Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-04-26

e' love another What intellect can charm
and bind me like yours What mind thus
bid my troubled dreams be still and call forth
whatever my spirits claim, of hope, purity and
truth Know you not, dea est, that the
heart has but one spring, and that real love
has no second growth You alone can COM
mand my wanderngs TO cease, and my
thoughts to find their better and abiding rest.
We may profess in after life more ferven;ly,
perchance, than when we felt deeper we
may often bring the fond word 10 the lip, and
begule with the caress but, Hester, COM
pare these things with the silent but heartfelt
alteration we bestowed at our earliest altar
and you will fnd them but flsehood and moe
kerry all -
Alus what words these were for wife to
dwell on, when her husband had addressed
them to another What marvel was it, that
they burnt like fire as they fell, and that, as
Gertrude replaced those letters, her soul was
sick, even unto dea h
/ CHAPTER ~.
The room where Gertrude lay was sombre
and still, aud the attendants moved With care
tul and noseless steps around the couch OF
the sick one. The rosecurtains had been re-
moved, and their place was occupied by dark
er ones, that excluded almost every ray of
light. Those who loved her best stood tear
fully behind her, and anxious watchers bent
over the fair young invalid whose strength
had rapidly yielded to the severity of her bright
hfe's first sorrow. She was pale, very pale,
hom recent suffering, and her little thin, white
hand claspet carressingly the tiny ono of a
child of few days old. Rudolph was no,
there 10 gaze on the wreck his conduct had
wrought and his wife's lips named him not
with the things about her, even her infant
I failed 10 awaken more than a mOmentary in
,erest she lay silent and quiet for her heart
was broken, and there was no more peace for
her IN the world she was leaving. The only
Of abstraction was the arrival Of Hester, who
had been sent for at Gertrude S request. There
was something mournful and touchii g in the
meeting thus sorrowiully, and for the last time
OF those who had ever been together in hap
piness, and Ilester's soft clear eyes were full
of impressbe tears, as they fondly gazed on
the gentle and chilk-ike beauty now passing
away.
81 know all Hester ~ was Gerrude's sole
al fusion to her grief, all you have suffer
and concca ell and sacrificed for my sake
How my thoughiless gladness year ago must
have pierced your heart Forgn me, dear
est, for all the trouble ! 80 unconscousy
caused you. All ! Hester, we should not
shrink from suffering, If it makes US willing
to die, and death is greeted eagerly as the
best and kindest of friends by those who have
To-, ed and been deceived !" a few days ai-
terwards the mother and her child were sleep
ing together in the grave.
CHAPTER V.
/ Some years subsequent to the events last
related, two gentlemen were seated in lux
uriously arranged apartment Of one of the
most fashionable hotels in the largest and gay
est of our southern cities. They were both
past the summer vigor Of life, and care OF
thought, or perhaps dissipation, had written
on their brows lines deeper and sadder than
those recorded there by the touch Of years
/ Very many had been the hours Of anxious
calculation, of feverish excitement, o! desper
/ ate adventure, they had both gone through
/ since they were last before us, and their bear
/ ing had parted with much ofits former stud
led serenity and acquired the reckless bold
ness Of their unworthy and accustomed pur
suit Rudolph was the least changed, for hi
was the proud, strong mind that learns TO bury
deep within itself the tokens of its trials, anC
to hide in the silence of its obscure rcccsse.
all that his pride would shrink rom having
the world to know ST. Clare was more care
less bv nature ard habit, and consulted out
ward appearance less, because he had slight
or ca, sc to dread public opinion. He wa
alone, and had never been bound by the con.
nections which Rudolph had once formed
his risks, too, had boon fewer, for in thei
ventures he had always been more ptuden
and guarded than Rudolph's disposition coul'
be, with its frmer resolution and more ungoy
ernable impulse Now, their manner wa
very different, Tor ST. Clare's fortune III
night before had been brilliant, and Rudolph
losses immense. A dark scowl was on hi
brow, and he replied cOntemptuously and i'm
patiently to the ill-timed jesis which his com
panion, with the levty Of successful mar
,, intruded on his gloomy and unoccupie
thoughts.
\ If you and were marrying men, Ru
olph," said ST. Care carelessly, filling
glass with wine as he spoke, and holding
up to the light, TO test its clearness, w
nigh; have an opportunity of becoming rival
now, and attain wealth more rapidly and Sc
!, curely than by our present varying and pre-
carious means. Perhaps you are not awar