The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-07

by moonlight. Accordingly, about nve o,ci ~
Mr. and Mrs. Openshaw and Mr.. ano nfs'
Chadwick set of. Noah
TIE hoasemaid aud cook sat below, No. .,
creased in the nursery, in tendtps nei wv
children, and sitting by the restless sacltanss
Ailsie I'LL she fell asleep ~ anu 'ue
housemard, Bessy. tapped senay q. '.e uS -
Noran went to her. ana '"e' ep'~' :" "A'S
pers. a.,., .,.,.s ,r.r,
you"
"a Sentlsman-"
"a Gentleman Nonsense! -
.Weii man, then, aud he asks for you, and
he rang at the front-door bell, aud has walked
into the dining. room"
"You should never have let him In" ex.
claimed Norah "master and missus out"
II did not want him to come in but when
he heard you lived here, he walked past me,
and sat down on the first chair, and said, Tell
her TO come and speak 10 me- There is no gas
lighted In the room, a ad supper is all set out"
Hell be 1t GIth the spoons" exclaimed
Moran, putting the housemaid's lear INTO
words, aud preparing to leave the room hrs',
however, giving look 10 Aisle, sleeping
suundly ana calmly.
Down stars she went uneasy fears stirriuE
Ia her bosom. Before she entered the dining
room she provided herself with a candle, and,
with it in her hand, she went 10, looking
around her in the darkness for her visitor.
He was standing up, holding by the table
Norah and he looked at each other, gradual
recognition coming into their eyes.
Moran Z" at length be asked.
"Who are your" asked Norah, with the
sharp tones OF alarm and incredul1ty
don't know you;' trying, by futile WORDS ol
,s belief, to do away with The terrible tact De-
| fore her.
| .Au 4 so changed % he said, pathetically.-
81 dare say 1 am. Bur, Moran, tell me-" he
| oreathed hard, where is my Wiiei Is she-h
che aiiVeF'
| He came nearer 10 Norah, and would have
TAKEN her hand, bat she backed away from
MIN looking at i'm all the time with starr nt
eyes. as If he were some horrible OBJECT. lie
| ne was 4 handsome. bronzed, good LOOKING
fellow, with beard and mustache, giving niu
/ a foreign looking aspect; but his eyes! ther'
| was no mistaking those eager, beautiful eyes
| the very same that Norah had watched no
| hsf An hour ago, till sleep stole softly owe
them.
| Iell rue, Norah-I can bear It'll hav
| feared il so often Is she dead p Moran Sill
| kept silence. " She is dead!' He hung "
| Norah's words and looks as if tor conhrma
| non or contradiction. ,,
sir, why did you come I how did you hnd M
out wnere have you been =! We thought yo
dead we did indeed She poured out WORD
and questions 10 gain time, as II tible "o"i
| nelp ner.
| "Norah answer me this question stTaigh
by Yes or no-Is my wife dead ~
mo, she is not,'' said Noruh, slowly an
| heayiy.
"Oh, what relief! Did she receive 10
letters! But perhaps you don't know. W
| Iid Won leave her ! Where is she On, n oral
| teil me all quickly"
Mr.. Frank," said Norah at last, almos
| driven to bay by her terror lest her mistres
| should return at any moment, and find NIL
| there-unable TO consider what was pest 10
!. done or said-rushing az something decislv
| because she could not endure her presei
| state" Mr.. Franz, we never heard III
!, / the Shln.OWIerS SAID you I'D
| gone down, you and every one else. "
thought you were dead, if ever man was, an
| poor Miss Alice and her little sick, helple
child Oh, sir, you must guess it, crled u
| Door creature at last, bursting out into pa
| sionate II of crying, ''ior indeed l cannot te
it. But il was no ones fault. God help us
this night! p
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