The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-04-30

The writer added that her health had. prior
TO her disappearance, been much impaired,
and that in all probability sho was since
dead, especially as no inquiry had ever been
made AT the bankers with whom the money
lett Tor her maintenance had been placed.
Asleigh's sutierngs aud remOrse were in
creased fouTfold after this Oh, if the past
could be but his once more,-but there was
/ now no remedy. no--none. He could not
! present himself before his cousin, the wo-
man still 50 dearly loved, for dark myste
1 ry hung over his wite's fate, and all his eff.
forts TO clear it away were batied. With
anxious eye did he search the newspapers,
dreadlng 10 see The announcement of Lady
HeIens marriage, but for very long he WAS
spared this additional pang. At length.
when seven years had passed. over the head
of the self esiled man, lie learned that she
bad pledged her faith 10 another
He could remember her husband. one
worthier than he had himself ever been 10
possess the treasure he had lost.
After passing two yeara longer in India,
the climate began to tell seriously on AS.
Ieigh's health and, little caring where lie
went, he retraced his steps through Egypt,
and over the well known beaten track
/ through the Continent, until he reached
| Paris. While idIing in that capital. during
the tenth year Of his banishment tidinps
reached him Of his uncle's death; aud
business rendering it necessary that he
should now return 10 England. the new earl
once more set foot on his native land.
/ Helen coull not avoid AN involuntary
start as she read that the Earl Of Redland
had, after an absence of some years, arrived
I IN London" but she had tutored h .rsef
/ perfectly. Had She not torn his unworthy
image from her heart, with merciless hand
made strong by wounded pridel She could
! long since have met him anywhere, with
ont her color deepening a shade or the
/ quicken'ng of a pulse. And now, AS wife
aud mother. she would indeed have scorned
/ herself had it been otherwise.
Il see my cousin Redland has returned"
she said, IN her cn!dest accents, when she
met her husband, Colonel Ailenby, at din.
! ner.
"Oh, indeed! wonder he has not come
10 see you. | must call on him to-mor-
row."
No, if you please, do not: we quarrelled
many years ago, and | should not wish my
| husband 10 seek him"
oH'tiN IL u NIlnc now, 10 forgive
aud forget" Colonel Allenby demonstrated,
half laughing but lhe way in which his
wife uttered the word never" ended the
! conversation.
Helen piqued herself on being good
wife. and her husbands devotion to her ad-
mtted of no question. II her exhausted
heart had been incapable Of loving again,
still her admiration and respect for the part
ner she had chosen Were most genuine, and
enabled her to do her duty towards him
cheerfully and well. Allenbv remembered
though he had never exchanged a word
with his wife on the suhject-that the world
had once given Lady Helen to her cousin,
Lord RedIand, and he refraned from any
further remark about him, believing lie full
~ understood her reasons for speaking as
she had Just done.
Ii VS. iateI that Lord Redland should
soon 90 through the ordeal he most dread.
ed, aud which lac had yet, in manner,
sought IA meeting with his cousin Helen.
1t Was only when her black eyes rested on
hl1 care worn face FOR an instant, and were
withdrawn with an expression on them of
cold uuforgi'ing disdain, that he felt how
much he had mi,calculated The effect of the
influence of old recoilections.
He had suffered 80 much-such dreary
years OF remorse had been his, that il seem.
el 10 ham as it she and all tho world should
have been aware of this, and. instead of
siabbng still more deeply, have placed TIE
finger of love and pity on tie Yet open
wounds, ant hiI them close, aud throb no
more. He left the ball room in which they
had met, too unueryeI 10 bea, society, aud
wandered through lhe streets to his lonely
home.
How changed VA, the aspect Of all things
To the Child whose hirlh fortune had ruug
in with gpiDrn bells.
He tried first one thing, and then auo.
ihcr; still the Old falling of instability seem.
ed 10 haunt him, but now II was not from
tick,euess Of purpose. Want of heart in
every Pur UT rendered him incapable ofper-
forming, rs he Ought, the duiics required OF
hln, and = sense OF rght, IN many inS,an-
ccS, made George A,egh give up what he
felt be could do with SO htlle carne,tness.
Thus the two first years. after las return To-
England. were devoled.to politics. On en-
teriag the arena cheerel by h. iriend,, and
excited fur while by que,tiu " hich were
It that time the interesting topics Of the
day, lee Sremel to have cast aside forever
The apathy they had 80 drplpred. and his
lalen,S, varied and lri.iianl, shone forth aud
caused the country to reckon him amongst
her rising sta'e,meu. But the highest Of
ferS were made to him ia vain. Sick Of
. public life, where all WAS empty as the void
within ms own vearning heart. he deter.
mined n burying himself in the country.
and seeking thee for Tie peace Of mind
which had hitherto been denied him.
Worn in mind and body, his health had
also given way, aud before leaving town,
he. at the solicitations of some of his oldest
friends, agreed to ask the advice Of one Of
'ho grea; medical authorities olLor
than Doctor Thornton, now an established
man.
1Ia-ter'- In. L,,,1 III