The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-03-18
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Frightened BY his words, frighten-
ed, YET more BY the look with which
he regarded her, she sank down at
her lovers feet, and looked up with
elssped hands and beseeehing eyes.
"Ten me all, /" she cried; aH-thas
YOU accuse me Off
sWhat should / tell youy ne ash-
ed bitterly. aYou talked OF Justly'
and vou have had revenge. lou
have taken Olympia's life, JUSTIFY
forfeited no doubt but your guilt IS
none the less. It is still murder.
Her hands dropped; she half-rais-
cd herself on one kuee.
Armand" she cried, you are
testing with me. No? Must I, then
swear to you that I am innocent
that what you tell me curdles my
hood? What shall I say? Armand
what shall I say or dog
Her pleading did not move his
pity; it excited his contempt.
You protest your innocence. he
silid. Listen. When this woman
escaped from the inn in disguise. my
vigilance was baf1ed. You, by ar
rilngement,. watched from the win
dow opposite the inn; you therefore
must have seen all. I can under
stand that, your suspicious being
aroused, you followed your prey.
What / cannot understand is, that
on finding her likely 20 escape, you
should have let your feelings so far
get the better of, as to induce you TO
attempt her life"
Armand, 1 swear to you" abe
began, clutching at his arm with her
outstretched hands.
Enough enoughp' heinterposed
roughly. "If you are innocent, give
Inc proof of it."
"What proofi"
1.-THE diamond bullet-show it to
me"
She relaxed her hold, and sank
covering to the round.
"God help me! I cannot" That
was her piteous answer.
NO" he returned With bitterness; +;
"you cannot, because you dared to
lnete out to Olympus the same meas
ure Of cruelty she exercised toward
her victim. twas the diamond bul-
let which gave her the death-wound.
1t was found glittering in the trun
iofs treeat the foot of which she fell 8
corpse.
At these words, the degraded girl
gazed With a strangely-bewildered
look; then, with a faint moan, fell
senseless before him.
After that interview the lovers
met no more for yesrs. Both quit
ted England. Armand Travelled, vol
unteering for an African expedition,
which helped him to forget his sor-
row and the woman who had caused
1t. She settled in Paris, & lonely,
heart broken woman. The crime
which had separated them was soon
forgotten.
Long afterward Armand, return
ing to Cape Town, after protracted
wanderings in the interior, had it
suddenly brought under his notice
by a few lines in colonial newspa-
per. They were to the effect, thst a
laborer, name not given, had just
died in Sittingbourne Workhouse;
but before his death he had made
this revelation. He said he was the
first to discover the body of the lady
who was supposed to have been
murdered in the snow storm some
winters ago. When he found her
she was grasping a pistol worked
with gold and set with gems, the
sight Of which SO wrought on him
that he secured it, and so left it to
be supposed that she had been muir
dered, though in truth she had died
by her own hand. In proof Of his
story, he added that, getting alarmed,
he subsequently threw the weapon
into q certain pond, the situation Of
which he indicated. There, on
sHerch being made, the pistol was
found.
sac effect of this revolution on
Armand's mind was terrible. He
saw that he had done the woman a
great wrong. To repair this, as far
as practicable, he at once set out for
Europe. On reaching England, he
had no difficulty in verifying the
newspaper statement; to find a clue
to Evaiine's retreat was more diff
cult. Many months were spent III
fruitless search, but st iast he sue
ceeded. They met, and on his knees
he besought forgiveness for his i'm
petuosity, and the injurious suspi-
cions which had separated them.
EvaIine listened with tears and a
throbbing heart; hut she restrained
a moment the impulse to throw her
self upon his breast.
Though guiltless," she said, 81
was yet to blame. Remember, l
could not produce the diamond.
let me tell you why"
"You had parted with it?'
"Yes; in q moment Of folly. When
l saw how be had tracked that wo-
man to her doom, I could, not re
strain the burning desire to show her
then without delay, that she was in
our bower, and that we we're about
to be revenged. Swayed by this
girlish WEAKNESS, I enclosed the dia-
mond in a 5oa5onniere her victim
had used, and sentit to her hotel
Heaven knows how the sight Of it
worked on her crazed mind, and how
far was thus responsible for her
miserable end. But, Armand, have
repented it bitterly-0, so bitterly!
and # you can forgive me, I-I-''
The rest was sobbed out, as Ar
mand clasped her tightly in his arms.
-BelgTaCia.
PROGRESS OF THE AGE.