Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-07

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ais it possiblel" I exclaimed in horro
There's just a chance of a mistake
continued the footman, "for the face yo
may say is gone, it's been so knocke
about that no one in the world could sa
T who it was; but from the figure and th
dress, too, agreeing with those of a lad
who came last night, and now turns out {
have been Mrs. Stanley (but who gave Il
name and suffered no II to see her face
none Of us have any doubt about it. M
master is certain of it, but the poor squir
IS quite beside himself and hardly under
stands anything"
What is the idea, then ?-that Mr.
Santley committed suicide 2"
"No n knows. 1t seems that Their
was a sad TODD between her and he
father, and as no one let her out we sup
pose she left IN a passion. She neithe
SAID where she came from nor where sh
was going. Most likely she came by tn
railway, and going back there by the wall
across the cliffs, a mad thing to do such
night. fell over"
"There must have been wrecks all alonI
the coast" 1 remarked. JAMES, could
you let me see the body? 1t is not curl
osity. l have a good reason"
AT first he refused, but ultimately con.
sented, if he should find no one in tn,
room. He left me for a minute, and then
returning, beckoned.
l followed him into a darkened bed
chamber, and there-it was.
Yes, they were right. Figure and dress
were the same The features were all but
obliterated, the entire face having received
a crushing blow. But you viii readily
guess where, after taking these main par
t~iculars, my eyes Travelled. Gloves were
on the hands. turned them down. I
was satisfied. They were not nv gloves.
The corpse was not that of Mrs. Stanley.
I was wrong in what followed. Yet I
arted to the best of my Judgment. fl
had at once revealed my d~iscovery,a great
trouble might have been averted. Even
now, after the lapse of several years, 1 sor-
row at the determination 1 formed at that
time. But we are poor, short-sighted
mortals, all.
T ~ruy.- resolved TO say
nothing, but to Immediately set out for
Marville, a place about twenty miles dis
tant. The ~railway-fOr poor place as Lit
tie Matseys then was, yet, as it lay in the
route between two ~largetowns, it possessed
a railway station-would soon take me
there. 1 would find out Mrs. Santley,
and bring her back myself.
My project was soon carried out, and
very quickly l was at Marville. you
need not tell me, good friend reader, that
among all the places on the west coast,
neither Little Matseys nor Marville is to
1t will not injure the interest of
my narrative, such as it is, if for a sufi-
cient reason 1 christen the two places
speciality l soon found Clarence Cottage,
and Mrs. Stanley was at home.
A few glances convinced me of the state
of things. Clarence Cottage was a poor
place, and the door-knocker was thickly
muftied. Yes, as usual, there was the COM
b%ination of poverty and sickness. In our
interview Mrs. Stanley owned it. Having
told her my mission, she at once said it was
who, very sad and troubled at a long
and serious illness which had befallen her
husband, had, after two years silence, re-
solved to ask her fathers forgiveness; and,
by a violent access of her husbands
disorder which had come on the preceding
afternoon, had made her journey without
urther dely to Little Mstseys, careless of
wind and weather. Other failure in her
object had already heard.
.1"And now, Mrs. Stanley, there is not a
to lose. VIII you explain to Mr..
and then accompany me to Little
RShe rather drew back at first. but when
urged upon her the condition in which
left her father, and my assurance, not
My Of her being heartily welcomed, but
probably her immediate appearance
lone would save his life, she consented,
nd with her husbands sanction departed
With me,
1t was quite evening, and the weather
hough not so boisterous as it had been the
'%revious evening, was very bad. NV
ompanion snd l were reioiced as we
.eared our destination. We reached the
asst station before Little Matseys. Here
seemed to stop a long while, and some
hing evidently was wrong. Presently it
ranspired that an accident had occurred
a train OF the down line, coming from
little Matseys, and We were informed that
Te could proceed no further.
"Is it a bad accident ?" 1 inquired, with
o~nae-Anxioty of tho station mastsr-
81 am afraid it is-very,' was the reply;
but it has only just happened, and all is
onfusion. But here come some ofthe poor
As he spoke a CHASTITY spectacle came in
Lighted by the torch-bearers, they
pproached along the line, four or five
arties carrying stretchers. The waiting
DOM of the station had been roughly made
to receive them, and all the doctors
l the place were in attendance. The
assengers who had Just alighted huddled
in the booking efice.
1.-TWO dead, l am told" was whispered.
"And several injured"
Suddenly 1 caught sight of one of my
at Little Matseys.
"What, you were in this unfortunate
ain, Mr.. Brown ?"
eyes, and l am thankful to say, unin-
lred; but there's a sad sight in there,
Lr. A~pscombe. You heard L dare say, of
'me fuss there was in Little Matseys this
'
"Come aside for a moment" 1 said, and
g complied.
with reference to Mr.. Risdale, and
lie supposed death of his daughter, you
ean?"
Eyes. Well, inquiry was made at the
.ilway station, which led to the conclu-
on that the body discovered was not that
Mrs. Stanley after all, for that Mrs.
.anley had left by train the previous
for Marville. No sooner was
is communicated to the old squire than
jumped up aud declared he wOnld 90
Marville by the next train; and he
arted, but"
II can guess it was the train which met
it'll the accident, and
"Poor Mr.. Risd ale is in that room either :
ing or dead. I saw him dug out from
lder a carriage"
Oh my mis- arabic follyl But for my
r~eticence, this in all likelihood,
ould not have happened. 1 might have
the poor old gentleman with the
Il particulars which l could have given,
S daughter might have been sent for,
ID
But regrets areuseless. Ihad to tell the
small tale to my companion, and pres.
tly l stood with her beside her almost {
piring parent.
Thankful however am l to say that
r. Risdale, though fr%ightfully injured,
lied sufficiently to be taken home, and d,
ed some days. But they were days ]
I'll employed, days in which returned
.ection, again and again Expressed. eff
,ed from his daughters mind all recol-
,tion Of previous u~nkindness.
Ali Mr.. ERisdale's property, which be- |
,e his reconciliation with his daughter
had left to a distant relative, was be-