Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-10-27

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about fifty yards ahead, where 4
, divided into two. The one was
t the carriage track, which wound
down the mountain by easy de.
scents; the other was footpath,
! which was short, PERCEPTIONS cut
to a point on the carriage road
nearly aquartcr of mile below.
calling to Sarah to keep back
and wait, drove the spurs into
my horse and went down the steep
path. Looking back, saw her fol-
lowing, bcr horse making tremcn-
dous speed. She kept the carriage
road, following on after Tom, and
] pressed on, thinking to intercept
his horse below.
My pace was terrible. ] could
hear them laundering down the
track above. | looked up and
caught sight Of them through the
trees. looked down, aud saw q
gully before me full eighteen feet
wide, and as many deep.
"A great horse was that black
horse Caesar, and he took the gully
at flying leap that landed us far
over it, and a moment later | was
at the point where the roads again
met, but only in time to see the
other two horses 60 by at fur
ious pace, Sarah's abreast Of the
gray, and she reaching her hand
out bravely trying to grasp the
flying rein. as her horse went leap
for leap with him.
To ride close behind them was
worse than useless in such case.
1t would put serve to increase their
speed; so | felt back dozen rods
and followed, watching the end.
CAT the foot of the mountain the
river ran broad and deep, spanned
by the bridge at the narrowest
point To reach the bridge, the
road took short turn up stream,
directly on the bank.
"On swept the gray and black
horse, side bv side, down the hill |
side, not'ffty leaps along the level /
ground, and then came the turn.
"She was on the off sipe. At
the sharp turn she pressed ahead
a half length and reined her horse
across the gray's sho ulder, if pos
sible, to turn him up toward the
bridge.
at was all over in an instant.
The gray was the heavier horse.
He pressed Eer close; the black
yielded, gave way toward the fence,
stumbled, and the fence, light
all, broke with a crash, and they
went over, all together into the deep
black stream.
"SGll, still the sound Of that
crash and plunge is in my ears.
Still l can see them go headlong
lodn that bank togerhcr into the
black water
Il never knew exactly what did
hen. When | was conscious, !
'ound myself winning around in
circle, diving occasionally to find
hem but in vain. The gray horse :
wan ashore and stood on tie bank
~ my black, with distended nos
rils and trembling limbs, shaking
rom head to foot with terror. The {
Dther black horse was floating down ;
he surface of the stream, drowned.
lis mistress was nowhere visible,
nd Tom was gone also.
81 found her at last !
YES she was dead
"Restore her? No, A glance at ,
er face showed how vain all such
.ope was. Never was hnman face
o angelic. She was already one |
# the saintly-one of the immor-
the beauty and glory Of ,
er new life had left some faint
keness of itself on her dead form {
nd face. !
"Philip, said had never grown ]
day older since that time. You r
now why. have never cease to +
hink OF her as on that day. ! have t
ever lost the blessing OF those
yes as they looked on me in the +
crest on the mountain road. ] :
ave never left her, never grown $
way from her If, in the resur- +
action, we are to resume the bodies +
lost exactly fitted to represent our h
hole lives if, as / have some Z
mes thought, we shall rise in the n
,rms we wore when some great y
fent stamped our souls forever, /
lat | am certain that shall awake q
form and feature as l was that 7
ly, and no record will remain of fl
l hour of my life after her 4
lrial. i
eve buried her in the old vault
ose by the house, among the SOL
mn oaks, Beautiful, angel-hke to
e very last II
"My voice is broken. I connot b
y more, Philip. You have the
ory, That the whole of it. God d
ess you Phil, my boy. You've lo
d-patiently-to-my-- talk. n
Goodnight, boy. Go to bed. q
Il stay here in the old chair awhile. l
don't-exactly- y-feel-like-sleeping- W
It." al
l left him sitting there; his head 81 :,
wed on his breast, his eyes clos l.
, his breathing short and heavy, !" ia
if with suppressed grief. My Al, AZ
N eyes were misty. -;
In the hall ] found John sitting y. H.
1t upright in a large chair. ~ ~
why, John, thought the Ma ~ W