Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-05-28

be the landlord of the house he occupied, lie
promised to he cautious, aud thus matters went
on Tor something more than four months. when,
on entering the counting house late one after
noon, after an absence of FIVE or six hours, Mr.
Lewson, who seemed good deal disturbed
said
distressing circumstance has occurred.
Meredith. Aman, of the name If Rar dali. has
forged my acceptance To a bill Of excl anye for
three hundred pounds
Indeed we'll who is this Randall?''
"AmOry!'
The partial emotion which agitated us lo'h
| may be imagined.
- See the bill broker who presented the ae-
ceptance this morning. and settle it" said Mr.
Lewson, placing check for the amount before
me. q We will talk hereafter upon the best
course to pursue for the future
took the check, FASTENED away. and lust rs
L turned into Chcapside, met Mrs. Amory hur-
rTylng dlstractedly along towards the warehouse
Her husband had been taken into custody, and.
In his terror, had confessed everything
II know all now" munnured the weeping.
terrihed woman, ''and l must see Mr. Lewson
| Immediately
told her of my present errand.
Bless him" she exclaimed with choking
| utterance. as she took my arm to retrace her
steps. May the Almighty reward him.
Ihe holder of the bill very jOyfulIy received
the check in exchange for the acceptance; and
as Amory or Randall had been taken before
magistrate, there was little difficulty in effec-
ing has release upon the withdrawal of the
charge by the bill-broker who very politely
apologized for the mistake and trouble he had
gwen the police. Mrs. Amory had gone home
ny my advice in n cab. in order to afford me an
opportunity of comforting privately and seri-
ously with her husband, who, after being bound
over by the superintendent to appear las a mat.
ter OF form, before the sitting alderman on the
10 tbA
been entered on the police sheet, was liberated
was waiting for him in the street; this Amory
knew, and either in order 10 annoy me or he
cause he really disliked seeing me after what
had taken place, he turned dOggedly into the
first dram-shOp he reached, and no message. no
entreaty, could get him out of it, until he
thought was gone, and then he emerged in a
very advanced stage of intOxication. followed
him for some time unperceived; but Just as ho
had reached the bottom of Snow Hill. he caugbt
sight OF me, and fastened to cross over TO the
other side of the street. He was about halfway
across, when the rapid approach of a furiously
driven cab startled him; he made dart for
ward to avoid it. slipped, fell, and in another
instant the horse and wheels passed over him
lie was taken up and carried to Bartholomew 2
Hospital. Amputation of both his legs eventu-
ally became necessary, and the unfortunate
man died under the operation, tended 70 the
last by the patient ministry of his gentle wife.
The agitation Mrs. Am0ry had undergone
brought on a violent fever and for several days
her life was thought in danger. 1 got nv sis-
ter, a sensible woman, and a widow, to whom I
thoroughly explained how matters stood to at
tend her In her illness, and afterwards remain
with her as companion and hOuseke-per II
was more than twOmonths after AmOry' death
before my sister reported positive progress
" Mrs. AmOry," she said, lis merely afraid
OF Induiging in the happiness which for all
that, is simmering at her hesrt-afraid to hone
Tor, or appear TO think about, what see plain
ly enough alone occupies her thoughts In
short added my shrewd relative, Mrs. Amory
Is womsn, and must say a very amiabIo and
still beautiful one You would scarcely know
her; :he looks at least ten years younger than
she did,
My sisters account Of Mrs Amory's state of
mind precisely described that of Mr. Lewson:
but thought ii better not To hurry matters
and accordingly another month slipped by and
we were still in the same undecided state when
my sister, who could keep silence no longer.
had long interview with Mr. LewsOn, the re-
suit OF which was, that half an hour afterwards
that gentleman. serupulously attired. was on
his way to Ilamnersmith Of what passed
there, cannot speak with precision; / only
know that Mir. Lewson purchased large house
at Bayswater, furnished il magnificently and
that upon the 4th of March last, close upon the
expiration of the year of wdowhood Robert
LewsOn, bachelor, and Mary AmOry, widow,
were united in wedlOck at Hammersmith
Church. A happier household than theirs does
not. [ think, exist in Christendom. The
children, fortunately, wonderfully resemble
their mother, both in person and disposition
and Mr.. Lewson consequently loves them as if
they were his own. lie himself appears to be
growing younger every day he lives, and Mrs
Lewson but the other evening told my sister.
who is great favOrite Of hers that the period
OF her first unhappy marriage is gradually pass
ing from her memory, that her youth and the
dreams Of her youth seem renewed and the
past to lie behind her like mOurnful and al
ready half-forgottsn dream.