Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1855-07-05

soon loved him again. All my love came
back in one full, boundless tide; and the
icurren. Of nv being Sc, towards him again
Jas before. If he had asked me for my life
l'hen, as his mere fancy 10 Destroy, would
have given it to him. ] would have laid
down and died, if he had wished to zee the
flowers grow over nv grave.
Ny husband and Ellen grew more estran-
,ged as his sffeclion seemed 10 return 10 me.
! His manner 10 her wss defying hers 10
him contemp,uous. heard her call him
william once, in the gardens below the win
fdows; a. which be lsughed-his wicked
laugh, and said, "tell her and see If she be-
ilieve You"
Il ] was sitting in the window working-i.
s=wss cold, damp dav in the late Autumn,
when the chilIings Of November are just be-
ginning, those fogs with the fros. in Them
Ishs. e.eal into ones very heart. II was .
day when visible blight is in the air, when
death is abroad everywhere, and sufferng
fsnd crime. was alone in the drawing room.
Ellen was up stairs, end my husband, ss
believed. in the city Blu. have remember
led since. ths, heard the hall door softly
opened, and foo,s,ep steal quietly by the
drawing room up stairs. The evening was
jus, beginning to close in-dull, gray, end
phos.Ike; the dying dsyligh. melting into
Ithe long shadows that e.slked like wander
ing ghosts sbou, which dreamed such fond
dreams, and wove such large hopes Of hap
|piness; end ss ! SAT, while the evening fell
heavily sbou. me. dread presen,imen', a
consciousness Of i'll, that made me .remble
iss il an egue-angry al myself, though, for
my folly. Bu, it was reality. !. was no
hys.ericsl sinking of the spirit that fel. ;
no mere nervousness or cowsrdice; pres
ence, power, warning word, q spirits
Icry, tina, had swep. by me ss the fearful evil
marched on 10 it's conclusion.
heard Q faint scream up stairs. 1t wss
so faint could scarcely distinguish i. from
q sudden rush Of wind through an opening
door, or the chirp Of mouse behind The
wsinscoi. Presently hesrd the same sound
again; and then dull muffled noise over
head, as some one walking heavily, or dfsg
ing heavy weight across the floor. ] sa.
peni6ed by her. A nsmeless agony was
upon me that deprived me Of all power Of
action. though, Of Harry snd though
# Ellen in an inex,ricable cipher Of misery
* oa,; but could no, have defined q
line in my own mind; ! could no, have ex-
planned whs. i, was that feared. only
knew that it was a sorrow 10 come, end sin.
listened, bu, ell was siIen. again; once
only though, heard low moan, and
once q mu,.ering voice-which ! know to
have been my husbands, speaking passion
alely to himself.
And then his voice swept elormfully
through the house, crying wildly "Mafy /!
Mary Quick here! Your sister Ellen :"
ran up stairs. ]. seems to me now, ,hs,
] almos, flew. saw Ellen lying on the
floor Of her own room, jus. inside,he door;
her feet towards the door OF my husbands
study, which was Immediately opposite her
room. She was (sin,ing, q. least though.
so then. We raised her up between US; my
husband trembling more than ]; end un-
fastened her gown, and threw wafer on her
face, and pushed back her hair; but she dId
not revive. ] told Harry to 60 for doctor.
A horrid though, was stealing over me; bu,
he fingered, as fsncied unsccoun.ably and
cruelty, though twice asked him to Co.
Then thought ,ha. perhaps he was TOO
much overcome; SO wen. to him and kiss
ed him and said, '.She will soon be better,
Harry" cheer(uIly to cheer him. Blu. fell
in my heart she was no more.
A, last, after many urgent entreaties, and
after the servants had come up, clustering
in frightened way around the 5ed-but he
sent them awav again immedis,ely-he pu.
on his hat, and went out, soon returning
with q strange man, not our doctor. This
man was rude and coarse, and ordered me
aside, as ] stood bathing my sisters face,
and pulled her arm and hand roughly TO zee
how dead they fell, and stopped down close
to her lips-I though. he even touched them;
all in violen. and insoIen. way, that sh ock-
ed and bewidered me. My husband stood
IN The shadow ghas,ly pale, but not inter-
,erfering.
il was too true, what the strange man had
said so cosrseIy. She was dead. Yes; the
creature .ha. an hour ago had been SO full
OF life, SO besU,iul, so resolu.e and young,
was now a s'If1ening corpse, insnins.e and
dead, without life and wi.hou. hope. Oh
tina, word had Sc, my brain on fire Dead |!
here, in my house, under my roof-dead so
mys,eriously, so strsngely-why /? how
|. was fearful dream, it was no truth tha.
lay there. was not in a nightmare; was
no. sane; and thinking how ghas'ly i. was,
tainted soft on the bed, no one knowing,
till some time after, ,ha, had fallen and was
not praying. When / recovered | was in
my own room, clone. Crawling feebly to
my sisters door, found that she had been
washed and dressed, and was now laid ou.
on her bed. Il struck me ths! all had been
done in strange haste; Harry telling me the
servants had done it while tainted. knew
afterwards what he had told them that il
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