Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1858-01-08
Gbe :Storq- GrlIrr.
FIVE MINUTES TOO LATE.


II, looks like thunder storm and
then you can't go
This was all my aunt said. and lcf.
the room.
Ny Cousin Randolph sat at the writ
ing desk by the parlor window. No
one on earth ever has been, or ever can
he SO dear as my cousin. He was an
invalid. and was also suffering from some
great grief, the nature OF hch ! lid
not know. My yearuins tenderness
aud pity, given blindly, h. put away
from him He said he dared not accept
it. This was the first dav Of has cscanc
from sick room. h's fir,t tap.arancc at
the family circle at tea tim, and nov,
just in the sunse. US ,-t,anpg IN his
presence, that cp.ll not IT to leave
HIM even to aos' lat'rr TO m darling
salot brothor. When mY aunt left tn
room we were alone.
Come here, Ada. owe, h. SAID to me,
and flew 20 his Si,!c lr', ,11te'.
go NJ on H-. When
YOU ~om b. r- Ysl what
changed m '.e strong man.
to tn sail'y. sfe a wretch you
have always ka7wa N. Good bye, and
hlS'cn. Ad,, dearest
Grass did 70, grow under my feet In
half an hour | had returned and was
sitting by his side on the bamboo scft"e,
looking from our porch oyer the garden,
to where tho heavy purple clouds wtro
still sailing in the golden glory. II
do pin held my hand in his and my heart
in intense listening,
You know that Wa OF par ner
in the firm Of Smaoch \ ~ear>el. One
Of our cI#tfs. Nirrea, t.dcfhi!l. hal
f'len under suspicion Of cmbezzhns
large sums from the firm. and was on
trial Al the evidence proved him
.uitfy. anil MS conviction was efrt.ln.-
No me do1 t-d that when h. case was
couciYict. HI would br sentenced to the
States Prison. tninrhili had been
fivorit. companion, indeed n friend Of
mine-and Was one evening expressing
n,y grief at his criminal conduct, and
horror a, his punishment. within hear
ing Of s,mc of the pnrters. observed
that one Of them who had been plotegc
Of undcrhi'l, listened in,eatly aqd tern i
very pale
Tha. nigh, after hld beea as'a n
m boariin ,-hoa>e far some h IS W
awakened by knock At my l2or, IN
was informed that m'n must s. me
Immediately ha him mt np, 1t
was X ri Weiss. the porter 20 whom
Underhill had be,n 50 kind. He cane,
in an agony II repentance, to tell me
.ha, he knew the real culp-it, Il t YIN
cen, was innocent, bur that ae had b en-
bribel and thrca, ned int false testimony
against him, which h hal d ne at the
trial. He told IN, that the lty man
was now at Albany. He was clerk
VII Il, had voluntarily l"ft orr mp'oyment
a few months before
Il thought my PLAIN course was TO
keep Nil qliet until | hid secured the
proof IF guilt, which karj told me where
TO 6ad. Twas 50 afraid that my man
would ,e, information of karl's repen-
tanee AMI m tSe ms soap .'"' -.
mp. dressed myself 'a'SDa 'HF "'sI "aa'Ye,
over with my paftn - VIZ lis' 49,
kar', and set Oh oy "a, e''y s ,.'9' 7,tS .h
train Tor New iofN. 1t
days OF 'el@graPhs. .,..,.,
Il arrived In o'n ia .han
papers, had tn man arrested, and then
sped home az 'in Autos vas P'1hP,?
done Ada. Bnt nv .nnfs na|Se'' '""
have been pa ~ 7Na'y p'ha''N sN''
scncc. a.
i was tired .nd NofH cat ''t ."I
want of sic p which / haa h,t e"Iossu
for three nights. Wh''s IN >fN io'N
awaiting the cars, ! TOOK marty sup
PEI and a cigar When the 'iae came
for me to 90 .=fal
an easv chale.s H- az y ',Ie'
nv eiglr NJ "a ''per' l ,"s +
ell ten min er-''n 'a''' MN
u;es ,
"Oh, Ada, ever defer uu'y d
moment, There is but one tish' ''ne
given us to do it in, and to occupy
another time is detraud'ns some ''her
duty of its hour. 1t is iF'epafao'e
.,j hrlnp unDD YOU,