The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-12-07
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THE SPIRIT .PHOlOGRlP H.

Naln and snow ,nlngie1 together; but tho
very dreariness of the weather prompted me
70 call upon the DddievS, who were suffer-
ing amost melancholy domestic bereavement.
The servant admitted NC without announce
mcnt, as Wa; the c1ntiiHnsiai friend OF the
family Miss DIdicy was sitting in 4 chair
with her heal boSei over The arm and,
Tnen She rasai il4r.ta:a III greet Inc, | saw
she had been weeping. Duley was walk
ing up ami down, back and forth, with slow
dragging steps his head .',r: on his breast.
sat down beside Ca,o,iue, taking her hand
IN mine, for we were engnged 70 bc married
Yhen the year of mourning had expired.
This weather is enough to dcpres:' even
taa happy | said; "but i wish that had
found you more cheerful. Do you not think
that you ought to overcome, 50 far as posi-
Bile, this trouble, for Dudley's cake? 1t is
killing him" .......-
! know it, and that is what gives me so
much pain OF course my eiiet is nothing
compared with his. B,R it htcaks my heart
to see him SO changed. fear that, # he
docs not die outright, u worse calamity viii
happen, Somc;i.les / fear for bis mint;. :
Che disaster which had hlought such H.
redeemahle rain upon the hnise OF Dudley
Vas the loss Of his wife Ter youth, her
beauty, her devotion to him, and the tragic
manner Of her death, We're reasons apparent
20 all why his sorrow should be deeper than
shat Of many others similarly hereayed. 10
me, who knew something OF the characters
Of both, and Of the intense love which
secnied to blend their beings into one, it
w,s almost Il marvel that he survived her at
AL When hpl seen them together i'll the
f.csdon Of their owa home the thought
hal often occurred to M that the existence
ni' each was depend 'nt upon that of the
n:her. Yet Sh3 had persisted, suddenly
been swept FROM him hy swift and terrible
catastrophe, Nnch had hardly allowed them
"a parting embrace.
Ir the autumn Of 1863 Dudley had been
called to Havana upon business His wife
persuaded him to permit her to accompany
ililn! How well | remember that splendid
autumn day upon which they sallod! Caro-
line and niy$eli' stali with them on the YES
X until the last u1omcnt. How beautiful
Mrs, Dudley-ioVlc,l as she waved he: hand
korehiet TO US fioul rho deck, the bright co..
OF lighting up her always eloquent face into
the fovlie>t AIimati0u We had watched
the noble vessel until it was 4 specS out in
the Narrows; then VIC had turned away with
sigh half sad, and yet not sad We had
nc presentment OF cyil; and when her broth
er and his wife returned, Caroline and |
were to be married
TIA. vessel was iatcd never to touch the
Cuban shores. When but twelve hours from
Havana, 1T midaight, in the miJ8t of
darkness and storm, she was rln into by an
other ship and sank in fifty minutes. lmown
from his berth by the severity q the coils
ion, Dudley seized his trembling wife under
his arm, forcing lis way through tkI di,or
dered crowd from the cabins, a!rcnty lill'ng
with water, to the upper deck. Here he
maintained his pace while the n ~ aud 0t-
GERS @lnade efforts to launch the bnats. The
first OF these flied and went Down. The
second was more successfully r>nuaged. 4
few women, to W hant was given Tie f!rat
change, were lowered into it by the light OF
lan!nns whose uncertain CLEAN made the
tempest more appalling. Mrs. Dudley
ct'uls 10 her husband, begging to be allowed
- stay with him until he, too, should b:.
permitted to make this desperate effort at
salvation. Bit for once. her prayers had
no influence with him. His desire for her
safety ovcrrulca the pleading Of love. With
almost rudenoss he tore away. her cnglng
arms; the rope was fastened about her waist
and She va, lowered down. The lantern
threw q strange beam upon her placid face,
turned to him, as che swung from ott the
ship s side; and that was the last look he
had of the cOunteuancc dearest to him. The
few men Who manned the oars put oat to
get away from the vortex which the vessel
would make in sinking; a great wave rolled
in upon it and the cry went forth that the
boat had gone down. Then Dudley, caring
no mere for his own hfe jumped into the
boiling sea. But the crew Of the uhiniurcd
veSselpicked him up before life was extinct,
and he recovered consciousness to find him
self in the cabin Of the other ship. Until
long after daylight the essellingered around
the spot, until all hopes of rescuing any
floating persons who might be clinging to
pieces of the wreck were oyer, Then it con
tinued on its way.to New York.
Over four months had elapsed, during
which a ray Of light had hardly penetrated
Dudlcy's despair. His sister shared his
darkened life, defarring our marriage, and
withdrawing from society to devote herself
to him. ] was almost the only one, outside
of their near circle Of relatives, whom they
cared TO SEQ. ,.a5,
At times Dudley would he possessed of a
strange fancy that his wife might not be
dcad--that she might have escaped, and be
now ins0ne remote portion ot the world.
whittier, some passing bark had conveyed
her. Facts and theories we're against him:
The boat which they had seen overwhelmed
BY the waves had never been heard from
Another boat, which had put out last hadT
succeeded In landing upon an island coast,
after three days OF floating onthe, waste, Of
waters, but in all human probability the
first boat had gone down within -fyeminutes
after she left the ships side. Sometimes
Dudley would work hiusaE into an alarming !