The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-09-02

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| to her grapdmother's for day. What ir'--
the thought coursed around her brain like fire
on train of gunpowder,--fe quicker than
words could utter it; aud the woman. bounded
to her bureat, as though with muscles of steel,
She clntched at the papers and bank -no.es in
her private drawer, and looked and counted
them over dozen times before she could. sat
lsfy herself. Her thin fingers nervously OPEN
ed the packages and folds,--the papers crack
Hing as her eye glanced over them. They
were there but not all. She pored over the
mystery, --her Thoughts running away upon
every sid--avenue oftconjecture, and as often
returning to Che frghtfal, remediless fact be-
fore her. She was faint with sudden terror.
BY degrees she Gained herself, wiped the cold
sweat from her, forehead, smiled at har fright,
aud sat down again. with an attempt at self
control, to look through the drawers thorough
ly. As she went on, the tremor returned. and
before she had finished the fruitlcss search her
heart beat so as 70 stop her breath; she gaspad
man agony that the soul rarely feels more
than once IN THIS life. She shut up the draw
ers, walked up aud down the room, noticed
with shndder her own changed expression as
she passed %-fore the mi rrior, and stroye in
vain to give some order to her confused aud
tumultleus thoughts. At length she sat down
exhausted. She was startled by knock
Opening The door, there in, "a newly furnished
suit, with clean linen, and brown wig worn
for the first time on his hitherto shining head,
stood Theophilus. Clamp. He had even pick
ed a blossom ON the geraniuih in the hail and
was toying with it ike bashfui boy
"a fne day, Ma'am !' said he, as he took a
seat ea etJ,S
"Yes, very" she answered. mechanically,
scarcely looking up
"rhe. syoang foiks have goee out to ride, !,
suppose" ....v,.. u. q
...Yes, Sir. "a pause, in which Mrs. Kin
loch covered her face with her handkerchief.
"Yoo don't seem well, Ma'am. Shall /
call Lpry?D ,es-t sz,.yus
Lney isgone,' she answered quickly ad-
ding, gene 10 her srardmothesa- Il.
',Weii, that is singular. I've been to-day to
look al my land above the OLD laay's house, and
8 = =
siie "SA'a ''l' 70 se''d "osd 70 t-asA 70 cone
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was 'oo '"'oc i'' i'asii was ~ 'ai e'e>s' no
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|. y haFe Foa gwen hef inc message
ot roafse ''o''f 'll ~ '---'i''" co's'a
'.''i' I o' i'ase'' : SEM i-iey away On any
eriah'
.ef'a'''y ''s' 't'''afi' SAL" o,'e '"y'|'' ~ % ne
si''i''s % ~'"c'' ese' a''e ssa'n'''''''h'
Icy eo9e' you - ail'll que raw ''i"s
al ff-hi,--Vo"r papers a'''-- anu - ior'h =,
Papers Lazy Is not presumed 10 know
shat nave any Pa?ers; II any are missing, III
""''ai'' thfy are ~ 'he hahas o' so'he Que
who Keows az ieas' eao"ss' 70 read mem.
"she suspects me-" thought the lawyer
"o"F can.' nave discovered 'na. hsis are "h'y
c"pses shey,fe 700 wen done. ne theh 5.'' ac-
aea aio'iu, "reihaPss Mrs. h'aioch' you aao
honored me, your associate IN the adminlstra-
.'o" - '"e fsa' VIZ ,o'' .o"""e .o.." -. :
,''s '"s p''''e pape's ~" 500 s"'
n .,a's :, .,'''1 fs'e
"se =, ....
"s,',' - !, - 80. Ia, fsr
of sarcasm II, The tone which III suited the
exnressiou, az her allid face and drooping
head.
"I'm sorry. to see Won looking. 50 care worn
Mrs. Kinlocl, ]" said he, with his blandest air.
81 inteu.le,, to,briuy up a,,opic more agreeable
| A. i 10 he hoped. than runaway house. e.maid,
or old Documents He rubbed his hauds
softly audtarned his eyes with glance meant
to BE- tender towards the place VIII her char
stood. if he had been a cat. he would have
purred t,,. whae, CO pc w gaga
lreMrs. K,n,oeh now. .fo,s the first tins, obser.
we'd thu Wie me drusuaEIook of tidiness, and
a6eae all, the flower in his hand she also saw
the craciiied smile that Followed bis last re-
mark. "The ridiculous Gid feol?' thought
she,--s'swhat can be nesas" But TO him she
translated lit,---as '.
/ ssWhat is the more agreeable topic ?'