New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-09

land eastward, looked ike gulf whose depths
we're hldden BY Light purple mist. At this
lone time and not less lonely place, himself and
the height on which he stood being bathed in
sunshine, and projecting brightly into che cool,
grey sky, while all was shada below. for mo-
ment he might have passedsor 6 Mercury new
lighted or better for that mountain man Of
brass told Of in Indian story, 50 still stood he in
the golden sunlight. The charm is over, for he
moves and speaks-~ay, and how wildly
go, ruthless memory of happiness, forever
hltering bitter into life O, poisonous memory
Of balny Indian gales, of azure mountain peaks,
Of palnay groves, Of fowery shrines, Of days Of
love-. why curse me with your presence o..
cherished relics Of too great a love, ye have
pa ed through fire; ! worshipped the star Of
ny ldye-is it for that ye hare become a curse
too: Away, forever -.
As these words left his lips, he shook out the
tolds Of the scarf. its light texture was caught
~ the gentle morning breeze; slight cloud Of
dust, carried seaward, showed him that the
material link to past times was broken, and its
fragments irretrievably scattered.
rs Mayzit be beaeeepted, and tighten us Of all its
liazar iafuerlae." - r
| The amber and black striped silk blew out. in
curled and twisted wreaths, as 1t undulated Ike
| ~ goiden serpent preparing to take fight for
fairydom ; the fergeffu1 fingers which held it
aloft gradually loesened, it fioated gently away,
! ard was soon lost to sight over the edge Of tie
cliff How long he remained we care not to con-
slder Thoughts Of long years and their errors,
| but chiefly Of one repeated, coursed through his
tnind; gradually the present rose up before
him. and be remembered what he had Just done
Somehow he seemed to be freed from an evil m
| fueneewhich had long clrng to him; then he
frevrewed the angry purpose against his living
| wife; a better feeling was stealing over him
| he first determined to fergfve-then- ask for
giyeness. - - 2 AtsA ~
| Bit Lora had seen one outburst Of her hus-
hand's passion, had heard the thre at if he we're
provoked again, and 30 it was scarcely to beck
pected that, with the consciousness Of having
this time by her idle curiosity insome sort de-
tGeTYed his wrath, she should return to bearit'
she fed, then, TO her fathers house, and prayed
him, with the h6st affecting earnestness, in no
wise to let Gerard know where she Was. ..eis
| But it sdon came to her ears that Mr.. Heds5e
was seeking information Of every one relative
4 to the asylum sought by his fugitive wife, Lit
tie did she know the Bitter agony he endured,
as inquiry sfter inquiry, journey after Journey,
were found all vain. Little did she know the
Feelings with which he sought for her; and 80
she remained concealed, scarcely venturing to
iease the solitary lodge, for fear Of meeting some
| one wlo would betray her. Her father received
a letter from his son-in-law, asking where she
was; but though the inward purpose Of Ger
ard 8 mind was changed towards his dear wife
he did not express in that Communication any
kindly spirit, merely demanding if Lora Iredaie
I wns concealed in his house To this the old
man very unwfllingly returned an evasive reply,
sending his daughter to stay week with an
aunt, and then writing that she was not in his
house. I say he did this tnwilIingIy, It is true,
hut he did not think himself justified in bring
ing the husband and wife together when he saw
the dread and Tepugnance of his daughter to
meet Gerard. Her sufferings affected him
| deeply. His health had long been bad years
of'anxiety about his worldly circumstances, and
q naturally feeble constitution, had rendered
him unequal to bear this last affection Truly
spake the poet Of Colonos, that d slight incli-
nation of the balance sends the aged to sleep
everlasting" I.ora's sorrow was the turn Of
the scale to him, and so the old man died His
daughter found that it would be impossible fof
Fher to remain at the lodge, and taking adyan-
\ tase OF the absence. of Mr.. Iredale, who had
gone to seek her on the continent, she accepted
1.-THE offer of friend, and engaged herself as
Goycrness to a family who were about to depart
Tor India She regrette,l the separation from
her child, but her dread Of Gerard's violent
temper .overcame overy other feeling. and she
had the satisfaction of hearing that lady Tin
every respect qualified for the task, had been
selected by her husband to superntend the
education of her little Margaret, whose situa-
uoh, with a wayward fssthsr and estranged
mother, would otherwise have been truly un-
happy. o. S.