The Shreveport weekly news., 1861-05-20

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prayer, Ayt 1 ssid 81 woali "A
pray thes, but I do now. Lgok !! -.
Martyns am ON my knees here 70
thee-ana there are tears ins mlne
eyes .-and, kneeling and weeping
thus. I pray thee GO not forth to-
day. l have had drenms Of late
drsams of bad foretokeD, Martyn;
and only last night did truly dream
that--''fHere she gulped, as iffor
breath.l "Thoa wilt lose thy life,
and thou GO forth to-dnys Martyn."
THE CATASTROPHE.
But Martyr Lessomour, like JUL
US Caesar, was not to be frightened
from fixed purpose by wife's
dren,as and he answered her.
"Wife, wife, thou art a fearful wo-
man, and makest me fear thee; but
nathcless, shall CO.
"Go then" she said, and rose and
left him; and he shortly after went
from the house-he returned in the
evening i'll the same assumed state as
before, and went to bed. For the last
two days that he had played this part
since his wife had begun to use threats.
he had gone when he left his own
house. either to a friends or n tavern,
where he slept away all the time he
was absent. in order that he might
lie awake during the night, 10 watch
what his wife would do; but during
this day he had not. for disquictnde OF
mind, been able to sleep at all; but
now that he was ia bed, such drow-
siness came oyer him. that in spite Of
all his cndeavors he soon fell into
sound sleep. From this he was nrous-
ed by his wife's getting out Of bed;
yet, although he at once started into
thorough wakefulness, he had the pre-
sencc of mind to pretend to be still
asleep, and lay still and watched her
She had thrown night gown around
| her--but her hair was loose, and hung
| struggling about her neck, and as she
passed the foot of the bed, the light
fr"ri lamp that was burning ON u
! table, fell through her locks Upon her
face, ard MARVIN saw that was Of that
livid paleness, and tina, her ewes were
brishfened by that hateful snakelike
look. which he had only once before
bchcld in reality, though in memory,
thousands and thousands Of times; he
saw too that she had small knife in
one hand. Slowly and Silly, like n
ghost, she glided on-but away from
| him; and going up - the place where
she had hung her gown up when she
undrcssed, she took it down and rip
ped open one Of the sleeves of it, and
/ took something out; she the went to
the hearth. where there was fire
! burning, for twas winter. and having
( laid the knife and whatever else SHE
held in her la':t!. beside the lamp up
on the table, she seemed searching for.
something ahou, the hearth. -. last
! Marvin heard her infsit.-r, :" MOI here
how foo.ish-hccdlcss Of mel
must g, and fetch il, from below She
mofcd towards the door-Martvn's
| heart bca. ithin hir:. as h. thought
the mo,nrn, she should be gone. he
I would leap from the bed and rusE,
past her down the stairs, and out OF
I the housc-.or he strangely felt that
to be alone wout,! be more dreadful
than TO be in her most dreadful pres-
encc. She stopped. however, AZ the
door-laid hold of the latch, hIt did
ITO. raise it-and continued in low
nu,ter, mo, here; mayhap il was
for some good end forgot it-may-
Imp that | should give him one more
trial yct--shall Ill shail-=onc
more trial will give thee, dear
Mar,yu, dear still, though lost, l
dread--one more-one more ard
saving this, she hurried back to he1
bed, and leaning her head upon
Mutyn's shoulder, sighed and sob
bed, not loudly indeed, but as ii her
heart We're cracking-and he--iss
lay deadly still by her side, for he
really feared to speak to her. even
though it were to speak comfort o,
when he though of doing 80, the re.
me,nbxance of her word. "one trial
more" stihed him-she seemed soon
) after to doze I'm the morning hs
took care to rise before her, and woke
/ her in so doin--he went up, as if by
!, accident, to the table, and saw tina,
, beside the knife there lay s,nallisl
! round dump of lead.
"What is this for, Alice T. he said
! in careless tone-sor he knew she
was watching him.
What is it''' she replied. He
took It to her bedside. That" sh.
, continued, lis weight from the
, sleeve of my gown; cut it ont last
} night, to put in a smaller, for find i,
too heavy"
Martyr laid it down, and presently
! left the roam. 1t was some time be
; fore his wife joined him below stairs
and when she did at last come, hel
, eyes looked so swollen and red. tha,
: Martyr was pretty sure she had been
! weeping he said nothing about it
: however, but in few minutes rose
and tool d1Nu,, his nnn aud snid 6.