Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-04-27


started for the stairs, and there ! met
my antagonist; III his hands was a
large horse pistol and a candle; lie
raised the pistol to my BREAST and
pulled the trigger, but it missed fire.
dashed at him with all the force
could muster, knocked the candle out
Of his hand. and buried my knife in
his body He fell backwards, rolling
and tumbling down the steps just
before me, with the life blood spout
ing from his side. l,darted through
the aperture in the door with my
dirk in my band, and rushed along
the deserted streets with the velocity
Of the wind, and reached my room
just as day was breaking. After
washing the blood from my face and
hands | put on another suit entire,
with clean linen, and burnt up those
| had pulled off that there might be
no clue against my guilt, for firmly
believed | had committed murder. y
washed my dirk, ard after washing
! it sat down with it in my hand. AT
ter taking calm survey of the past
few hours, became more and more
convinced that there was no prospect
OF escape, when the thought Of self
destruction camo into my mind. =
This (holding up the weapon) shall
put an end TO my sorrows, | muir
INJURED! this shall put a period to my
miseres and wrongsl this shall be
the refuge Of the murderer a dear
refuge a cordial that will heal. =
"Ha!' exclaimed Wane, ''ha! then
you had the nonsense to believe, with
hundreds Of Others who have hurried
themselves out Of the world, that a
knife could cut from the heart the
venom Of sorrow, ELI? had thought
you had more sense than that; a
nice business! a ply sician might as
well cut the throat he is healing, =
''lie who knows not what sorrow is
may req son logically against its pre-
ventive4,' replied Bggs. "Wane,
when the world shall present to the
vision Of your inner life-your soul
the appearance Of indispensable
gloom which it has presented TO me
when the earth shall be to YOU an
unilluminated dungeon, cold, dreary,
and comlortless. Its sweetest pleas
ures canker to the hoart--its Joys,
griels. When the sun shall have no
grandeur, the stars no beauty, the
faces of mon 10 smiles--wheh the
bloom of the spring flower shall be
pale snd sickly, the verdure Of the
field faded, and the ioliage Of the
forest sere and yellow, even at the
noontide Of summer, then, and not
ill then, will yon believe that suicide
is d necessity. | have seen times
when one universal trown seemed
over the face of humanity,
turn ling all loveline$s to corruption,
and freezing up fore ver every visible
spar K of ear thly divinity. You may
not have seen such times" mo,
and I've more than a small amount j
Of d pubt that l shall ever see the
lay which you have just described,
eoolly replied Wane. "The glass
youlsee things through does ut suit. ,
my organs of vision exactly. God
mad men for other uses than TO turn
ile 8nto a graveyard, or to curl up
ike.vegetables in a frost, and whine
tut Existence. But above all, for a
nan to be smashed 0 right by a wo- '
nan, is to my limited CONCEPTION a ;
'retty sure sign of weak mind =
3ut go on with Your dissecting ope-
alton. ! am sure Of one Thing, that
he knife did not quite rea BIB YOUR n
ieart or you'd not now be telling the +
tory" | felt OF the knife 10 see if =
he late use to which ] ha4 pnttit O
ad dulled it any, then raising my +
and towards heaven, offered a silent o
rayer to the God Of the sorrow q
tricken. / prayed for iorgiy eness, O
which | know you did not expect, Fl
hen you well knew you were com
lifting a crime against God and
ourself that would have made. Satan Oh
imself shudder. A crime for which ii
0 one can obtain forgiveness, be- H
luse they deprive themselves Of C
lie power to repent. But &C. on; OF
m interrupting you." No matter bl
lst at this moment sudden feel. tn
g of drowslness- came over me, ne
lich was pccasioned | suppose, by
Q consequent reaction of undue D.
My brain grew dizzy, -
ing up sta ggered to the door, ~ ~
itch | locked, then made for the o. ~
d which stood near, and falling e.
omit ! was soon wrapt in death o.
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