Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-01-19
4 Strange story.

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Inc saddest disappearsaee Of xh;sh I
remember ever TO have read va, ~.
Captain Routh of the India srnv ~
came home on leave from Calcutta - -
married to Miss Ling, in Hertfora.S;.c
Captain Routh arrived ut Southamn ton -
was identified as having been pssrsness
o. The eoach from that place to LondoT
but after having lately socompIisbed "A
many hundred miles, he never aItsins6
that place, such little war Of. vhsre re
bride awaited him. He peithsr 800
nor wrote. She read bis name Ia The ia
OF passengers BY the Europa, and loofsd
Tor him hour by hour, in vain. What 81.
cuses must not her love have made for hio.f
how che must have clupe 20 one fr1;f
chance after another, until her lat bone,
len her How inhnitsly more tsrribis;
muss sucn vague Wretchedncss have beoo
% oeats than ifshe bad known him 20 have
been struck down By the fatal suu.rav ~
Deneei' OF drowned IN lndian Doas. Whepa
| bimf "
This young lady had a eor,in ~ an.
name oI Fenrhyn, about bar own age, whe
na9 oeen orooght up IN the same family
ana, although much attached 10 Der. bsd
not been hitherto considered 10 sn,.-t.;e
towards her warmer feeIipes than tho.s -
kinship. But % month after month 81
year after year. went By without tidinss -
the missing bridegroom, be began h eo,s.
her ss lover. She, for Der part rsfusaS
TO listen 10 his addresses, bot her nothss
favored them /; and, plunged into roeIan.
choly, the girl did not take the pains IA
repulse him which probably abe vonS
other wise have done. She accepted. or A
least she did not reject, ring Of his. which
she even wore on her finger; but Whsusv.
or he spoke to her, or rendered her An,
service. she turned from him with sonc.-
thing like loaihing. Whether this Was p,
marked upon 80 much before the foIJov;re
circumstances occurred, it would be intsr.s.
ting to learn but all who knew zen -
testify, that whereas in early DAYS she 80
taken pleasure in her cousins eocietv q
seemed to become absolutely hateful to h..
subsequent 10 her calamity.
About three years after CAPTAIN RonIhis1
dlsappearancs. brother officer and fr;sna
of hls, one Major Brooks, having bp,;ress
10 England, was invited into Hef;ford.birS
by Mrs, Ling. at the urgent request Of bsr
daughter. SO far, however, from beine
overcome BY the association Of the Maior's
presence with her lost lover, Miss Linz
seemed to take pleasure 10 nothing % much
as IN hearing him talk Of his missing friep6.
Mr.. Penrhyn appears 10 have taken tbis
In some dudgeon; perhaps to be grew ao-
prehensive thsta present rival might b
more fatal to bis hopes than the memory Of
an absent one; but, ct all events. the two
gentlemen quarrelled. Mr.. Penrhyn-who
iiVeo IN tho relghborhood-protested that
ne would not enter the house during the
MeJor's stay, and remained at HE own rec.
ldence. During this estrauRement. tha
conversation between Brooks and Ma.
Ling had Captain Routh for its topic mors
than ever. In speaking of the absence ~
all clue to what had become of him. tia
Major observed:
There is one thing that puzzles ma n.
most as much az the lose of nv moor frisn6
himself. You say that bis luggage 10
found at the inn where the coach stopped
10 London7
1T was said the lady. lam tbankful
to say that have numberlsss tokens Of bic
dear SELF W ~
There is one thing, which, though. I
wonder that be parted WITH pursued tha
Major. and did not always carry sbont
with him as be promised 10 do 100
with him in the bazaar of Calcutta. vbs.
be bought for you that twisted ring
That ring cried the poor oirJ .tk.I
ringP and with a frightfuI shrieE sba n.
stantly swooned away.
der mother came running In IA kno~
what was the matter Brooks mads 49,.
evasl'e explanation. but, while she "a A.,
plying rs:tOratives, inquired, a. oareles,iv
Who bad given to her daughter thai
beautiful rinRf
Oh, Willy PenrhYn,' said she. eTb.tia
the only present, poor fellow, be could eves
get Rachel to accept
Upon this Major Brooks went STRAIGHT "a
Penrhyn's house. but was denied admits
tanee Whereupon be wrote to him the foI.
lowing letter.
SRI bave just seen q ring upon The:
nano OF the betrothed wife Of my murdered
iTleno' herbert ROuth; he bought il foR
nst purpose himself; but you have pssssn.
teo 1t know be always wore il On bic
NIUE nnger' and never parted with il bV
any chance. demand therefore 10 ~
by what means you became po.aessed oTi,.
shall require to see Won Ia nersor a
i've o'clock this afternoon, and shaIJ 40
no denial.
JAMS gRooKa' !.
The Major arrived a. Mr. Psorh-,n
house at the time specified. but foun6 k;.
dead man. He had taken poison sp0n
the receipt OF the above letter; ana CO. 81
rs supposed. departed the emily human b.
ing that could have unrsvelled the mystery
OF the missing Captain ROuth. Still 10 =
barely possible that be may not have been
bis murderer after all; il be we're, Il d
surely the height of imprudsnos to have
gwen away a thing % easily identified ana
that to the very person af all others Grogi
whom be should hnHa nnnnaalah a