The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-03-03

! I"'c TIE very counterpart oil that IL had
( belonged to his only sister. There now
Was that s'0,cr driven forth by a fth,
, e. niger, perhaps she had persisted 10y
p star, ,"hon, = werv his own little ones, or
ut IT. c"n'h MT ne she could meet cath
but not di>hon"r. 4 s.. mt stirruy ot
,he .a,e Gu. ..aIrs, tho' gathered l. the cell
're "y G''". r"g, tlol''d grA .tu' y
/ .'"""h ..." bet. r'r.-"' hun 10 ra,." hi5
eyes. The a.k lrorned pm S nerve
81" g''sr. 'r', -".'ui wildly at ;Le nc.
'nrr l., m..",. -:
! '...na -.s.,i,. Lcrt =
'Who calls 81, he Lena NJ rev. as she
Ian9uldy ops"vd h"r eveo ; the, seeing
re da t"rn lies e her. sLu fed to he
"oor, out "tr"ng arm ,yed her, While
= Ii" ID Was hr'nry laced over ner mouth.
Hush, ah hush whispered Arthur
MlIden, as h drew her TO the easy chair,
a"I kneIt side her. i came not here t.,
harm Yea; my wi, anl children are
starving, ara determined to give them
icod. Ii look "f hopeless anguish re-.
assured the frightened gin, and forgetting
III ner sympathy The impropriety of her
situation, she oade him tell bis story
Enehy lie spoke "f his past life, how his
mother had died, leaving him and a baby
sister 10 the tender mercies Of a man VIII,
though father, loved only 10 drep the
VINE cup witt boon companions. How,
when LenH reached her seventeenth year,
she was commanded To marry one f tho 90
boon c"mpamions, mau two years her
fathers senior; row, on refusing, she
was driven forever from beneath i..e IA
rent roof; how, sickcaed at hls fathers
cruelty, lie, too, had forever left the spo,
OF his biIh, and among strangers had
l"Ind nrrne of unfold value, a gentle,
LOVING wife, whose misfurtuncs awoke,
hrst his ply, then his love. For six
months alter their acquaintance, and
ihree before their rIarriage, sue had been
deprived, by one fell swoop. Of AN idol
Z"S father and cypcct.nt fortune How,
alter their marriage, they had enjoyed
three yeats of Interrupted bliss: then he
was prostratcd on a bed OF Sickness till
ali bat TIA" actual necessities of life had TO
be parted with 10 deiray the necessary
expenses. How on recovering, he had
vaimly endcavored to obtain work, ill
driven TO de>paratiou, lie had secreted
himself within her room 10 rob her of
the d'am"cds lhat, turned TO money,
would procure The food they so mach
needed, And n"w,' he concluded, will
hands Of justice Z
A pearIy tear glNened in the silken
laslcs AS She rose and iilteh ocket from
the n,auteI. With look OF mingled rs
Constituent auA surprise, Arthur watched
ner press the spring. As the lid flew
open :hc he'd ii before him, and whis-
pvred
NV mothers brother =
Til. first tears lie had ever saed filed
his eyes. as lie looked on The boyish face,
his c"u likeness, given to his SISTER on her
fourteenth brfth day. Lena silently watch
ed his emotions al! they HAD spent their
strength, thea, handing him pearl pore
mourar, bndc him remain silent. for the
uneasy STRINGS ot her maid in the ad
Jnin ng apart,nrat awoke her fears for
his sa!et2. WapYing the robe .round
her, she softly opoued the door. and led
han down /" ,l,e basement ball. Tor she
knew tie ns..,n door con.d not be open
ei ~tinnu, , considerable Irise.
i Viii =. yon t, morrow AID tell you
,'h' lie "h'>I"r'd, a> he passc. GU into
ne sren. 'trert.