The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-12-12
For the Jefersonian.
THE UNION VOLUNTEER.
BY II. LANGTORD,
CHAPTER VI.
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There was mourning in Ellmount Hall
The servants, with cat-like tread, stalket
from one apartment to the other, with
their faces, whose dark aspect, forboded
something native to the death bed or the
charnel vault. Silence was the predom
mating character, imprinted on every lip
and fear the guardian of the unspokcu
thought. The singing bird of CASTLE
tuned her note no more by the cool lat
tice, which looked out on the beautiful
lake; nor told in amorous ditty the fate
OF the I" Phantom Lovers" Where was
the young and lovely Camilla, the SUM-
flower of the Mississippi, whose image
even lent radiance to the sunbeam. and
reflected the fairy imagery of supernatural
loneliness, to the scenery of the oriental
waters! Her absence stole away the
cheerful mirth which always enlivened
the humble circle, and thereby limited
that wrong and secret suffering were con-
cealea within the walls of the mansion.
To these suspicious were added the
whispers of her maid who affirmed, that
daily provision was removed from the ta-
Bile almost hourly by Gonsalvo himself,
and taken she knew not where; but it
was evident from the sudden disappear
ance of Camilla, that the viands were for
her, and that she pined in the solitudes
of the subterranean chamber, once occu-
pied by the maiden, whose tears and sor-
rows were over, as she, in her lovers
arms, sank under the dark cold waters of
the lake.
And such opinions were true. Con-
salvo, her father, as We have seen, bore
her from the garden inseusible, and To-.
Gated her in the dim chamber, where last
VIC beheld her. With submissive an
guish she opened her eyes, and encoun-
tered his stern gaze as he entered. Her
heart was too full to articulate a word,
and she turned away from his forboding
frown. In the tears of girlhood, there is
charm whom the hardest may succumb
to, and grieve over the drops which tell
of blighted and forsaken affection. Beau
tvs tears, they say, are as the starry sig
natures which apprise men of the home
which is to be shared by the angels of
their existence; and although the heav-
ems are pure without them; yet they deck
the frmanent with the realities of celes-
tial light, and point over the weary des-
ert of life to the great Paradise beyond.
Father"
And, oh how Intense the divine ma
ture of the sound! Could you who have
betrayed the grandest dignity of exist
ence, and bartered the great issue of your
manhood for the vile and intoxicating
pleasure of shame; could you but feel
that you possess being as your own, as
noble as yourself, and even as affection
ate; the blot of your uncivilized dignity
would mar the darkest dream of your
sensuality, and place barrier against
the joys which you pursue with so much
delerium. Old age shall come to you,
bringing degradation and contempt; and
your th-bed deserted, with none to
close your eyes, or drop tear in your
memory. Truly degraded must be the
man who departs this life without leaving
a gap in the vast amphitbeatre Of human
society.
Gonsalvo grew pale. Unhuman and
tyrannical as he was, the word burned in
his ears, and he Withdrew to the door. -
The dark purpose of his heart was frus-
trated yet he paused.
Father"
He entered the chamber, but no tear of
reconciliation dimmed his dark eye. The
word opened his heart, and he listened
again.
'' Father, what have done?"
He opened his bosom. There" he
'aid, emphatically," there 1t is
broken. The heart that was ever cold,
and that ever withstood war, tumult and
disaster. You have broken it broken
t. | am warm now, my children are
gone = gone to sleep down under the
waters. / am warm!"
Who gomez"
"The curse and misery of my life. -
Austin; but no, he was none of mine. -
deny it. He is -"
Where is he? Why am herc?"
" Drowned You did it - You'll"
She hung upon his neck. = A dark
tream of blood gushed from his mouth,
md he reeled and fell heavily on the floor.