True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-11-28
said nna nr .lhe snldiers

said one ofilhe soldiers. ~ s '..~ !
pm not drunk p screamed tho girl
while the blueseihs ia her temples ant
throat swelled almost to bursting: I'm
met drunk--and I'm not a thief, thougI
they make. me Out one- and III not stir
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Oh said The orphan, sobbing bitterly
let me go near ber--she's dyiqg--you'tl
saGocaipg. her, Oh ask lbem to .naIit
way for me- Continued she, rsliddeGb
graspiagl The ann of ,spldierwAo $1,000
lhke hjscomrade gazing oaathe scene ;..dt
and heaven. bless you! do il's Jessie
bits my sisier!' aaA inheragony,tlie tim.
i'd country girl leaned her brow on ht
arm sHe1eld, with hysieriral'gobs. -
"sT Make way, make way, SAID The young
mar, The flish Of sudden ply. rising tq
his face: don't you see her heart il
breaking, poor tbingn !; ,,t e.,5 s,,,l
'Ah! {! shes. anohereof lhe, same sort|!'
said. someone aslhe. crowd; asAhey, su1-
ity made way for her to pass !, buI.a deep
sileDee fell upon them when they. beheld
he meeting of the two sisters? Mary
knelt down, and utteredlin low v6ice q
single word-it was the wrctched girl s
name; but that single word and the voice
in which.il was uttered, worked like q
magic spell. Jessie rose with a weak
wN9alllng cry; the shabby bonnet and torn
cap foil from her head, and The long dark
hair, of which she had been SO vain,
@aivediin tangled masses oyerhers should
ers as she buried her flce in the bosom
Of her earliest and dearest ycompaldon.
Tlere'she wept,i passiohately, ,auresifaih-
edly, as If theylwere again aIone'in theiI
fntIe room al the farm 7sandhe Bio lear.
gushed from the closed eyelids Of The
fair and Innocent orphan, as she bent over
lhe long lost, sill loved lamb of a lorsa.
ken fold. .., =. -. ,,.., -. :. !.
.Lelus 90 home murnuted .Ma,v,
.ont.ef the, of.ahese strange people. {,
IS .IIomel' said Jessie ,,o mn home!
oh nd, oh.no, that is no place fbr your
Al viii no. leave YOU Jessie said the
orphan never, never AGAIN, where YOU
live is only 100 good for me :; lei US % >
aud she wound her ar arms nsili iliondiy round her
sisters neck. =
Through dirty narrow streets they
slowly proceeded, accompanied by the
soldier who lad been Interested byNIary's
slippicahons, and who now supported
the faint steps of the exhausted Jessie /;
whilst the orphan shruuis from the stare
of scorn, curiosity, or wohdeS (which
they a.raetcd. sss . fgsst ~ '..,.,ssz,
I They reached the house atlast,. and
The two girls ctept up the dark dirty
stairs into d low and III furHishedrroom /;
and 'tliere tiey sat down, and Jessie t6ld
her own story from ihe time Of her av-
Ing Iler place, to The moment when Mary
found her. She said she was innocent
Of the cline for, which she had been.sen.
away, and thai she. firmly believed the
lace bad been pnt8into her box by one Of
the other servants, girl. who had since
beensirensponed for arthefr comma,edin
anothersfamily. That fearing the dis
grace Of a iriaE and feeling the impossi-
bitty Of proving her innocence, she had
left her masters house in stale Of mind
approaching to tdelirium, aud as she wan
dered on, size came. 10 a bridge, and felt
irresislably prompted To- throw herself
iIomsit and so die. That while, in tile
act; Of Jumping from, the parapet, she was
saved byssa young manswhom she after
wards discosered;to boa surveyor, and
,whope,saaded her,ioireturn with him 10
ills mother, ptoniislngthai no one should