Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-06-15
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trate.
Then have arrived in tme,' murmured
the clergyman. You Will allow me, sir to
take your place,
Squire Hitchcock bowed, and stood respect
fully aside.
Every eye was fixed on the haggard face
and strangely cleaning eyes of the clergy
man.
| Julius Britton, said Mr.. Wortley, in
deep, earnest voice, is it your intention to
make this woman your wife 2
Britton bowed his. head.
Then. added the clergyman, III il your
intention to perjure yourself before God and
man.
There was movement of surprise and
wonder among the guests. Britton became
livld with rage and apprehension. The bride
clasped her hands, fixed her eyes intently on
the clergyman, and stood white and motion
less as marble statue
Sir said Mr.. Bell, anxiously, do YOU
know what you are saying!'
know speak the TRUTH replied Mr.. w.
Here are my Witnesses
DIR. Martin stepped forward. Britton re-
coiled with look Of CONSERVATION and rage.
Do you know me, villain :! demanded the
doctor. i am Samuel Martini am The
father Of your injured aUifc 2
1t is false, muttered Britton hoarsely.
Take the madman away
The doctor sneered, raised his hand, and a
stout man advanced through the crowd of dis
concerted and amazed guests.
Mr.. Britton, said he, I'VE know each 9th
er, and you will not doubt my authority. 1t
is my duty to arrest you'
Sir = muttered Britton, 'of what am | ac-
cused.
Forgery replied the sheriff.
| Brlttons countenance fell he made no re-
sistance; and while the company broke up in
confusion, and the bride was fainting in the
arms of her maids, the sheriff and his assistant
conveyed their prisoner to the nearest public
house to keep him until morning.
| This event made quite a sir in PeItonville
Britton was suddenly remembered to have
been a knavsh-looking fellow: Susan Bell
was pitied. and the clergyman idolzed.
1t was several weeks before Susan again
appeared in her accustomed place on the Sab
bath, for a lingering fever had been the result
of the suffering she had undergone.
AT length she entered the church with her
father-thin and pale, but no less beautiful
than formerly. AS Mr.. Wortley, having as
cended the pulpit, cast his eye in the direction
Of Mr.. Bells pew, and saw Susan's sad,
sweet face turned towards him, he felt thrill
of pleasure, strangely mixed with pain
Many were the sentiments in his sermon ad-
dressed to her that day-words of advice and
consolation which none could understand as
well as she, and for which she felt truly CRATE
| full
One afternoon Mr.. Wortley received a copy
of the l. Gazette, from which he learned
that Britton had been convicted Of forgery and
sentenced to FIVE years in the State Prison,
and that his injured wife had ended her sor-
rows within an hour after he had been con-
demned. Such was the sad intelligence the
clergyman had to convey that evening to Su-
san Bell.
| am not sorry to hear Of her DEATH said
Susan. Death must be relief to the brok-
en- hearted, and 0, it seems to me now he
must teel remorse. 'Ah, my friend, she add
ed, with tears in her eyes, from what dread
full fate have you saved me and how can
ever hope to repay the debt | owe you'
Il am repaid in seeing you happy replied
Mr.. Wortley, in tender, fervent tone but
it, he added, pressing her hand, you could
freely, from your heart, grant me the sweetest
boon ever desired, you would reward me a
thousand times
He looked down in her eyes she looked
up in his, and she did not withdraw her hand.
A few months after the clergyman was we'd
ded to one every way worthy to become a
clergyman's wife; and if ever person sus-
pected that he married Susan for her money,
that person must have been speedily convinced
to the contrary, by the use MIR. Wortley made
of it in doing good