The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-05-12

coat, and few who have had hard
times themselves can hear unm0ved
the plaintive refrain.
"Can you give us a few minutes
conversation on matter Of impOr-
lance p
"Certainly; only don't interrupt
the song. Come in there. "Hard
times, hard time, come again no
more;' now, chorus, ALT"
We stood there in the hall under
the lamp; Mr.. White waving his
pipe to the time, and the police SER
geant joining grufly in the strain.
"Bravo; thank ye, gentlemen.
Now, then, what have you got to say
to me?"
= told him briefly of Chubb being
missing, and asked him what clue he
had to give me.
"Why, let's see. Chubb went
away first thing this morning; he
wasn't quarter Of an hour at the
shop. He'd been drawing some tin.
hadn't he? He don't often show
mush at the shop on such occasions
Where he went to, I don't know.
Yes, l do though. / can tell you
where he started from, at least. II!
went to the Essex street pier; for
he was asking Brown If it was open
again, as it had been repairing lately
and Brown said it was. But where
he went after that / know no more
than the dead. But, bless you, he'll
turn up all right"
We took our leave sadly; 1t didn't
seem q very hopeful trail.
II don't like track as ends in the
river, sir. You don't often get any
further than that"
eididn't get any further.
At the early dawn 1 found myself
wearily, walking along Albany street,
with feeble hope that Chubb might
have come home in the meantime.
But there was only Mrs. Chubb, sit
ting up, sad and wan, and looking
years older in that single night.
"My poor bog, my poor boyT she
could only cry, quite broken down,
quite past comfort Lefty took her
up stairs, and I didn't venture to see
her for month after.
I had the direction of all the in
quiries which were made. Spurrcd
on by the reward of csc, the police
exerted themselves most strenuous
.ly. But not the faintest trail could
we find os Chubb Jackson. One OF
fbe notes ne had received from his
aunt was traced to allow public house
in the Waterloo road but although
the house was watched for months,
and the haunts of all the doubtful
characters who rcsOrted there tho
roughly searched, they failed to get q
glimpse of the fate of poor Chubb
The atelier on the second floor in
Albany street was shut up from thai
time. Aunt Chubb would kt mo
one enter it but herself; once Neek
she would go in and dust it Nth hel
own hands. Poor Letitia AsehXll
herself almost q widow, and 44fe
deep mourning for her lost sReet
heart.
1t was year after Chubb's uHtiafe.
ly fate that 1 ventured one day-she
was sewing q button on my sleeve al
the time: the sight of her sweet pa
tient face and downcast eyes was toe
much for me, and / took hePin my arms
and asked her If she'd let me take the
vacant place i'm her heart. She was
dreadfully shocked, and wouldn't
fnrU;ve me for n long time but Aunt
Chnbb was my friend, and told my
darling that the time for grief was
past, and that it was her dearest wist
now was that we should be married
and then Letitia relented, and gave
me all her heart. =
Amt Cbubb roused up wonder
fulIy now. In Off happiness sLt
seemed to live again: for the sou
wearies of homeless grief. In the pre-
naration for the wedding, in the nee
essary house-hunting, and furniture
buying, Aunt Chubb took great inter
est But I couldn't help feel a little
nettled at how completely in tn,
mind of aunt, and partially i'm Lefty.
view. I was simply a representativ,
of the lost Chubb. We were not tt
live in st. John's-wood, because
Chubb detested st. John's-wood
We must live in the neighborhood o
Reeent's.park. because Chubl
thonuht it was the healthiest part O
london. The dining.roOm curtains
were to be blue, for that was Chubb'
favorite color; the drawing-roon
was to be upholstered in white ant
gold, for Chub6 had been heafd =
say that when ne had a mousse Oh M
own that would be his cnoice. II
other respects, however, II was n,vs'
satisfactory to stand IN CMiDo
shoes. His aunt had announced ne
intention OF making us the same al
lowance she had intended fOr CnuD'
when ne married ana sne toia u
that having no near reiatlons OF ne
own, she proposed TO make us an:
ours her heirs; but, after All !
wasn't pleasant to De- CONSIDERED u
the light of a proxy or deputy; an
the way in which those two wOme
set up an idol, an ideal ChaOD aoou
as IKE INC S;N feal lSrH.e.ny ~ AZ Is a,r,i
ChuoD as .ae 'u..o.My asnn5, = =, 80 h,r, r.
ana eNpectlhS eVery uouy ~ ~" a,,.0 =.
cense pelUre IL, was eSp S, n3.;on,,,
VaunS. Put l oo,e aT P",I PIE t.E
aDidln9 t.e tiile "ncn i.'J" S ~
the relhs lh'o my OWL ""s
I 1t was just two years since poc
Chubb disappeared, ana we were
be married tomorrow.
] HAD wound up all my affairs
lLincoln's inn, and l had made up m
Imind to leave the Office at three, hay
ing to make few purchases; and
L.1 plonnpd taEiuO n Citizen steam