The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-02-26

iSS'lc Coutlnueu uls Sto'y rs Io3iOWS.
iiceived a note the next day as fol
low
y EDwARD M-S: 7 will leave by
this ernoon's stage, aud. should you have
any lters for B, / will consider my.
self hored by bsing in trusted with them.
~ be found at Room 1s, D-'s
Hotel Respectfully, yours,
"WILLtan BaApsFoRD."
1 Htily penned y few lines to Alice, and
walkddown to De hotel, where
asked be shown up TO Mr.. Bradsiord's
room. Judge of my surprise when the
landlol informed mo that he could not be
seen, he had been stabbed on his right
should last night by some ruffian, and
was sutrng much from his wound.
The hole truth flashed upon me in
mome1 and I determintd, if possible, to
get Tx at him ut leas.
seaup my card to lis room, and af.
ter awhb the boy returu,d with Mr. Brads.
ford's cSpliments, andssquest to come up
and seelim. went TO lis room, but could
not getl good view of lis face, as his head
was tu1ed towards the yall. He spoke OF
his nigl's adventure 10 manner that full.
ly conytced me of his igiorance Of the per.
son Will inflicted the woind.
Il tliught, SIR saddle, that | would
get th@andlord to addnss you note be.
fore l lEt, as Miss AliceN. had spoken of
the pro ability Of hearing from youthrough
me-
for!et what reply IMadc 10 him, but
suddenf making up ny mind not 10 in.
trust hih with my lette, bid him good
mornint and left the heel.
Bradford left that aicrnoon for B,
ard mygelter was folwrded TO Alice by
the sanA stage In ,eek's time receiv,
ed reply, and felt coniderable relief from
its breadlings of pure Election and attach
ment. The very day tier the receipt OF
dear Aliee's letter i wa made miserable by
receiving q communication from her father,
1t read thus:
"MR. EDWARD Nix: | wish it dis
tinctly understood thatfour correspondence
with Alice must be Immediately discon
tinued. had hoped that your sense o.
gentlemanly proprety Fould have been sui
iicient to keep you froi teasing my daugh
ter with your love sickcpistles, when yor
know that she is partlyengaged to another
Wishing you betteriuccess in some othe
quarter, ! am, respectfully, yours,
&c 5. W"
| am unable, Mr.. Ato express 10 yo,
,..y feelings upon reilAy such a letter
Was il possible that Aiic, was engaged I,
another, and yet write ist,he did! No! no
could not bring my nsid 10 such u con
clusion,
The next day | wrou again 70 her, not
withstanding her fathcFs commands tha
| should not; and oh! 81, will YOU believ
it, she penned ine theselcrud lines:
EDWARD: | must discontinue my cores
pondence with You here .her. Perhaps on
early life. with its peculiar ;nd pleasant rs
sociations, should be brgdtten, since W
have arrived at an aje tojudge betwee
what is pleasant aud What is proper.
"Y bar true friend,
"ALIcE."
Early lyc Jorgottei7-how easy it
tc5pen such words, oh sir, will not al
tempt to relate the aglny of mind tha
came with the light Of eery morn ard lei
not with the night.
What brought abolf this change i
Alice | knew not unjl within the las
month, when | ascertaiied from The majo
that Bradsford was n frsquent visitor at lac
fathers house, and rumrs of marriage ha
obtained circulation ab.ut B.
There was one4hiug that mitigated m
sorrow, and threw ra.t Of hope across m
otherwise darkened he;rt, and that was til
fact Of Alice's having signed herself IN
True friend, Alice Iaeie certainly was n
harshuess in those worls, and perhaps,
thought, her letter was writen by conman
OF her father, but unwillirgly.
Thus | clutched, like d drowning MAJ
to this floating straw, and kept my hea
above tho threatening OCEAN OF woe thi
seemed ready to engui il
About week ago, | heard that AliC
was coming to s., TO lpend one mont
with her uncle, Major Il.
She arrived, as you kDow, day befo
yesterday, accompanied ky Bradsford an
several lady friends,
had no sooner head Of her arrival tina
| FASTENED to pay he' visit, hoping to lin
her unchanged and still my own.
obtained, through the assistance Of Ii
major, a private interview with her, whC
something like The following conyersatc
passed between us:
Alice, have heard that you have b
come engaged to another, is it not false
Il must not he catechizcd, Mr.. M
on subjects which concern only myself 81
inditferently replied.
oh! Alice exclaimed, how eau yc
thus answer me! You must be aware that
am deeply concerned in such subject, {
upon the results of this interview depend
life of bliss or life of unutterable woe al
misery. / need not tell you, Alice, tn
! love you, for this you already know T.
well; but Oh! tell me that thou art still n
ownp
had taken her hand while thus spea
ing, Which trembled ike leaf as it /
within my own, and OIL Mr. f., judge
theintensity ofthe pang which shot throul
my heart when she forcably withdrew
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