Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-08-26

my cousin John, who loved me. 1 have
cluGg TO it in pain and sorrow, in dlfficul.
~ aud distress. Ihave never parted with
It. 1 seemed to be not wholly separa ted
from him while had At near my heart.
Bat now, great distress forces me--to
to pam with it,. VIII neither of YOU,
gentlemen, buy il Of me. l shrink from
IlS going into the hands of utter s;ran.
gers.
'Humph,' said Mr.. Shaw. 'There are
a couple OF sovereigns Ior it,
Size took iho money, and then. after
one long, lingering look, and fervent kiss
at the ring, she iaidi! on the table, and
lotiered from the place was about TO
follow her, but Mr., Shaw held me back.
Hold. held J he said.
You're brute, SIR said L Take
y-4r hands off OF me I will buy the
nns Of you and give it back 10 her. Her
heart breaks 10 palt with it,
i shan't part with it, he said; 'you
are very hasty man, DOCTOR
Twas very angry, and bounced out of
The office. l looked eagerly abou, for
Mrs. GranIhan, but C uld not see her. |
walked hurriediy across the square, and
as chance would have 1t, | wen, in The
same direction she did. My first impulse
was TO speak 10 her, and my second tho,
to follow her, aud see where she went.
She crossed HolLorn, and ,raversed some
Of the long streets that head in the New
Road, whele she arrived a, last, and final.
! Iy paused at s stone mason's yard.
Tears started to my eyes. for now I
felt why she had parted with her cher
shed ring. She stayed about a quarter
Of an hour at the S.one mason's, and then
she came uu. and walked slowly away.
did not follow her further, but wen, into
the 'Nason's yard, and said 10 him
Did that lady give you an order p
why, yes, sir, such one as it was.
She has got me TO do u stone for two
pounds. and she's paid me. I'm to meet
her at the chutthyard at Barnes, ,o-mur.
row morning a!.nine o'clock. with it, and
put it up. rs only to have on it the
name OF John James Jardan, and under
that, God bless him.
walked away with a sort of mist
about my e.es, and it was an hour before
recovered my Composure. L will NEE.
her. thought |, at ME grave Of her last
love, and viii be friend % her if she
has never another in The world. She
shall have it. Pil 60 and e i. at once
Is suppose looked in very ,olera 2e
passion when got back to Mr.. Sda VS.
chambers, for he got behind table when
he table wht n he saw me. aud said,
Come, come, no vlol-nce.'
'Hark you, sir said |; you have 90.
the ring There is your money. Give
1t to me directly, sir Mrs. Graniham,
poor thing, is going TO marrow morning,
al nine O'clock, to place a stone a. Jor-
dan's grave, and intend to be here, and
give her her ring.
'Oh, very well. Bother the ring-I
don't want it. 1t amt worth half the
mon'y | gave for it. There it is; don't
bother me-
l 'ook up the ring. and then put down
two soyereigns, and cast upon him with.
eilng look, which, to tell the truth he
old not seem 10 care much about, lef.
the chambers.
A sof, damp, with mist covered up all
objects and made the air uncommonly
law and chilly, as on the following mora,
ing, just as the clock Of the church al
Barnes chimed the three quarter past s,
entered the church yard
The first thing l then did was to fall
over somebody's grave, for Twas looking
for Mrs. Gran,ham, instead of mndins
where | was walking; and then a voice
said--
There you are again, violent as usual,
doctor and in The dim mist 1 saw Mr..
Shaw, the solicitor, to my great surprise.
! was going to say something, but al
that moment | was nearly knocked down
o5"an By suuebody brushing passs me.---
| A gieam of sunshine came out, and mist
began 10 clear away, when most singu.
lar scene presented itself. A few yards
off was the grave of Mr.. Jordan, and
koeeling by it was Mary, his first love.
wi her child by her side, Mr.. Shaw
stood at my left, and at her feet there
knelt respectable looking young man,
l recolected as Mr.. Shaw's clerk.
Good God! Richard said Mr.. Shaw
lis that you? VIVA, is the matter q
'Oh, sir said Richards, Il have come
ask your forgiveness. The spirit Of my
poor old father stood by my bed all night.
Oh God! Oh, God it was dreadful, and
knew what it was for. Oh, sir, forgive
me. Ipeeped into the will while you
went out TO dinner-Mr. Jordan's will
and--went round 10 all the relations, and
sold the secret for two pounds apiece,
and---and-'
Nh. Shaw gave Jump that astonished
me.
Doctor, DOCTOR" he shouted for Gods
sake run down the London road and bring
the man with the grave stone. Oh, good
gracious. Oh, curse, you, Richards. -
ha, ha, ha.1 On, here he is. Oh, bless
you for prudent stone mason; you shall
go we'll paid for this job, Hip, hip. hip,