The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1856-09-04

gain time, and trust to find an opportunity
10 attain her object. And thus tempori.
sing and watching, the day, whose wan
light she was dimly conscious Of for few
hours, passed away, and again night came.
All that time she had, broken in body
and spirit, passed crouched on the wretched
mattress. Her goaler had offered her food
but she had shrunk from il with loathing:
and though she fit not the slightest dispo-
stion to eat, still the want of sustenance,
and the suiferiugs, mental and physical, OF
her situation. had worn her down 70 q de-
| gree Of painful prostration. Far on in the
night she sunk into troubled doze. A
slight stir in the room awoke her; but she
affected still to sleep, and with half-oren
eyes watched with catliko vigilance
She saw her captor moving quietly
about, but rather as if in consideration for
her slumter than as though fearing detec.
ton. What had he to fear from herl She
saw him, after casting glance from where
she lay, and listening to her respiration,
take from the place where he KEEP. it the
the fatal ring. He hesitated for n moment,
as if doubtful where to deposit it, then, with
significant toss of the head, that said as
plain as toss could say, while have her
safe, there is no danger for it." he placed
it in little closet in the wall, and taking
his hat, left the room, locking the door af,
ter him.
With every nerve on The stretch, the
marquise listened for some minutes; then,
reassured by the silence, she spraug with
noiseless rapidity from the pallet, and in a
moment was at the cupboard door; she
tried it, it yielded to her hand almost with
out an effort. Again she listened, but the
rapid beating Of her heart was the ONLY
sound that came 10 her ears. Within the
closet was little box this she took down
and opened; and there, encircled in its own
light, lay the jeweled serpent, coiled at the
bottom, glaring up at her with its malig-
nant emerald eyes. She clutched it; the
hrst step was gained; the next-the next she
was spared the necessity Of deciding on,
by the sudden opening of the door, with
an oath. No love now marked the expires.
sion of the hated rufIian's face, as he rush
ed upon her. Shrieking, she crouched,
still grasping the ring.
Give 1t up or crush you,'
Never"
One blow OF his clenched fist on her tenn
pie, and she fell, white and nerveless, at his
feet, wnile the ring dropped from her limp
hand. The roLber took it up; in an instant
his aspect underwent a change; he gazed
upon the PROSTATE form with despairinp
horror; he seized her in his arms, carried
her 10 the light, bent over her with pas
sionate exclamatons Of tenderness and self
reproach. She did not shrink from him
now-she did not turn her face from his
she lay unress,ng in his arms-dead
A WoRD UPcS BEARps.-William anu
Rufus shaved. Henry |. resumed the
beard, SO long laid upon the shelf Stephen
had a beard, and was bearded by his bar
ons; Richard |. had short, crisp, close
beard; Edward |. a long beard; Edward IL
a weak beard; Henry V. fought at Agin.
court with clean chin; Henry VI. wore a
beard; Edward Nv. shaved, aud so did
Henry VII; Henry VIII had wiry, close
bushy beard; Edward VI. died before his
beard came; Charles is grew dwindled
and Spanish. In Elizebeth's reign we
have Shakespeare describing the cane color.
ed beard, the black, white, orange, tawny
purple, ingram beard; tie beard like a gen.
eral and the beard like a glover's peariuc
knife, the hungry beard, and the beard o.
formal cut; the soldier bearded like pard
and the coward with the beard Of Hetcule.
and frowning Mars. Among the curiou.
anec lotes of boards, the Oldest is that o.
John Mayo, painter, at the court o.
Charles v, whose beard was so long thai
he could stand upon il; this cataract of hail
he kept tied up with ribbons TO his button
holes, sometimes unfasteuing it at the En-
perors wish, opening the doors and win
dows that il might blow into the faces o
the angry courtiers. Another famous beart
WAS that of q Bavarian merchant, who KEEP
II enclosed in velvet bag to prevent i
from dragging the ground. An old wri
ter, of more gravity we fear than vcracity
asserts that the inhabitants of HarIenbur!
had formerly the singular custom Of elect
ing the Burgomaster who had the longes
beard and the biggest foot oar Friend
CrEIoUs DEvIcE.-l'he Episcopal Churcl
OF ST. Paul, in New Haven, Conn, has il
one OF It's towers two stones cut into form
of the ace Of clubs aud ace of diamonds
devices taken from n pack OF cards. 1'h
explanation given is this: the architect frs
employed in the erection of the bnildin!
was a Deist, and man of bitter cynics
J Spirit. BY way of burIesque, le resolve
to cut the stones for the structure into sucl
figures that huge pack of cards Nigh
; appear tiaming out at the sides of the 50
crp1 sttlpturs Re ,noors &c