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ind twisting like two raging serpents the handle
of Hills huge bowie knife uithought of previous
lv, protruded, from beneath his hunting shirt
Both it at the same time, and both atterr pied
10 grasp it Howard Succeeded T; QUICK rs light
ming he drew the keen blade from its scabbard,
and sheathed it up 10 the hit in the bosom Of his
friend and Mary's father.
! " The dreaiii is fulfilled" exclaimed Hill, with
smile of strange sweetness that remained on his
features even after he corpse. He then
sunk down and expired without groan.
] Howard gazed on him he lay with that sim
! gular smile on his face; and his glazed eyes open.
And then. awakitg with stnrt, 6s if at some hor.
ribe vsioE OF the night, the poor, unhappy youth,
I fell headong on the body of his friend, crying IN
tones that melted many a hardened spectator into
tears, :. Great God, what have | done ~ He
kissed the clammy lips of tho dead; wet his
I cheeks with rain of una vailing sorrow; essayed
TO stuunch the bloody wound with his handker
chief; and then, apparently satisfied that all
| over, sprang upon his feet with shbut; or more
properly scteam-'Farewell. Mary, your father is
gone, and am going with him and turning tho
point of the CORY knife towards his own breast,
would have plunged il into his heart, had he no.
been prevented by the by'sanders who had now
crowded into the room.
The same evening Moses Howard disappeared,
and was heard OF no more, for nearly two years.
! when horse.trader brought back word that he
had been seen in San Antonio, Texas.
When The shocking news reached fiill's family,
the beautiful Mary burst into q wild laugh. She
is now in the Asylum for the Insane al New
Orleans. ... - .- ... ...... .-
Had we been lnditing tale of romance, We
would have paused with tho preceding page but
literal truth compels us 10 record another fact,
equally characteristic, both TO the chief actors
and Ile back woods theatre Of the main tragedy.
Ii will be remembered, that the fallen despera-
do had enloihed on his to slny the slayer of
his father on the day he should arrive at the ago
of sixteen Without any such charge, venge:
ance woud have been considered by that boy
| sacred duty for on the frontier, the widows Of
the slain teach vengeance 10 their children, pnd
occasionally execute IL themselves -...
accordingly, Bill Hill practised with his fa:
theirs gun every day for two successive years,
and this even before he had any rtmor as 10 the
place of Howard's refuge. He then learned that
his foe was in Texas, and two months before he
was sixteen to- hunt him up.
AT the end of four mouths Bill came bnck, and
hanging up the double-barrels ON their old buck
horn rack, answered his mothers in4uiring look
l-"Moher, Nose is dead lei him have both
loads Though | cried before done il, and after:
wards too he looked so miserable, pale, and as d
skeleton."
Poor Mose," said The mother, weeping "but
II could not be helped. The son Of such bravo
man Nixon Curry must never be called q
""osar rd md heSides il was yonr fathers order"
HOfHd1Atc StO1 we cut the following from
recent foreign letter published in the New York
Evening POST
A most singular story has come out BY deah
which took place AT monastery near Paris, las,
week. .
Several years ago, rich miller, living in one
of the PROVINCES, became unhappy by the death
OF his wife, that placing his own child, girl of
len years or age, in convent, he repaired 10 the
monastery near Paris, and became monk Dur
ing SIX or seven years he led most pious life, but
from The gloom Of his cell he thought often of his
daughter. The desire 10 see her grew so much
upon him, that he at last resolved TO open cor.
respondence with her the answers he received 10
his letters were such as 10 reawakeu all the aiec.
tons Of other days within his bosom. The young
girl en- her side, no less eager to see once
more parent whose early tenderness she still
remembe red. With resolution surprising in one
of her age, she quilted the convent, dressed herself
in male attire, and sought the Iionastery in which
her father resided. She there resumed the habit
of the order. and was named Brother Robert. She
was then but seventeen years of age. She took
care not TO reveal herself to her father until the
irrevocablo vows had been pronounced; when at
last she followed him his cell and told her story.
The Joy he expressed at folding his beloved child
once moro to his heart, and the regret which her
act Of devotion caused him, brought on fever
which ended his life in few days.
The young girl found herself now in situation
which nothing but the religious education she had
received, could have enabled her to bear. De.
prived of the support which the daily sigh, Of her
father would have given her, she valian,ly mori.
fed herself in every possible way in order to keep
down the worldly regrets which arose in her heart.
She became The example Of the convent. and the
sanciity of Friar Robert was spread abroad in all
France. The most holy offices were con6ded
principally 10 her il was she who was sent TO
pray by the bedside of the dying, and TO console
the afflicted. But she did an immense deal Of good
among the young girls Of Paris, whom the world
and lis pleasure had drawn from The path Of duty.
To these she never wearied Of talking her humi-
lity surprised them the simplicity of her soul, and
the sweetness Of her voice, charmed them COM
pletely and Friar Robert rarely failed in bringing
these wanderers back TO the right why.
| AT last, ho9eaer, slander attacked the fair fhme
of Erar Robert and he accused Of being too
fond Of visiting female sinners. The Nbbe Of the
monastery imposed upon the pretended brother, as
penitence, to serve the whole community, and 10
do the most repugnant and the toughest work.
She did all without murmur, and during three
years, accomplished the rude duties laid upon her,
without failing in a single one. -
Last week she died. and the remorso of the