The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1858-11-11


lie questioned Gaorgiana and Miss
Hawkins on the subject
Georgana acknowledged that there
were such rumors, but defended her friend
@ith becoming zeal.
J. 'Sbe might have been imprudent She
certainly wa3-but nothing more. She
was ignorant Of the laws oI etiquette, and
strangely fascinated with Count Pelerin,
and he boasted as all foreigners do, but
'Ah, Marion, dear we were talking OF
YOU Now we will 90 and take our walk,
and leave Mr.. Kennedy and Jane TO lilrt
by themselves. But what is the matter
with your dress! Let me arrange It,
Therep
As she did 50, there fell from some
where rbout the corsago, curionsiy
folded and twisted note, 70 which Miss
Hawkins directed Kennedy's attention
| by a significant glance, picking it Up
quickly, as The young girls moved off.
'Georgiana is a fool, she said, abrupt.
lily, This very note is from the couut.-
know his handwriting, and you your
self saw it drop from the folds OF her
dress. am going TO open it. You are
shocked! You wouldn't do it, suppose?
Nor Georglana either. Now, think it
my duty to expose an impostor, where
ever find one. There, | told you SOL
1t is from him, appointing a rendezvous.
Z
as live. What will Goorgiana say now
wonderP
She never had an opportunity Of ascer.
tanning, for that very afternoon she was
thrown from her horse, and so badly in
jured, that on the third day, the physi.
clans pronounced her recovery imPo'sl'
BILE.
She received the announcement with
out mauiicslng any emotion Of any kind,
only requesting that Georgiana Ilaugh.
ton, Marion Walters. Warren Kennedy,
and Robert Elliott, should be sent for.
They tell me am dying she said,
when they were all assembled around
her bed, ard believe it, Tor | can fee
the lie ebbng out with every pulse o
my heart. Marion Walters, hated yoI
insinclivel when first saw you.
hate you now, but | cannot die with
repairing the wrong have donnlng .De =
The rest ofmy life, if il has bee rely I.
ter, has been no worse than my neigh
bors, and | should never have been con.
cerncd in this affair, if it had moi been
for one who had more Of the devil in her
than had. | mean Georgiana laugh'
ton. She gave me money, and helped
me in various ways and | was bound to
ber. When she feared that you would
prove a rival in Mr. Kennedy's ahec-
lions. she coulriyad 20 make YOU jealous
o. one another. u hen that did not sui
fee, we spread scandalous reports about
your conduct with Count Pelerin, and
she bribed the Count 10 20 in and out oI
your window, at a time when she knew
you were away, and that he would be
seen That was the cause OF the cool
ness towards you, that you could not
comprehend, and in order 10 avert sus
picon, she affected to espouse your
cause, while | took up against you. Fl.
ually she cau,ed the Count 10 write a
note, which she carried with her for
days, till she had an opportunity to let it
drop, apparently from the folds OF your
dress, in Mr.. Kennedy's presence. Then
played my part;-he can tell you, for
| l.
Here the death rattle choked her utter.
ance, and the next moment she had
ceased to breathe.
Bob was the first to break the silence.
Miss " at.rs congra.u ate you, and
I'm deyelsh glad to find You are an ma
gel after al Miss EIaughloD, heyl what!
she has falnted!-thal's lucky, for the
position was getting deuted awkward
Warren and Marion were silent, for
their emotions we're too deep for utter.
ance.
But the explanations that ensued must
have been satisfactory. for they shortly
supplied the Jenkens' of certain well
known journal, with ample material for
glowing paragraph, in which he des-
canted at length on the splendid assem-,
blage Of wealth and fashion that honored
the wedding of Warren Kennedy and
Marion W alters with their presence.