Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-21
No, sir, am not my name is"
Herbert Herbert ! my dear Herbert !!

Clara had gone to him, and he had clasp
ed her in his strong arms. while her face
was hidden in his great beard.
"My own my darling my own dar
) ling she loves me still |"
But why describe their meeting Mr.
Blake said to me at once.
!, "My dear sir, | am not wanted here,
and | doubt if you are" and we left
them.
In half an hour we thought it probable
we might be less in the way, and we went
in. They sat on the sofa at most suspi-
ciously great distance from each other,
and looked as happy and foolish as possi-
BILE
"And now, my dear Herbert, please to
explain to us what has taken you at least
half an hour to make clear to my niece
" Well, my dear uncle may call you
uncle"
ooh. yes "a month sooner is not much
consequence"
Don't, uncle" said Clara.
' You know how | went away, with just
enough to pay for tools, and outfit and pas
sage. | went to California, to the dig
gings, and was lucky, got a good claim,
worked it, made little money, took shares
in a machine, worked the claim improved
the machinery, became manager director,
and got rich started six months ago to
come home for Clara, took the fever at Pan
anna, was down for two months there, not
able to move hand or foot, and arrived only
last night i'll Liverpool. There | met an
old friend, and heard all the news poor
Webster's death, the promise and the rest,
and above all, that tomorrow was the day
/ | Ictar hJyfh no first = Of 70, /
thinking the marriage would take place,
and that | should be in time. Looking out
of the window of the coach as the trains were
passing each other at Peterborough, saw
Clara with her mother did not see you
! | was mad the trains had started |
could not get on. There was Clara going
from me, and from her. as fast as express
trains could 90. What could | do knew
nothing of where she was going and yet
my information was positive that she was
going to be married tomorrow, solely be-
cause she would keep her promise
Can you wonder at my doing as | did
| The train did not stop till it reached Lon
don and found that by the time had
hunted up the address to which you had
gone from the servants at home l should
have lost the last train, and not been able
to get here till long past midnight. What
to do could not think
"In the carriage in which sat somebody
had been talking about the murderer, Taw
ell, and the telegraph, the police on the
doorstep, and so on. 1t all flashed on my
mind in an instant.
81 went to the telegraph-ofice, and look
ing in, there was only young lad there
| went in and called him.
Can you telegraph to York for me-"
Certainly, sir
81 wrote the telegram you saw
You must sign this, sir"
No | must not, young man. and drew
him towards me by the shoulder. My
names Field Inspector Field you under
standH
"Oh ! certainly, sir Did you catch that
man the other day | heard of it from one
Of our clerks
"Oh, yes, caught him safe and sound !;
he's in Newgate now
Indeed, sir said the lad "
You'll send that at once the trains
due in less than an hour I'll see you do
it,
d" He did send it, and as heard the click,
it was like the throb Of a new heart the
click, click, click, it was like the throb of
new heart circulation fiery blood in arteries,
for | knew it would enable me to see you,
Clara, dear, and then | came down, as you
see, by this train, and feel disposed to en-
brace all the telegraph clerks in the king
dom"
Wei, young man, it's dangerous game.
| suppose you're aware it is an otlense
not lightly punished to pretend you're an
officer of police" said Mr.. Blake.
My dear Mr.. Blake, if it was death on
the instant of discovery, and was in the
same strait should do the same thing over
again" .........
" You must find prosecutor Mr. Blake"
said Clara, and as l, the principal person
concerned, am not going to prosecute the
officer | think he will escape" ..,. ."
q" But why" said |, :" did you not tee
graph to Clara direct ?"
because | feared that Mrs. Webster
might possibly have prevented our meet
ting"
Mr.. Blake left US with his eyes twinkling,
and muttered something to me about "ser-
vitude for life" ... r........ .........
A month after this had the pleasure of
giving away to Herbert, and in two months
more | had the pleasure of reading in the
Times the announcement of the marriage Of
Mrs. Webster to Francis Tredgar, Esq, of
Tredgar Hall, to which ceremony | need
scarcely say was not invited.
Clara and Herbert and | live together
and to this day he is spoken Of among his
intimates as Herbert Langley, 'that active
and antelligent officer" ......... a...
THE CHANGES OF LIFE--Thore are many
griefs in this world, but many good and
pleasant things also. We might be happy
if we would but we are too selfish as if
the world was made for us alone. How
much happier should we be, were we to
labor more earnestly to promote each
others happiness. God has blest US with
a house which is not dark There is sun
shine everywhere-in the sky, upon the
earth there would be in most hearts if we
would look around us. The storms die
away, and the bright sun shines out. Sum-
mer drops her tinted curtain upon the
earth, which is very beautiful, even when
autumn breathes her changing breath upon
it, God reigns in Heaven. Murmur not at
a creation so beautiful, who can live hap
pier than we? ......