New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-30

let me help you up TO our ho7se We got my boat"
susan Grew bsck with shudder.
On no. Sam, can't, che said family.
>, lou re sick, Mics Susan, or you re going 10 be-
i, could md somebody or DO something II have
10 go, eutss for mother. Oh. dear Mise Susan |
can tell what 10 do-can yoQ :"
Nothing " said Susan but in 40 faint a ,opa ,bs,
Sam dio Lot hear her; the poor fellow dropped her
arm rom ns graso, threE himself into a chair and
despapely thrust his hand through his bushy locks
rhh your mother were here, Sam Susan
reused herself TO say. II you could make No e.
snd may be you'd run I, r somebody somewhere. I'm
mind me Sam"
Delighted that there was anything he could 10, San
hustled about and built FIRE, and was ready in a
few MINUTES TO stt out for his mother Bu:ss he
took up his lantern be turned back again from the
door
me Susan, If l can do il -
Oh, yes, if you please ssid Susan; but she spoke
a. 10 oieen-her eyes were closed, and she did not
" No cant, said Sam, resola'ey putting do IN
the lantern again. Nj TIL you 90 to BEL FIRST.
II help you in, ard be Of like streak"
The wisdom OF this proposition, awkwardly urged
ard hardly above the boys breath seemed TO make
an impression on Susan. She tried to rise in co np
aDee with hs suggestion but osld not and the Young
sailor Id cooperation caught her IA his arms.
Here, you re gciDa 10 tumble over cried he
ARD ne carried Ter in his arms, now nsen-ible to her
bed.
Ard then, Instead of going away in search of other
help, until morning he was l.borno A, his wits end
10 revive aud strengthen Susan Bu, hi. u'm ,st sue.
TO rouse her 10 Consciousness for a momeat;
ste would constantly sink again Into insensioty,
and be dared Lot lesv her.
With the dsy-daen his courage revived and he
stsrfed for home. Never was sifter yoy age made
than bis. In an hour after he left Sussns side long
before sunrise, five boats filed with fishermen 10
whom intelligence of old Walters loss had been con
uuLicated, were moving rapidly over the sea TO the
lonely beach where Dillon Q coll AIRY cabin stood.
We add the following fearful episode which IL
pe,fsctly ineligible without. reference to the
anteceden's Of the persons, who figure 10 its
accomplishment:
Rose needed not TO have been in such haste to re-
SPEEDY return Of her husband for he did not return
home until the evening was far advanced
Ii was chief dread Of his coming that Induced
her to send Lucia awsy-but this was not the sole
reason. To Rose the presence of her youog sister
wss distressing. A reproach too keen and searching
to her own false wasted life given, unswares by
that faithful buoyant, joyful nature.
When the door closed be- hind Lucia, Rose sat DOM
to think upon the visit;-sbs recalled her sisters
words-ihe hope Lucia had drawn from the youth Of
Rose. But what was that youth Her health loug
since exhausted feeble wasted, and cesp airing,
che had 40, the nerve or brsin or courage for any
manner of eIertion tuch as could be attended with
any really good result.
Death che said and felt, was the only prospect for
her. Death, lingering or speedy, as the case might
be- Butt might have been so different
To deaden, not 10 quicken thought, TO deliver her
selfrom tie tantazipg of it might have BEEN and the
horror of the imposibty of il shs be, the unhappy
woman resored. there wss no other reeouce left for
her, 10 the opiate which had ofteltmes given her
lief dtliverance from herself.
But il did not serse her thus in this exremity-did
not deaden thought, but, instead brought out the
recollectons Of former times and scenes into startling
relief before her eyes. $40 looked back TO her
Dat. ,ha tbat anil ofo tba
years that followed alter and upon the age that hsd
prematuIely fallen upon her, such age has no JOY,
Do hope, 10 deliversnce; decrepi,ude of heart aud
soul pertsning to it, n6rnity of will belonging to it
its prospect desol stioD dr9srinessand the t0rures
of self accusation and shame because Of the unhoy
bopeless prospect The psst Noticeable because of
il. guilt the future on account Of its namees terrors
SID despair.
She looked from herself, from the misery of her
own present to the which Lucia had described
in outline and which she filled into perfect picture
aided by her excited Imagination. Her father, in
spite Of the disgrace which through her I'd fallen
Liza eye, growing younger every day-made happy by
his CHILDREN happiness IN that home long
she thought over the strange problem. And Of little
Rosa growing up under such guardianship
She recalled Lucas ris, which had stirred up her
soul OILY TO make her missry more hopeless from
conscious inability TO follow GU! any suggestion that
pointed to future integrity OF life 1t is the awful
sngush of this hour, that while she sees good that
might be attained by her own resolute endeavors by
On interchangeable persistence in vissn, well doing,
the falls exhausted from the excitement OF the thought,
unable It because slfeady she has destroyed
the faculties by which to achieve, and has retained
alone the faculty by which she can perceive all that
che has lost.
The remembrance that rushed upon her soiled aud
defaced womanhoOd che could not endure. Bring to
the roused teDses heavier Opate - deaden the
thought that lashes her soul with the stripes Of re-
morse ard shame Soon, she knows, there will arrive
an Eternity which hss no opiates sleep and
forg etfulnefs now, a. any price
Ii is heavy drsueht she quaffs in her desperaton
ard the terrible memory Is vanqulshedi it lies
dumb poweIless. Sumber binds her senses. The
BODY and the mind repose
Ard by and by. % time went on, the fire went out
upon the heartt-there was 10 light there.
Toward midnight Maurice, the husband Of Rose,
came home.
He v emit up the dark stairway with unsteady step.
He knew his destination, and also when he came to
it but little beside. Opening the door OF the per-
he CROPPED forward to the mante took down the anp,
end lighted it with match
As be did go, his eyes fell upon the chair where his
wife sat slice ping.
"Ceme, Rs.e," be said 81 want my supper; since
you are up yet, fly around-Ill take good strong
cup Of tea"
But Rose did not answer.
This hardly surprised him. he thought that she was
sleeping, and, in louder voice he said:
Rose, cup Of tea do you hear "a cup of tea,
Roee Come STIR yourself! want cup oi tea,
good strong cup Of tea
He arose. crossed the hearth and laid bis hand on
her aim but she never moved. lie shock her gently,
ess gently roughly passona'elyi bat che slept on.
He listened TO her breathing, and muitered drlnkeny
ton ching about the monttrous injustice OF q man
beirg cured with drunken wife; and talked abou'
the probability of a divorce.
PisciI the lamp upon the table, he drew the chair
be had occupied the hearth, and sitting down
in front of his wife he began TO talk to her. Ills own
words led him on. His oxn confused thoughts msd:
der him. az did her placid slumber the fire found
lie way into his brain-he was beside himself.