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come to light, but she steered safely by
that and closed her testimony. At length

1 Wttiu Iuc jury. IHCu uHc pIloOHcI Coulu
not restrain his gaze; he lifted his eyes
in one long, lingering gaze of passionate
love and regret toward that pale, daz-
zlingly beautiful countenance.
I alone, of all that crowd, could inter-
pref that gaze. | knew at that supreme
moment he cared Raught if death was the
consequence, the hunger Of his heart must
be satisfied.
| Fortunately the eyes of every one else
were fixed on her face, pale as marble eX-
cept an unnatural hectic streak of color in
her cheek, with singularly glittcring
feyerish light in her eyes.
She had evidently braced her nerves
with some drug to go through this Or
deal.
sLoolS ut the prisoner" said the prose-
cutting attorney. She turned her eyes for
the first time toward him, but his looks
were bent on his own hands locked to-
gether in his lap, nervously clasping and
unclasping.
DO you think he could have been
| guilty Of the murder? ?" said the prosecut-
ing. attorney, and before could object to
the question, she had answered firmly:
"No, | do not"
And that reply had its influence with
the jury.
She is Il woman among a thousand,
thought |, as my eyes followed her out of
the court room. She has passed through
this trial so safely and firmly, giving her
testimony without faltering, saying just
enough and not too much, as woman is
SO apt to do-her evidence has saved his
| life
And so it proved. He was cleared, de-
clared not guilty-that is, not proven.
But in the minds of many the perplexed
doubt remained: ''lf he is not the muir
dcrer who can be ?"
Here was man murdered on bright
moonlight night, before bed time, in q
civilized community, and the murderer
has vanished as completely as if the earth
had swallowed him up!
But the steady march of time, that OBJ
literatcs all the ravages of crime, passed
on, and the occurrence faded out of the
minds Of most of the community.
| Overwhelmed with q multiplicity Of
other business. the occurrence was almost
forgotten, until several years after. |
| heard the conclusion,
After the trial was over, when the
necessity Of sell-possession was passed,
4 young Morton seemed to lose all his calm
ness and accustomed good spirits. He
sank into melancholy and gloom. The
suspicious of his neighbors, not entirely
removed from their minds, were, he said,
moro than he could bear, and one day, in
fit Of despair, he committed suicide
But to no one but the woman he loved
did he reveal the fatal truth He left a
few lines addressed to her. in which he
said it was not the coldness of his friends,
but his own burning, guilty conscience
that drove him to the decd
He, and he alone, was guilty of the
murder. The demon of temptation had
attacked him suddenly, when alone with
the old man that night, with the thought
Of how completely he was in his power,
and how easily lie could step into his
place, his fortune, the possession of his
witc-how easily it could be done. and he
! never suspected.
/ That after he had struck the first blow
he would have given worlds to have re
! called it, but it was begun and must be
finished, he must live to tell no tales
! How superhuman was his GOODNESS and
I sclf-possesson, when he went to his
/ guilty rendezvous, to betray no hurry, no
/ agitation, nor excitement acting in such
Il manner that the woman who had the
most cause to believe him guilty, knowing
/ his motive. believed him innocent Was
not that retribution for her? To learn
that he had come directly with his hands
red with the blood of her husband to her
embrace And to know that she was the
cause of all this She, with her stronger
mind, her powers of will, her fatal beauty,
to tempt this weak, yielding, unbalanced
nature beyond his strength. Just to graf
ify her own vanity, her love Of excite
ment, and Irritation, She had led him
downward with guilty love, murder,
despair, madness and suicide. And she
was to endure the consciousness of all
this. Hers was not Il nature that could
sink under its burden of guilt and re-
morse and lind refuge in suicide.
All! this dallying with temptation, this
apparently innocent Irritation, is like
standing on the sea-shore and tempting
the rosy tinted waves
'Tis fascinating there can be no dan
ger in allowing the ripples to creep to
our very feet; but linger too long and
suddenly and unexpectedly the black and
bowling waves arise and drag us down to
untathomable depths
A Clup BORN IN A TOME Says the
Boston Medical Surgical Journal Mrs
NJ. born in Germany. was married at the
age of fourteen years and four months
About n year afterwards, when seven
months pregnant, one October day, she
visited, with young friend, Greenwood
Cemetery at Brooklyn, N. Y. A funeral
procession passing its avenues attracted
their attention, and they followed it till
it haulted at q tomb They saw the coffin
borne within its gloom, and watched the
departing cortege The iron door of the
vault, through some oversight, was left
aiar. Curiosity led the loiterers to open
it, when Mrs. NJ, entered the narrow
passage. She made her way to the new
coffin, and, while viewing it, heard the
door shut with sudden spring, leaving
her in total darkness This was about
half-past 2 p. NJ. 1t being necessary to
90 to Jerscv City, where the funeral party
belonged for the key, it was not till 2.
NJ. that she vas liberated. In the dread
ful interval her baby was born. Wrap
ping the infant in u shawl, after finding
she could not ride in the cars from their
painful ar, she walked with her friend
very slowly to the South Fcrry-a dis
tancc Of about two and half miles
carrying the child in her anxiety the most
Of the way herself, and crossing it, made
her way on foot at least q mile further, to
her home No. 2ll Elm street. Thence
laying down the babe, she crossed the
street to the opposite corner, her husband
being in the country, aroused her mil
wife, and did not get fairly to bed until
l o'clock A. NJ The next morning con-
trary to advice, she walked to Grand
street, three blocks off, for baby linen,
and returned. Four days subsequent she
was washing clothes at the hydrant in the
yard. The child is now large, healthy
blooming girl of ten years, within which
time her mother has given birth to three
! or four other children, besides having had
two miscarriages, and is now strong,
robust, and still young looking. She
reports a grandmother still living in Ger
many at the age of 1l2 years, who is the
mother of twenty-five children.
BUFFALO, N. Y, April 27. DR.. Albior
Cobb, principal of the Academy at Wilton
Me-, was arrested by the Niagara frontier
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