The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-09-11

this part Of the villains design, Fanny was
OF course, utterly ignorant; but the quick
discerning eye Of love enabled her instantly
TO detect the brutal and ungrscious manner
OF kaeburn, 80 different from what she had
expected I; and the discovery fell upon her
spirit with the most deadly effect. She
however, made no complaint but it wa
evident that the manner OF her reception BY
her deceiver had suck deep into her heart
Poor Fanny proceeded with the packing oi
her little trunk in silence silence inter
rupted only by an occasional sigh, long
drawn, and heavy laden with grief. Tears,
too, might have been detected stealing down
her cheeks, were it not that she kept her
head, purposely, too closely over the trunk
70 permit their berg seen. In the work,
too, in which she was employed, be It OBJ
served, Raeburn did not offer her the small
lest assistance, but continued walking up
and down the cabin, whistling capslessly,
and looking at the prints with which the
walls were hung.
This was the scene, then; in the cabin,
when Raeburn, after the lapse of q Quarter.
an-hour or 90 from the time Of his frst des-
cending, suddenly, and without giving Fanny
the least previous notice Of his igtention,
went to the foot Of the cAbin-stair, and called
loudly on Cressingham, who was on deck.
Cressin CHAM appeared at the cabin-door.
Why don't you come down ?'Fsaid Rae
burn. And he followed up this query with
a significant wink.
Why, waited till l should be called, !"
replied Cressingham, with . knowing smile !;
at the same time commencing his descent
into the cabin.
"Mr. Cressingham, Fanny" said Rae-
burn, when the former came down-"a
very particular friend Of mine."
Fanny, before raising her head from the
trunk, hurriedly wiped her eyes, and stood
10 to receive the stranger; but it was Who'll
" out Of the poor girls power thus suddenly
20 regain her composure, or to obliterate
from her cOuntenance the traces of the mis-
cradle feelings with which her soul was ag-
oOigsd. These remained but too plain and
were ut once detected by Cressingham, who,
in place Of being moved to compassion By
tbem for the unhappy girl, looked on them
rs welcome indications Of feelings that pro-
missed to favor his own advances; inasmuch
% they bespoke dissatisfaction on the part
Of Fanny, at once with her situation, and
with Rseburn.
the performance Of his part Of the nefariOus
plot, be advanced towards Miss Rutherford
with one Of his most gracious looks, and
welcomed her to Calcutta. Then placing
himself in q chair directly opposite to her,
till be had nearly thrust his head into her
face, he began q strain Of the most imper-
tinent adulAlion, not unmingled with express
sions of q less harmless character. These
last did not escape Fanny, who deeply felt
the insult they involved, although she was
already too much humbled IN spirit to resent
them.
When Cressinghsm had taken up the pos
ition described, and had begun the nausecus
badinage alluded to, Raeburn, on some tri-
fng pretence, left the cabin and went on
deck. The motive for this proceeding will
at once present itself to the reader. Ores-
sngham, finding himself thus left alone with
Fanny, was proceeding TO use other liberties
than those Of speech and had already, with
the most impudent familiarity, thrown one
Of his arms around Miss Rutherford's neck.
when, with a violent effort, she extricatcd
herself from him, and rushed, in n state of
great agitation and alarm, up the cabin-stRir,
calling on Henry, who was at the moment
standing at the stern OF the vessel, and dir
ectly opposite the cabin door. r.
Guessing, Or rather knowing very WI,
the cause Of Fanny's outcry and terror, be
went towards her, and sternly and sngrily
asked her, What she made all this noise
for?"
80, Henry Henryr' exclaimed the agi-
tated girl, stake me out Of this. Let us 60
on shore, Henry, directly. Do, do, let US
60 on shore for will not 60 down into that
cabin again"
"Pooh, you silly fool, you =" replied RAe-
burn, harshly. What are you afraid Of 2
Don't you like CressiDgbam Hes an ex-
cellent fellow, only little rough or 50, now
and then but not pin the worse for that
Why, he's one of the handsomest and richest
fellows in Calcutta, and half the girls 10 the
town are cooking their caps at him."
have nothing to say % or Of Mr.. Cress-
inghaul, Henry" replied Fanny. "All
that ask of you is, to take me Immediately
ashore"
With this request, Raeburn, seeing that It
would not be advisable to push matters fur
ther at this moment, sulkily complied. A
boat was ordered alongside. Fanny's lug
gage was placed in it, and she, Raeburn, and
Cressngham, were forthwith rowed on shore
where, the moment they landed, the latter
after whispering something into Raeburn's
ear, and offered some Intellectual attempts at
making his peace with Mss Rutherford. left
them.
Where. now, does the reader imagine, did
Rasburn conduct the unhappy victim of his
vIllany. To his own splendid mansion |?
No. To decent hotel, then-or, probably,
be consigned her to the care of some res
pectable female friend or acquaintance |?
Neither of these did the heartless Tufian do.
He took her to a mean lodging, in one Of the
meanest parts Of the town, pleading some
lame apology for not taking her to his OWE
house and there left her in the hands Of
strangers, without word Of consolation or
comfort, or OF kindness. He said, however.
before going away, that he would again call
in the evening, and would, in the meantime,
send female domestic from his own house.
to attend her together with some necessar-
les.
1t would be vain, an idle task, to attempt
to describe what were the unfortunate girls
feelings, now that the hideous truth, that
she had been deceived and betrayed, though
with wha: view she could not conjecture,
stood undisguised before her. They wers
dreadful, too excruciating, too exquisitely
agonizing, to be expressed in words or in
waling. Their effect was to benumb every
faculty, and to PROSTATE every sense and as
one thus afflicted, sat poor Fanny Ruther-
ford in a chair, at the window Of her shabby
apartment.
That evening, the first of her arrival, Rae
burn, contrary to his promise, did not again
visit her; but Cressingham came in his place
and dreadful was the result Of this unweI-
come visit on the poor girl's frame. 1t in
stantly brought on q crisis of that disease
OF the mind under which she was already
lsboring.
The moment he entered the apartment,
she uttered a piercing shrek, and rushed
irantically into the furthest corner of the
room, in the greatest terror, calling on the
intruder in the name of Heaven not to come
near her not to approach her. "Lsave me,
leave me ~ she explained in a tone Of bitter
agony. Ifthere be the smallest portion Of
humanity in v0ur nature vnn viii pava me