The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-01-04


sohcitude. He had purpose. Was It 10 beg
gar bin again when he wou Id be worth the Ia
Dor
Robert had been now two years IN his new
home having renewed the vow in his own healt'
which he had SO solemnIy made by his fathers
death-5ed, the memory Of her whom he had los
and whom he expected to meet again only inI
heaven, when, after one Of these proiractedl
periods of RAINY weather which are commonI
to portions Of the South West, that terrible eP1i
idenic. typhus fever, broke cut in the neighbour
mood, having been superinduced ~ the vast al
mount OF decaynng vegetable matter which
under the combined influence OF heat and mos
turp, steamed forth continually a sickenlH5z
and pestilential miasma. Robert Baldwin bs-
came one Of the earliest subjects Of its attack
For weeks his life hung upon thread, but fe
was happily unconscious Of his sniierings. -
his boisterous rawlings, or in the low mutteflo@s
Of his deiriun, The name Of Constance wases-
er upon has lips, and he must have often isit
that her spirit, at least, was near him, for ;nthe
widest pagoxysms OF his fever, wien It "ss
impossible 10 control him, he woaId utter hsa
name, and then, with smile sweet as l1a!
which first uesilss upon the tiny cheek Of tbe
babe, he would sink down calmly and quietly
as if the troubIous storm was stiIled.
When he had somewhat recovered, tie a&'h-
ful physiciap, who had 50 carefully ATTENDED
hrn in his long and trying Illness, entered =.
room one day, ana aPProa ching him sa'dFo
him, el have brought with ne now, to in!sa-
duce 10 you one Of the two careful nurses, wF'
have aided me 10 save your life, and you mus,
at least, thank han, though 1 know not rs
name, as he has refused 10 give 1t to me-
Robert raised himself upon his eI5ow a2d r.
held Colonel Prussng, who now advanced -
wards him-"Stand back, villain :" sXclaHad
the sick man, ''you have robbed me Of all v}s
worth IA worldly goods, AMI them Ct the VIZ
an loved, anJ sent me aerif upon the 3 d
10 perish like a beggar Bsgone toa..
! sizF.t
"Robert Baldwin, you shall hear me frat,'
spoke the Colonel, ''and then you shall rePest
vfat you have said, or You shall say whteyer
c.s, your heart vii! dictate. Allow me tifsf,
to cc7gra,ulata YOU on your recovery, an On
the honorable and manly course you havsuF-
sued since our last meeting. You viii rejem-
b.r ,hs first night met yoa in gambIiageIi-
/ went there to seek for you. During nj ab-
seace from town, at that iime, YOU had lal IN
victim 10 the vice which was The cause { all
your sorrows this Iearne+, on my retCl.-
/ Your father bad requested me to watchbv'r
you when he sent you to the city in wha
rss,Io5 ard # had not had another wghty
reason for doing SO, his wish would hav, been
law to me. Yon we'll remember how W met
there I saw that the passion for play hi Ia
ken too deen a root in your bosom 70 b easi-
u,,-,r.,.
With ,oa. would have been unavarlins as the
a,r. ,b.,os IF redeenin, YOU. extc.ed
,'-.1,;., f-,r, 80, ,o rid, yonr r,oosvt nv
"l-I. - ~, t.,.aI. or ,,;,s ybo van
"' .-...Ir ,,,. o-r,,r,Jo.fIare
'''' ,'.>, 49, oar,, .onrI - -. lasst, They
,~sr. friends pp3p whom could plae inplt-
d, ~.ff,oco and were ,yiIIinr 10 aidne in my
efforts toredcem, from ruin, The son fmy BEN
siactor, for such was YOUR father T. me. The
money which thew won from youeeery eve
a.,,. ,u,, rs.,rosJ f., me- 10 m, st cent. It
,ssr .,s too, who sent 10 YOU The jliyidual from
,,Iam ,r, von purchased the Ioaiedice, to tempt
ran as !, was nv wish 70 pro- to you that
YOU as i was ny ''' = -, ~ and re7oIt;n,
,,h;c, ths ,ss,,on fer rlav VI not lead man
r-,,....,,;.. o,,I,,a taoI;rs and nice sense Of