The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-18

covered sufficiently to reappear after
dinner, and reclining languidly on the
sofa, she alternately applied smell
ing bottle to her nose and pocket
handkerchief to her eyes, and seemed
to think herself an. object of interest
and tender compassion. iar1
The poor. Captain sad death might
indeed be blow to her matrimonial
speculations, but if she had a heart it
certainly remained. untouched =
L meant to have slipped away to
have broken these dreadful tidings to
Hilda in the privacy of her own room.l
for / dreaded the effect upon her;
however, just as Twas contemplating
making my exit, she entered, and.
Though deadly pale, seemed calm and
collected as usual. She, was immedi-
ately entertained with the news, but
coldly replied she had heard from the
servant and was exceeding sorry, :
This remark was so commonplace
that ], felt quite. angry with her; but
she afterwards confessed to me that
she was suffering martyrdom, and
sort of supernatural strength alone
prevented her. from breaking down
beneath. her agony but. cruel eyes.
were fixed upon cher yaud she knew
tthat they would tsgloat over her misery,
Is0she hid it deep deepsin the reces-f
| ses. of her constant heart. SO 70 Iasissi
E3rMrs. Stacey hated this Kind Of dull
ness, nd-asked as usual for some mu--
! i sic; but for once her will was resist
led, every one declaring that it would
be most gunfeeling, and Lavinia. add 4
ling that "she could not bear it, She
| tried to enlistsMr Jones s services for
herself, FIRST asking him to draw her
! sofa a little nearer the fire, then to
I fan her burning temples, and lastly to
hrub her hands; and all the while she
that Miss Bella White was alarmed
Mr.. Jones was worth catching and
fEavinia thought that he would
place; though, it was. after all,
rather amusing to see how she gave
us all to understand that there had
been something between herself and
lCaptain Vernon. Not thatwe believ-
ed it. All her Establishments how
ever, could not draw Mr.. Jones from
his allegiance from the fair Bella.
Perhaps he thought that her ten
Thousand pounds was more. substan-
| tial than the large fortune which was
ITO be Miss Primrose'sl1portion any,
how, he performed the Offices required
Of him very much as a. bear might.
have done, but he would tgo no far
kther. We had all 'relapsed into a
mournful silence, only brokenSby an
occasional snore from Mrs. Stacey
,(who had. grumbled herself into a
Fseconds nap}, when lwenwerea startled
by a loud knock at the street-door,.
and the same thought, struck us all,
THAT it was the body of the unfor-E
tunate man being brought there, pro-
baby through some scard or envelope
bin his pocket bearing that address.
Mrs, Stacey, fully. awakened whis-.
pered in a sharp, nervous, q audible
tone,-
He must not be brought here. I
would not stay in the house one hour
/ with corpse.
Mrs. Wilson had always experienced
tgreat liberality from the Captain, as
she herself allowed, and was really
sorry for what had occurred, but she
evidently agreed with Mrs. Stacey,
that the Captain living and the Cap
tain dead was not quite the same
thing; so, giving reassuring nod to
the old lady, she prepared to leave
! the room, In order to refuse admit
| tance to the unwelcome object. Be
fore she could reach the door, how
ever. it was flung open, and in came
Captain Vernon himself, as full of
health and spirits as when he, parted
|, from us.
lT<f Mary has just informed me of my
own death. he exclaimed, gayly; = in
!. fact, she could not auitesbeEeye1tha
[ was actually flesh and blood, TIL she
triad carefully inspected me by the gas
1,lamp She said you was all awful
cut up forrwhichI I feel exceedingly
fattered. Then he added, more Sc
I riously, II am thankful that I came
up by an earlier train, or might in
deed now be lying mangled corpse,
ike so many other poor creatures.
ION my arrivaHsin town IlsInet an lold
7 fellow officer, who insisted upon NV
dining with him at his club, and
I though he tried hard to persuade me
I to linger over the ssiness Il Twas no t to-
I be lenticed; for, as I had told you to
Eexpect me this evening, and taking it
| for granted that you would all miss
my society, [ hastened away as soon
i as possible; though had [ known that
my friends were going to be so kindly
anxious on my account, [ certainly
would not have subjected them to it,
We all congratulated him warmly
on his providential escape; and La
vinia. thinking this a favorable mo-
ment for forcing declaration from
her dllatory swain, detained the hand
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