Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-06-14
BATH, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE L. 1855
hands. and gazed abstractedly upon the reced-

hands. and gazed abstractedly upon the reced-
ing shore. hHr
Suddenly he bethought him Of his letter.
He opened it, and to his surprise roll Of
bank bills fell from it. He glanced upon
them they were all bills of large amount
The letter merely said
You will not refuse the enclosed from one
who believes in your innocence. When you
make the fortune which know your energy
will achieve in the new country TO which you
are going, you can repay them, if you like, to
your sister FANNY
Three years after the above occurrence, a
young man lay sick TO death upon his bed, raw
ing in his delirium, TO see Mr.. Redfeld, the
father of the murdered Isabel.
Mr.. Redfeld stood beside the dying couch
of the man who was to have been the husband
of his daughter.
l am sorry TO see you SO low, my poor
Augustus said Mr.. Redfeld kindly.
'Oh, speak not 10 me. 1t was l who stabbed
Isabel = exclaimed the young man wildly.
All we're Mortified at these words. His
mother and sister imputed them TO the deliri-
um Of disease but when he grew more calm,
and solemnly repeated bis observation, they
were forced to believe him.
Before his death he narrated all tho particu-
lars of hisunnatural deed.
1t seems that the proud Isabel, from the
time the handsome Sternberg entered her
fathers house, had smiled less graciously upon
her affianced Augustus Raymond. S,ung to
madness by jealousy, he had watched them to-
gether, had heard Isabel, the evening previous,
appoint the grove as meeting place, that she
had something very particular to say to Stern
berg.
Augustus repaired himself TO the spot before
day-break, secreted himself-heard the con-
versaIion saw the reluctance of Sternberg-
heard the passionate Isabel avow her love for
him, and urge him to make her his wife,
Siernberg refused her gently but firmly. At
first she was angry, but he soothed her into
quiet, and left her after confessing to her that
he loved another. She acquitted him of at
tempting in the slightest to gain her love, and
as he turned TO depart, she smiled sweetly
upon him, and said she would try to forget
him except with the love of a sister, but that
none other could ever supply his place in her
affections
Perfectly infuriated with passion, Augustus
Raymond stood before her upon Sternberg's
departure, and reproached her more like de-
mon than man, win her PerGJy.
Her manner was so naughty and indignant,
that insane with jealousy and passion, her dis
carded lover plunged the fatal steel into her
fair bosom, and then dashing into the thicket
made his escape with the cunning caution that
eluded the eyes Of all, and locking the fatal Sc
cret up in his own breast, he escaped without
being suspected even of the foul deed.
The repentant lover died, and the father of
the murdered girl wished to make reparation
10 the falsely accused Sternberg.
Finding the turn affairs had taken, Fanny
Talbot confessed to her father, with counte-
nance suffused with bushes, that she knew the
hiding place of the acquitted lido. She had
corresponded with him faithfully in his exile.
A few weeks more, and the now happy
Sternberg returned to his friends more highly
in favor than he had ever been before.
1t was with proud and exultant heart that
the fond father placed his daughters hand in
that of lido Sternberg, who, under an assumed
name, had won both fortune and fame during
his exile-who had also proved himself in all
ways so worthy of the trust now reposed in
him-the sacred trust of the safe keeping of
loving woman's heart and happiness.