The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-10-31

| unucu. The iar.'ly was of course ~ the
dsspszt dissrsas. 10 saw Ars. Cartwright
for moment, and in that moment the I'm
preston IL the white, gricf-strsckcn lace was
transferred 10 page IN memory's hook that
no after event could dim or oblitente. A
beautiful daughter, just on the vergeof wc-
manhood, glided past him once, and her face
u terror remained to haunt him Cor lie.
He saw the physician, and to his inquiries
received no hopeful answers.
When Bancroft left the house Of sorrow
he went forth almost >tealthily, and with
feeling of guilt ia his heart.
MY work Ny work ~ voice within
him kept repeating, and do what Le would,
he found il impossible to silence the accu-
sing spirit.
II could never Esrr;se INV scif II no should
die, said Mr.. Bancroft to himself "uh
what evil Is sometimes wrought by passion
in nm unguarded moment. Why did not
think before speaking9'
Alas. The dreadful evil came. Mr. Ban-
croft was 81 his store IN hour earlier than
usual an the next morning.
'llave YOU heard from Mr.. Cartwright o.
be- inquired anxiously OF clerk.
Yes, SIR"
How ) he 7"
dead"
Dead" Mr. Bancroft stepped back
pace or two n ifs strong hand were bear
lug against him.
|" Yes, Sir. lie died 1t seven O'Clock last
evening 20 the paper says"
Mr. Bancroft sighed heavily and then
walking hack u bis desk, sat down, and re-.
maine'i IA troubled thought for long time.
There was only S,ngle aspect of the case
that gave him any relied. and this wss tho
probable isnoran,e e e, ery one but himself
81 the immediate ca,is. II Mr. Cartwright
death. lie had not. Il wa, presumed, men
toned tie nn'-cling r.pulse which he had
received, when, AZ the eleventh hour, and
as lat resort, he had gone To one ir whom
be expected t. lind not only kind consider
alton, hut prompt relief, and So the secret
had died with him.
Mr.. Bancroft dad not visit the house o(
mourning IT, could not look upon the dis
tres, which his conscience charged him with
originating but his heart was yeiled IN
gloomy shadows.
There was no one a. represent Mr.. Cart
wright in hrs business which had a. be
closed. An active, Woodworking merchant,
be had Succeeded, through many d,saivan-
tages, IN establishing a trade that, followed
i"r few years, would have given his family
a moderate fortune. kni he Was stricken |
down nj an inauspicious time Serious loss.
e. occurred ia the settlement IL his affairs
asd when all debts were finally paid, there
va nothing over for the family.
Poor Mary Cartwright, Y said Mrs. Ban |
rt,it Z" her husband onc day, about s,x |
months after the death of Mr. Cartwright, |
=" saw her nj Mrs Maryins 10 day. She !
gives mnsic lessons to her daughter Helen. |
ii"w changed she wa Y
Bancroft made no repl, aud his wife Was |
IN doubt a, I" whether b. had heard her |
remark
''She says that her mother hasn't been |
osit ~ the hanse since her fathers death"
Still Mr.. Bancroft made No response.
But how the words did smite him All |
there wss thorn in hrs memory that time
could not extract
There was not dollar left ior tho fam
lily irnm tartwnght's estate y said fellow
merchant
So ! have heard.
Mr. Bancroft answered with seeming in |
dliicrence, bat his heart qaivered - if q
hl,w had h,cn gwen.
Ia J. said that the failure to ra,4c mon
ey Ia liit one al HI. notes killed him said
another.
People will "a, alma-t ANYTHING re-
Piled NJ. Bancroft With assumed colsiness.
Time moved steadily onward The sceth-
ing sIsot on tue surface ii trade, where Mr.. |
tsrtwrirht went down, wa obl,tcrsted by
the onwaid-iaoying current aud he was not /
IN the business circles where
once hi- busy face was a familiar object
Hut ther. was one Who could never thrust
aside hls iiaasc one an whose memory his
irc-.ncc wass ranking thorn. Many times
had he tried To plsck cut this thorn, BY Sc
erci art~ u kindness u the family d Cart
wright. hnt thc eiInrt seemed a. make the
anguish uorc intense; far the little he Of |
ierred 10y stealth. contrs>ted 80 poorly with |
The all sustaining lic-deeds II n husband and |
iithff that h~ ~s- ~hamci back into imls,-
fane..
The case was hopeless. That single "a. |
1t unknsine>s, fatal in it, Consequences,
Wa done faeysr u bad gone beyond his |
llm"-t reach, and there MAS no surgeon |
skilled enasssh Ia extract the thorn il had /
lcii o. rankls N hi memory.