The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-07-01

1 o, my God, must tell all this wretched
| sight OF my 5 own ON house. II was glorious
rnGonlght night. We did not get on. shore
until morning, and then hurried homo to
surprise Miriam before she could hear of our
arrival, The old pure was up and my 10y
was in her arms. But the house had au in
| discrimindteS look Of diseonfort, 1.-The blinds
being all shut, and althoughit was early spring,
there was no FIRE, save in tue Kitchen, 81
The old lady. shrieked atny entrance, and
Victor echoed it, shrinking away from my ex4
tended hands.
| sprang from them to the stairway, and
was in Miaiam's room in q moment. She was
not there, and the room bore no signs of any
one having slept there Crushed down again
/ to ask the nurse.5s It seemed so STRANGE that
she would be away, to leave these tive aIonej
| One th6ught Suggested itself. q Her mother
light be illsT With that thought come anoth-
Ter --khntL Ldetestable doct0rr-she will see him
if she is there Ez5s ID
.5I The nurse was ia Mysteries IN fitofeb.
Iygave her some water, aud calmly asked her
for my wife. My calfnness deceived her, and
she told me all iai That all set my brain on
I fire Is burns there yetsi Miriam had teloe
sped ,Ysix weeks before, with Doctor Parish
She had left home, infant, all, for that wretch
[a5 He had haunted her ever since / went
away, the poor nurse told me with tears; had
met her every where ard walked home with
her until scandal was busy with her name!A
Then She supposed that Miriam believed her,
self lost to me, and passively yielded to what
the villain toldnher was her fatea The old wo-
man watched anl waraned and wept. but in
vain. They eluded her vigilance. if2nSie:
be- shut myself and my tainted name within
my house, until my ship was ready for sea.
/ Ar, in foxur md
tor was one of the victims. could not mourn
him altheughr he was my all. Better death
than q mothers blighteds name. g4svsf ~
- Years passed by.ibI became wealthy and
gave up the sea, removing to . crowded city
to Be, alone:sy Three months ago. woman
starving and i'll, came, tony door as i was
stepping from it gone bitter morning. She
did not beg but the great pournfu1, asking
eyes said enough. She was dying, and when
the servants carried her TO the fire too osudden
ly from the cold, q spasm seized her. aItIwa :
but fer "A moment. She died; but she knew
me and begged nay forgiveness before she
breathed her last. She made no confession,
did not ask for her child. It was, a bitter
thing for me to say 8 forgive, but sremem,
lbered the Magdalen Of o.d, and I spoke the
word. God be thanked that did led stli =,
"a 1t was another thing when I met him
whose nameI shall neverIrepeat: That which
I have here given is not his. I taxed him
with his guilt, and he taunted me with my
'wife's weakness. 1t was his death blow that
/ gave, Twelve men who had fair r.lyoung,
beautiful wives, brought in their virdict mot
guilty Of murderp And the judge, hus-
band and father, concured with the verdict.
I care not - T here is the brand of blood upon
me I would do the same again. Yet it
eats into my very soul-the thought that
have sent human being into eternity with
his crimes unrepented. s1 all' .