The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-10-13


it was so wicked, but she was very
miserable. At the bottom Of her peck
ct lao bottle which was labeled Tau
danum.
SO at last she stood before those
windows, and one of them was open
wide open at half-past ten on a night
in midwinter.
God had opened it for her So she
said. And she knew not the strange
truth of her words.
oh, my home, she walled softly.
oh, my father. | will go in. / will
lie in my little bed. will die there,
and my babe will live, and all good
angels help her to be better child to
father than | have been
She crept in on tip toe, christening
her shoes and leaving them without,
that she might make no noise.
She gained her little room. BY the
moonlight she saw that it was just as
she had left it, and that it must have
been carefully kept from change. The
sleeping babe was laid upon the soft
pillow, and then she thought of her
garments in the bureau drawers
Were they there yet? 1t would be
more seemingly to die in clean, fresh
white robes, then in those travel
stained clothes which she wore. So
she peeped in and found the white
raiment, and put it on, and then she
knelt to pray, with phial of poison
in her white hand, and with mad sui
eide III her heart.
As she knelt she faced the door, and
her eye glanced thlther, she saw a
light glancing up and down the wall
and heard a footstep. Could it be her
father? She crept to the door and
looked. Along the stairs came a man
servant bearing light, coming steal
thily with a strange look in his face
the strange man servant who had
turned her from the door by her ia
TIERS orders months before, and whose
wicked face had haunted her ever
since. But where was he going and
what was he going to do?
She watched him with a heart sud
denly stilled in its beating, and saw
him enter her father chamber.
Then she made haste to follow him
as fast as her limbs would carry her
Not too soon. She saw as she crept
in, an open safe rifed chest, papers
and gold upon the floor, and the ser
wants form bending over her strug-
Cling father.
She uttered Shrek and sprang for
ward. In prison afterward the villain
said he fancied her spirit, and the
sight benumbed his arm. He started,
half arose, and with this opportunity
the strong and vigorous old man
covered his surprise, and turn -,
him had him down in an in .t.,t
He knew his child NOW tLo+ 81,
had saved him, br' tb;s was No tim,
- 'n'nN % VI At. He only said, Raise
'iie AZ .ow, Janet, and call John the
We Gilman. And Janet obeyed. In {
few moments that willy rascal on the
floor had no chance of escape; he wa.
bound hand and foot and lay there
whining
And Janet was in her fathers arms
She had led him to the bed where her
baby lay, and had told him all. He
had known nothing of her woe, not
even of her babys birth. To his mind
she had been joyful in her young love,
but ungrateful to him. God had left
the door open indeed, though the in
strument had been a mHrderous SER
wants hand, who, fearful of the watch
full ear of John, had sought to steal
away noiselessly through it. Janet
had entered her old home to save her
fathers life and to creep into his heart
once more.
The Bonnie Lassie, and good old
Captain Thomas and host of hon
est sailors were never seen again, for
the sea opened its arms and folded
them to its breast forever But a
little island in the ocean had room
for one brave foot, and with so much
to live for, Charles Oliver battled with
the waves, and with thirst and hun
ger, and death-like solitude, and
watched and prayed, and waited, feed
ing on roots and berries, and strange
fruits, until at last sails greeted his
eyes, and a vessel hove in sight, and
the voice of living man greeted him
once more.
He came home to Janet, and long
ago forgiven by her father in his fan +.
cied death, he was not refused for
giveness living,
And so the old love dreams were