Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-01-17

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ment In witch he promised to give her
yooth, beauty, wealth ez much NV
them articles ez she shood order on de-
mand, for the space nv ten years, In con-
sidersshen Nv witch she shood at the end
Nv that period, become hisn, soul and
body.
"And who are 700 2" sed she, tremb-
lin, her system skakin like costanets.
"The Devil, Mabel, hisself, In person."
"Avant % she cried, DRAWN herself up
10 her full hite ez all heroines do when
they say "avant |"
"Shel go and leave 700 here-yaller-
haired, freckled, and scraggy, Mabel I"
sed he, sardonically.
She he'd bin revelin in dream Nv
while ne he'd bin talkin, aud in i'm
aginashen he'd bin all he he'd painted
her, and the thot nv goin back into her
odd coudishen wuZ too much. She
thought NV the church the mite afore
she remembered that she he'd never he'd
beau but wunst, and he wuz lame
shoemaker who never come the second
time, and in fit NV frenzy she ex-
claimed, 81 will sign" and tried to fall,
overcome with emotion, onto his neck.
"Not any nv that" sed he, dodgin
"biznis is biznis, but please don't )" and
he whipped out lancet and tied up her
arm so ez she shoodent bleed too much
for it alluz wuz the regler thing for SIGH
contracts TO be signed in the blood nv
the victim, tho don't see why red ink
woodent do ez well, eff twuznt for the
precedent and she signed.
Ez the final curl wuz put to the tail
Nv the "r," there wuz another clap NV
thunder into witch he seezed the fatal
scroll and vanished ez he come, without
goin through airy door, and leavin be-
hind him preceptible odor Nv sulphur.
The next mornin Mabel Montressor
wuz missin. Quietly she packed her
trunk and bought ticket for Chicago
by the way Nv the Moo York and Erie,
without fear for she knowd that for
ten years she VIM safe.
"She wuz never seen no more in Moo
York.
PART II.
Chicago Mabel Montressor wuz at
her toilet in a luxurious mansion on
Wabash avenue, witch she he'd bought
nine years and eleven months afore, and
wuz okkepyin. She wuzn't the Mabel
Montressor we seed at the opium Nv
this legend, not by no means. A more
beautiful female never stood afore a
lookin. glass. Her teeth he'd crowd out
agin her hair he'd cum in thicker and
longer than any 700 see on the labels
NV the Hair Restorers her skin wuz ez
pure ez Alabaster, her neck wuz trooly
like swans and her arms wuZ round
ed ez they ought to be. Her feet wuz
shrunk into So or LIS, and altogether
she wuz allowed by good judges to be
the most perfeckest piece Nv femininity
in them parts. She didd't powder, coz
no powder Good improve her complex
ion she didn't paint COZ no paint Good
rival the material roses in her cheeks :;
and she didn't embellish her figger, coz
ther wuz no necessity for it. When the
Devil makes a contract Nv this he alluZ
fulfls his part out to the letter. Lovers
she he'd EN- by the thousand. Half NV
the noble youths in Chicago wuz at her
feet They sighed for possession of her
matchless charms they sighed for her
wealth onto witch to go ieto the wheat
biZnis but to all Nv EN- she turned a
def ear. Her motto wuz excelsior"
and she wue waitin for some noble
Lord, some Grand Dock or some prince
lie potentate or power to fall at her feet.
And besides, she he'd crowd capricious
AMI Maynard, and it wuz q source NV
serene pleasure to her to hev EN- danglin
after her.
Wun mite Mabel stood at her toilet
preparin herself for gay assemblage,
at WITCH she wuz soon to be the admired
Nv all admirers. She wuz jist putin the
last touch to herself, and wuz admirin
the effeck in the mirror, when, horror
ther wuz another face beside hern in the
glass She shreeked, for it wuz the
indenticle face wich she he'd stood afore
ten years ago in her deslit chamber in
Moo York
"Mabel, sed he, 81 am come for 700.
Didst think, Mabel, when 700 left Moo
York that Good never find time to cum
here after thee Foolish girl! Know
that two-thirds Nv the inhabitants Nv
that city cum to me uu their own &C.
cord. Here is the contract, but"-A
frown o'erspred his countenance, -w hev
mistaken the date. 700 hev yet month
before 700 fall due. Never mind" sed
he to himself, "the time amt wasted. |
never yet failed to make a trip to Chicago
pay. l she be here agin in a month-be
reddy."'
Mabel MontressOr went to the party
nevertheless and wuz the gayest Nv the
gay. All Good those who envied her
hair hev knode by what means she be-
came possessed NV it! Good those who
notist the heavin NV her buzzum knode
how heavy the heart she wuz carryin
underneath it! But they didn't. They
never do.
That mite wuz one Nv onmixed agony.
She paced the floor till the dawnin NV
the day, and wept and tore her hair, and
tore aer hair and wept. Wuz ther no
way to escape him ? Good she not out
wit him? Wuz Their no flaw in the con-
tract2 Wuz SIGH contrax bindin under
the laws Nv Illinoy? To all these ques-
tiCGs she got no answer, and finally in
her despair she went to the minister NV
the church in which she he'd bin sleepin