Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-12-21

81 rushed madIy from the door; no sound
but one stunning buzz was in my ears no
sight before my eyes but one black, impene-
| trsble cloud had no though. but of some
crushing evil that had be(al!en me, and so
fed away. and knew no more iii was hun
dreds Of miles from land, and the fresh sea-
breeze was blowing upon my cheek. For
years, under an assumed name. wandered;
few cimes are there where ] have not been.
few sorrows and ptivsilons that have not
felt since then. | am wriGkIed and gray,
and shattered in body and mind, and my life
is stained with many sins. For all that
am. sordid, and lmplacable, and vindIc'ive as
! am, and dead TO every human feeIIng-for
all This | am indebted to her whom once
loved. And now hear an old msn's cufse''
and Phil Hope stood upright, with his trem-
| bling right hand raised to heaven, baleul
fire flashing from beneath his gray and shag-
gv br"ws, his pale cheek ghas,ly with un-
ear; ;hIy passinn. and The thin lips wriihing
and curling. and bloodless with reveuge.-
And how in The terIor-s,rcken face oppo-
; site WAS reflected back that deadly bshen
hue. and The dropped jaw qnive,ed in speech
less horror, and she starting ey e-ball> rolled
and gIarfd 10 dumb alright! "Ten fold i"r
all the love thai ever bore her, lor all lhe
good TIA, ever | wished her. for ell the Joy
and g!adness ever hoped to share with her,
upon her head, if she still lives. upon her
children and her chlGren's children return
haired and scorn, and evil untold. Bnd sor-
row, and dark, Implying despair! Nov all
the evil that ever ! endured, all the lorments
that ever pursued me over The worlds wide
waste, all lbe deep passions and deep cor.
, r"drng suspicious that have preyed upon my
life, NAV they follow down TO the grave,
without end, or one moments swee, reprIevc,
Annie Leslie and her damned psramour.-
stop! 10 Gods name. Philip Stanley,
hold! Let fall your curses on The guilty
heah!' and Philip Stanley recolled a, The sig
Of his own llvId face so faithfully rendered
back, as the rich mefchan, stood With arms
oufs!retched before him: ut was |, villain as
you call me, that found out Annie Leslie,
innocent and aTiess. in her nslIve valley; !
that sought in vain TO gain her heart. 1t
vas lbat, alter every art, and device, snd
intrigue were exhausted, sent, under anolh-
eI adTl6, OF sichu.s--.r,. 49,
tress. to decoy her away to q lonely hut far
off smong The mountains; ii was ! that a.
waited there her coming, and dragged her
away by force, under the cover Of nigh, and
The dark >hscow nf the fores'; .ha, snatch
ed your belro,hed from your arms and sent
YOU a wandering outca~, through the world!
Annie Leslie escaped pure and unsnllied from
Il L,.
find her lover fled and soon she laid down
her Young head, covered with shame and
sorrow. under lhe willow tba, weeps over
her grave. IL i, was who did il all :"
Up and down up and down through
the long parlor-, like some goblin's tramp,
echoed The haiting footsteps; lhe lofty mir
rors sent back 10 each other the image ni
that spectral face as it turned from one TO
the other; and long after the mid-nigh. bell
had struck. the walchmsn across the street
gaZsd IN wonder at The of returning profile
of dowucas', aged face. that for moment
was drawn SO distinctly upon the curtain.
and lhen changed, and shifted. and faded
away. And when the brigh, beams of ,he
new year streatned far INTO the rooms, and
The master Of the house with heavy groan
raised his gray head from the table, there on
ihe rich carpet, under the glazing gas. lay
Phillip Stanley, cold and stiff in death !!
The sill, through the long last night OF
The year, !ramps up and down an unequal,
heavy step; and year after year, though his
foot never stands upon its threshold, the
owner OF :ha, stately dwelling starts when
the last stroke Of The old year has sounded,
a, the wel-knuun faterng football of the
man whom be helray
The HoNEY- MooN-Whv is the first
month after marriage called the "honey-
moons' Doubtless on account of the SWEEP
lunacy which controls the heads Of the par
ties during that brief and delighted period
Wba, Pity That they should give place to
sentiment. sentiment to sense, love yield Ia