Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-05-05
BY OLIVER ETA WENDALL.

81 have done all could for her" said
DR.. Brace, as the sad visitors came and
went, after taking a last look al the fair
face in the coffin.
"And so have l." declared Annie Ware.
But q broken heart is beyond the power
and medicine or kind nursing to cure
Poor Estelle knew it would come to this
at last, and that all my watchings would
be in vain. If Mr.. Drury, was here now,
perhaps his harsh heart would repent his
tyranny over his daughter. But there will
be suffering enough in store for him, when
he does return from his journey. and finds
Estelle hidden forever from him in the
tomb. Even she is to be more envied than
he will be, for the remainder of his life"
At the funeral of Estelle Drury there was
young man, named Lester Carroll, who
had long been her acknowledged lover, and
who possibly now regretted that his love
had beeI so fully returned by her. Her
father, TidOwer, and with no other child,
was man of unbendiDg nature and bitter
prcjudices, and to them he wiIfuIIy sacri-
feed oil which conficted with him-friend.
ship, the esteem of neighbore, even the
peace of his daughter. Conceiving dis
like for CarCD, with no sensible cause, he
had resolved that the loves of the yorng
couple should never be gratifed and, for
more than year past, Estelle "had pinned
in thought" with no other to plead for her
to her parental despotism save Annie Ware.
her faithful friend and confdante, who had
been with her to the last, and had suuerin.
tended the ceremonies of laying her out,
and had given the directions for the fuperI
al, 10 her fathers absence,
Carroll aud Miss Ware were the chief
mourners at the tomb, and received the
sympathles which, under other circumstan.
ces, would have been shared by the father.
But none, as they turned away from the
graveyard, thought or spoke of Nathan
Drury, save with sentiments Of unmingled
reproach for the cruel tyranny which had
resulted thus.
Nathan Drury had, throughout his life,
affected an extreme piety; and by wav OF
providing his christianity, he was noted for
the expression of Satanic hatred of all
those who differed from his particular re-
ligious views. Loud and frequent in his
exhortations at church, he had managed to
maintain his position as a deacon, though,
from the pastor down to the humblest
member, there was little or no love for him;
while those not belonging to the church did
not scruple to express their scOrn for the
bigot and hypoGrite, who furnished them
with continual evidences of his unaimab BILE,
| proud and dishonest character.
1t was this character for which Lester
Carroll, young, frank, and liberal as be
was, could entertain no respect; and as he
resisted their religious dogmas dictated by
such man, the natural dissimilarity of the
two was rendered more hostile, and the
love of Carroll the less hopeful, Angry
disagreement between them, upon religious
points, caused the breach to be permanent,
and the interrupted intercourse Of the Low.
ers was only continued by secret inter-
views or by letters.
Weary of the fOriorn protraction of his
suit, Carroll had endeavored to induce
Estelie to elope with him. But she shrauk
from such thought with horror. Though
despalrinG of any other mode to accomplish
ner wish, and though whitening under her
anguish, che preferred to live unhappy, or
20 ole rather than incur the scandal Of the
word ny clandestine marriage. In this
sne showed the frmness of her father.
Soougn In all else she was unlike him.
From her mother she had inharitedia nature
strongly tinged with romance but this
did not allure her to adopt romantic con-
sumatloh of her love; by means of su6b a
Eight which always entails caIumYy. how.
ever Insocentj she eseEsed rather 30 D1efar
the romance of martydom and many Of