Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1857-05-21

!. as | have since thought at least; al
when she wished me her bon so
she added-s.I am sure we shall bo
= be tired to morrow, Bessie; so ca
y : ME an hour later, and take an ext
NC sleep yourself" | was never to he;
= my good mistress speak any more.
y Did | dream that night that st
had left me all her wardrobe, an
10 that | was married in the glace silk
s.kDid /, even in my sleep, bull
r schemes of what / would do with th
money that my dead mistress nigh
! l-enrich me with? No; as | hope 70
r heaven, and to meet dear Joseph
il with all my woman's vanity, | ha'
: my woman's heart too, beating tru,
, and warm. and | thought no shadow
) of evil. | told them so in court
) where all looked black against me
and they believed me even there
But in that morning, late, when the
sun was shining full upon the window,
and the noise of the people going a.
bout their daily work was full and
clear, | saw frightfnl spirit, a ghast-
ly horror that the day but served to
make more hideous and unnatural
my mistress murdered in her bedl-
No answer when | knocked; again no
answer. The curtains at the bed
side we're close drawn, but through
the open shutters a fiery flood of
light fell red upon the carpet aud
the curtains aye, aud on the cor
ner of the snow-white counterpane,
red also. 1t was bloodl | thought
there had been rain of blood; upon
the handles of the drawers, upon the
toilet-cover, on the dressing-case. up !
on the towels, in the basin--every-
where where the murderer's hands /
had been after their deadly work; I
and in the bed : ! dared not look in
the bed; but in that great swing glass
where | had decked myself but few
hours ago, / saw it all, and every mir
ror in the room was picturing the
same sight-there lay the corpse. the !
woman with her gaping ,
b.oot ~ X
** They thought at first !
hat | was murdered, too, lying so !
stiff and cold in that death-chamber. :
answered nothing to their ques- Z
ions, neither in the house nor in the /
Prison. | saw nothing. nor could h
have told them had | known, until 7
Joseph came. 1t seemed to me then h
|uite natural that he should be with q
ne--notbing praiseworthy, nothing. o
This dear little engaged young per- b
on's eyes began to get redder about b
he rims at tlis reminiscence, and e
er story to assume an incoherent- n
s well as choky cbaraeter.) / did u
OF understand.how much owed him; g.
ow not having heard from me for I
ONE time, and reading in paper O
bat an English lady's maid had been o
AIKEN up in Paris fer murder in the h
Tue st. Honore, but that she re- "
lsed to speak, and even had perhaps N
a reality lost her senses, he started e
IF at once,giving up bis employ, and al
orrowing and begging what he could, Il
nd knowing no word of French but ..
he name Of that one street, he bur- h
led to me; So that my mind came d
ack again, and I could tell them n
hat l knew. All he did, he said, p,
as less than be ought to have done. al
ecause be had behaved i'll to me of Il
Id, (Which, Lam sure, dear Joseph pl
ever had, nor thought of doing. Sc
[e stood by me ih court in the b,
risoners' place along with me he fl
iood and shared my shame. | told tt
oeutthej jewels, ,and of my trying them 1t
o; how everything was safe, and the tr
Dor locked, and the chimney-win- th
pw too high to climb up to though pr
man might have let himslf down be
ON it into the yard. And then I m
armed for the first time that all that m
ternoon and night the murderer lol
I'd lain hidden under my mistress
ID; that he must have been there all
lat time think of it t!-that I was Y,
ying on the dress and tbeornaments; ed
made meshudder even then. amidst al
at crowded court with Joseph by tn
e. They thought it very strange, Ct
ey said, that there was so much be
me before him between my mistress oa
sparture aud return that he had not to
urdered me instead. He had car to
ed off all the jewels-those in the ch
awers as we'll as those which dc
y poor mistress had WoJn that very lei