Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-03-09

till | found myself on bed in my own
chamber, watched over by my house
keeper.
"Where-are-they ?" | gasped.
"Gone, was all she said.
1t occurred to me then like a fash
-of lightning that nobody was near me
at the time | was wounded, that my
keys were about my person, and that |
had been robbed perhaps of all my
available property. TIL thought
threw me into an agony of fear. [
ordered my clothes to be brought to
me. The keys were there. Taking
one of them out, | told Mrs. Hale, my
housekeeper, to 90 to my safe and
bring me the papers that were there,
She returned. her face white with ter
ror. to say there was nothing there,
and all the little doors were open.
"Robbed robbedw Iyelled, with
curses and imprecatiOns, and again nv
senses deserted me.
Brain fever ensued. For weeks I
lay deprived of reason, literally tread
inc the verge of the grave. One
morning | was conscious only Of a
sinking, deathly. feeling as | opened
my eyes. VAST an angel saw stand
inc before me, her soft eyes yelled with
pity looking down upon me with the
most cOmmiserating gentlencss For
a moment | thought | might be in
heaven-but mo- reasoned with nv
| self | loved money too well. Ny
treasure was Of the earth, cath
". Again | opened my dim eyes
The vision seemed wavorin@ now
but, did it not wear the sai1tcd beauty
ofswect Lucy Manning? A quiet. IN
uttcrable peace took possession ofmv
entire being. I forgot wealth, health
everything. Ny past life seemed
blotted out, and | was once AGAIN in.
nocent, untouched by the gripping hand
Of &varice, true, loving. and, loved
and Lucy Manning was nv idol.
But | recovered slowly, and at last
a. NY S'' e,'--' I'll surrey le'ur'le'l, MISS
ed her. As soon as she saw | could
be left with safety she had left me. anC
oh. the blank-the dreadful blank.
| wandered around my room, now
SO "e'o'"'e' "4" saw many evidences
vi H'' ll'I'eFaoie laol'S, Nho" no.
WY "a, 'o""roS my "lIe my Iee'IhS>
5eciIleu " nave ohuet%one a re'uISioh
l 'ear l ha'ed her- 0he had nearly
'G 32''" me. mac deceived me- Sna''ef
{" my liea'''' deS'foIed my hopes.
Mot'iS passed before / was able L
estimate the damage that had beer
done TO me- Every means that couiC
= be put forth were used for the re
covcry OF my money, but all in vain.
: One night | sat by the fire a cheer
less, disappointed. and lonely man.
had been thinking thoughts that ONLY
Z burned my brain but did not purify m,
+ heart.
IF | had only married sweet Lucy
/ ! said again and again. "all this has
IA not been 50.
y Ny housekceper came in with
e Ietter-an unusually iarge package
Was-and as it bore a foreign post
, mark opened it with Il tremiiug hand
I, What was that? y ru~tliH@. crum
4 bling bank note. Another and anotL
y err come forth. until there laid upoI
Il my knees twenty bills OF the Iarges
= denomination. \ few trembling line
Il accompanied them:
My husband,-l am dying: m
y disease-there is no need OF teliu
Il you. Forgive ne. and accept this eli
u closed as a faint effort toward restitu
Z uon. 1t Is not much over hall tina
i we TOOK from the safe The rest Is
l KNOW aoJ where l am deserte,
" fareWelI' Ior ever.
AN lc5 chill thrilled HE. 1t SCENE
aS Il ieF apectfai presence was near nc
l.. l 'iuddefed as | i"iled the bills tC
l. ge'Aer' ana threw them across tn
: room:
u LIE mere curse OF my soul
IL CRED |hIe mere tiL- 1 nave conquer
ca my ScIL--aY, II the victory Is 800
won iii you are fo'eh:
SMUT 'iie looL up ana seated IL, AM
,o' >IN 'n'iIt,i' ! toned uNe Il pcHH'
. icS9 mum iii ! ,Paflai5F redteme'
: ny sen ~ managing cautiously,
. P'"reo NY business on a succeSslu
,ooo f an" 2e5"n nc dSaLL d he'
- i'l n' II 'ooA many year 10 Wea
if nio nIoasnro ~ . ~" anu q &C
Il dcarer to me than she had ever bee,
II in the finish Of vonth ontrootod no
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