The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-09-14

WNlle teil ugs
care Ou in much pain todiy7"
81 don't complain OF none, dear bow"
"You never do complain"
lie had spoken his last words. lie smiled.
and Understood his touch TO mean that ne
wished To In my hand and lay it on his beast.
laid it there, AMI he smiled again, and put
both his hands upon IL.
The allotted time ran out while we were
thus; hui, looking round, | found the governor
OF the prison standing near me- and he whis-
pered. you needn't 20 yet" | thinkel him
gratefully, and asked might speak TO him.
II he can heaI me1"
The governor stepped aside, and beckoned
the officer away, The change, though it was
made without noise, drew hack the film from
the placid look at the white ceiling, and he
lookel most ahcctionately at mo.
Dear Migwitch, | must tell YOU now al
last. You understand v hat syi'
a g"uile pressure On NV htnI
You had a child once whom you loved and
Lost"
a stronger pressure on my hand
''Nhe lived ard found powerful friends She
- hyus now. Sno Is lady, aud very bcauti-
full. And love her"
With last faint effort, which would have
been pnwerles- but Tor my yielding to T. and
assist n IT, he raised my hand to hi, lips. Then
he gently let It sink upon his breast again, with
his own hands lying IN it. The plicii look at
the white ceiling came back anl passed away,
aud his head dropped quietly on his breast.
Mindful, then, Of what we had read osc'her,
] Thought Of The two mon who went mp into tho
Temple to Irtv, and knew there was no hct-
ter words that could say beside hs bel than
so Lord, be me iul 90 him. sinner go
CHAPTER LIy.
Now that | was lcf wholly to mv,,lr | ave
M. .ce oI my intention to quit the chambers in
the Temple a. soon a, my tcnln. v could legally
determine, and in the mean whnc 10 unlrflGt
them. AZ oncn put bills mp in the window;
for was ~ debt, nul had .,rtrly any money,
and began 10 be- .er.pusly alarmed by III, state
Of my affairs. ought rather tn write that
should have been ala uci II | had had energy
and concentration enough To help mo 10 tho
clear RECEPTION OF any truth beyond IN fact
that ! was falling very IN. The late stress
upon mo hr enabled M TO put OF illness, but
not 10 pat = away. | knew, tLIt itw I,rlnip,,
on me now, an knew very Little else, an was
even careless us to that
For day " two Law on the sofa or On the
iloOr-lry where acco ding a, ! Happened to
link dowu-w.th heavy head and ach NJ
limbs aud ~ purpu-c AMI no power. Then
there came one night which appeared Of great
duration, and which t. med with anxiety and
horror; AMI whom IN the morning tried IN 4
up IN my bol AMI think Of it found could
not do 20.
Whether ! really had been down in the Court
~ the dead Of the night, cropping about for the
boat that supposed tu be- there; whether had
Two or three tunes come to myself ON the stair-
case with great tcrrO-, no, knowing how had
got oui 0l bed whether | had found myself
ligi tns the lamp, possessed by tho idal that no
was com ng up the stairs, and that the lights
we're blown out; whether hal been incxprcssi-
bly, hara-sed hN the Distracted talking, laugh.
ing AMI rroanlnE OF some one, aud had halt
suspected thusc sounds TO be- ofmy own m liking;
whether there had been closed iron furnace I'M
"A dark corner u the room, and a voice had called
out over and over AGAIN that Miss llayi.ham
wa consuming within il; these were things
that tired To settle with myself aul get into
some order, as ! lay that morning on my bed
But the vapur OF a lime kiln would come be-
tween me and them, disordcring them all. AMI
II was through the yapor at last that Saw two
men looking At me.
What do YOU want ?" | asked. startiny
80 don't know you"
well, sir, returned one of them. bending
down, and touching me on the shoulder, this Is
n matter that you'll soon arrange, dare say.
but you're arrested"
"Nhat is the deb,2'
Hundred and twcnty-thrcc pound, fifteen.
six. Jewellers account, think
What is to bc done,
"lou hld better come 10 my house, said the
man. 81 keep very nice house.
made some attempt To get up and rcss nv
self. When ! next attended TO them they were
standing little of from the bed looking at me.
! It'll lay thcrr.
"lou soc my state said |. II would come
Will, you IL could hut indeed am qnito UNA
lie. II voU mk" me from here, thnk shall
die by the way
rcrh,Ir they replied, or argued tho point, or
RED 10 encourage mo To believe that was let
cr than thought. Fort,mugh, as they hang
o. my memory los only this uuc slender threat
! don't know what they did, except that thcy
luihorc 10 remove me.
] tat had o fever AMI Wa avo' lcl; that |
, h.rol greatly that | often lost my reason
hat the time seemed in,rmmahlc; that COM
luun.cl impossible eNi~trncrs with my own
identity; that was brick in the houso-wtll
anu yet cntrcnting a. lie r, leased from the ,iIIy
place whore the builders had set me; that / W.ts
a steel beam ola vast engine, clashing and whirl-
ing over gulf and yet that mplorrd i'm NV
q" u person to have the engine stopped and my
part IN it hammered ON that passed through
these phases OF disease know Of INV own re-
W'mhrinco, AMI lid in some sort know at the
time.
Tint sometimes struggled with real pcp,lr.
in n" l,'.ct that they were mur,lcrcr,. ami that
wnul nll OF once comprehend that tncv meant
tp 10 m" goat and WNul then sink exhausted
in lh"'r lrn-, and suffer them 10 Law me down.
al" know at the time, Bat, ,hJvcall | know
that There was constant Tendency in all these
p'"p,"-wl", when wls very NJ .woull p.e-cpt
hll KIND. OF extraordinary tran,f rmltions Of the
human trn,unl would be- much diatcl iu ,i,c--
above n'l. ! saV, ! knew that there was nm ,.y
traordlnarv tendency IN all those people. .p,ucr
ar later, tu -cttlc down into the lk purss nI tn
After had turned the worst point of my mi.
nr,s, ! ! Lan In notice that while all il, other
features changed, this one con, sfcnt feature dl
not change. Whoever came about me still set
tied down into Joe. | opened nv ewes in the
night, and saw in the great chair at the bed
side. Joe
opened my eyes in the dav. AMI, sitting on
The Wlnlow-seat, smoking his pipe in the shid-
sd open window, still saw Joe. IaskeI Tor
cooling drink, and the dear hand that gave il
me was Joe's. ! sank back on NV pillow al-
Ter drinking, and the face that looked 20 homo.
ully and tcndcry ulOn me, was the face of Joe.
Vt last ono day, took courage, AMI ,i.d. "I
Il Joc?"
And the dear old HON voice answered
(which it air, old chap
"Oh, Toe, YOU break my heart, Look an.,r.
It me- Joe Strike me, Joe. Tell me of nv H..
gratitude. Don't he 50 good to me-"
For Joe had actually laid hi, head down ON the
,llow at my SIDE and put his arm round INV
lrck in his JOY that Knew him.
(which dear Old PIP, old cha slid Toe.
Won AMI me was ever friends. And when
'uu'rc well enough to go out for ride-wh hat
AK"
A'cr which Joe Withdrew to the winl1w.and
TODD with his hnck toward me S. ping his eyes.
Md us NY extreme weakness prevented me
rom gcttn up and going to him, Law there,
whispering, "Oh Cot bless him
m, God, bless his gentle Christian man"