Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-01-14

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slQgss s ss s8 al s.
Upon my hcnevs SIR believed when s
married Miss Nsiissssgtsssy that wAs = ssida-
dewer.
~ our kaaorl hut except to prove that L
do thoroughly know and appreciate the per.
son am addressing, I viii not handy VERDE
with yctl Alter that disclosnre--if. indeed
il be a disclosure, not an invention. All, yon
start at that
At your insoIcnce, Sir, not at your sense.
less sur1nises.
Tine and law will show After, re-
naas this terribls disclosure or invention. You,
not content with obtaining from your victim s
generosity a positive promise that she would
not send you TO tho hulks
Sir. have care
Pooh z / say, not content with exacting
this premise from your victim, you, with your
wife or aceompiice, Threatened NOT only 10
take Ter child from her, b1S 10 lock her upin
q inadhouse. unless she subscribed a paper,
coniessidg thai she knew, when Jon espoased
her. tf,st ypu were 4 married. man Vow, sir.
do /, or do not thoroughly know who and
what The man is ! ain addressing r
n sir, returned Harl0se, recovering MS au-
daeity somewhat, spite Of all hectoring and
abuse, I defy you to obtain proo.- legal proof
whether siat Edith has heard is true u
false. The affair may perhaps be arranged
let her return with me- q
You know helwonldsdie first but it is
quite useless to prolong this conversation;
and again request you to leave this house.
IF Miss WiIioughby viii accept an allow.
ancen
The cool audacity of this proposal to make
Inc aninstrument in comprising a felony ex.
asperated me beyond all bounds ! rang the
bell violently and desired theseryant who an.
swered it to show Mr. Harlowe out Of the
house. Finding further persistence useless,
the bafied villain snatched up his hat, aud
with look and gesture Of rage and contempt
hurried out Of the apartment
The profession OF q barrister necessarily
begets habits of GOODNESS and reflection under
the most exciting circumstances /; but CON
fess that in this instance my ordinary et,ua-
nimity was SO much disturbed, that it was
some time before could command sufficient
composiire to reason calmly upon The strange
revelations made to me by Edith, and the
nature of the measures necessary to adopt in
order to clear up the mystery attached to
them. She persisted in her refusal to have
recourse to legal measures with view to the
punishment of Harlowe; and finally deter
inined-after conference with Mr. Ferret,
who having acted for the first Mrs. Harlowe,
! NATURALLY conjectured must know something
of her history and cennections--to take for
the present no oaensible steps in the matter.
Mr. Ferret, like myself was persuaded that
the sham resusctation of his first wife was a
mere trick, to enable Harlowe to rid himself
of a woman he no longer cared for AZ will
take an opportunity" said Mr.. Ferret, i'of
quietly questioning Richards; he must have
known the first wife; Eleanor Wickham,
sremember, was her maiden name; and if not
bought over by Harlowe-a by no means in-
possible purchase--can set us right at once.
did not understand that the said Eleanor
was at nil celebrated Tor beauty and accom-.
plishments, such as you say Miss Willough-
by-Mrs. Hariowe mean-r-describes She
was native of Dorsetshire too, remember,
and the foreign Italian accent you mention
ed is rarely, | fancy, picked up in that
charming county. some ilashy opera dane
er, depend upon it, whom he has contracted
a passing fancy for +; a slippery gentleman
certainly; but, with little caution we shall
not fail to trip his heels up, clever as he may
be. ls
A stronger wrestler than either of us was
upon the track Of the unhappy man. Edith
had not been with us three weeks, when one
OF Mr. Harlowe's servants called at my cham
bers to say that his master, in consequence
of q wound he had inflicted on his foot with
an axe, whilst amusing himself with cutting
or.pruning some trees in the grounds at Fair
down, was seriously i'll, land had expressed q
wish to see me. | could not leave town but
as it was important MIR Harlowe should be
seen, requested Mr. Ferret to proceed to
Fairdown House He did SO, and late in the
evening returned with the startling intelli-
gence that Mr.. Harlowe was dead |
"Dead /" | exclaimed, much shocked
care you serious2'
AS Judge He expired about an hour
after reached the house, of tetanus, COM
monty called lock jaw His body, by the
contraction Of the muscles, was bent like
bow, and rested on his heels and the back
part his head. He was incapable ofspecch
long before saw him; but there was world
of agoniaed expression in his eyes y
Dreadful Your journey was, useless
then p
Not precisely. saw the pretended for
mer wife; a splendid woman, and as much
Eleanor Wickham of Dorsetshire as am
They mean, however, to show fight, ! think:
for, as | left the place l observed that delight
full knave Richards enter the house. i took
the liberty of placing seals upon the desks
and cabinets, and directed the butler and
other servants to see that nothing was dis
turbed or removed till Mrs Harlowe s-the
true Mrs Harlowe's-arr r
The funeral was to take place on the fol-
lowing Wednesday; and it was finally ar
,anged that both of US would accompany
Edith to Fairdown on the day after it had ta-
Ken place, and adopt such measures as, cir
might render. necessary Mr.
Ferret wrote to this effect to all parties con-
,erned 49,
On arriving at the house, I, Ferret, and
Mrs. Harlowe proceededat once to the draw
rs room, where we found the pretended wife
eated in great state, supported on one side
" Mr.. Richards, and on the other by Mr.. |
Juliet the eminent proctor. Edith was
lreadfully agitated, and chung frightened and |
trembling to my arm, conducted her to
eat, and placed myself beside her, leaving
Ir. Ferret-whom so tremendous an array t
# law andlearning, evincing adetermination
o fight the matter out, Goutrance, filed |
With exuberant glee--to open the confer
nee.
aGood morning madam cried he the mo-
mont he entered the ROOM, and quite nnaf- |
ected by the lady's scornful and naughty
tare; am delighted to see you in such ex-
client company. You do not, | hope, forget |
hat ! once had the honor Of transacting bus
ness for you p
Y on. had the transaction ofmy business p |
aid the lady. "When | pray you p
l.aiod bless met cried Ferret addressing
Richards, what charming Italian accent, +
nd out of Dorsetshirc too r
'fDorsetshire sir y exclaimed the lady. |,
'Ay, Dorsetshirs to be sure Why, Mr.
our respected cliensappears to have
orgotten her place Of birth How very ex-
p
Mr. Richards now interfered, to say that /
Ir Ferret was apparently tailoring under a