Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-07-25
NIFEIINT0Wg JJNffPSI COUNTY. fENN'a. JULY 25 1906

because she feared her being spoiled by
her fathers indulgence. | afterwards
found that the mothers harshness caused
the fathers favor.
One evening our small circle had as
sembled as usual at my house, and dis
persed about ten o'clock, Mrs. Norris be-
ing the first to leave. When my hus-
band aud | were alone, We chattcd over
the little incidents and gossip of the
evening. At last, l took my candle and
went to my room, front one. had un-
dressed, when | heard a noise at the win
doR like hail rattling against it. Know
ing that the night had been very fne,
drew my curtain in surprise, and saw MIS-
Norris standing ON the path.
/ The servants had long gone to bed so
hurriedly threw my dressing wrapper
around me, and ran down stairs.
When opened the hall door, before |
had time to ask question. Mrs. Norris
exclaimed:
"Oh! fear something dreadful has
.,happened to Charles.!.'' y
"Why do you think 50 ?" said, "have
you heard anything of him %
'No." she answered, Il have not
heard Of or from him lately yet, as you
know, was not uneasy about him, and
was quite happy aud cheerful with you
this evening. / left you early to go to
my children; they were all asleep; l
went to bed directly, but in about ten
minutes after, by the light of the night
lamp, saw my husband standing by my
bedside; he had fearful cash in his
throat, from which the blood was pouring.
He spoke to me and said, Farewell, be
kind to poor Lou In momedt he dis
appeared. When | could collect NY
thoughts, I dressed and came to you, my
dear friend, to tell you l fear something
dreadful has happened to my husband,
and must go 10 lin. Will you look af-
ter my children till my return p
Travelling in those days was most dis
agreeable process; the slowness, cold,
dirt and misery of sailing vessels and
coaches, made people generally reflect a
good deal before they undertook jour
ney, unless they could afford 10 travel by
post. therefore tired to persuade Mrs.
Norris that she had only dreamed Of her
husband
81 had not even closed my eyes" she
replied, ''and l saw him as plainly as |
do you"
Then l tried to persuade her to wait
for the arrival of the next mail from
England.
"No,' she said, she might be dying
even while we are standing consulting to-
gether."
I asked what size thought most likely
to have fallen him.
Gle might he fatally wounded, if not
killed in a duel"
| saw that il was useless trying to DIS
suade Mrs. Norris, so hurriedly dressed
ant. helped her preparations for departure,
promising to be mother to the children
| in her absence
She was the only inside passenger BY
the coach, and to beguile her sad thoughts,
bought newspaper at the first town
where they stopped to change horses
1T the next stoppage the guard found my
poor friend senseless.
She had found in the paper an account
OF the death Of Captain Norris by suicide
at the very moment she Lad seen his ap-
partition.
When Mrs. Norris returned to her chill
dren and had in some degree recovered
from this awful shock, she spoke with
camness of what size called her ''last in
terview' with Ter husband. l remarked
that even if she had dreamed it, it would
have been extraordinary she was firm in
asserting she had not closed her eyes, and
but just extiuguirhed her candle. So l
said no more but other friends were
more pertinacious in insisting his pres
ence could not have been a reality.
Her answer was invariably, Il saw him
as plainly as | see you
g- The lady who did not think it re-
spectacle to bring Up her ceildren to work,
has lately heard frou her two sons. One
OF them is a bar keeper on a fat boat,
and the other is a steward il brick
yard.
ESg~ An editor thus logically nuiCes