South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-04-28
looking ten years older in that single

cOuld only cry Qulte~ broken down, quiz
past comfort Lefty took her up stair:
and I didn't venture to see her for a montl
after.
/ had the direction of all the inquire
which were made Spurred on by the re
ward of ESQ, the police exerted them
selves most strenuously. But not tn
faintest trail could they find of Chubl
jackson. One of the notes he had re
ceived from his aunt was traced to a loE
public house in the Waterloo road /; but al
though the house was watched for months
and the haunts of all the doubtful charac
tiers who resorted there thoroughly
searched, they failed to get a glimpse o
the fate Of poor Ohubb.
The atelier on the second floor in Albany
street was shut up from that time Aun
-Chubb would let no one enter it but her
self; once q week she would 90 in ant
dust it with her own hands. Poor Letitis
thought herself almost widow, and lyost
deep mourning for her lost sweetheart.
1t was a year after Ohubb's untimely
fate that l ventured one day-she was
sewing button on my sleeve at the time
the sight of her sweet patient face and
dOwncast eyes was too much for me, and
took her in my arms and asked her if she'd
let me take the vacant place in her heart
She was dreadlully shocked, and wouldn't
forgive me for a long time; but Aunt
Chubb was my friend, and told my darling
that the time for grief was past, and that
it was her dearest wish now that we two
should be married; and then Letitia re-
Tented, and gave me all her heart. 7 =.
Aunt Chubb reused up wonderfully
rI a1 80
live again; for the soul wearies of hopeless
grief. In the preparations for the we'd
ding, in the necessary house hunting, and
furniture-buying, Aunt Chubb took great
But L couldn't help feeling a
little nettled at how completely in the
mind of aunt, and partially in Letty's
view, / was simply representative of the
lost Chubb. We were not to live in ST.
Johns Wood, because Chubb detested st.
Johns Wood. We must live in the neigh
borhood Of Regents Park, because ChuBb
thought it was the healthiest part of Lon
don The dining-roOm curtains were to
be blue, for thai was Chubb's fayorite
color; the drawing room was to be up
holstered in white and gold, for Chubb
had been heard to say that when he had
house of his own that would be his choice.
In other respects, however, it was more
to stand in Chubb's shoes.
His aunt had announced her intention of
making US the same allowance she had in
tended for Chubb when he married; and
she told US that having no near relations
Of her own, she proposed to make US and
ours her heirs; but, after all, it wasn't
pleasant to be considered in the light of a
proxy or deputy; and the way in which
those two women set up an idol, an ideal
Clgubb about as like the real formerly-ex-
sting Chubb as the butterfly is to the
grub, and expecting everybody to burn in
cense before it, was especially aggravating.
But bore all patiently, abiding the time
when should take the reins into my own
hands. 49, rr.
1t was just two years since poor Chubb
and we were to be married
tomorrow .-.I.f rEUs-f
had wound up all my affairs at Lin
coins Inn, and had made up my mind to
eave the office at three, having to make
few purchases; and l had planned taking
4 Citizen steamboat to Cadogan Pier, there
10 have quiet halfhour under the trees
Of Cheynewalk, to take leave of my old
self. For before / knew Letitia l had
been very lonely man, lonely in a crowd,
and had learned to know myself-yes,
and to like myself, and to take a pleasure
IN my own thoughts; and / felt little
;ad, as though / were parting with an old
friend at the gate of my new life. --iI.
But, locking up my papers aud chang
ng my coat, was conscious of a peculiar
stir and tumult astonishing the quiet inn;
/ clatter and clank, ringing of steel
lccoutrements, and the sharp clash ,-of
loofs on the paved court yard. ] heard,
100, the rush of pattering feet, which be-
.okened that the London gamin was awake
% the prospect of little excitement.
Now, looking from my window, saw a
small detachment of hussars drawn up
outside our Office. Opposite the door was
/ cab, policeman on the box, Halfa-
1ozen mounted police were drawn up on
either side, and the British public massed
Itself behind he caYalcade. 49,
l heard a clerk flying up the stairs, and
ne burst into my room, exclaiming: 40,
Mr.. Brown, you're wanted Immediately
Oy the Chief Commissioner of Policef
Had it oome for me, then, this eaval-
cade? Was l to be carried off on the eve
Of my wedding-day? Was to be spirited
sway to Join my poor friend Chubb? l
remembered such things in weird stories
had read, as a boy; and was really so
much shaken, that had l found myself
into the carriage, and disappear
ng in thunder-cloud, I shouldn't have
been much astounded. -------.
Nom more astounded than / was,
when, going to the window of the cab, 1
'aw, sitting beside a police officer, and
heavily ironed, Chubb Jacksonl
He wasn't a bit altered, only Drowned
md more manly. E
." Ned, old fellow, 1 can't shake hands
with you for these confounded handouts !;
1ut you're looking jolly. want you, to
,ome with me to the police office, to iden-
ify me- They want to make out that I
I'M Colonel Brady, the head center of the
Fenians but you can tell them better than
hat, eh Ned? Come, jump in"
/ got into the cab in maze Of bewilder-
nent. m
How did 1 standl Was 1 going to be
married. Tomorrow, or would Chubb usurp
ny placer Who did the house in Regents
Park belong to? and the portmanteau
eady packed at my lodgings? No, that
vas mine, at all events. And the months
Good heavens, why didn't the
elbow stop another day. What did he
mean by sitting there grinning at me,
ooking so happy? Happy; of course he
vas happy. Wasn't he going home to his
Letitia? ,
Why should 1 be bail for this mang
What did l know about him? The last
wo years might have made a Fenian of
him Was | certain he wasn't Colonel
Brady? Was it a fiend which whispered
n my ear, keep him locked up till the
lay after tomorrow" ?"
But the fiends may whisper as they will
he habit of truth and honesty is the best
.xorciser of demons. When we arrived
It the police station, and when shown into
he magistrates private room, my course
vas plain, Mr. Pusslewit, the magistrate,
NEW me well enough.
could answer for the man in custody;
he was not Fenian at all. He was
Jhubb Jackson; was an intimate friend of
ny own. His detention would be very
erious affair for the police; but released
low, would undertake that no action
hould be brought against the government
The upshot was, that half an hour saw
Chubb and myself walking toward Char
ng cross arm -in-arIn.
had made up my mind as to the course
should adopt. Chubb had satisfied me
hat he had not Intentionally left US in the
lark as to his fate. His Ldches were not so