Shreveport daily news., 1861-07-04
Selected Expressly for the Ners.
The Scottish Landlady, and her
LOdgerS.
A PATHETIC AND BEAUTIFULLY TOLD
TALE, BY MIR. GAIT.
CONCLUDED.

81 inscribed upon his conscience,
how, before her ruin, she went bloom
ingly and gay to her fathers church,
the bells ringing in unison with her
happy fancies. l spoke Of the wor-
thy young men who then eyed her
with love and admiration, but whose
advances she repelled, because she
thought only Of him; and then /
showed him what he had made of
her-a destitute creature, scorned by
all who knew her in her blamcless
time, being in a strangers house, fear
full TO visit thee treets; and my cor
ruption rising, cried with vehemence.
'Reprobate she was beloved and
honoured, and you have made her a
light wolnan!'
"He said nothing to me but he
rose, and, putting on his hat with an
emphasis, as my father would have
called it, left the house.
Next. morning, Miss Fatima had
Il letter from him; but what was in
it she never did reveal, for she read
it over to herself. 1t contained a
bank note for hundred pounds
which was IL large sum, considering
ing my bill was not then above
elevcn-and she read it again, and
began to moan and mourn from the
depths of her spirit. Then she gave
me the banknote with a melancholy
smile, and said she thought it was
sen6uyh-and she pressed my hand
kindly, aud added, she had overheard
all / had spoken to the Captain. In
the same moment she started up, and,
shaking her hands towards tie holy
skies, she cried, Il, Is SOL am such
and it shall be done
! IL was amazed and terrified at
her vehemcnce. | feared but could not
guess. what her intent wis; but she
soon after put ona countenance OF calm
n.Ss-vet it was Il calm without qui-
ct. Her pale cheek. which had dong
lost its flower, became of II claEcy
deadlineSs-her eyes glittered as it
they saw not-her voice had Il far
off, hollow, tomb-likc sound-and
there was a horror in her smile, that
made IN. suffer rs if the world of the
dead had been disclosed before me.
"Such Sl," was for some four or
five davs--ir might have becna whole
week-I'll not dispute that, for | was
in manner myself demented but
a change at last began to manifest
itselt-and such IL changc!'
| Mrs. Winsom was deeply affected
bv what she had related, and she
;, ,,old it with so much dramatic pro-
priety, that l wondered at the talent
She displayed. I have, however,
since often observed the same singu-
| lar faculty in other illiterate persons,
and have seen them rising in the
course Of Il narration to the supposed
beautiful eloquence Of the higher
minds of whom they discoursed. l
ought however, to acknowledge that
l was melted with more than ordina-
ry sympathy for the doom of the
unfortunate young lady, which the
motherly zeal Of my worthy landla-
dy had evidently prccipitated !; and
my curiosity was so excited, that l
could not repress the desire to be in
formed Of the sequel of Il story so
tragical.
"When," resumed Mrs. Winsom,
"when the desolate creature came to
a true sense of her forlorn situation
for in her panic she was too wild
to have right discernment--it was
freezing to hear how she lamented /;
she didn't plead that she had been a
resisting victim nor did she take all
the blame upon herself. There was
flatterry in her heart that she had
been betrayed by the condition of he'
fathers house more than by her own
weakness, or that the accomplishe,
of her ruin had a premeditated pur
pose. Still, however, she wept anc