The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-31

my Glass; All tildl ultSnS aPPczss We s'! -
her eyes, and might hope soon to earn incl
hand she promised me. And | believed
she loved me; she told me 50: and soen
fought my way to position in which
mil ht offer her competence and happy
home--her for whom alone ever cared TO |
allsuch mine.
..And when all was ready, went back
TO that little village among the mountains
and told my love that was ready now TO
claim her for my own; and she blushed.
and put her hand IN mine. and then said II
should be so, and the next month she would
be my bride so I left her, to prepare
home for her where every bright and pleas
ant thing might help to make her happy:
..And the day before the appointed wed
ding-day stood at her cottage door, and
knocking there, ] was met on the thresh-
old by group of sad. affrighted faces, and
they told me that the woman loved had
onel-fed!-with one, they said. wealthy.
soft-spoken villain, who, with cunning words
and well-told lies. and many hellisb arts eff
gallantry. had stolen from me the heart of
Annie to whom she had sold, for few
words of glowing hattery. all that ever
loved, all that ever in my whole life priced
above life itselfp' .a
AS the old mans tale went on, his voict
had lost its tremulous feebleness, and the
eyes, that no longer fell upon the carpet
blazed under the lowering eyebrows with
frighLful passion. With a sweep of his
hand he had pushed away the half-emptied
glass, and his clinched fist in his vehement
agony seemed to sink deep into the marble
slab. The listener at first had leaned for
ward in his eagerness To catch every word
now he fell back into his chair, his fascna-
ted eyes still following the unconscious
speaker, and cold drops stood thick upon
his forehead, and rolled down his cheeks
in streams.
Il rushed madly from the door; no sound
hut one stunning buzz was in my ears; no
sight before my eyes but one black, impen-
etrable cloud. l had no thought but of
some crushing evil that had befaIlen me,
and so fled away, and knew no more till
was hundreds of miles from land, and the
fresh sea breeze was blowing upon my
cheek. For years. under an assumed name.
/ wandered; few chimes are there where /
have not been, few sorrows and privations
that | have not felt since then. am wrink-
led and gray, and shattered in body and
mind, and my life is stained with many
sins. For all that am, sordid. and i'm
placable, and indicative As am. and. dead
to every human feeling-for all this an /
indebted TO her whom once loved. And
row hear an old mans curse % and Phil
Hope stood upright with his trembling right
hand raised towards heaven, the baleful FIRE
flashing from beneath his gray and shaggy
brows. his ale cheek CHASTITY with unearih-
ly passion, and the thin lips writing and
curling and bloodess with revenge. And
how in the or-stricken face opposite was
reflected back that deadly ashen hue, and
the dropped jaw quivered in speechless
horror, and the startling eye-baIls rolled
and glared in dumb alright! '.Tenfold for
all the love that ever bore her, for all the
good that ever ] wished her, for all the 10Y
and gladness l ever hoped to share with her,
upon her head it she still lives, upon her child
rem and herchildren's children return hatred
and scorn. and evil untold, and sorrow, and
dark Implying despair May all the evil
that ever l endured, all the torments that
ever pursued me over the worlds wide
waste, all the deep passions and deep corro-
ding suspicious that have pr-yed upon my
life, may they follow down 10 the grave,
without end or one moments sweet reprieve,
Annie Leslie and her damned paramount
May -
Stop In Gods name, Phillip Stanley
hold Let fail your curses on the guilty
head % and Phillip Stanley recoiled at the
sight of his own livld faith so faithfully rem
dered back. as the rich merchant stood with
arms out-stretched before him at was l,
villain as you call me, that found out An
ME Leslie, innocent and arIless, in her ma
tive valley; | that sought in vain to gain
har TT hof off
and device. and intrigue were exhausted,
sent. under another's name, a message of
sickness and distress. 10 decoy her away to
lonely hut far off among the mountains:
it was that awaited there her coming, and
dragged her away by force, under the GOV
er of night and the dark shadow of the for
est; that snatched your betrothed from
your arms and sent you wandering out
cast through the world Annie Leslie es.
capped pure and unsulied from my clutches. !
and returned to her home to find her hover
fed: and soon she laid down her young
head. covered with shame and SORROW. I'M
der the willow that weeps over her grave. |
IL it was who did il all -
Up and down up and down through
the long parlors. like some goblin's tramp, |
echoed the hating FOOT tops: the l. fly mir
rors sent back to each other the image of
that spectral face as it turned from one to
the other; and long after the midnight bell
had struck. the waichman across the street
gazed in wonder at the oft returning profile
of a downcast aged face. that for a moment
was drawn so distinctly upon the curtain.
and then changed. and shifted, and faded
away. And when the bright beams of the
new year streamed far into the rooms, and
the master of the house with heavy groan
raised his gray head from the table, there
on the rich carpet. under the glaring gas,