Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-25
0N0rtester 4ailp Spp.
From Temple Bar for June.
A HAUNTED LIFE.

leuple Threw ulinSel. OdcK INTO his CHAIR Tor
moment and then rising again began slow
ly to pace the floor. He spoke at length.
81 will tell you a story, johnson, the strang-
est surely that ever passed human lips. Il
Will be almost as new to me as to you, for
though L have been living it for more than
four years, have never heard it put into
words, and but for what occurred to me Il your
rooms week ago l should not do so now
81 am forty five years old. OF the forty
shall say little, though they we're important
and eventful years enough; and it is to them,
and to their work, that l owe the comfort and
aff1uence Of my present condition AT forty a
mans life should be very much decided and
l thought mine was. Owing to certain sue
cessful speculatons, my fortune had become
so considerable that had no need for any fur
Their anxiety about it. had travelled over a
greater part of the globe, and concluded that
England was, after all, the best place 10 live j
of any in the world. believed that was
destined for bachelor, and prided myself on
being true to the tender memory of a buried
love though think now that the truth was,
the grief OF my young life had long given
place to the Indifference of my ripper years
and the real reason of my celibacy was not the
clinging memory of my early love, but that |
feared if married should be obliged to give
up the unsettled habits Of my wandering years.
nished it somewhat after my own peculiar
taste, and was preparing to enjoy the remain
der OF my life Ill uneventiul ease, when inteili.
gence reached me OF something wrong in con-
necti0n with Mexican mine in which | was
concerned, and in which large share of nv
fortune was invested. 1t was with feeling
of considerable annoyance that prepared for
the journey, as judged the matter 10 require
personal investigation and from the time |
reached Mexico | babe adieu to the life of other
men, and from that date to the present hour
have led lite that think 10 demon in hell
would be willing to accept in exchange for his
own proper torment.
There was nothing really wrong with the
mine; panic had seized the shareholders
but found that it had nearly subsidized by the
time that l reached Mexico. There was no
necessity tor my remaining there above few
days, for my agent was iii all respects trust
worthy, but QUEEN Deus cult perdere prius oleaen.
tat, and made arrangements for spending the
winter in the city. | have moralized thou
sand times upon the small pivot oil which
mans destiny turns. Ii could have gone
mad, | should have done so, in trying TO I'M
derstand how, from such small premises, can
be drawn conclusions SO gigantic. Istayed in
Mexico that winter ; and the result is ruined
life, and hell hereafter.
1t was particularly gay season, and at one
of the public entertainments, OF which there
were many, | met with one at sight of whom
my heart throbbed with the fiery pulses of
twenty years. 1, man of forty, who prided
himself on his insensibiity to the charms of
,'o,;aa ~ a,,i4,,l $500 ~ Ile Iaocl
,La,, bolC ,,, h.. -, - ~
81 ILL., Lo,et,, ~ tn;iI. :" 40 I'd
~, .,1se ~ Ine pll'liancy ~ iiei ii'sShI
invod ber ,r;,I' eay,s ,",y VI Nv, lipS
har Cav tolsa h',n, ,d Wv. eu.ses on
+old nv in1o ~ "orda LII T LII toE ~
thonnl,t 70 No. ,,,,red I;tn i'"u ny
Ro,.iidorod bT ,,sso, .,J " ~ ~
love tn hash u p por a., oy 'er.e ~
AZ, -. III. :, a.piafs I"y aitei uay
NV love Pnt H. toiS ,' S Inr s i. leiui
hiood 1ie LII ,,,t her n3' Spanish
t;ye Iana,,aaa hroe, 49,, ,,,,,.i' $; - ny na
snoonL Ia go In,,.'d hs ~, ~ ilGi emeet
h,,ar ;a aartl noo,, d. ~ e w ,1y1,er
ma vas ueruiled by her false woman's |
tonoue and gave myself M even more fully
70 the inf ,tnatior. I Thought stood at The |
Gate Of heaven and found 100 ale that had
demanded admittance at the door of perdition.
listened for the music of the spheres. and
heard the roaring of internal fires | thought
~ bathe in Iight and leant desneratelv into
scorchino flames
etHad hean loss reserved nv natpre and
r,oda ocona;ntonca with those whom I met
iron. lime 10 time I miuht have learned the
truth .s IL vos 7 toni Tho liza Sha oava mo
Sic said she was the daughter of a man well
known in the titv tbouqI of susnicious re m
tation-one Alonzo Guandano. Though | had
been 50 short time in Mexico. | knew his
name we'll ae an aIebemist an astrologer a
man versed in strange and uneartIdy knowl-
edpe one tn whom bv virtue of A comuact
with the evil one. no mower was denied
81 asked NV beautiful Inez of the truth of
This She went She trembled alas it was all
true' and She had felt his mower. | pressed
NV love IN NV bosom and swore to take her
with me across the sea to hanny home which
l had already nrepared. She hesitated. asked
for time and I gave il her. as I womb have
done nv hearts, blood If was agreed that
the now vear sbouid witness onr t1iSht
"Two or three weeks nassed in kind of
del;r;nm 7 saw Ine1 and Iost M onnortnnitv
Of nroinr o,r fiiuht Sic yioIJod at Iennth to
INV nersnaS;ons and bIessal Nor for II when
I SbpnlJ rsther have 1.nrsed her swear to
haava, ,hat hol;ovod har ,vben sba sai5 she
was Guandano;s dsnohter. and did nor dis
,,ovor iii FOO laie that NV love was as sintnl
AZ i was M ss;onota
81 had made every Arrangement and the
o,,on;nc come ,yb,cl was ia he tolIogad NV tho
,,,ornin1 of onr tiioht We mot at our irvst.
inc Mace for The iost time and I soolhed HE
FILTERED shirt of INV timid love. and pictured
~ har nnr life that was to he in EnpIand.
told her. too in olowinp words. of what nv
nride wonld he in her rs NV wife : and size
listened and hal not the mercy to destroy
me nv telling the trnth a. that last moment.
Her exouisite face seemed to tremble in the
r,oonshina in tho soft light her beautv as.
snmed a character Of uneartIllv frapilitv. and
casned her closer in INV arms as though i
feared she would have melted from NV grasp
She uttered a faint crv and struooled in NV
embrace Ioosed NV bold and saw an awtnl