The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-06-04
WESTERLY R l.. THURSDAY, JUNE d. 1857.


lear no more. Her love for him was as
srong as ever. His fine intellect was
yet undmned. L was indeed a hard
trial for the young and devoted girl.
1t was just at this period that she as
sumed the situation and responsibilities
of preceptress in the pleasant school at
A. And she came to great resolution
in her heart. She would not see Fred
ii, for year. She would not even
write to him. She'd labor and wait. ,
If he was true to his promises to her, at
the end of that time she would become
his wife if not their engagement was to
be at an end
In all this he acquicsccd, and they
parted. The aunt at whose house the
interview had taken place, was to keep
all profound secret, as she alone knew
arght of their plans.
Nellie came to A. how much we soon
loved her ! have already told you. New
er did teacher labor more faithfully than
did she and so great was her resolu
tiop and self tcontrol that no one in A
for long time dreamed that her heart
concealed aught of sorrow in its depths.
Even |, intimate as | soon became with
her, only dinly OWNED that her life was
ny all sunshine but what darkened it
was 10 me, as to the rest, unknown
Had ellie remained thus as she stipu
lated during the entire year, she would
have cgmc forth a nobler and a better
woman Her one sin would have been
laid low, and she had never become the
wife of Fredric Doleval.
But he was man void of any fixed
principle. So he only secured his own
ends, accomplished his own purposes, he
cared not how, or at what cost Ere a
three months had passed he had written
Nelie-onc Of those eloquent, pleading,
heart-stirring letters which he could so
well write. She could not, she did not
read unmoved but she did not answer
She yet had strength to resist that, An
other three months and he was with her
Little cared he for his promise He
wanted to see Nellie, and he went to her
His conscience had no scruples in the
matter, if it had they were dim aud un
certain and ttful ,not sufficient to restrain
him. His desires aud bis passions had
ever been his masters. 1t was no easy
task now to make them slaves and he
did not attempt the thing.
Poor Nellie, she had just heard of
another misdemcauor Of his, young
girl betrayed, ruined and murdered -
for is it not murder when a heart is brok.
en- and the grave has closed over it -
and with Gods help she had resolved tC
love no more one so every way unwortb.
! of her.
But he came. She saw him, and tn
old spell was again around her o
course he denied the report she ha
heard, putting a different phase upon
altoge ether and she moved by the mag
ic of his voice and kind of mesmerit
power which intellect ever weilds listen
ed and believed. She still however in.
sisted upon waiting the remaining siS
months Of the year before becoming his
wife.
lie left her and weeks glided happily
away. Much of the olden faith and
truth seemed again to have found their
way into her heart. She was happier
than for long time she had ever dream
ed she could be on earth.
But again rumors came OF wrong-oi
dissipation in every form. 1t rung he'
strong heart almost to breaking. But
with an effort worthy herself she resolv
ed never to see him more. She would
1 20 where he could not find ber She
would not trust himself even to see OF
hear from him again She would go a
once. In his presence she had eve,
been weak She would trust herself ne
more.
Hastily disepgoging herself from th'
school, she made quick preparations an'
departed She had at once decided oI
accepting a proposal that had been mad
her of going into a southern family a
governess. Telling only her own fam
ly and giving them her reasons, enjoir
ing them to secrecy, she left for her me-