Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-11-20
A kentucky BIopement-Tearsv VS.. Piss
tolls.

About week ago, says an exchange, a
very respectable citizen of our neighboring
burgh of Newport, named Micklewaite, was
applied to by a gentleman for board, and an
apartment for himself and lady. Mr.. NJ. at
first objected, but the stranger was importu
nate, alleging that his wife was of so retiring
disposition that she could not endure the
gaze of the inmates of public hotel, for
which reason he was more than anxious to
be accommodated. At length Mr.. Mickle-
waite consented to the arrangement and
having prepared cozy little room for their
reception, the lady, very magnificent spec
linen of feminine loneliness, was duly induct-
ed within her bower.
1t was matter of admiration to the host
and hostess, the love and devotion which
seemed to pervade the newly arrived couple;
it was evident that the honeymoon was at
the full, and that "two hearts that beat as
one," inhabited the little snuggery up stains,
which, however, to the loving pair was a
whole world, an universe strewn with golden
dreams and rose flowers. But an old bard
not Shakspeare-either wrote or said:
'.Lifes swindle and a dream,
Things amt always what they SEEM"
And so it turned out with our turtle doves,
who, it seems
allowed not wisely but TOO well.'
On Wednesday last, shortly after the arri-
val of the Lexington train, gentleman call
ed upon Mr., NJ, and requested to know if
such a couple, describing the pair in question,
were in the house. Being answered in the
affirmative, he desired to be conducted to
their apartment, which being shown him he
flung open the door, and there, seated upon
one CHAIR his legs luxuriously resting upon
another, sat the Gentleman, while the lady,
bending over him, was daintily arranging his
wavy hair.
At sight of the apparition which thus burst
upon their view, the pair started, and looked
aghast, but the intruder drew from his
breast a revolver, the landlord placed himself
between the parties and demanded an expla-
nation. The story was soon toll the lady
was the wife of the recent arrival, and eloped
about week previous from her home in Lex
ington, Kentucky, whence her husband had
traced her to her present quarters with the
intention of avenging his wounded honor.
! In the meantime the gay Lothario had
sneaked out of the room, aud left the house,
leaving his guilty partner to bear the brurt OF
the storm alone. For while she tried those
unfailng resources of woman, tears and hys-
terics, and then, while acknowledging her
error, she palliated it by pleading GOODNESS
upon his part, which chilled her love and
impressed her with the belief that he had
ceased to care for her, and how, in despair
at the loss Of her affection, she had impru-
IDENTIFY and in a moment of reckless insanity,
listened to the seductive pleadings of his
false friend and then she fell upon hei
knees, and gazed upward through her large
and lustrous eyes fixed mounfully upon his
she implored him to forgive or kill her.
! Our Benedict was moved-he cast one
look at the murderous implement he still
held in his hand, and then glanced at the
beautiful figure at his feet. 1t was a moment
of anxious doubt TO the host, who remained
a motionless spectator; but beauty in tears,
and suppliant beauty at that-pshaw, the
ODDS were all on one side-he threw the pts.
toll from him-raised his worse half to hi.
bosom and-the next mornings train brought
them back to the fair city of Lexington.