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seemed to be her virtues and her love.
And SO it had proved-Isa bella Mordant
had left home Of tenderness and indul
gence, in which she was the only child o.
parents who idolzed her. and had given
her strong and devoted affection TO Ed
ward Delaney. She had come with him
with all the trust of gulleless youth, to q
strange land--paren,s. friends. home all
were given in exchange for the love oi
one warm honorable heart. The ties oil
her childhood. the attachments of hel
youth, the admiration Of all who had
known her from infancy. seemed light sac
riiices TO lay upon the altar of her love-
she was girl o. deep feeling, strong prin'
ciples. and ambitious desires, and she
would have felt pride in immolating
her very feeling. nay her very being had
it been necessary. to prove her truth, her
| trust and her love, for the noble being
she had chosen as the idol Of her ife C ton.
She gave up all--hope, memory and al
most thought itself. to love. and that
love rested upon stranger--and Ill re.
turn what did she require? Lore!
To reign supreme. alone, and unrival'
led in the heart OF him for whom she had
reinquished her former existence, and
whom she had followed 10 home of stran-
gers-to the object of true devotion
To her husband. as he was 10 her-ioI
this she lived and moved and had her
being. And in the consciousness that
such had been her lot, during the five
years she had spent in Naichez, it can
scarcely be wondered at that their part
ing for the first time, should have filled
her with vague fear. or presentiment of
change, against which she vainly strug
gIed. The only cares which Isabella had
experienced proceeded from the illness
which her husband had suffered-some-
times when she marked his anxious face
as business was spoken of. and he COM
planned of the unsuccessfulness of his
sPecula tions. and the want of funds to
prosecute schemes ofaggrandizement. The
wish would cross her that shecould be the
means os giving him those funds he seem
ed so earnestly to desire. and then. as he
smiled upon her day-dreams and sugges'
tions, like true woman she forgot his
want of money in his fullness of affection.
and lived quite happy on their humble
income.
Often had Delaney promised to accom-
pany her to Ireland. bu, business hadpre.
vented .aa 5i% s 81 Thssh Tihfsshls lsiiffs; idifsns their wish
to see her once again, and the recent
failure of several large establishments
with which he was connected. having
completely put il out of her husbano's 5
power TO accompany her for an lndeiii
mite period-he judged it better for her
10 take their little girl and visit her aged
parents, while he Should ut tend to his
IF irs ct home-and thus il was they
parted.
Delancy's clerk returned to Natchez.-
Mrs. Delaney and Eva had sailed the day
before be left New Orleans. in the British
brig Empress, Capt. Saunders, bound for
Belfast. with fair winds and pleasant
weather, and Delaney had read and re,
read his dispatch from Isabella. dozen
times before he slept--and fervently COM
hitting his wife and child to the protec-
ton of Heaven, he prepar red his mind for
those anxietieS Of business in which the
morrow would find him immersed.
! Weeks rolled on-one vessel had hail
ed the Empress. but they were too Tar
apart for any thing more than the "alls
well of the speaking trumpet to be borne
10 the American bound ship, as they pas
sed-anolher vessel late in the evening
had seen brig flying, from what the
captain felt assured was piratical bark.
and believed from all he could ascertain
that the brig was the Empress. As the
pirates had recently been committing
dep.edations in the West India Islands
and some of them had been chased into
Barararia. where it is supposed they har-
bored. the public became greatly excited
in New Orleans, and well armed cutter
was Immediately sen. in pursuit. Vair
effort! Laftte had not yet been compel
led 10 yield TO either stratagem or valour
and his relentless desparadoes carried or
their trade Of death and robbery with i'm
punity. upon the waters Of the Gulf ant
almost within sight Of land.
Who can describe !he feelings Of De
lancy, as he thought even of the possibil
ity of his young and high.spirited Isabel
la. being in the hands of lawless crew
of pirates? The death Of his beautiful
child he thought trifle when compared
. to the sufferings that might be forced up
on his wife--imaginalion enhanced al
r the horrors perpetrated by pirates of which
he had ever read. And as days and week
passed without further tidings OF the En-
, press. his agony of mind had almost ter
, minated in madness.
At last negro. who was known 4
, have been on board the Empress whel
+ she left New Orleans, had returned t
! that port. by vessel which had take
] him. half dead with fear and hunger. fror
: piece OF plank many days after the las
I sight Of the Empress had been mentione
by the pa pers. He could give but We
ry unconnected account of the voyage
still they gathered that when the pirat
, was first discovered 10 be IN chase. tn
crew of the Empress prepared to defen
her. but the passengers were so muc
alarmed tina, many OF them jumped over
+ board and were drowned-and anon
b these he persisted was Mrs. Delaney an
{ her child. He too. had jumped over an
a swan until nearly exhausted, when h
had found plank upon which he crawl