Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-09-24

offering in its throne, had she return
ID to fulfill his last wishes. This,
With many an agonizing detail that !
rave ~ time to give, she repeated
% the Shildren whose hands she SCI
lightly clasped. =
"Could you marry the daughter of
an alleged murderer? of one who died
BY the hs| Ids of a common hangmah?
she said Maurice. He answered
not. He Was of a proud family; he
bore an old and unblemished name;
and he hesitated while Mrs. Doug
lass's last words rung,in his ears.
At that instant a fresh breeze swept
from off the lake and past the cottage
1T increased momentarily in vio-
lence. The old elm ratified and
hey all shuddged;-a mo-
ment more, and the decayed trunk
lay PROSTATE on the earth.
The shadow was gone from Hell
ems face, and the sunlight lay there
N unbrokep splendor. To Maurice
it seemed i'm its serene beauty, as
the face NJ agel. As he marked
the closj ds,-the strange pal
lor tha rose hue from the
CHI mt quickly.
y. / do claim
In ee lips he had
stoof g9e lips Of clay.
The IL gsf his expression at the
recital of fearful tale, the hesita-
ton which Ms after silence showed,
had not been unnoticed by Helen's
watchful eyes; and the shock hasten
ed the death, which could not have
been many days delayed, such fatal
inroads had that insiduous disease,
consumption, made in her fragile
rame.
Another funeral train wound out
from Ivy Cottage, and Helen's name
was added to the stone that marked
her brothers graves.
All through the remainder of the
spring and the blossoming summer.
Mrs. Douglass wandered daily to the
beautiful enclosure, where the mortal
part of those she had so fondly loved
was Wondering back to the dust OF
which they were created; bat ever
with tranquil look she bent above
their graves; for with the eye of faith,
she could now pierce the clouds thai
had SO compassed her pathway, and
she saw that, in the land whittier her
loved ones had departed, there was
"no more death, neither sorrow nor
weeping, neither, any more PAIN
and her heart acknowledged 'the
depth ofthe riches, both of the wisdom
and knowledge of God," although
ellis judgments are unspeakable
and his ways past finding out"
When autumn came, her short quick
cough, and PEBBLE, futtering pulse
kept her Fl the house of God, as
well as fri er daily walk. The
pastor miss Ter from her seat, and
OWNED the use; for he had noticed
of late the hme hectic glow upon
her cheek, " ech, after that night Of
exposure, so surely foretold to
him the da ''ers early death.
Hereafte IS visit to the cottage
were fieun( mil death cIairned tn a
sorely stricl wife and mother. Then
as he looked upon the placid brow OF
the sleeper, he said, surely, for her
to die was great gain"
During the last few days of her
illness she learned that her husbands
innocence had been declared to the
world, and then she coniidel her sad
secret to the synpathizing pastor. l,
was the subject of the good old man $
funeral discourse, and his dim eyes
were DINNER still with tears, as he
read from the book of Job thestext he
had chosen
"Behold, 60 forward, but he is
not there; and backward, but can
not perceive him:
son the left hand, where he doth
work, but cannot behold him; he
hideth himself on the right hand, that
| cannot see him:
"But he knoweth the way that
take: when he hath tried me, shall
come forth as gold"
Eloquently he told them how, as
gold seventimes purified, was the
spirit that had fled from the mortal
tenement before them-how, the DAYS
Of her first desolation, the Lord had
suffered thick darkness to fall upon
her, SO that she had not seen it was
His hand that had given her the Bit
Ter cup to drink-how for long years
she had journsyed on in her pilgrim
age in gloom md desolation of her
heart, unit kpgth He had come
again inS Christening; but
The clQs 1ae thick dark
ness and submis-
ed IN der after life
as a pr Gaining and in
spring P0 eyigion; and there
were many He'd in that humble
church that d whose hearts, for the
first time, werS melted, and who, from
that hour, earnestly sought to become
partakers of the faith from which
they had so long been strangers and
aliens.
There were none near of kin to