Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1857-09-06

welded husband, IN he sight OF COD aud nan !
See mark, all Of youi have tokens -
With this she hurriediy opened the west q
he deesased, sjtaculailpk - II to ser herself
81 Next TO hia hs2Tt-ln bis oobom h wore
them-for my sake, for the sake Of bis unborn
! ehlldFD But, altar a tine, her hands be-
gan 10 relax IN their search a degree Of faint
ness appeared 10 come ever her. and she erisd :
q They are rot hsrel they are gonep' Hsr
eyes 81 tnls instant fell on Lady Busta's eoun-
~teaance ; an expression OF u~inmpbatt malice
sat upon n, and the miserable Barbara, ex-
Claiming. 4 they have bsea taken away, and
am lost - fell back on the ground 10 a state OF
utter Inconsistencies. She was borne 10 The
house In a eoadltion scarcely more alive than
that OF the corpse which was carried beside
her.
The bodies Of The other unfortunate GlGords
and their cousin, the clergyman, were 81 found
in the course Of the succeeding days; but the
cause OF the loss Of the boat on as cain a
nikht was never known. Left ebildlesss or at
least without male heirs, b. this event, AZ
might have been supposed that the intelligence
% her sons having left q widow likely TO be-
come 4 mot1er Would Lave beet 90 Ltdy Bcsta
like the rise OF 4 star OF hope upon a night OF
sorrow. Il might have been expected that The
relict Of her son would under such eircnm-
stances, have become 20 her the most Interest,"
ing object on earlh, and that she would have
ANALuE4 WI w "a AANA NANHNANAA
in the hope Of receiving = precious eompsnsa-
ton for al hat had been lest. Human beings
with ordinary feelings will scarcely credit hat
IL should have teen oihefwisei and yet Il was
20. After the discovery Of her eldest sons re-
mains, ard the scene already related, Lady
Basts 1nserupulously gaze out that the expect
ed infant which Barbara Pitcairn confessed
herself about 20 bear, was il~legitimate, and
that 10 marriage bad ever probably been
u - a L. - -. - ali HI LAg
Busta know that no proofs Of that marriage
couid now be addueed 10 falsify her words.
Too well also did poor Barbara know it after
the hour When she kuelt BY her beloved Gf-
fsrd's body on the beach. From the sick bed
to which she was then carried, she never rose
for many weeks, and she had prayed nsvef 70
rise again, unless il was the will Of Heaven
that she shonld live for her child. Her spirit,
her heart, was broken, and she bad no strength
to struggle against the power that oppressed
her. She had no home, no friends to hy to.
One only attempt to Move Lady Busta's com
passion did che mske-one only attempt TO
avert shame from the unborn ekild, for the ia
theirs sake, II not for the mothers Lady
BuEta's reply was in these stern worls: We
mani an Acknowledged alliance with thee
would disgrace our house, and thou and thy
child must suffer the penalty that all pay who
offend and 0isobey me" Lady Busta's hvs-
band, however, a good man, bat incapable Of
contesting against bic wIfe's will, vas much
kinder to Barbara, and gave her strong assn
RANGES that her child and she should be pro-
tected.
Nor did these assurances prove nugatOry.
After recovering from her sickness, Barbara
removed from Busta House 10 a neighboTing
cottage, where she gave birth to a dne boy To
! this child his grandfather became deeply al
taehed; aud after a year or SO had passed sway,
be prevailed on Barbara to give tbs boy TO him,
to be brought up and educated. Strange to say.
Lady Busts gave her consent to this arrange
ment, although unfolding at he same time The
little Gideon-for such was the hame given 10
the boy-to be illegitimste. Nay, more; she
exactsd from the servants OF the family, and
from all arouad the same respect and attention
to him as if he were the uHdOubted wediock-
born heir Of Busia. Her own behavior 10 him
exhibited a striking mixture Of affection and
dislike. Though she suggested nothing, yet
she objected to nothing that was for his good.
She even consented, after the lapse Of several
years, and when her husband felt himself drop
ping fast to the grave, that an entail of the
estate Of Basta should be executed in favor Of
the boy! This seed was not long drawn up
ere the old nan died, and bis grandson Gideon
thus became, when about twelve years OF age,
irrevocably the heir Of Busta.
The last years Of Barbara Pitcairn's life were
soothed by the thought Of her sons welfare,
and at her death, which occurred a few years
after that OF GideOn's grandfather, she had but
one desire uLfnlfiled relative to things OF earth.
Lady Bdsta; at Bsrbara's request, went to see
her on Der dying bed, and on entering the room
where she was, beheld her lying, pale and
emaciated, with her son on his knees, weeping
over her hands. The departing woman spoke
not on the visitors entrance, bnt, pointing with
her finger to the handsome form Of Gideon.
cast on Lady Busta a look Of pathetic entreaty.
The lady understood the look, but her cTuel
pride steeled her against its influence, and she
turned and walked away.
Barbara Pitcairn died on that night, and
within three years afterwards Lady Busta sank
into the tomb, leaving Gideon GIfoTd, ct the
age Of twenty-one, the soie-possessor Of the
property OF Busta. Yet tbs stain Of illegiti-
macy remained upon him, and be lad married,
and become the father Of a large aud happy
family, ere the honor Of his motber-of poor
Barbara Ptcairn-was indicated before the
world, though that world, to do it Justice, had
ever entertained the impression that she had
been legally married to John Giford. Among
the papers OF Lady Busta was a packet given
at her death to Lady SymbisteT, one Of her
daughters. 10 this packet was a marriage GER
tihcate, bearing that John Clifford and Barbara
Pitcairn were suly married by John Fiskin, in
presence of William and Hay Clifford, a~ttesting
witnesses. All these parties, it will be remsm-
bered, persisted in the Yoel Accompanying
this certificate was a letter from Lady Busta
TO her daughter, coHfessing that she had de-
MED the fact Of her sons marriage chiefly be-
cause she could not bear the thought Of such
an alliance, or that any one /" should divide au.
thority with hefseif 10 the House Of Busta =
How Lady Busta became possessor Of ths
proofs OF the marriage does not appear froU
the packet. The opportunities, however, which
she had when the body Of her son was found
remove all mystery from the matter.
These disclosures restored honor and station
to the descendants OF John Clifford and Barbara
Pitcairn. The messureless and indomitabls
pride which prevented the earlier reversal Of
the inJus ice, aad, indeed, which caused the
injustice to be done at first, may be thought
unnatural and yet nothing can be more faith
fsl to the reality than the picture given Of
Lady Busta. Such characters certainly oceuI
seldom in nature, but it is not less true thai
they sometimes do occur. Happy for society
thar they are bat rarely seen.