Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-07-21

Come from here" | said, taking him by
the arm tell me elsewhere.
'tHere, herep' he exclaimed, "nERE must [
do her justice.
humored his whim-"you haze done that
here. Let us 60 few PAGES and sit down by
cool waters-then tell me all you wish. HER
spirit abides there as we'll as here
He seemed satisfied took his arm and led
him silently to the bank of Hunting Creek
along whose level beach we passed until, near
ing the bridge, we assembled to a copse Of trees
around an ice house on the bank and stoodsld
by side.
The scene was enrapturing; and seeing that
he was growing easy under the soothngs of the
hour, looked upon the waters before me, with
out 4 word.
Hunting Greek was spread out in the hush
OF night, ere mOonset Looking westward
panorama of picturesque beauty glowed before
my eyes. The fast-sinking moon was nearly
down the West arch of heaven, half hidden by
the foliage Of a c0pse of trees which extended
nearly across the head of tide-water. Broken
by the interlacing branches, the moon light
burst like cascade through an hundred riffs,
and spangled the waters with rowing islands
of light-soft and glowing as though the Mas
ter of Life had just walked over, land the waters
yet glowed in his foot prints. Far down the
creek and away off toward the farther shore of
the Potomac, the lucid sheet caught in its bos-
ON picture Of the heavens above, and while
the fading rays of the moon still gded the hill
tops the waves below held in their tremulous
arms the clouds bathed in light and the stars
which grew brighter in the moons decline
Even as [ gazed the light upon the waters
faded perceptibly, warning me that the moon
would soon sink behind the hills and leave us
to darkness.
[ turned to arouse my companion; ere did
so I felt his hand upon my shoulder. Il am
calm now,' he said, in an even voice, but the
CLEAN of his eye in the darkening shadows told
me it was calm that did not reach the heart.
However, | was less excited than | had been
at any period since we met motloned to the
sward and we sat down together, each support
ed by a tree "You need not feel that you
have aggreved me-, | said, Il am more than
content; the loss Of one love gave me another,
hoier, dearer and more home-Elke, and as to
myself confess to you that am glad OF what
has happened, 10
You are married then" he said quickly.
My answer undeceived him.
1T was not alone for your sake, but for hers
that [ wished to unburden my breast Of a secret
which hes heavily upon it; the more SO, be-
cause tonight had vowed by her grave, that if
you yet lived, and I could anywhere yet hope to
fnd you | would follow you the world over,
nor rest again content, until had made your
ear familiar with wrongs to you and yours, that
| would give my life, aye, my salvation to re-
pair, but which (there IS a he'll in the two
words) [ CANNOT
Then he talked the hours away, interrupted
only by word Of exclamation, Il question or
remark of mine. At times, the passing clouds
made the night yet darker, SO that could not
see the waters that flowed at my feet or the
tree against which he lay, but his white face
defed darkness, and glance when [ would, in
the pauses of his words, [ could sec in its pal
lid lineaments, emotions which bore witness TO
the truthfulness OF what he told me. Before
light came in the East, knew all he wished,
and we strocd INTO town together.
1Popular memory as cxempliied by ''N'' in
We: terdays Gazette, fully sustain Trusts mar
ration as to the character Of Dr.. Wroe. 1t will
he remembered that in Chapter 8, Trust says
that Wroe left India because he had not made
his accounts with the East India Company
quite correct and that he fled from Paris FOR fear
Of arrest for that fraud. 1t may be, he practl9-
ed upon Messrs. Lindsay & Hill, in his man
hood, the arts he learned in India in his youth.
If John Trusts opinion is correct, DR.. Wroe
did not remain long in prison in New York,
and he now occupies Il prominent position in
Europe, where the European reactlonlsts de-
nounce him as 'the most superb william OF mod
ernstime." w. +. u.
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