The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1851-09-03

1t is my elerk-eurses on him! / groun
my teeth in unavailing rage. could hay
e stabbed him--shot him-beaten out hi
brains-hurled him headlong down stairs
0 But any violence would have compromised
e her. In few minutes my brain was cleai
3 Iagain. s5gY ,1. n
e WATSON" l cried, "Mr, - has jus
left. He has gone up Fleet street, think
f run after him, and request him to leay,
those papers with me. Say to him | would
examine them more at leisure, Run fast
t Iand you'll overtake himP' ,-.sg -..s....i
Watson disappeared. | turned the key
/ Iof the outer door, and sprang towards Tho
closet AS | unlocked it, L remembered The
look she had given me as l shut it, and
| wondered with beating heart, whether thu
same expression would greet my enraptured
gaze when l opened it. There she stood
/ with her eyes calmly fixed on mine
"You are safe dearestP' murmuTed.
u She did not rebuke me for calling her so,
: and, emboldened by her silence 1 took hen
hand to lead her from her narrow prison
IShe moved forwards and fell into my arms
a corpse 73.' t.a' f'H 1893 i'3 rg'@'t.a
.
know that l tried every means for her resto-
ration to life; but alas! without success. OF
one thing / was firmly conyinced--sbe had
mot died from sulfocation, ,ee. .,,..
i / had once seen the body of man who
was Killed by the falling in of the mouth OF
pit. | recollected his swollen and purple
j face, and his lax, warm limbs. She was
\ pale, rigid, cold. The tumult of her emo
tons must have killed her the moment the
door closed upon her. % azaH
i By some means kept my secret from the
! knowledge of Watson and every one else.--
:, All that night l strove to bring her to con-
seriousness. aa sshaB gHf tst fsl
Then | formed the project of shutting her
up in the closet, locking up the chambers
and going abroad for twenty years. But
that idea was rejected as quickly as formed,
forit would be hardly possible that the pres
ence of dead body in the house should be
I discovered before that time. Next, thought
of setting fire to the place, burning all my
books and papers, making a funeral pile oi
them; thus running myself and save the
secret But that thought, too, was difmis-
sed. 1t mightca loss oflife and property
to many, innocent people, and would be a
bunglng proceeding, after all; as, if the fire
was discovered early, policemen, tircmen,
{ mob, all would break in, and finding her
there all would be lost-for it was more to
to save her reputation than my life, that
!, was striving and plotting. t@s'''5ksaa@
i In the mean time, Twas a prey to the most
painful anxiety, l was, sure that by tha
time she must have been missed and sough
} for. Perhaps She had been seen to enter my
t chambers. Every step that heard, Ifearec
might be that Of policeman. 7oarn5
| In,the morning astranger called on busi
ness This of course, was nothing cXtraor-
5 binary; but when he was gone | felt tha
/; he was detective officer, and had come a.
} IA spy. I thrust few Clothes into a carpet
/. bag, intending to escape to France. 4
, caught up bunch of matches, to set the
place on fire. grasped a razor and looked
: eagerly on its keen edge, asTthe surest and
: Iswittest way of ending my misery But then
!, all these would leave her iests Of the world
and my own sufcrlngs were nothing in com
Eparrison. aaal 81 1sha q J'l'' sa
AT this distance of time, I can look back
!, impartially and calmly upon that day; and !
can solemnly declare, that lwould rather
, have been hanged for numbering her, thar
to allowed a breath to sully her fair fame
!, had Just laid down the razor, when q
5 hurried step crossed the ante GROOM, 1t was
her husband.
Now thought |, all is lost, She was seer
| to enter here, and he has come to reclaim
her. fa s Iiu II .sgita .d, p ssfasa
"My dear -" he began, in a nervous
unsettled way, ''you remember the. bushes,
: chat came about yesterday?"
had 45isSs'y do yoa rasSadd aSaddesthe words 1 asGc
as | was going2 II mean in answer to wha
7 YOU said about my not being able to totsi
: this money till after, the death of my wife?'
I "Yes-I remember them distinctly, y
replied. '' w. 'eo' sam ~ '5'''
"My wife has disappeared since YESTERDAY
morning, 2ahe continued, turning even pale
thanh before, ''and il any thing serious rshouls
have happened, you know, and you shoult
repeat any of those expressions, they nigh
be laid hold Of, aud don't know what Nigh
i be the consequence ID might beasuspectet
of havinglmurderedlicr. K aiia eial ID 4u til
4 Poor fellow; if | had not known the truth
/ should have Siispected itin1yself sfrom hi
} excessiYesteror and nxistyau4Ie wipadth,
: perspiration from his face, and, sank into
| chair. The sight of person more ,frighten
: cd than fmyselfreassured me. N was calme
than Il hadbeen Since othe preceding morn
J ing. .has8gg S4ldR aii a9iaw .0eI 9qHlAnaS
HWhere didshe 2hqwwas she dressedg
nagIESd, anHl9apab e s kn9E r9gq az VI S0pld 2
! ''Iaoh't Know yslelola me she was %
ing out shopping and visiting, but no on
) saw Iier1eaSas tbetlhoase ,lihnd none ofyth
| servants, know exactly how she was dressed
4 When went home to dinner, the hrst thin.
that | heard was that she bal moi retqrned.
! N"What haye YOU done? Ifave YOU sent B
Tie police ana 70 tfie fioSptalsT T''sa 'y'apo
} "Yes, and to every friend and tTadcslna
J Wbereisbewas HkelStufcalL'isH 4oisns2
D "You may dependiHpon 3tSiI GepliadiEe
t ryimpressiyelg, Rthht l viii netiHepeat ghs
ri you said yes erday You arA ltightsin sur
!. posing that NJ mightrtel against gauo1ver
t much if she eyshouldlbe,f fopnd. dead nnderslis
Y Ipicious circumstanecssh bdoI .asrgsasgT
II Hatalied a little longer and then.wept t
E renew the,seareh farhisEwife, ,s How'd pre-
/ served selfpossession dulMg this interview
y do not knows 50 far fEam being really cain
vi could have gnawed The flesh OF my bone
n ingB4y agony 4. spirstalea1a aaoa5IAM
= -hrTiiat nlghAfwhaal lhe doors were faalenes
and j, alone exeeptl fpr the c0mpap
! Of the deadzYI shut myself up IN the Close
81 ~ two hours, 10 ascertain whether She die
glfrcm want OF slf. for Idistrdstea ihyev