Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-05-17

cere affection; which the unsuspecting old man,
with his heart glad, reported to his plain, simple
dame, who rejoiced with him over their imagined
treasure.
:" He was at that time about eight and.twenty,
and, dodge as he would, he could not escape
pair bright eyes and rosy cheeks that met him
i'll the before mentioned market.town on one of
his suspicious visits.
lie soon scraped an acquaintance, after hav-
ing by great assduty found out that her father
was retired miller, of good fortune, and that she
was an only child. He thought this safe invest.
ment. His position and appearance soon gained
hlm permission to continue his visits; which were,
in fact continual, for he was always under the ap
prehenson that when the cat is away the mice
will play, and that some other might snap Up his
valuable mouse. He did not feel quite assured
as to the old mans positive possessions, SO made
it his business in thousand tortuous ways to
make inquiries.
This could not GO so quietly but it at last
reached the old miller's ears, who good natured-
ly put 1t down to the young mans prudent fore
sight; but, on inquiry, he discovered that it pro-
ceeded from doubt of his respectability and
veraclty. The miller was shrewd old man, de-
termined, before it too late, to find out wheth-
er the young suffer might not be wanting in some
of the qualities he thought necessary for the girls
happiness.
6 The old banker was chum Of the millers's,
through whose fundamentally he had invested
large sums in excellent mortgages. He allowed
himself to be pumped by Mawby, with the conni-
vance of the miller and, consequently, by wink
ing replies to his eager inquiries, made out the
miller to be little less than insolvent.
Williams affection sunk down to zero. al
though it had for months been burning according to
his own account like two or three Etnas combined
His suspicious, then were true.- What an escaped
thought he. So it was for the fortunate girl. He
proceeded to his intended ones house 1t being
dark he crept the garden palings, and sneaked
up towards the shutter Here he vainly attempt
ed TO peep through the crevices. And, while en-
deavoring to make out murmured conversation,
in which he thought he heard his own name men
toned, he was pinned by the millers dog, who,
poor brute +. was cursed with the youths fault of
suspicion, and suspectng that he was thief, had
seized him accordingly. Here was rather an
awkward denouement, and he had no right there
the path to the door lay another way. In his
anxiety, he had trampled down the flower bed
He stammered out an excuse upon his release, and
departed home, crest-faen, hoping that they did
not suspect his suspicious.
" The next morning he received polite note
from the miller, begging him not to repeat his
visits, as the dog appeared to have taken sudden
dislike to him, in which he was joined by himself
and daughter. AT the same time, to ease his mind
as to the state Of their affairs, he begged to say
that any respectable young man, who pleased his
daughters taste, might have ten thousand down
on the wedding-day, and as much more at his
death For once William suspected right, viz.
that he had made sad fool Of himself
' Not MANY months after this he lost his SIM
Pile minded mother. Her death gave him plenty
of exercise for his miserable fault, for he was con-
tinualy laying traps for the servants, as if they
had been so many mice, 10 catch them in their lit
tie pecnlations, until his espionage made all a.
round him so uncomfortable, that many Of the old
domestics left the farm in disgust.
Whenever he met me, he was full Of some
deeply Laid plan to find out some miserable sus-
pected one, and often in the midst of his self-suf
ficient tale he would start off on sudden, with
out any apology, because a suspicion had flashed
across his mind that he had not locked the corn.
bin or preserve cup board before he left home
"His whole occupation seemed to be TO find ouI
things that would make him uncomfortable The
food preserved for his own<table he constantly
dotted or ncked, that he might see, upon theil
being brought to the table again, whether any one
had ventured to purloin the smallest particle.
" He once got in his own trap. One night, late
he had an engagement to 60 to some neighborng
dance SO he sent all the servants to he'd and
locked the back and front doors, and TO make all
secure, hid the ponderous key. On his return he
he could not think of the hiding place; he there
fore had some hours to walk up and down in the
night air before day-dawn, when the imprisoned
servants discovered him feeling about in hen
coops and under thatches for the missing key
At last his hiding place struck upon his memory
and he had the modification of Withdrawing it be-
fore the tiitsrng servants, who thus discovered
his suspicious, and the retribption on himself in