The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-07-13
Tire Frozen Heart, or Jurics and
Injuries.
TALE OF THE TIMES.
CHAPTER I.-uNRFoUIrEp LOVE.

CHAPTER I.-CNRFQUITED LOVE.
Twas leap year. Olivia d Erringer
sat on an elegant faateuR adorned with
the family cheuduE de fiISe, puinard, or
a field guieS, with the chaste motto pan
ses moi" Our heroine was sad. Her
life was blighted by union to one who
could not understand and sy mpathize with
her finer nature. She sighed for an atfin-
ity.
The door bell rang. She looked up
listlessly at the entrance of manly form.
1t was that of her family physician, DR.
l'illsbury. A strange magnetic chord IN
her susceptible heart thrilled at his ap~
peoach. Here was S being whom shs
could love.
! Or hate
MADAME, call to inquire after my
patient-my friend, ID Erringer "
Olivia drew herself up to her full height
and flushed an elegant glance.
''Sir, canst minister to n mind DIS
eased!"
II beg your pardon, but"
She interrupted him with meaning
gesture; then melting in all womanly ten
derness, she fell upon his neck and said
doctor Pillsbury, oh, dear Doctor
Fillsbury, l know what you would say.
'T'is enough. You love me. am thine"
"But, madame, | assure y"u-think
for a moment-my frienI ID DEringer-"
Olivia touched a bell An obsequious
servant appeared, Olivia opened her SEC
reta1'e, took out vial and handed it to
the servant with significant gesture in
| the direction of the invalid's chamber
CHAPTER H.-sCoRNED.
| Olivia waited in silence the meniars
return He came and said with n bow
| MADAME, It's done"
Enough, inform the undertaken"
Turning to her guest with a winning
| smile she said:
Dear Doctor Pillsbury, the Gpas tree
of our enjoyment has fallen BE mime
DIR. PilIsbury was cOnfounded foc
moment, then replied:
"There is my wife"
Olivia frowned dsrkiy.
Man, are there not divorce courts Z"
she hissed rather than spoke.
''But my children he feebly remonS
strated.
Olivia smiled scornfulty.
land you call yourself DOCTOR" she
said COntemptaously.
'tBut,' urged the Uufecling wretch.
''here issonne miscOnceptisn. donot-'
"Ha! then you love another -
81 must confess that"
Enough u she shrieked. ''File 5iS~
sembIer, you would crush loving bUsom
You would trife with gentle hearth
She drew condensed navyuf elegant works
.manship. Il go TO an early grave, but
not unavenscd Die, william"
| He died.
A coroner's Jury sat on the two sets Of
remains. They brought in verdict of
murder against Olivia.
She smiled calmly, and with woulanly
| tact invited the jnry to lunch.
| She waited Oh them with outward COM
pesure, but with an aching heart, The
obsequious servant waited on them also,
Then the myrter went 10 her dungeon.
The jury died that day simultaneously
of peculiar diseas~. Unfeelins calumny
pointed the finger Of suspicion ii! our he~
roine,
| She smiled calmly.
CHAP ".
miscreant who had read the news.
papers was expelled from the jury box 4
double dyed wretch who could not tell
black from white, was also put out
Three dark and bloody desperadoes who
| pleaded guilty of common sense, were
! also excluded.
Twelve sympathetic idiots, duly proven
to know nothing of the case, and to be-
| Of ah1
anything. were selected.
a bully for the defence.
| A "chiTalrous gentleman" for the pros
ecution.
A martyr in the dock.
An owl on the bench.
Two rival doctors testifying as to Gauss
of demise.
A lunacy commissioner to prove that
tue crime was insanity.
An audience 10 correspond.
Some money.
Result-a verdict Of justified eccentric
ity.
The crowd cheered.
Olivia tainted.
She had fourteen offers of marriage and
sixty engagements to lecture, before leaT~
ing, the dock. 80; -,
Her counsel called next day with hid
bill.
The bar passed resolutions of respect
| to his memVry.
CHAP. "
But Olivia is unhappy. She feels .
void in her life, as untitled mission Tbe
widow of tie false Doctor Pilsbury is
gona. She fed with her offspring to q
distant land
Olivia would fain avsnge ber WrongsI
but cannot Her heart is frozen.
MORAL
Never put off moral: