Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-02-01

make the apartment comfortable, and by lib
eral fee, secured the services of the old negress
who was an experienced nurse in yellow fever, tc
attend the sufferer.
The carriage still waited at the door.
"Emma, you will accompany me to the miser
able pawnbroker's will you notl'
81 will-the gift that cherished so long fol
your sake, which I consented to part with only
under the pressure of want, must not be lost"
Dr.--accompanie them to the pawnbro
ker's. Emma was instructed to enter the shoE
and demand her watch.
"Yoar watch, indeed. Had you the impudence
to return!" replied the villain.
81 had, and l will not leave the shop without
it," replied Emma.
"You will not! We will see," and the broker
went to the door, and called "police," at the TOP
of his voice. Iu..t ....
An officer was at hand, who instantly obeyed
the summons.
"She, is thief; arrest her. She has in her
possession gold watch numbered 1887, which
can swear is my property" ..
"You cant" exclaimed Stewart Wortlie, enter
ing the shop. "Inhuman monster! Cold-blood-
ed, black-hearted scoundrel''
"Sir!" replied the broker, sharply.
81 repeat it, sir, you are william, scoundrel,
of the lowest meanest, vilest stamp!"
"There is my card" said the broker, swelling
with anger,
"There is mine," replied Stewart giving the
villain smart blow on the side of the head.
SHOW, the watch quick!" ..a.f1 ',-
"What watch!" -a.ff a'a
"What watch!you contemplate rascal! Why
the watch you stole from this lady" r
"It was my property" a'aa d.. $751;"
The policeman now interferred, and the broker
was obliged to produce the watch.
81 presented it to this lady year ago. But
stay; Dr.--will you remain with Miss Will
son moment!" - .
"Certainly," replied the physician, and Stewart
hastened out of the shop.
In a short time he returned with warrant for
the arrest of the broker.
The villain, finding that he had involved him
selfn an unpleasant difficulty, proposed to pay all
damages and let the affair drop. But Stewart was
firm, and he was committed for the offence.
Stewart and Emma returned to the bedside of
Mrs. Wilson, who still raved in the delrium of the
fever.
Poor Emma! her misery was at an end, only
that her mother lay at the very gate of DEATH
But the doctor had encouraged them to-believe
that she would recover.
Stewart Wortlie sat with her during the long
night, and they laid their plans for the future, as
we'll as rehearsed the history of the past The
young lover was on the point of returning when
he received the letter of Emma. On his arrival
at Havana, instead of proceeding to New York,
he took the steamship for New Orleans, and had
arrived only the day before he had met Emma.
On the following morning Stewart and Emma
appeared at the Recorders office, and the identity
of the watch was fully established. The broker
was bound over for examination on the charge of
theft; but died in few days after of yellow fever.
Under the assiduous attentions of DR., and
careful nursing of the old negress, Mrs. Wilson
was so far recovered in fortnight as to be able
to proceed to her brothers plantation, where she
now waits his return.
Stewart accompanied them, and the marriage
is arranged to take place Immediately on the re-
turn of Mr.. Wilson.
Our story is told.
"Whom the heart of man shuts out, straigh:way
the heart of God takes in.'' r...s. .#t