Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-09-28

/ The little hand was pressed, and silverv
voice answered, L viii. / love you as my
( life"
That was all she said-but it was enough
+ Nolumes were contained in that answer and
/ true to Adelaide's counsel. Lucy accented Jim
/ my HilI-and he lost flirt, but found a treas
ure.
While this scene was :ranspiring in one part
I of the mansion, in another saloon ware Ade-
/ lalde and the southerner. Livingston Durward
/ was a very fair appearing man, but a something
IN his eye bespeak hcentious fire. and a certain
prominent feature on his visage bespeak rather
/ free acquaintance with something stronger than
water. He, too, made declaration Of love and
was referred to " Pa"
4 Six months more, and there Is double we'd
! ding. Lucy becomes Mrs James Hill and
Adelaide Mrs. Livingston Durwagd.
/ The former contented themselves with making
bridal tour to the wild scenes which surround
Niagara. The latter sailed to Europe
With James Hill, everything went on swim
mlngly- Business increased and, from IA petty
store-keePer, he becomes wholesome merchant
IN the city. From counting his means by the
hundreds. he advanced to thousands and was
known to be wealthy man. He bad a ture
bel elp-maie III his wife ; she always made home
the happlest spot on earth, and the best loved
of all.
Ten years have been numbered with the past.
In a narrow street in New Orleans Is a crazy
old tenement; its dilapidated condition TO
minds one of some Old castle-ruin sinking to
decay, and we wonder If such a dismal hole
can possibly be tenanted. We enter. 1t IS
tie midnight hour That hour so traurht with
dread, that hour when the superstitious be-
lleve that the spirits Of the departed return
10 the earth, and walk abroad as things of flesh
and blood that hour when the assassin knife
Is so often unsheathed and buried in his vic
tlm's heart, and we confess that strange feel
ing, AKIN to awe, takes possession of Us as We
enter the tottering old fabric. Hark We hear
a voice.
Why does he leave me thus alone-hour
after hour, night after night! Why Is he thus
infatuated with that which has proved his ruin =?
Little dId | suppose, when promising to love
and obey, that my fate was being linked to that
of gambler
married him to be LADY, did not love
him then, DO love him now Yes! we have
suffered together we have nearly starved to-
gether, and then there kiudled flame. which
is love-hark Is that his footstep? No It's
far too steady for his Will tremble meath the
weight of the Intoxicating cup.
&" Our babe, poor thing, how it suffered but
last night it died-it is happy now r.
Here comes four men, bearing corpse and.
with one Wild cry. the woman throws herself
uIon that form, and says
Livingston =
All we recognize her now-snE ONCE WAS
ADELAIDE LELAND-now is the gamblers widow
OHe evening early IN autumn, Lucy fIlil was
seated 10 her reception saloon. Evervthiuc be-
tokened comfc,t; around her played three little
cherubs-her children beside her say her Lus-
band, hIs face wore the look Of coutentneut aud
happiness, but his mind seems wandering.
Lucy" lie says, 1t Is long time since we
heard aught of Adelaide IS, It's five long
years why does she remain silent =
Why 1t Is, James, cannot conceive per.
haps she never heard of our removal our let
ter informing her of the fact, may have mis-
carried"
4" may be wrong, Lucy, bat I think it is will
tul neglect Perhaps her Golfers are lul and
she desires to forget rs, and Us to forget her"
Perhaps SO There. James. see, Who is that
wretched woman at the door her face seems
familiar, yet I cannot recall when or where
have seen it,
The door opens, and the intruder enters
She speaks
James Hill, You know me not; but once YOU
told me, that IN the hour Of need | must ap-
ply TO you. Forgive the past, for have suf-
tered much-I am the cnce tickle Adelaide
Leland"
That house was thenceforth the widow
home.