The weekly Butte record., 1862-04-26
ddfek Butte Retor0
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of the house of festivity. before a yearning
sense of remorse came over her.
at was such little thing to ashland
Harry has always been SO thoughtful Of my
wishes" she thought But it is too late now
Another time will be more mindful of his
requests"
Too late All Cecile the words are full Of
dire meaning for thee.
Mr. De LOrme came in late, and rather
flushed by wine His attentions were too spe-
cial to be agreeable to poor Cecie, who more
than once wished that Henry were within call
In vain she endeavored to avoid him. and
finally as she stood in the half lighted conserva-
tory, now nearly deserted by the guests, her
terror reached its climax
"0 Harry 0. my husband why are you
not here ?" she ga~ped, as De L'Orme threw
himself on his knees, and seizing her hand,
poured forth incoherent rawlings to her, per
fectly incompreheusible, about answered sig.
mails" and hopeless love-
In vain Cecile strove to releaie her hand-a
butterfly in the grip of an anaconda could
scarcely be more helpless than was She a
low, quiveriug cry broke instinctively from her
blanched lips.
That instant shadow passed her, swift and
silent as the avenging winds of Heaven-the
CLEAN of knife flashed like sudden lightning
across her vision, and the next moment she was
alone, with a vague remembrance Of having
seen her husbands face, dark and terrible for
a second and fearful consciousness that her
white dress was spattered with the blood of
the man who lay rigid and CHASTITY at her feet
One moment her brain seemed encircled with
band of fire, and her breath to struggle up
through mountain weights upon her heart,
else
When she awoke she was in her own rose
tinted bower tossing upon the downy pillows
of her luxurious couch.
Where am p she moaned, starting up.
" Alice is it you? Tell me that it is all a
frightful dream!'
Alice, pale and fearful, sat beside her, but
she made no answer to the wild questions of
Cecile At length urged by repeated prayers
she said, hesitatingly:
Alas, dear Cecile, l have nothing but
woeful tidings to tell. They say that De
L'Orme is dead, and Henry has fed, we know
not whittier"
Fled from me ?" gasped Cecile "Oh.
Alice, it can't be possible he never would
leave me
Alice answered only with tears, and Cece
sank back on her pillows in mute voiceess an
guish. Sorrow had come at last-come as a
mailed warrior, fierce and pittiless
Poor, lovely broken flower and was this
the tragic end of her innocent coquetries, her
harmless willfulness?
Who can tell the great change that passed
over her whole nature in that hour of fery
trial? The resolves, the regrets, the bitter
repentance! sweetlittle Cecie ! it was hard /
lesson that cured thee of thy trifing faults.
The first news that came like CLEAN of
light to her bedside was that De LOrme.
though fearfuly wounded, did not die. Not
that she cared for the detested enemy. but
there was no weight of murder on Henry's
SOUL
One evening, as she lay with closed eyes,
scarcely needing the genial glory of the sunset
that was flooding the room, there was a slight
rustic at her bedside. Mechanically she open
ed her eyes, and in second was sobbing on
Harrys breast
My love my precious wife = was all that
be said.
Once more forgiven-on more restored to
her old place, in the noblest heart that ever
beat No word of reproach-no reproving
ganee-all love and tenderness again!
She rose from her bed of sickness an altered
being. No one in after years, who admired
the lovely. penSive woman, whose only happi /
ness was IN her husbands smile, conld ever
have deemed how different she had been before
the fiery agony of Cecile Marchmont's trial!
CHINESE lMMIGRArION.-We are indebted to
Hon. Thos Campbell, Member of Assembly. +
for copy of the " Memorial of the Legisa
ture of the State of California to Congress. on
the dangers of Chinese Immigration" We
are heartily glad that the Legislature Of the /
State of California cannot exclude the Chinese
from California, and hope that Congress will +
take more liberal view of the question than
most Of our politicians. Otherwise we should
present the anamolous position of establishing
steamship and mail lines with a people whom