The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-09-10

Ihe agitation of his feelings, the sudden
ness OF him bruther'n. retnrnss theo ga9d
fortune Which had attended him in his
1 absence. fkd tentiiE o6f his APPEARANCE,
hndi lnBupraassion Iof s0qHpch money
a~ltogtther confused him sQ that he could
sthFcefy 6se hifs Hands. IL stood sdll
i every h0w1 tArn quite lost in wonder,
and then suddenly .r6collecting that his
Brother vas wditiur. I8dked over the rooin
again aud adm foI. articles Of dress that
were lying before him. At length, alter
occtpyfnJ 4 niteh longaf Time thbn usual.
d~hmgingrhis dress he was ready, and ran
down ~ the stage. On bis way re met
Powell Who.hpnrtiIy tbu Observation-Disclosures
the return of bis relative, ma,ngaboptthe
] thirtieth who Ind been Kind enough TO
do SO already % Grimhldi nsEed Aim, more
from @neryousness than information II he
had seen him lately.
s.''NotN minute ago + was the reply; she
|is waiting for you upon the stage, won't
detain Won. fof he complains TINT Won hdte
been LONGER away now than you said. ypu
would be. y rf
Grmaldi hurried down stdfrs to the spot
where he hnd ldH his brother He wasnot
there.
"who are sou looking for. Joey' inIuir-
ed Bannister, as he saw hrm booking eager
ly about, .'For my brother. he answered,
II lett him here 4 little while back.
'Well oud 1 saw and spoke 70 him not q
minute ago snid Bannister. "When he
left me he went in that direction pointing
toward the passagartlat led to the stage.
door, II should think he had leitthe then
I ire
J. Gnmaldi IAN MP TO the stage door aud
asked the porter Ii his brother had passed.
The mau said he had. not a minute back;
he could not have got out Of the street by
TINT time.
He ran ont ut the door, and then up and.
down the street several times, but saw
nothino of hin. Whetp could he be gone
to-? Possibly, finding HIM longergQue than
he had anticipated he might have stepped
out to call upon'bne dflis old friends close
hy. whom he had not seen for many years,
with the intention of returning 10 the he
T atfe. This was not unlikely, for in the
Immediate neighborhood there lives a Mr..
] BoWicy, who had boon his bosom friend
whom they we're boys. Tho ido0 no sooner
struck Grimnldi than hc ran to the house
and Knocked hastily Mt the door. The man
himself answered the knock. aud was evil
duntly greatly surprised.
81 have, indeed seen your brother, he
said in reply 10 Grimaldi's question
Good God, lnuyer was 30 amazed IN all
my life
rs he here now I" was tho very anxious
80; but he has not been gone a minute.
He cannot have gone many yards 'u.I 1
tar'Wlich way
THAT way. towards DIXIE Street.
HH5 must avegune, thonght GrimsllL 10
oNll on All. Bailey, our landlord. He hur-
Y ried WAY to the huusc IN Great Wild street,
nnd annexed long ana loudly Ut the door
.ThC ppqplewere asleep. He knocked again
ana again md rang violently. being in a
shde "a meat excitement. At length the
servant gIrl thrust her head ont of an upper
T story window aud soid both sulkily and
vslcopy, III tell ypu again he Is not home.
What are you talking about. Who IS
not NJ home 50
~, ,yyby. Mr. Bailey, / told you 30 before.
What 10 You keep on knocking for ut this
4 time of uightr'
H. cuuldnot understand u word of nil
TIM, but hurtiedly tod hi nnmc, and re-
qnestrd the girl 60 como dow directly ior
he Wished 10 speak 10 her. The head was
directly Withdrawn, the window closed, and
III II minute on two afterwards tho lfirl lhp-
praTed at the street door. r .Iu-..
II run sure / beg your pardon, sir she
sail, utter pouring forth n volume of apdl-
4 cries, bnt thgrp was Il gentleman knock
ing and ringing violently not q nlinite
b, fore Won. come. / told him Mr. Bailey
Nqus uot5u t home. and when heard yoH at
The door, ] Thought 1t was Inn aud that he
would not 20 away FL. HffuHUHIT
Grimaldi was breathless at the speed he
Ind made, and trembling with yaade uppre-
tensions of he knew not what. The girl,
surprised ut his emotion, replied, that she
hnd only answered him from the window.
being afraid 10 open tile duor 10 II stranger
so long after dark, when all the family We're
out The only thing she had noticed was
ttLatiI1;hnd II white Halsicopt on; for she
had thought mt that, seeing him dressed,
that perhaps he might have called 10 take
her master 10 the party lf ...4 Y# Z
"Ile must hayegone back to the theatre.
He lett the surprised giri stniidinc N tile
door, aud ran 10 Dpry Lane, Here again
lac was disappointed, lie had not been
.seon. He ran from place To place, and
nom hOlise to house, wherever he thought
II possible his brother could have called,
but nobody had heard OF or seen him.
MEly Of the persons t1WhQm he appeared
openly expressed their doubts TO each other
-oi hts sanity of mud which we're really
not without u shadow OF probability, seeing
that lac knocked them out Of their beds,
and With every appearance of agitation and
wlldGehs, demanded II tho, had seen his
brother, whom nobody had heard Of for
fourteen years, and whom most of thGm
considered dead, o..
II was SO late now that the theatre was
just shutting mp, but he ran back once
more. aud ngHin inquired il his brother
had been there, Hearing he had not, he
concluded that, rocollocting the address he
had mentioned, he had gone straight TO his
mothers home; this seemed probable, and
yet hefolt a degree Of dismhy and alarm
which he had never before experienced,
even when there was good grounds for
such feelings. N'lI roo =.
The Ipore he Thought of this, however,
The more probable it seemed, and he blam-
I ed himself us he walked homeward for not
having thought Of il sooner, He remem-
bored the anxiety his brother had express
sd 10 see his mother the plan they haddis-
cussed Ion all being together, aud the many
bttle schemes for future happiness which
hthoy had talked over in their hurried inter-
view, and in all OF which he was comprom-
Used. lie reached home, and composing
lhnHseh ns well az he eould, entered the
little room in which she supped after the
play, His brother was not there, but his
| mother was, and, as he looked up, paler
dian usual, he thought she had seen him.
"Well, mother, he said, elias anything
strange occurred here 60 nghtf' y
mo, nothing that / have beard Of"
!. I''What no stranger arrived; no long lost
TelativB racoveredf' exclaimed Grimaldi,
10 his former Rp%prehensions returning.
~ "What do You mean" '
A. ~Tdeaih why, Tint John has come home
safe and well and with money enough to
make all our fortunes"
His mother screeched wildly at this in
te~lhgence, and tainted. She recovered af-
Ter a time, and Grimaldi recouuted to her
andHhis wife the events Of the evening pre-
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