The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-11-19

of Captain Routh OF the Indian army
who came home on leave from Calcu :
ia, to be married to Miss Ling in
Hertfordshire. Captain Routh arriv-
ed in Southampton, and was identif-
ed as having been passenger by the
coach from that place to London. But
after having safely accomplished SO
many hundred miles, he never attain
| ed that place, such little way off,
where his bride awaited him. lie mel
Their came nor wrote. She read his
name in the list of passengers by the
Europe, and looked for him hour by
hour, in vain. What excuses must
not her love have made for him. How
she must have chung to one frail chance
after another, until her last hope left
her! How infinitely more terrible
must such vague wretchedness have
been to bear, than if she had known
him to have been struck down by the
fatal sun-ray Of Bengal, Or drowned in
Indian seas. Where was he? What
could have become of him?
This young lady had cousin Of the
name Of Penrhyn, about her own age,
who had been brought up in the same
family, and, although much attached
to her, had not been hitherto consider
ed to entertain towards her warmer
feelings than those of kinship. But as
month after month, and year after yea1
went by without tidings Of the missing
bridegroom, he began to court her as q
lover. She, for her part, refused tc
listen to his addresses, but her mother
favored them and plunged in melan-
choly, the girl did not take the pains
to repulse him which probably she
would otherwise have done. She ac-
cepted, or at least she did not reject, a
ring of his, which she even wore on
her finger: but whenever he spoke to
her, or rendered her any service, she
turned from him with something like
loathing. Whether this was remark
ed upon SO much before the following
circumstances occurred, it would be in
teresting to learn; but all who knew
them now testify, that whereas in ear
lier days she had taken pleasure in her
cousins society, it seemed to become
absolutely hateful to her, subsequent
to her calamity.
About three years after Captain
Routh's disappearance, a brother-offi-
Ger and friend of his, one Major Brooks
having business in England, was invi.
ted into Hertfordshire by Mrs. Ling,
at the urgent request of her daughter.
So, far, however, from being overcome
by the association of the Majors pres
ence with her lost lover, Miss Ling
seemed to take pleasure in nothing sc
much as in hearing him talk Of his
missing friend. Nh. Penrhyn appears
to have taken this in some dudgeon
perhaps he grew apprehensiye that &
present rival might be even more fata
to his hopes than the memory Of an alb
sent one ; but, at all events, the two
gentlemen quarrelled. Mr.. Penrhyr
who lived in the neighborhood-
protested that he would not enter the
house during the Majors stay, and re,
manned at his own residence. During
this estrangement, the conversation be.
tween Brooks and Miss Ling had Cap
tain Routh for its topic more than ev.
er. In speaking Of the absence Of al
clue to what had become of him, thc
Major observed: ''There is one thi.Ie
that puzzles me almost as much as the
loss Of my poor friend himself. Yor
say that his luggage was found at The
inn where the coach stopped in Lon
don p
cit was,'' said the lady. II an
thankful to say that [ have numberles:
tokens of his dear SELF"
There is one thing, though, which
wonder that he parted with" pursu
ed the Major, ''and did not always car
ry about with him, as he promised t.
do. was with him in the bazaar a
Calcutta, when he bought for you tba'
twisted ring
THAT ring" cried the poor girl
shat ring?'' and with frightfu
shrek she instantly swooned away.
Her mother came runningin to know
what was the matter; Brooks made
some evasive explanation, but while
she was applying restoratives, inquir
ed, as carelessly as he could, who hac
given to her daughter that beautiful
ring?
"Oh, Willy Penrhyn,' said she.
THAT is the only present, poor fellow
he could ever get Rachel to accept"
Upon this Maj. Brooks went straight
to Penrhyn's house, but was denied adj
lance; whereupon he wrote to him the
following letter:
''SIR-I have just seen ring upon
the hand Of the betrothed wife of my
murdered friend, Herbert Routh he
bought it for that purpose himself, but
you have presented it. l know that
he always wore it on his little finger,
and never parted whit by any chance.
| demand, therefore, to know by what
means you became possessed of it. i
shall require to see you in person al
five o'clock this afternoon, and shall
take no denial.
JAMES BROOKS"
The Major arrived at Mr.. Penrhyn's
house at the time specified, but found
him dead man. He had taken pois-
on upon the receipt ofthe above letter