Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-04-20

Oh, bless ye, ony, over to Ole Georges
He's mighty porey dis yer fall; dot git out
nou'e, an he likes to har bout what's gwine
on. Never you min bout Miss Marshee
Taint no use grievin' bout her | tell ye,
de Lord toe me He'd liver her an | never
dou't de Lord
That was all the satisfaction | could get
No one else seemed to put things together as
| did, or to give Aunt Judy thought.
1t was like funeral all the time after
that at John lleathson's. staid awhile, be-
cause loved Aunt Esther, as | called Mar
cia's mother. The old rigid routine was
taken up again, and Marcia's name was never
mentioned The mother grieved all the time.
| Her sweet face grew less and her blue eyes
more sunscu. She rarely spoke at all.
What the father felt or thought, no one knew
He was TO all seeming harder aud colder
| than ever before
More than a year after Marcias disap-
pcarance, james the elder son was thrown
from his buggy, striking on pile Of stones
/ by the roadside, aud was carried home in
| dying condition. IIe was in great mental
distress he wanted a magstrate-would not
be satisfied without one. When the magis-
| trate came all were sent from the room but
his father, the doctor and the Justice James
then made a deposition to the effect that he
was the forger instead of Edward Jewett, and
that their corresponding size and complexion
first made him think Of imposing himself upon
the cashier, who had only a slight knowledge
Of Edgar. This delusion he aided by some
disguise lie had always wondered why
Jcwett could not prove an alibi and save him
self A icw hours later James Heathson
breathcd his last, and died, repentant, they
said lie had never been loved, and there
was but little sympathy shown except for his
mother. His confession was published the
papers throughout the country being as much
interested in exalting Edward Jewetts inno-
ccucc as they had been in horalding his
guilt.
We all wondered to see Aunt Esther
grow brighter after this shock and take more
interest in everything. Her house and flow
ors received a care they had long been de-
privcd Of Her face had an expectaut look
in it that did not understand
Almost two years after Marcia left us, a
letter, with a foreign postmark, came to John
ileathson IL was from Marcia She was
now Marcia Jewett. The tidings of her broth
er's death and confession had reached them
and she wrote Immediately. The day she left
Aunt Judy had aided her escape had taken
her to Ole Georges, where Edgar met her.
He convinced her of his innocence, but did not
tell her Of her brothers guilt, though he knew
it. She went with him to the next State
where they were married, and left the coun-
try. One oof his friends knew sheaceompanied
him. for the rest, the secret lay with faithful
Judy and Ole George Edgar refused to
prove an alibi, aud save himself for he was
aiding in the escape of a company of slaves
and his aids were colored men. TO acknowl-
edge his own completely would have been fine
and Imprisonment but he could not do so
without betraying his accomplices. Our laws
were very rigorous with black men then, and
he would not betray them. All this, Ole
George and Judy knew. Out Of that came
Aunt Judy's vision.
" Marcia came back to her native hills,
lovelier than in her sunniest grlhood, bring
ing with her beautiful boy. Her father
had been broken at the Wheel and though he
could never become a genial, pleasant man,
he was glad to see his daughter and grand
child, and always spoke with the greatest re-
spect of My son-in-law, Edgar Jewett
great lawyer, thee knows
" All this seems such long time ago
thirty years have brought such changes 1t
is more than thirty now since that all hap
pened. John Heathson and Esther lie side
by side in the old burying-ground by the stone
meeting house, Marcia died that summer
thy Uncle Archie and went down to New
England
4" Is the Senator Jewett, who took tea with
us last summer, her husband ?"
Z" Yes and the young lieutenant who did
such brave things at Grafton, when they
were attacked by the guerillas, was the boy
she brought back with her."
What became Of Elmer Carson ?"
" He married rich woman, and went to
live near Cincinnati. have heard that they
do not live happily Edmond never mar
ried."