Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-02-19

bnatlon of horrors grew to its close, Julie
crept to her fainting mothers side, and sup
| ported her. When Monsieur Perrin could on
! iy pace the room hurriedly TO find new epi
thetS to cast at the fallen woman, Julie, her
| eyes brImming with tears, forgot even Adolphe
| i'll her attention TO a mother from whose lips
| she had rarely heard tender word.
| The letter in which Madame Perrin had en-
! closed the money, explained all She had been
| gambling on the BOurse. She had won at
times, and had boarded up her winnings She
grew miserly as the fascination Of the game
fastened itself npOn her and she learned TO
care for neither husband nor child But ia
an evil hour she lost all her winnings and was
/ in debt. Her agent, with whom she had sto-
len interviews, threatened to apply to her hus
! band for payment, unless his account was of
once settled. She dared not raise money on
her little property near Tours, lest the mar.
riage should come to the knowledge of her
husband there remained but one resource
to rob him.
As the grey dawn grew into q brilliant NOR
ming Mons eur Perrin grew less and less pas
sionate. He spoke at longer intervals and in
calner voice than when he began his chap
ter Of reproaches He paced the room less
-hurriedly. Still, now and then, as q new light
broke in upon him and showed him another
view of his family disgrace, be wonld burst out
once more, and pour ont fresh volley Of i'm
precautions Madame Perrin never spoke a
single word She left her hand lasped in that
of Julie while poor Julie, pale as death, IT,
mildly followed the movements of her father,
without daring to iuterpose a syllable At
last Monsieur Perrin halted before the sofa.
aud assuming great authority. said to Madame:
Leave this hy the first train for Tours
and there, madame, have the goodness to draw
up full and accurate history of this affair
shall need it TO effect the liberation of the
young man YOU have ruined. together with yonr
husband and your child Julie may go with
yon7
1t was strange to see the haughty Madame
Perrin in the meekly obedient woman who now
crawled across the saloon and went TO her
room. Julie followed, having kissed her fa-
theirs forehead
In due time Adolphe was liberated Mon
sieur Perrin calmly went through the forms
necessary to establish his wife's guilt and
AdOlphe's innocence. He sought an interview
with the prisoner but Adolphe declined to
see him. He remembered too well the stern
face that had risen up against him in the cour.
OF justice.
The young prisoner was liberated at length.
and the day that saw him outside the prison
walls also saw him on his way TO Hayre /.
is supposed that he went to America but. to
this hour he has never since been heard Of
All he left behind him was letter for Julie,
which that sad girl keeps warm in her bosom
as she follows her mother from room TO room
in the far off retirement which Monsieur Per
rim has consigned them, and which poor man,
he shares with them.
We have here one Of the many little trage-
dies that are played out from day to day on
the Place de Ia Bourse, TO the terror of the
bystanders, and to the profit Of newspaper re-
porters.