Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1868-06-26

10 chair near the fifr. 20
No. thank you, I'll stand. was the
gruff reply. You got my letter, and ol
course YOU know my business, he added.
You allude to this, | suppose, replied
the banker, producing the letter which had
. caused him SO much perturbation,
+ Yes.
r Il do not understand it. You must
have made mistake.
No, no mistake at ALL l was present
twenty years ago the tenth day Of next
| October, and saw you. Stephen Edwards,
! shoot the maryland if you so and deny it..
I'll have you in prison before morning.
Hive laid my plans and got everything
sure; AMI if you go to playing innocent
and refuse my terms, I'll take care to see
you die stretching hemp
The banker turned pale in spite OF HIM
self, shuddered and struggled to seat.
i can't give tit would ruin me.'
Just as you say rejoined the other,
moving towards the door. you know what
will follow if go this way.
lie argued, urged and impored for mer-
cy at less fearful cost. In vain, At last
! the banker seeing ruin. disgrace and
| death before him if he acknowledgement to
the stranger, with the required sum on the
| following night, in front of St. Paul's
Church Both were punctual to the fixed
time, and bills and checks to the amount
| of one hundred thousand dollars changed
hands.
A month later there was tremendous
run on the bank Of which Stephen Ed
wards was the principal owner. 1t was
soon broken and closed. Then the sheriff
was set TO work by eager creditors. and all
the real estate and personal property OF the
late millionaire were seized and sold. leav-
ing him a beggar and just claims unsatis-
fed. Fashionable friends deserted the
family. and the proud nobleman refused
the hand of a ruined bankers accomplished
daughter.
In the very midst of his disgrace and
tribulation, Stephen Edwards encountered
the man who had turned pale aud became
SO agitated in his presence short time be-
fore.
Il rather think You do not know me, sir
said the gentleman with formal bow.
Your face seems somewhat familiar.
but cannot name YOU, returned Stephen
Edwards.
Permit me to bring myself to your rec
objection, then. as wish you to know me.
A little more than six weeks ago was
tai king to you on business, and you OBJ
served that turned deadly pale and be-
came agi;ated
All, yes-I remember you now
Let me tell you why was thus affected. !
Ny eye had just CHANGED on curious seal |
which had once belonged toa merchant
named Philip Sidney, who was shot in the
western part of this State some twenty
years ago; and on looking at your features
closely. knew You to be the villain who
committed the foul deed.
Mereiful Godn exclaimed the CT derant
banker with a blanched face aud quaking
form.
Yes. ! knew you, pursued the other.
and week after disguised myself and
had an interview with You in your own
mansion. You remember that Of course =
But. gasped the embing wretch,
did not pay you your own price to keep
my fatal secretn
Yes. and with tina, very money, and with |
what other could command, | was ena-
bled 20 hny up enough ofyour own bills to
make that run upon your bank that broke |
it and forced ruin upon You.
And what would Won do now, that | am |
rniael! = inquired the other with the dead
~ cal,nness Of desperation.
Now that have had my revenge. | |
want you to know that myself am the
man yea attempted to murder and did rob |
Lam Philip Sidney! Behold where the
ball struck and glanced! and he took off |
his hat and showed it:
'God be praisedl' calculated the other
&c cd he praised that you are still living,
and unable to restrain his emotion he burst
into tears. oh, sir. he continued you
have taken load from my soul. Though
poverty, beggary land disgrace are staring
ME in the face, am not guilty of murder,
and am more happy than have been in
twenty years, with all the luxurious sur
roundinss ofwsalth. 1t was my first and |
last crime, and / have never been able to
tell how was tempted to 81 outrage my
nature as on that fearful occasion. Now.
sir, do with Inc what yon will-only. pray
You, he mercifu! 10 my innocent fimily.
\ forgive you. returned the other, ex
tending his hand--'I forgive you. Y,u
have been feartully punished already. and
as God has seen proper to preserve us and
bring Us together, let US hope, for our pres
ent aud future salvation. to enleavor so to
live as to deserve the blessings we receive.
/ will restore You enoash 10 place You and
wear family above want, and for the rest.
trust we shall hnth remember we shall soon
have to render an account in another
world
Pii'ip Sidney kept his word, and with a
start in the world. and an easy conscience,
the still cnterprising Stephen Edwards ac
cumulated another respectable fortune,
much of which he spen: in charity
Philip Sidney died i'll 1917, and Stephen
Edwards in 1851.
Is not truth, indeed, stranger than fc,
ton.
WE PASS FoE WHAT WE AEE.-A man
passes for what he is worth. Very sdle is
all curiosity concerning other peoples est
mate of us. aud all fear for remaining I'M,
known is not less so. fla man knows that
he can do any,hing-knows that he CAN do
it better than any one clsc-hc has pledge
of acknowledgement of that fact by all per-
sons. The world is full ofjIdgement days,
and into every engagement that man en-
ters. into every action that he attempts, he
is gagged and stamped. l. every troop of
hoys that h0op and run i'm each yerd and