The Shreveport weekly news., 1861-05-20

tee, only with I,,aintiy carved frame
and elbows, (gazing uHOp the dying
1eyabeyS ola wpodsfra that 6@d been
piled ~ between abs Sxen dogs on
fihe hs,ek hesssb, ~ Mrs. Alice
..Why dost siglh, swsel said
her husband art not happyr
L II kncw not why Isighed, dear Mar
| tyi,," she said, s'Certes, it was not for
lack of happiness. Tor am sight hap
py."
Il am glad to hear thee say so,
and think thou sayest sooth--it l
may Mt alljudge from. mine own heart
for am happier than ever vet
have been
..Amd so, in truth, am L. SLartyn
for am happy nov; and, indeed,
l never knew happiness till thee"
/ NAY, now thou art susely cajoling
me, sweetest. Ntcancst thou, thou
vert never happy ere now?'
81 say, till l knew thee, never
never!" As she said this with great
stress on the word never, Martyr.
whose arm was girdling her Eel, her
shudder strongly and he shook too.
] After short pause, he resumed.
.,.Didst thou, then, not love thy other
husbands, Alice e
love them No, Martyn-no
I l hated thens--hated them with a
deadly hate" And at these words
her face grew iividiy pale, and her
eyes fixed on her husbands with a
strange and snakc-like glistenng.
that his marrow thrilled again, and
his heart beat thick. He spoke to
her, however. in a meek voice, and
said
"Why did.t thou hate them so
and, therefore. We're it possible thou
shoullst be such, l should even ST.
hate thee, much, very much as l do
now love thee She uttered these
words in tone Of deep tenderness,
and fell weeping on his neck
He strove, both by carcsses and
assurances, to soothe her; hut it
was sometime before he could do So
The conversation was not resumed,
aud they ro,i.ed Ia ned. but Mar
tyn's mind continued very restless.
ana he lay awake long after his wife
had gone to sleep; he conld no.
dismiss her words from his brain, nor
eiiace the impression they had made
thereon aud, after turning the mat
ter over II great many times, he came
To the resolution that he would see
little moro into the matter. At
last he fell asleep, but it was only
to wake soon from. a wild dream
He thought him and his wife were
: still setting on the low settle. as
they had been that evening and
that their faces were lit up. It's they
then had been, by the fitfui slin-
merins Of the dying embers-,ha,
/. hers wore the same livid hue, and
and her eyes glistuned in the same
suake-like manner, that had thon =,
=. high,ened him and that they vera
fixed, 30 then, upon his and, though
her look WAS mos, shocking, that he
was fascinated by it, and could not
move away his glance from hers f.;
and her face kept growing palcr and
! palcr; and her eyes grew brighter
and brighter, aud more and more
terrible aud he grew sick and sickcr
al heart, aud felt rceiing in his
, brain, and Il choking in his throat (;
and still he could not turn Iii. ewes
: from her. And, f.aliold, her long
, black curls, ,ha. hung about her
, neck and shoulders. seemed of IA sud
den, and yet slowly. TO become IN
! stinct with life; and, one by one,
they mcurled themselves some mo-
/ wing their ends TO and fro. and up
, and down, as he had seen leeches do
5 in a vase when they sough, to Tx
: their heads uNwherc-othcrs
1 again twined themselves round the
: carved rail-work Of the settie-whit,
Others, arching and stretching them,
! selves out, twisted round his neck 50
| tightly that they nearly throttlcd
? him. He woke upin alarm and ago
i ny. and found his wife's long hair
{ indeed. around his neck-and he,
arms, too; and her head. was lying
q on his chest, and she was sobbins
). violently. He asked her what allied
f her; and she said she had dread
A full dream, all of which that she could
. recollect, was, that she had seen him
, murdered.
v Martyn slept no more that night
: and, the next morning, he rose be,
: times. and, pretending business, h,
A went out at an early hour Bust
< ness, however, he had none. Ii,
\ walked forth at the Cripplesate. ana
I strolled through the Finsburie fields
and so away into the country, with
/; out any fixed determination or ever
: knowledge of WHITTIER he was going
), 1t was a drizzly day. too; but h,
r seemed unconscious OF it, though h,
. was soon drenched to the skin. Blu
e he kept walking about, thinking Over
: the scene of the last evening, anc
7 all the stories he remembered to hav,