Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-02-07

cOul0 see Louise turn her aSny cheeks anC
superb eyes towards, me, as If implorine
my protection and could see the bold
glance Of the Joung boy flashing indig.
nast defiance at the descending carriage,
the war OF elements, and awful danger
that awaited him. There was roll of
thunder, desperate plunge, as if an ami
nal in the last throes Of dissolution, a
harsh grating jar, sharp, piercing scream
of mortal terror, and | had but time to
clasp Louise firmly with one hand round
the waist and seize the leather fastenirgs
attached to the coach roof with the other
when We we're precipitated over the pre-.
cipice.
can distinctly recolleot preserving
consciousness, for few seconds of time,
how rapidly my breath was being exhaus-
ted but of that tremendous descent
soon lost all further individual knowledge
by conclusion so violent that | was in
stantly deprived of sense and motion
Ou an, humble couch, in an humble
room Of i small! country house, next
opened my eyes in this world Of light
and shade, of joy aud sorrow. of mirth
and madness gentle hands smoothed my
pillow, gertle feet gEded across my cham
Der, and gentle voice Eushed for time
all my 9uestionings. I was kindly tend
ed by fair young girl about sixteen, who
refused for several days to hold any inter-
course with me- At lengh,h, one morn
ing, finding myself sufficiently recovered
to set up, insisted ca learning the result
Of the accident
"You We're discovered" said she, "sit-
ting ON ledge OF rock amidst the
branches Of & shattered tree, clinging to
par. Of the roof of your broken coach
with one hand, and to the irsensible form
of lady with the other"
"And the LADY," gasped, scanning the
girls face, with an earnestness that caus-
ed her to draw back and blush.
She was saved. sir, by the same means
that saved you-the friendly tree -
"And her father and brother ?" | ill.,
patiently demanded.
''Were both found crushed to pieces at
the bottom of the precipice, great way
below the place where my father and Un-
Gle Joe got you and the lady. We bur
led their bodies in one grave close by the
clover patch down in our meadow
ground
"Poor Louise : poor orphan God
pity you ~ I muttered in broken toues,
utterly unconscious that | had a listener.
God pity her indeed, sir said the
young girl, with gush of heartfelt SYM
pathy. Would you like to see her ?"
she added.
Take me to her" [ replied.
I found the orphan bathed in tears, by
the grave OF her buried kindred She
received me with sorrowful sweetness of
manuer. / will not detain your attention
detailing the efforts l made to win her
from her grief, but briefly acquaint you
that at least succeeded in inducing her
to leave her forlorn home in the South /;
and that in twelve months after the
dreadful occurrence which | have related
we stood at the alter together as man and
wife. She still lives to bless my love
with her smiles, and by children with
her good precepts but on the auniver-
sary of that terrible night she secludes
herself in her room, and devotes the
hours of darkness to solitary prayer.
"As for me" added the traveller, while
faint flush tingcd his noble brow at the
avowal, ''as for me, that accident has
madea physical coward of me, at the
sight OF mountain p,ecipice."
"B1t the driver" urged our la6y pas
senger, who attended to the recital Of the
story with much attention, what became
of the driver or did you ever learn the
reason of him deserting his post p
"His body was found on the road, with
in few yards of the spot where the
coach went over. He had been struck
dead by the same flash of. lighting that
blinded the restive horse"
~ An Old lady, when told of her
brsh,nd,. Jo,th exclaimed "Well | dc