Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-10-05

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Better leave it as it is.
Charley" | exclaimed you ara the
noblest fellow in the world but pause, |
for you; think of the sacrifice you are
about to makel'
Il have weighed all that
"And to screen her you will go to the
hulks p
Yes
For twenty years
For ever, if need be.
"A woman who Tilted you 2
"a woman whom-God help me Il
love in spite OF ali" And here his forced
reserve gave way; his long pent-up emo~
tions burst forth, and he sank upon the
prison seat, buried his face in his hands
and sobbed like q child.
For three hours | remained there, e1-
postulating, arguing, entreating him to
give up his rash resolve-but all in vain.
He admitted that my suspicious were cor
rect, but was determined to play out TO
the last the part he had begun. Sooner
than breathe one word that would COM
promise Lady ThOrnbury, he was prepared
to end his DAYS as felon. Six months
afterwards, when he had tasted some OF
the horrors Of his situation, tried again,
and again failed utterly to move him. At
lest the time arrived when, under the
ro gulations then in force, he should be
shipped off to some penal settlement; and
in despair of saving him by other means,
| resolved TO seeIadv Thornbury; appeal
to her humanitv-if she had any-and
implore her to save my friend from HIM
self She had left England shortly after
the trial, having evinced a preference tor
continental life, and was living at Parls ;
not upon the best terms-so scandal SAID
with her lord He was madly Jealous
Of her, and kept her in constant terror OF
even personal violence. There were those
who said that he had gone beyond threats
while he commenced his old way of
living | sought her in Paris, and found
that in one of his Jealous fits he had spIr-
tied her off to Lisbon. ! followed; but
found that they had left in his yacht for
two years cruise and no one knew where
they had gone. 1t might be to Constantl-
nople; it might be to Copenhagen; no one
could say exactly; and when / returned
! to London | discovered that the convict
( ship with Charley on board had sailed two
| days before for South Australia.
| The undeseryed reputation that had
gained in the case of Stopperty agt. Moss
| procured me a prominent appointment as
managing clerk and promise Of future
partnership with Sharpus, Ward. Andrews
& Co: and business poured IN upon me
so fast. that | am ashamed to say L torgo
poor Char,ey; when one day about TWO
years after his exile, lady IN aeeT
mourning was ushered into my private
room. and the first words she SAID were
! Oh. sir-oh Mr.. Smith, something must be-
done-do pray tell me what to do foi
Char-for Captain Lawrence.
! Captain Lawrence | replied severely
| (for after the first moment of surprise at
being thus abruptly appealed to, reco@
nized my visitor)-"Captain Lawrence,
| said, "has been treated as telon tol
nearly three years. 1t is somewhat late
now, | think, to inquire what can be done
for him
''Oh, yes, yes she cried, sit is so; hu
YOU do not know the life | have been led
7 would have changed places with hin
willingly. Look here, and here and she
turned IN her sleeve and threw back hel
hair. disclosing two deep scars, one on hel
arm and the other on her temple, "HC
struck me there for no cause at ALL she
said bitterly; 'he has often struck me
If he had known about Charley, he would
have killed me-
Then she told me her miserable story
1t appeared that, lacking courage to tel
moor Charley of her falsehood and tn
iapproaching marriage into which she haC
been iured by the dazzle of a corOnet, sh
had written to him up to the time Of IN
departure from India that having landed
at Falmouth, he rode to her father house
and there learned the truth; that actuatet
hv n mad desire to see her once again, h
had betaken himself to Thorubury Hall
that having seen her in the grounds, an
not daring for her sake to approach her
ne wrote wild, desperate letter, implor
! ing her to see him once more, It only I
tell him that she was happy, aud II sh
, were not. (as he knew something OF he
husband } to fly with him that by Ill luc
he intrusted this letter for delivery to tn
man Arno'd. who was prowling about 70
f his own purposes; that he received tro1
: him her answer, in which she accorde
to him an interview in the balcony of he
houloir: that she had parted with hIT
there about one o'clock: that the alarm c
. robbers was not given until nearly three
I and that up to the moment when she hear
him sentenced rs one of the burglars sh
> never suspected but that he had departe
, and returned to his home. The fact wa
l-as afterwards fouud-that while pres
{ inc her to fly with him, she had torn he
self from his side, and retired wlthor
b bidding him farewell; and that he ha
waited, hoping against hope that she woul
return. till the arm was given, and b
: was captured as before described 1t ais
transpired that servant IN the house wa
= implicated in the robbery; that the plat
: was quietly slipped out Of a side door; an
that the window near which my friend ha
q been taken had been broken only as
! ruse to avert suspicion But after all, Il
! most important information that Lad
Q Thornburv gave me was that her brute
a husband was dead, and that she coul
now disclose what would now save poo
g Charley.
Well, to make long story short too
her straight off 10 the Office of the Und'
Il Secretary of the State for the Home Dc
Il partmeut, and after good deal Of both
= Grafton and red-taperv. free pardon VIZ
accorded to Richard Thompson; that is
say, Her Majesty was graciously please
g 10 pardon an innocent man, Tor haVlr
been wrongfully convicted as felon b
the result was that Charles Lawren'
: came home, was reinstated in his reg
ment and