The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-09

man made him sufferP And now he is
charged with her murder.
Murder2"
Murder. She died suddenly, with
symptoms of poison There was an inquest
and the chemists who examined the body
discovered arsenic. They proved that
Arthur had often quarrelled with her, and
was jealous. Well he might be, poor.fel-
low Somehow he had bought arsenic
just before her death. They found some
in his desk. When she was first taken i'll,
he insisted on nursing her. He was de-
voted to her in spite of his jealousy and
annoyances. Everything told againsthim,
and he was committed to Newgate, and is
to be tried for his life"
l need not say that at the earliest mo-
ment when it was possible to get admission,
FASTENED to Newgate. found Arthur,
pale and sad enough, but resigned to his
fate. He fell upon my bosom. We were
boys again. The past that had sent its
black cloud between us, was gone. We
we're clasped in each others arms, as in
the lighter griefs of our boyhood. All
jealousy, all hard feelings had vanished
from my mind.
My noble Arthur was in trouble, ay, in
peril, and had come to save him. So it
seemed at the moment That he was as
innocent as l myself of the hideous crime
with which he was charged, could not
doubt for a moment.
He told me all-the little that he knew.
He spoke carefully, and even tenderly, of
the dead
81 know you have forgiven me, Harry"
he said $50 do not ask it: thought l
was doing right We are all egotists in
our affections. have been greatly tried" 4"
/, "How was it Arthur" l asked, "that
you chanced to have poison in your desk" !"
ut was left there with other chemicals
by my predecessor, who amused himself
with chemical experiments. When | took
the desk, l allowed it to remain, with some
vague idea that it might be useful some
time to kill the rats or other vermin."
"Well, we will get this fellow, and prove
that he left it."
"He went to India, and died there a
year after"
That hope was gone; but I did not des-
pair
"Who are the witnesses against you ?"
l asked.
"0nly the servants, poor things They
testified to what they had seen and heard.
My temper is not so good as it WIS, and
she was sometimes very trying. When
she became i'll, | reproached myself and
| wished to do all l could for her. Her
maid was new, and unused to her ways,
and took care of her. The woman, per-
haps, did not like my interference. The
fact, at any rate, made q strong impression
against me"
1.-THE maid was new; how long had she
been with you 2"
"Only month. Her old favorite,
Norah, went home to ireland to be mar
ried, and has gone with her husband, 1
suppose, to America.
"Had she-had Isabel ever given you
any reason to fear that she would kill her
self"
"No; assuredly not. She enjoyed the
pleasures of existence too keenly. / am
sure that she was never purposely the
cause of her own death"
l sifted the ground all over. There was
no clue any where, and the only hope l
saw was in finding Norah Butwhat could
she, who had been month away, know
about the death of her mistress? The
lawyers engaged for the defence could see
no use in her testimony, except to prove,
what everybody knew, that Arthur was
very much attached to her mistress, and
sometimes jealous and irritable Was it
likely that she could prove anything more?
Besides, she was probably on the Atlantic.