The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-06


meet kertwo discoveries together They
lay apart In her mind, until circum,
= connecting link.
one thursday evening James Sea
toms goddess sat alone with her papa
and-being q young lady of fair abili.
ties who had gone through her course
OF music and other studies, taught brain.
lessIyS and who was now going through
course OF monotonous pleasures, and
had not accumulated any great store OF
mental resources-she was listless and
languid, and would have yawned FORTY
times in her papa's face, only she W6s
too well-bred. She always turned heI
head away when II came, and either
suppressed 1t, orielse hid IL with a lovely
white hand. AT last, asshe YRsia good
girl, she blushed Rt her behavior, and
reused herself up, and said abe, HPapa,
shall play you the new quadrtlles 2"
Papa gave a start and shake, and
said, with well-feigned vehemence,
"Ay, do, my dear,n and SO composed
himself-to listen; and Helen sat down
and played the Quadrilles.
The composer had taken immortal
melodies, some gay, some sad, and had
robbed them of their distinctive char
acter, and hashed them till they were
alone monotonous rattle. But General
Roneston was little the worse for All
this. As Apollo saved Horace from
hearing a poetaster's rhymes, SO did
Somnus, another benedcent little deity
rescue our warrior from his daughters
music.
A delicious smile Illuminated her face
directly; she crept to him on tiptOe, and
bestowed q kiss, light as q zephyr, on
his gray head. And, in truth, the
bending attitude OF this supple figure,
clad in snowy muslin, the virginia. face
and light hazel eye beaming love and
reverence, and the airy kiss, had some
thing angelic.
She took her candle, and gIided up to
her bedroom. And, the moment she
got there and could crafty her SOM
Violence without offence, need we say
she became wide-awakeP She cal
down, and wrote long letters 10 three
asking questions OF the kind nobody
replies to, paintiog, with young
lady's colors, the male being to whom
she was shortly TO be married, wishing
her dear friends a like demigod, II per-
chance earth contained two; and so to
the last new bonnet and preacher.
She sat over her paper till one O'Clock,
and SeRton watched and adored her
shadow.
When she had done writing, she
opened her window and looked out
upon the night. She lifted those won-
derful hazel eyes towards the stars,
and her watcher might well be par
.doned If he saw IN her celestial being
looking up from an earthly resting
place towards her native sky.
AT two O'Clock she was in bed, but
NOT asleep. She.lay calmly gazing at
the Southern Gross, and other lovely
stars shining with vivid, but chaste
fire In the purple vault of heaven.
While thus employed she heard q
slight sound outside that made her
turn her eyes towards young tree
near her window. Its top branches
were waving good deal, though there
WAS not 4 breath stirring. This struck
her as curious, very curious.
Whilst she wondered, suddenly an
arm. and a hand came in sight, and
after them the whole figure of u man,
going up the tree.
Helen sat mp now, glaring with ter
ror, and was SO paralyzsd she did not
utter a sound. About a foot below her
window was a lead fiat that rooted the
bay window below. It covered an area
of several feet, and the man spranR on
to it with perfect ease from the tree.
Helen Bhrieked with terror. at that
very instant there was a flash, a pistol
shot, and the mans arms went whirl-
Ing, and he staggered and fell over the
edge of the flat, and struck the grass
below with a heavy thud. Shots and
blows followed, and all the sounds OF a
bloody struggle rungin Helen's ears as
she flung herself screaming from the
bed and darted to the door. She ran
and gaquivefingt to her sleepy maid,
Wilson. The house was alarmed, lights
flashed. footsteps battered, and there
was universal commotion.
General Rollestoon soon learned his
daughters story from Wilson, and
aroused his male servants, one of
whom was an old soldier. They search
ed the house first; but no entrance had
been effected; SO they went out on the
lawn with bluuderbuss and pistol.
They found a man lying on his back
at Ihe1oot Of the bay window.
They pounced on him, and. to their
amazement, 1t was the gardener, James
Seatoni insensible.
General ROlleston was quite taken
abRck for a moment. Then he was
sorry. But after little reflection, he
said very sternly, 'tCarry the black
guard indoors, and run for an officer"
Seaton was taken into the hall and
laid fiat on the floor. ~ F
All the servants gathered about him,
brimtul of curiosity, and the female
ones began to speak altogether; but Gen.
Rolleston told them sharply to hold
their tongues and TO retire behind the
man, Somehody sprinkle him with
cold winter, said he; land be quiet all
of you, and keep out of sight, while
examine him. he stood before the
insensible figure with his arms folded,
amidst dead silence, broken only by
the stthed sobs of Sarah Wilson, and of
q soeiable housemaid who cried with
heEfor company. -Ea'
And now Seaton began to wrlthe and
show signs of returning sense.
Next he moaned piteonsly, and sigh
ed. But General RoI1eston could not
pity htmi he waited grimly for return.
ing consciousness, TO subject him to a
merciless interrogatory.s 90
He waited just one second too long.
He had to answer aquestion instead OF
The Judgment Is the last faculty a
man recoYers when emerging from In
ssnBlbilityi and Seaton, seeing the
General standing before him, stretched
out his hands, and said, in a faint but
earnest voice, before eleven witnesses,
SIS she safer o, Is she safef" r'=g