Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1858-05-19
EBENSBURG, MAY 10, 1853.
Geographic
From The Home Journal.
John Ranim, the Irish novelist.
(COnclusion)

In the same spirit of modest self-reliance
with which as child, he had called upon the
poet Moore, he now introduced himself to
| Anne's faith er, and requested his consent to
, their betrothal. 1t was refused rudely, in
sultingly, and he was forbidden to hold any
| further communication with her. But to this
he would not submit. Anne loved him.
He would write to her. He would see her.
Notes were transmitted in his sisters school
basket, and disguised as country woman, in
long gray cloak and full hood he would stea!
close to her side, as she returned on Sunday
evenings from church. Believing that absence
would cure her Of her 'girlish folly" her
father arranged to have her secretly removed
from schaol, and placed in the house of one
of her mothers family Banim discovered
the day and hour at which she was to leave,
and the rout she was to travel. The chaise
which was 10 convey her must pass by his
fathers door. ''He took his place by the
threshold. and as the Garage rolled by, he
rushed barcheaded before the vehicle. To
avoid the danger of overturning him, the
horses were suddenly and violently checked.
Anne leaned from the window, pale and ter
rifed, and sobbing bitterly. The lovers eyes
met but for moment. the Garage moved
quickly onward, and John Banim never more
in life saw Anne D.
The pale check for which the lover had so
POLITICALLY apologized was in indication of ma
tural delicacy of constitution. In less than
two months, she fell victim TO consumption.
. Banim did not hear of her illness. He
wrote again and again, but received nc
answer; his letters had been intercepted.
He believed her faithless. and cursed her, il
his agony of dispair, while she was dying
with his name the last upon her lips
: That she was true to him, and that she wa
: dead. he learned at the same time. The con
y cluson of this sad episode in his life VIC Civ
: in the words of his biographer =
II "When he discovered that she was n
4 more, he merely said to his brother, who wa
;, appalled, by The pain displayed in his feature
/ Anne DIS deadr and retiring to hi
g bedroom, remained in solitude and silence
J. He rose carly the following morning it Wa
: cold November weather, the rain was fallin
Is and gloom was upon the sky and the earth
- Banim left his home, wishing once more
: look upon the victim who had been SO dea
e. in life, but who now, in death, was deare
lg than ever He was too poor to hire chaise
g. he borrowed horse, but he could not enduu
the slow, steady pace of the animal. anc
when about mile from Kilkenny, sent
back by country child, and continued b
h. way on foot.
..Be never knew by what route, or how
traversed the twenty five dreary miles whie
ne Law between him and the corpse of his believes
c,S but night had closed upon the dripping, wear
p map, as he reached the farmhouse where Il
re body of Anne D-lay None of her rel
EN- tiycs were present as he entered, and but fe
for friends sat around. He stood beside t
for dead ones head, and the long black lashes
the closed eyes resting upon the pallid chee
the shrunken features, and the worn look
al her whom he had once thought so beautfr
to from whom he had SO recently parted in
the glory of her youth, terrified him, and
;. gazed upon her, but shed no tear. His face
agony attracted the attention of those perso
- who had gathered by the coffin, and, as
stood beside its head, one of Anne's half-s
n ters recognised him, called him the murder
of her sister, and demanded that he shot
VIZ be thrust from the room
cat first Banim felt indignant at this cr'
conduct, but suddenly he thought that if A
ne had never loved him she might then
}. living happily had she never met him, S
- might be joyous and in health ; but now $
RS was wreck of hope, of peace, of life; al
IN scarcely daring to look upon her, he totte1
like from the room. He had eaten nothing Sill
ugh the preceding day he felt no hunger, but
lies tering an Clubhouse, sank upon the wet str
Ion, of a cart-shed, and there, in stupor of gri
, in continued until he heard the funeral que
lect assembling. He rose, re-en.ered the ho
SUl uob and, being permitted to stand beside the
~ ~ fin, saw the face of his beloved for the
t Of time. as the coffin lid hid it forever. He
bike lowed the body to the church-yard, stood
as the earth was piled up, and, when all !
departed, cast himself upon the fresh gr
mound that marked the grave of his first 10
EHe never could recollect where the night s
MT ceeding this day of woe was passed but
), if following morning his brother met him ab
vim, ten miles from home Leaning upon the &
nps. extended to him, he trailed his limbs all
lay, until he reached his fathers house W
east his brothers help he assembled to bis rot
'oae s and, though from the time they had met u
rraS the road, no word had been spoken by eitl
IN vet. when entering his apartment he appe
hen to recognise it. The feeling of consciousr
wing was but momentary, and he sank upon
bed powerless and senseless, Frustrated
atty mind and body. His whole system seel
I'm -EM shattered, and during the twelve months
We ceeding he merely existed
We have devoted so much Of the space
IT re can allot to Banim, to his early life, bec'
g i. vas peculiarly true in his case tnai