The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-25

ture,' he returned 81 have had an indispositon,
| which your socitude-observe! Isay solicitude-
makes great deal more of than it merits and 1t S
over, and we can t perpetuate il.
He coldly took book, and sat down at the taoe.
She watched him for a little while, until her
smile was quite gone, and then, returning to where
her basket was, said, gently:
Mr.. Edmund would you rather be alone -
There is no reason why should detain you
here he replied.
Except" said Milly, hesitating, and showing
her work.
ooh. the CURTAIN he answered, with super
cilious laugh. "That s not worth staying for. ="
She made up the little packet again, and put it
in her basket. Then, standing before him with
such an air of patient entreaty that he could not
choose but look at her, she said:
" If yon should want me, will come back will
lngly. When you did want me, was quite happy
to come there was no merit in it. think You
must be afraid that, now you are getting well, L
may be troublesome to you but should not have
been, indeed should have come no longer than
your weakness and confinement lasted. You owe
me nothing but it is right that you should deal as
justly by me as if was lady-even the very lady
that you love and if You suspect me of meanly
making much of the little have tried to do to COM
fort your sick room, you do yourself more wrong
than even you can do me. That Is why am sorry
That is why | am sorry
If she had been passionate as she was quiet,
as indignant as she was cam angry In her look
as she was gentle, loud of tone as she was low
and clear, she might have left of her de-
parture in the room, compared with that which fell
upon the lonely student when she went away.
He was gazing drearily upon the place where she
had been, when Redaw came out of his conceal
ment, and came to the door.
''When sickness lays his hand on you again, he
said looking fierceiY back at him. may 1t be soon
die here. Rot here"
"What have you done.'' returned the other,
catching at his cloak. 'What change have you
wrought in me! What curse have you brought
upon me? Give me back myself"
Give me back myselfn' exclaimed Redaw like
mailman. Il am infected | am infectious |
am charged with poison for my own mind, and the
minds of all mankind. Where felt interest," COM
passion, sympathy, am turning into stone Selfish
ness and ingratude spring Up in my blightlng foot
steps | am only so much less than the wretches
whom make SO, that in the moment of their trans
formation can hate them"
As he spoke-the young man still holding to his
clOak-he cast him Off and struck him then wildly
hurried out into the night air, where the wind was
blowing the falling, the cloud-drift sweeping
on, the moon dimly shining and where, blowing
in the wind, falling with the snow, drifting with
the Clouds shining in the moonlight, and heavily
looming in the darkness, were the Phantom's words
The gift that have given, you shall give again,
90 where you Will
Whittier he went, he neither knew nor cared so
that he avoided company. The change he felt
within him made the busy streets a desert and him
self desert, and the multitude around him, in
their manifold endurances and WAYS Of life, a
mighty waste of sand, which the winds tossed into
unintelligible heaps, and made runous confusion
of. Those traces in his breast which the Phantom
had told him would die out soon,' were not as yet
so far upon their way to death, but that he under
stood enough of what he was, and what he made
of others, to desire to be alone
This put it in his mind-he suddenly bethought
himself, as he was going along of the boy who had
rushed into his ROOM And then he recolected,
that of those with whom he had communicated
since the Phantom's disappearance, that boy alone
had show no sign of being changed.
Monstrous and odous as the wild thing was to
him. he determined to seek it out, and prove if this
were really so; and also to seek it with another in
tention, which came into his thoughts at the same
time.
So. resolving with some difficulty where he was
he directed his steps back to the old college, and to
that part of it where the general porch was, and
where, alone, the pavement was worn by the tread
of the students feet.
The keepers house stood just within the iron
gates, forming part of the chief quadrangle.
There was little coister outside, and from that
sheltered place he knew he could look in at the
window of their ordinary room, and see who was
within. The iron gates were shut, but his hand
was familiar with the fastening, and drawing it
back bv thrlsting in his wrist between the bars, he
through SOf1V, snuI ana Crept
the window, crumbling the thin crust of snow with
his feet.
The fire, to which he had directed the boy last
night shining brightly through the glass, made an
illuminated place upon the ground. Instinctively
avoiding this, and going round it, he looked in at
the window At first, he thought that there was
no one there. and that the blaze was reddening
only the old beams in the ceiling and the dark
walls; but peering in more narrowly. he saw the
object of his search coiled asleep before it the
floor. He passed quietly to the door, opened it. and
went in.
The creature lay in such fiery heat, that, as the
Chemist stopped TO rouse him. it scOrched his head
So soon as he was touched, the boy, not half
awake, clutchng his rags together with the instinct
of flight upon him. half rolled and half ran into
distant corner of the ROOM where, heaped upon the
ground, he struck out his foot to defend himself.
. Get upt' said the Chemist. on have not
forgotten me %
E1You let me alone!' returned the boy. g This
is the woman's hOuse-nOt yours.
The Chemists steady eye controlled him some
what or inspired him with enough submission to
be raised upon his feet, and looked at.
"Who washed them, and put those bandages
where they were bruised and cracked :" asked the
Chemist pointing to their altered state.
1.-The woman did,
"And is it she who has made you cleaner in the
face, too -
eyes the woman
Redaw asked these questions to attract his eyes
towards himself, and with the same intent now held
him by the chin, and threw his wild hair back
though he loathed to touch him. The boy watched
his eyes keenly, as if he thought it needu to his
own defence, not knowing what he might do next;
and Redlaw could see well that no change came
over him.
"Where are they % he inquired.
''The woman's out"
81 know she is Where is the old man with the
white hair, and his son :"
"The woman's husband, dye mean 20 inquired
the boy.
cay. Where are those two!''
"Out. Something's the matter, somewhere.
They were fetched out in hurry, aad told me to
stop here
g Conn with me-" said the Chemist, ''and III
give you money"
Come where And how much will you give %
"Pll give you more shilngs than you ever saw,