Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-09-30
From the True Flag.
TURNED BROKER.
THE LETTER.

Dear Wife When you see this,
forget me. ! am going to throw myself
over in the river, where the current runs
strongest and deepest and curse on
him who attempts to find my body.
know you love me dearly, and would
say here, it is my wish that you marry
not again. / have failed, but have se-
cured the house furniture, and a some
thing in cash for you-you will know all
ere long. Adieu, and God bless you.
Ever in death, yours,
CHAUNCEY DANVERS."
wrote, signed and sealed the above
with steady Eand-my determination
was made-made deliberately. waited
till could find an opportunity to lay If
upon Eugenie's table. A singular hal
iucination had taken possession of me,
which I would not stop to analyze. Suf-
flee it to say, as 1 said before, my mind
was made up.
By the way-in passing was forty.
My eldest son was fifteen, already ac-
quiring false notions, false habits, false
everything. My daughter, Ella Euge-
ME, always called Ella, was in her four
teenth year, and my pet Alexis, had al
ready written, in bold school-boy hand
- am ten to-day
In my wife / had confidence. She
was noble woman, strict, but gay, hon
orable and very beautiful. That she
loved me / never doubted. raised her
from position of almost absolute beg
gary to independence. Yes, could not
doubt that she loved me, but yet, the hu-
man heart is a strange thing; mine was
lis. wished to test her. How often
had she said IF you die, Alexis, will
never marry Well, wanted to see il
there was one woman-holdl / have
said before that hallucination possessed
me.
had made some previous arrange.
ments-I had left everything for my
wife and children save some linen an6
an extra suit or two of broadcloth, haG
now kissed her for the last time, perhaps
] won't anticipate-don't like authors
who do. On my ibrary-shelves l left {
great deal of sleeps brains done up il
calf-skins. Candidly, never like book
of any kind. Perhaps you won't thinl
any the better of me for that. / can
say that / care much whether you do o
not.
But to my story. l left some super
statuary that cost small fortune. l lei
pictures whose prices would have beg
CARED some men; they had helped bee
gar me, but, as ] said before, l had mad
my wife comfortable. So much / P,
out of the hands of my creditors, an
yet they were recompensed more than
usual in such cases.
After had written the note read
several times, and each perusal made n
better pleased with it. sat idly lookir
from my bedroom window, a few m
ments after. There was some comm
ton in the street. Opposite dangl
three golden balls. How often / h
wished that some friendly fire might tu
that place into ashes-it seems so natuI
that ashes should be the end of ever
thing. Now a cart ratified down a
stood fronting the door. A few bund
were thrown in, chair or two, an {
desk, and the window stood blank desc
ed. The broker had broken. He h
dead-failed, only in less ambitious W
than myself.
That very moment strange thou.
took possession of me. If strar
thoughts were devils, j should often
in worse strait than was Mary Mag
len-for there are sometimes more Il
seven in me.
MY thought was TINS 81 would q
broker. / left the note / had sea
where my wife would be sure to Sc
when she came home. Ella and my
had gone visiting with her, and ! kr
they would stay to tea. / hurried Of
an old Jew by the name of Elan,
found him at home.
Well, what do goa want?' he CT
wrinkling his long nose, his eyes like
uncut diamonds shining straight on m
ITO hire the little hole opposite
house for poor friend was my rep
'Ehl you turn broker-it woul,
good
sIcame to hire the shop for
FRIEND said, more firmly, WING
however.
Yes, but have just been off
three dollars the week for him."
sToo much, but for the sake of Sc
1t, III give you three and fifty, and
for two months down-come, now.
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