Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-07-05
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, THURSDAY

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least her tacit approval-witht aprivileges sup.
posed to be the lawful inheriuii@ Of such gift
ed spirits; namely, the rightt9ie as idle as he
pleased genluses, you knoF, tan, according
to the popular notion, attalnTay conceivable
amount of knowledge per sdltaui,ita bound-and
to exalt himself in the stills 0fhs own concet
above the useful and honorable pursuits suited to
the station in which Providencehad cast his lot.
The fruit of such training soonshowed ITSELF
Young Bourbon grew up coneited and essen
tally ignorant puppy, caPableof nothing but
bad verses, and Thoroughly imposed with but
one important fact, which wasthat he, Alfred
Bourbon, was the most gifted I'D most i'll used
of all Gods creatures. To gems, in any intel
ligible sense of the term, he hasiatruth no pre-
tensions. He is endowed howdsb with kind
of reflective talent, which ia amistnken by
fools for creative power. Themaaldtmcies and
melancholy scorn of Byron, fusSNstaNce, such
gentry reflect back from their f6ggy magma
tons in exaggerated and distorted feebIness of
whining versicles, and so on with othcrlights,
celestial or internal. However, by The WY, the
only rational pursuit he ever followed AMI that
only, by fits and starts, and to crafty his faulty
of WONDER fancy, was chemistry. A mall
laboratory was fitted up for him in the little SIM
mer house you may have observed at the further
end of the lawn. This study Of his, if study
such desultory snatches at science may be cll-
led, led him in his examining Of vegetable 3D.
les, to smattering acquaintance with botany,a
science of which Ellen Armitagsi is an enthust
astic student. They were foolishy permitted t
botanise together, and the result vas, that Alfred
Bourbon, acting upon the prircple that geniu;
whether sham or real--levels ii merely nun.
dane distinctions, had the impulence to aspire
to the hand of Miss Armitage His passion
sincere or stimulated, has never been, have rea.
son to know, in the slightest degree reciprocal
ted by its object; but SO blind i vanity, thai
when, about six weeks ago,an eel arieSement took
place, and the fellows dreaIh vas somewhat
rudely dissapated, the NATURALIZATION of his
preposterous suit, was, there iseyery reason tc
believe, attributed by both mothg and son, to the
repugnance of Mrs. Armitage alone; and to this
idiotc hallucination she has, fear, fallen a sac
rifce. Judging from the emacRFed appearance
of the body, and other phenomena communica.
ted to me by her ordinary medlFfA Attendant
laundering ignoramus, who ougpt TO have called
in assistance long before-she mas been poison.
ed by iodine, which, administered in certain
quantities, would produce precisely the same
symptoms. Happily there is % mode of des
troying human life which so surely leads to de
lection as the use Of such agent; and of this
truth the post mOrtem oxaminatopof the body
which takes Place tomorrow niofAing, will, if
am not greatly mistaken, supply aAathsr vivid il
Illustrations 49, 49, w ,ssssAt.sAs. :
will no doubt be necessary, and AM Sure that
do not err in expecting that You W. aid me il
bringing to justice the murderer of Mary Raw
don ?"
A pressure of his hand was my ply answer.
81 shall call for you at ten o3Sck," said he
as he put me down at my door 1 bowed, and
the carriage drove off
"Well," said I as DR.. Curtef md MIR
the eminent surgeon, enteredhe library at
Mount Place the following mornig after lone
absence.
"As I anticipated" replied tAt Doctor, with {
choking voice, L" she has been peBmed"
| started to my feet Sand aemurderer ?"
"Our suspicious still point to gnng Bourbon
but the persons of both mother md son have
been secured"
"Apart?"
eyes, and have despatched servant to re
quest the presence of a nei9hor-a count,
magistrate. expect him every moment"
After brief consultation, veal three direct
ed our steps towards the sumna house which
contained young Bourdon's abntory. In tn
room itself nothing of importap bee was discov
cred; but in m enclosed recess which we brok
open, we found curiously fashioned glass bot
tie half full of iodine.
"This is it !" said Mr-s and in pow
dered state too-just ready for mixing with bran
dy or any other available dRSOlyen" TIL
powder had somewhat the APPEARANCE of fin
black lead. Nothing further OF any consequence
being observed, we returned to the house, whor
the magistrate had already arrived,
Alfred Bourbon was first brought in, and h
having been duly cautioned that he was NJ
obliged to answer any question, and that VIII;
he did say would be taken down, and if neces
sary, used against him, proposed the followin
questions
"Have you the key of your labrOtory ?"
"No, the door is always open"
"Well, then, of any door Or cupboard in Il
room?"
At this question his face turned purple;
stammered, "there is 10" and abrupt
paused.
"Do understand you to say there is no Gu
board Or place of cOncealment in the room p
"No, here is the key"
elias any one had access 10 the cupboard
recess Of which this is the key, except you
self?"
The Young man shook as if smiuen with
que his lips chartered, but no articulate soul
escaped them.
"You need not answer thequeson," said t
magistrate, sunless you choose to do so.
again warn you that all you say, will, if nece
sary, be used against you"
" No one" he at length gasped mastering
hesitation by strong exertion of the will"
one can have access to the place but myself
have never parted with the key"
Mrs. Bourbon was now called in. After G
: changing glance of intense agony, and as
seemed to me, Of afectionato intelligence wi
her son, she calmly answered the questions 7
to her. They were unimporhnt, except the la