Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-03-30
PLYMOUTH INDIANA THURSDAY MARCH 30 1854.


the ancient oaks, shone IN the clear NOR
ming light with the bril!.ancy of fanny
tongues.
Mother, mo ther, I've seen Sallier said
Willie Grey, rushing into the house when
his sister. releasing him from her em-
brace. had fled. She kissed me in the
garden; she was behind the bushes and
ran away into the cornfeld.'
why | declare the child is crazy said
the mother, somewhat alarmed and excl
ted. You saw Sallie. where my boy?'
In the garden. little bit ago. since
was up; she was there but she went away.
No. that's silly. you thought so when
you was in bed. you was asleep when
you thought So.
But Willie insisted strongly that he
had just seen his sister. and his mother
went out to look, and Mr.. Grey was call
ed. but nothing confirming the boys
statement was observed until he began
TO cry at being so doubted, and pointed
out the place where Sallis had passed the
fence into the corn field. There. sure
enough, were fresh dainty tracks. which
the oldest boy OF the family protested he
knew to be Sallie'S. as well as if he had
seen her make them. Terror now seized
the household. and each one, from the
ather to Willie the youngest. felt vague
dismal apprehension.
Mr.. Grey at once saddled his best horse
aud rode brskly off toward the city. to
see his brother with whom his daughter
had been living. Before night he re-
turned, bringing the shocking tiIings that
Sallie was unaccountably missing from
the city. and that there too was distress
and confusion at the strange event.
The last that was known of the lost
girl. she had been in the parlor alone.
with Young man Of wealth and fashion
with whom she had beeu much in society,"
and TO whom it wss presumed in some
quarters. that she was engaged. She had
not been missed until morning. when a
hurried inquiry had been made. The
young man had been called upon, and
found about ais business as usual. and
shared the surprise at the Disappearance
of the object of solicl,udc.
Mr.. Grey secured the country. search
ing and m king inquiries in all directions
but could learn nothing more. The fu
gitive could be traced through the corn
field to the edge Of the wood, but no. far
Iher.
More minute investigation into the
state of affairs In the city. only revealed
the fact that she had been devotedly at
tached to the young man i'll whose com
pany she was last Known to be. that he
had seemed deeply enamored OF her. and
afflicted al her loss, and that she had been
in trouble about some thing that she kept
a secret. and when spoken tn vegarding
her low spirits. was painfully asi:ated.
This stroke of afFliction was dread
full one to her family. She had been their
pride. Her father had doated on her,
and though in but humble circums stances.
desired that she should possess the edu-
cation and accomplishments Of his ideal
ofa lady. and with this view he had
placed her at his brothers house in the
city, whence she attended school and en-
joyed the advantages Of metropolitan So
ciety. She was one OF the chief treas
ures of his heart. and he had hoped that
she would reflect honor upon him, and
reward him for the sacrifices made for
her. but now she was cruelty plucked
away. and mourned as lost, with more Ut
ter bitterness than If he has. followed her
to the grave.
IL. far f,Q 1ot HI ~.
at home beneath the very shadow of his
dwelling. he would at once have visited
the responsibility of her disappearance
upon her lover, and sough! vengeance of
him. And though the circums,an-
ces were stranges and almost irrecon-
cilable with each other. upon any ina.
ginable hypothesis. he still in his heart
felt that that young man was. in some
way. the origin of the calamity that nigh
drove him to despair. He could no; re-
solve the dim conjectures that haunted
him into anything on which to base a
plausible accusation, nor could he Danish
them.
He could hardly bear the scenes where
her presence had been familiar, nor the
sounds with which her voice had min
gled. His fields seemed desolate, though
yielding plenty. The woods in which
she had vanished. stretching toward the
vast shadowy west, were TO him a gigan-
tic tomb. solemn as if filled with the
awful spectral armies of dead generations.
And there was all indefinable attraction
In them too, and his dreams were often
OF the wonderful rivers that flowed
through the mighty wilderness; and on
their broad bosoms Of crystal and foam,
he saw his lost child in the garb of saw
age. weeping piteously. going downward
to the sea. And these dreams framed
themselves into wan superstition. bear
ing his thoughts westward westward
no!
CHAPTER III.
When Ohio was the FAR Wrsr.
party of hunters, whose arms were rifles.