The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-08-16

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The visitor however was too deeply disquleted within
b heed with any degree Of earnestness, the things
(which at another time mig have absorbed his interest
either for pain pleasure So was possible
no conclude the business upon which he had come he
set off on his return
s The quiet Of the country by degrees sooshed his
echafed spirit finally enabling him meet and negotiate
sw the wearying trouble Mirror all that he could
sdeeire his wife to beexcept cultivated. Sometimes
already he bad sought her attention to books
ebut she always ready with playful resistance
eand he so far from advancing his AIM would shortly
find himself drawn away from labor to recreation, and
,from art nature. Now he determined to renew the
with earnestness that should deserv success
this sentiments on the point once freely aVowed, he
felt secure that her love for him. energy of purpose
and natural capacity, would work the accomplishment
which had suddenly been discovered to be SO inds-
pensable his happiness His wife should yet be able
to meet the wife of Paul Elluott equal terms he
would even change to envy the scorn of an enemy
and yet he checked himself, why indulge in i'll feelings
against one wbo though designing evil had but open
ed his to a truth which must later have ap~
peared and the later less timely? 4
He reached Lochgrove as evening was sowing her
diamonds along the sky the latest twttering of birds
dropped from the trees family, as though their
tuneul tenants had kept awake and yet ccarcely to
welcome him back. There was another who never
had failed to welcome his coming, but tonight her
airy form not seen, nor her musical voice heard
'Sle does not e31eCb 80 WhS
thought by which her husband accounted for the
omission groom in waiting to take his horse to
the stabe he passed through the piazza where he had
hidden Mirror udieu in the morning and had seen her
standing watching as he rode away--it was solitary; he
entered the parlor--there, too, be was alone
Not sorry for further opportunity of tranquiising
himself for the task which was before him. Randolph
sat down and considered how, without wouuding her
sensibities he might open his heart to Mirror After
a short time he rang, and having ordered in lights, in
ouired of the servant for her mistress. What were
his surprise and CONSERVATION to learn that she had
disappeared. none knew whittier! It appeared that
soon after his departure Mirror had extended to all
the servants In the house leave Of absence for the day
uon returning little before the master, they had
found the cottage closed and solitary The intelligent
old gardener confirmed the servants testimony, so far
as closing the cottage since morning only adding that
he had supposed the master went with the carriage
and took his wife along. aa-{s
A search was hastened and continued until it was
certain that Mirror not within the grounds; nor
could the dismayed husband gain any intelligence re-
snectng her in the surrounding neghtorhood.
So soon as Randolph sufficiently recovered from
the shock sustained in his great calamity, to reason
calmly convinced that with her clear perception
Mirror had penetrated his silent dissatisfaction and
that to this cause he bitterly indebted for her in
expieable loss. The natural suggestion followed that
she had returned her tribe; and, notwithstanding
conflicting arguments that adduoed themselves to his
hope Of her recovery, the life otherwise not worth
preverVing -
Net to pause over the incidents of his journey, rife
with hardship and peril We may meet him at last, un-
der the guise Of a trader, among the strange, Wha
neoDle whose origin is hidden in the mist of antiquity
and whose daily existence is at once poem and
horror There he heard the tale OF beautiful maiden,
known as oo-oh-carte-boochoo, or Forest Bird, VINO
one night, two summers bygone mysterlously disap-
neared and was never since heard Oi Wise olQ Wo-
man who loved her than any one, since her own
mother died. great many moons before, had seen IN
the middle of the eyentfu night and at the same hour
on two preceding nights bird with snoW-~hlte wlngs,
circlng above the lodge OF the chte fAhsr VI tue
gri The bird had the face of maiden, ana nAe lns'
of Hoooh or her dead sister, Puaarth-
60 who had resembled her so much that neither could
well be distinguished from the other. The spirit oira
after lowering awhile in air, gazing downward Win
seeming farewell, had wound slowly upward in her
fight until at length disappearing in the SKY.
Whel tie old chief knew that his last daughter was
and bethought him that he had not always treated
her tendery he stretched himself upon huge panther
skin in the darkest in his lodge, and would
neither rise nor eat could any OF the people over
whom he had ruled so long and well, prevail on nln
to direct their going or coming any moro. nis Wle
whose fault it that his love for his children nae
been buried close in his heart he would not bear IN
his presenee and because of it she fell into just dis
grace with the whole tribe After the death OF the
chief--her husband-which happened in little time
this woman was married to one OF the warriors, Whc
already had more wives than he could we'll support nc
cropped her long hair close to her head tattooed ael
face and breast and made her his slave The lover Of
the maiden from having all of bis herd OF horses 70
die or stray beyond retakng soon began TO be looked
upon win eyes of suspicion as IN some way having
| occasioned her loss, and being punished oy tn
Great Spirit for his wickedness. The prosecutions
his tribe compelled him to flee away and none kneV
if be yet walked upright man, or if Instead he ha
become part of some ravening bear.
Randolph, disappointed and beyond measure dis
heartened had only to make his toilsome solitary VA
back to the place which should have been his home
The third year of Mirrors absence was drawing t.
a close when her husband, out with fruitles
searching determined to dispose OF bis estates ant
unit the land of his birth Nothing was lett him 8
dear as Lochgrove the scene Of his domestic bliss,
pure and so evanescent; the hardest panS he ooul
now endure came with publicly ouerlng LOT sale va
charming villa The first to respond to its adVefSe
rnept was Paul Elnott. In the prosperity which ma
attended him. he felt no longer necessltated to oen
himself the luxury of such home as that Yet d
came not with triumph and vain glory to wound IL
unfortunate possessorfor Etnott at neart vas he.e
unkind; but proffered his synpathles WIN snceFis
not to be doubted however much spirit oy i'S pecu
liar suffering rendered norbiely sensitive, nlgh
shrink from their acceptance.
Canine could have chosen that Lochgrove shonlt
mass into the hands of strangernot altogether oe
cause of his unwiIlingness to yield its eno3men1s
Bnott but be fanced he could the more easily toEge
he had known in happier days. There appeared, how
ever no resource and reluctantly he consented to tn
transfer At this time Mrs. Ellnott interposed som
pretext which postponed the consummation. a secon
and third time did she repeat the procedure, varyln
her reasons as one after another failed until Camp
began to be astonshed that he could have though
her woman of sense and even her husbandgr tho
oughly impatient at the delay.
One evening-the last before tie morning f1nali
fixed for concluding the arrangement-Randolph war
dered through his grounds bid them eternal fart
we'll The interchangeable gardener had never abate
his eforts-nothing 10 those tidy walks, TASTEFUL
ordered foRer-pots, well trimmed borders and hedge
rows and plentiful, thriving strawberries, betokene
that woe had fallen upon ther possessor. The ha
moon looked down in softened splendori no wind tr
gers turned muscpages for the beauteous peopiers
the grove, folding, at this hour, their pinions
downy repose; sweetness and stiffness distilled like th