Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-04-29


she was within SIX feet of help-yet Sc
benumbed were all her faculties with
terror, so awful and oycrshadowing wa:
the phantasm of the big man cutting he,
throat and roasting her over the fire, tina
the shrek which she tried to give SEE mee
10 strupele muttered somewhere in he
heart. but never got out.
A few minutes after the voice wen
away, then Tatterdema lion and her com
nanion held a whispered conversation
both apparently seated on the top Of the
chest. Annie, who began to sufftr q
little from breathing. listened.
"a few minutes would do II, said tat
man.
It's dangerous. l tell yon," answered
! Tattrr lemalion.
..Bot how el.e can we get rid Of her
Them police will be watching all around
til. she's found.
II don't know exactly; but the Other
thing is too risky, tell you.
+. "Pshaw :" said :he man; "you needn I
mind. I'll jest set here little while,
while you 90 and fix the room. And
he laughed in a smothercd kind OF way
4 sudden rush of something strange t.
the head-an expansion OF her heart that
seemed to grow as large as mountaln-
and the next thing Anne knew was,tha'
she found hers If sitting on the ches'
all dripping with water white the oto
woman was contemplating her ANXIOUS
'y. ~
"Thore. she's all right now. But you
nearly did for her. brutel SAID Lat
te1dcmalion.
"Give MS the sack, and dry up" an
swered the bnrly man. Ill see II |
cant pass her out OF the way, Here
to Annie young 'un. into this sack,
and I'll take you hone. Anne found
herself b1g5ed, she scarcely know how.
and then swurg upon the man $ shoulder.
Awful threats were held out if sh" did
not remain lent After being Jalted
for what seemed to her to be three or
four hours she felt hers If sud dlenly flung
on the ground. and then heard footsteps
retrcating. Half dead with terror, she
timidly crept out of the filthy sack In
which sh, ha been euvetupei, and saw
what scene to be a large garden lit
with lamps. The moment she found
herselfin the open air she began to cry
lustilv. A kind maa, with brass buttons
all over hi. coat and stick in his hand.
soon came up TO her AMI asked her few
questions. He then led her in lgh-
boring house. where a nice looking gen.
tleman that they called captain was SIT
ting behlni a great SIX. an seemed TO
take great interest in her. lhere w'S
great many other men IN brass buttons,
and they gave her candy and texeNSeS'
INT she could not eat them. Then the
swinging doors opened and something
or ralher rushed At her and caught her
Iup. and Annie 1t other telr- besides
her own and warm kisses on her checks
and heard once more her mother 5 volHn
talhin, to her. And tn n she cried wy
loud, and mamma cried, and papa pre-
tending to be angry. although her checks
were shining VITA mo >ture,an oclleVe
that the kind captain and the men IN
ibuttons wcr. not much drier either -
And then Annie was bundled into a
carriage, and mamma awoke for tn. first
time to a consciousness of her rags and
was then shocked. and then Anne gave
, graphic aud entirely unlnte'l'SlbIe
account of her adventures. and there was
more kissin, and sobblng. TIL they
reached home, when the little lady hat
a bath. and her supper. and was pnt to
bed where shs Immediately went to SIcc.'
and dreamed that she had redbrelst,
with a black top knot, and lived IN +"
gold ca.e, and THAT an old woman IN
bras, buttons puckel her features all o"
and roas ed her before a fire.
y. Y. Tribune.