's heart is not gov
erned by the suong will and power that charae-
ierizes the s,erner sex, but her voice was aglIa'
ted with the emotion as she replied IN answer TO
his question, ,"When oncea Mexican woman has
learned to love, she NEVER iorgels." They
were married, and at the same moment which
saw her a wife, the trumpet blast was heard TO
summon her husband to his duty as an Amer-
can soldier, and her fathers ENEMY. They had
appointed place of meeting with as much Sc
curily as could be obtained in snch perilous
times, and night after night the graceful form Of
the Mexican girl was seen gliding like spirit
through the pale moonlight that lay like misty
veil over the battle ground. Heaps Of dead bo.
dies barred up her path TO the chupparal, and
more than once the gliuering knife OF the Ran
chero flashed in the distance. Horror encom-
passed her on every way she turned, but what
sacrifice was too great TO purchase the dear de-
light Of sitting by his side, with her head resting
upon his bosom, aud nothing but the bright stars
TO witness their devotionl What TO them was
the slow tread of the distant soldiery--what 10
them The howl Of the Jackall, that seeming the
warm blood, crepl from his ambush TO secure
his meal. They LOVED, in each others society
the world had no other power 10 disturb Their
happiness. One night, it was the second week
Of loves strange belrothal, she bent her steps
as usual to the Chapparal, but not within her ac'
customed speed, for fearful forebodings were
weighing like lead upon her heart. The moon
was struggling through the dull clouds looking
lovely and weary; an unusual mist hung over
the Chappara, and around the hills, as if to
hide the fearful sun Of Gods life, that had been
that day wasted. "lf any Thing has happened
to him." said Lolah, giving uuerance TO the
vague fears that possessed her. At that mo-
ment low moan attracted her attention, anC
almost flying to the spot whence she proceeded
she discovered her husband lying in the agonies
of death. He had batIled with bullets and
bombshels all the day 10 meet his death by the
chance shot of the Ranchero. With quietude
; almost startling, she bent over him, and drew
his form 10 her heart, breathing sweet words oI
tenderness over it, and pressing her lips to his
pale brow, but no symptom of grief escaped
her lips. Her eyes kndled up with fearful
brilliancy but no tear dimmed their dropping
lids. Their pure source had been suddenly drl
ed, and the glorious sun Of intellect had sunl
= into a midnight of hopeless insanity. And al
night long she sat under the dark shadows Of The
! Chapparal, with the lleeSs form of her husband
: Graded in her arms, and frightening by her holy
presence the creatures Of prey that were all toe
anxious to secure their prize, and when The NOR
! ming came, and the mist drew itself up from the
! mountains TO let in the sunlight, her weary lids
closed over the bright glaring eyes, and pillow
; ing her head upon the soldiers pulseless heart,
she slept few hours of quiet undiJturbed sleep.
And thus they were found, the living and the
dead clasped in each others arms, with the long
rich hair of the sleeping girl rising and falling
with the breeze, and winding around her hus'
band like dark pail over the tomb OF Iove!--
They strove to separate them without waking
her, but they need not have taken theprecauton
for she had lost all knowledge of the past. Hel
father, who had been won by affection for his
only child, to afford protection and shelter tc
, the wounded American, now looked with grie
upon the wreck of that child, folded her in his
arms and wept as if his heart was broken. They
, took her home 10 the lonely cottage by the hill
side, where. she was kept in close confinement
for with phantasy peculiar to the insane, she
, bewailed her fathers cruelty in preventing her
meeting her husband, whom she supposed was
waiting for her by the Chapparal, but one SAD
evening eluding pursuit she stole out and flew
to the scene of death; no trace was left Of The
, horrors of that night, but she seemed TO feel q
strange weight upon her heart, as if something
had occurred of which she retained some ialn
memory. Suddenly pressing her hand TO het
, temples, she gave one wild look olanguish and
! fell dead upon the spot where she had last seen
J her husband. Consciousness had returned iol
, a moment with its awful sense Of bereavement
and in that moment her loving heart had broken;
she had joined her husband in Heaven.
!
Little was ever heard of her history, except
that beautiful Mexican girl was found dead
near a chapparel in the vicinity Of the Amerl-
can camp, but few ever guessed the cause OF her
death.