The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-11-12

SQhIl nave HO6 SOu10 St0ops auu VISlIeu sOuuo
few patients that cannot be neglected.
Don't desert us, Doctor! for Gods sake,
don't! fairly pleaded the man, with tears in
his eyes.
/ assured him I would not, gave him my
address, and bade him send for me at any
time. If a change should take place for the
worse
From that time the patient gradually
m ended, and in the course Of week was
out Of danger, and had her reason. / had
seen her every day during this time, and
had become not q little interested in her.
She was not an ordinary woman. Her
age judged to be about twenty-five or
six. aud her features, though marked by
suffering, were intellectual and still beauti-
full. Her hair was a light brown, soft al
most to Sickness and she bad the sweetest
blue eyes and prettiest N onth l ever beheld
Her voice, too, had that rich mellowness
which so captivats the ear, and her language
denoted education, and her manners re-
fuement.
Great was the coutrsst between this
pretty, delicate flower, and the big coarse
featured, awkward uneducated, and /
must add, totally uuprepossessiug Ralph
Wagner; and though fancied could COM
prehend how such man might love her
to the whole extent Of his rough, coarse
nature, I confess was at loss to account
for true reciprocity, if, indeed, there was
any such thing. That his ardent attach
ment to her might excite some kind of
sympathy-some emotion akin to pity, aud
perhaps gratitude--I thought possible, but
that there should exist anything like true.
mutual love- seemed as contrary to the
laws of nature as for the doe to love the
tiger. And yet how how many such in
congruities we see paired, if not mated
married by law, if not in spirit.
The day that made what I intended
should be my last visit. I found my fair
patient sitting in a chair. and crying as if
her heart would break. She was alone.
This is very bad for you to be exciting
your nervous system in this maaner! l
said. in a kindly, reproving tone. Has
anything happened too serious for little
calm philosophy to master?
Oh. Doctor, she exclaimed, l am poor
miserable, heart-broken woman, alone and
frisndless!
Oh, not quite so bad as that, 1 think! /
answered lightly. Where is your husbanG3
This was the first time had ever spoken
the word husband to her; and looked to
see If she received it as a familiar unques-
toned fact She shuddered and covered
her eyes with her hands.
Did you see in the papers this morning?
she sobbed, the arrest of a notorious burglar,
called Patent Hammersmitb?
think did see something OF the kind.
That was none other than Ralph Wagner.
Good Heavens! you amaze me! l cried
Your husband burglar?
He is not my husband sobbed the good
woman. ..
No?
Sit down, Doctor, and let me tell you q
painful story in few words; and then, it
you can give me any good advice and
sympathy, shall receive it with gratitude:
and if you scoru and cast me from you, l
shall only find was mistaken in supposipg
you had heart.
1 seated myself, aud became all atteu-
ton.
I was reared in aff1uence, she resumed,
and for seventeen years was the pride anil
Joy of fond parents. At seventeen fell
in with man some years older than my
self, whom believed to be pe rfection it
self. NV father knew better, aud warned
me against him. He finally forbade him
the house. We corresponded afterward {,
met claudestinely, and at eighteen eloPed
with him. We went. as l supposed to
the house of clergyman, and were mar
ried, and then set off on wedding tour.
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be blackhearted william, and soon robbed
me of all my money and jewels, and then
deserted me in strange city. He after
wards wrote me that the marriage was a
sham, and that he had deceived me in that
manner in orde to revenge himself on my
father for his insults.
A blank followed this awakening from a
bright and glorious dream to reality too
horrible for an ordinary mind to contem
plate. had brain fever. became iu-
sane. I returned to reason in a pauper
m ad house. I got my liberty in rags. |
wrote home to my father the whole terri
BILE truth, and implored him to receive
back his poor, wretched. broken-hearted
daughter. was ragged mendicant. in a
strange city, and God only knows with
what intense and fearful anxiety awaited
i the answer to that letter. | waited days-
I [ waited weeks-I waited months. None
ever came. was cast off then-sbandoned
ruined for this world and for the next
u Oh! the suffering and degradation 1 wa'
counelled to endure. At last Ralph Wag-
ner offered me his protection and his hand
I accepted. We were married. He de-
clared he loved me, and certainly trsaset
ma with respect and affection. l knew
not then be was housebreaker; and whel
I found it out I asked myself what better
was than he that I should leave him
90 have lived with him ever since. nearl
two wears, and now be is arrested, and
an, aoaiu alone in the world. Such is m
sad history. Doctor. Now tell me wh'
to do?
Write sgain to your parents. said l. the
NAV not have received your letter, or the
: reply may have misoar;sd."
have som etimes hoped so, and l wal
. N dis in that dslusion, il it be one! 81
J. eagerly rejoined. II were to get a1 ma, %
sver now that they know my cond'to
!. land have cast me off forever, it might Graz
= nv poor brain again. Besides, l am
: longer &, 10 be forgiven and received oas