St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1872-03-15
VOLUME 35---NUMBER 1907.

Yes, yes, | will answer she said
quickly; Il do love You dearly, dearly :;
but Z" away now and be quiet, OF some
body will hear You, and will talk to
Nou again 10y and by
The dark look faded ont of his face in
Il moment, and i'll its place came one so
gentle and loving that | hardly knew
him: for he wasn't looked upon as Il
very amiable man III the neighborhood.
But thought then, and | know now.
that love works wonders. Poor little
thing. | shall never forget how lovely
she was that night. and indeed | have
good reason, for she has never looked
like it from that night to this. She was
perfectly beautiful us she sat there, her
Satiny checks flushed crimson, and her
great soft black eyes as bright as happi-
ness could make them, while her hair
rippled back over her ears in loose
waves, and fell in IL cluster of curls at
the back of her pretty little head
The colonel had just walked away
from the piano; we had finished the
dance and taken our seats; Hattie was
playing something soft and low, and we
were just saying how pretty she was
and how bright, when we were all as
founded by seeing Smell, the Oyerseer,
come i'll ut the door Just behind Hattie,
with his hat and his boots covered with
mud. He stood looking at her for an
instant, with the wickedest face | ever
saw. and then, before we could dream
of what he was going to do. or she had
seen who was behind her. there was Il
flash of something III the air, and IA
horSewhip had fallen across the poor
little neck and shoulders. each cut fol
lowed by shrek that shall remember
while | live. After that | cant tell
what followed, clearly. Everything was
confusion and noise. There was heavy
fall, IL pistol was fired, great glass was
shattered to atoms by the ball screams
and tears from the ladies', and curses
from the men, with cries of, Don't let
him escape! Tar and feather him Kill
him. Shoot him down like dog, as he
deserves :" together with trampling of
feet and shouts for horses and servants
outside. After that the house was quiet
and us well as we could, between our
sohs, we tried to find out some clue to
the meaning of the horrid scene.
But no one could tell anything about
it. Poor Hattie had been lifted from
where she had fallen 10y Col Castleworth
the moment after he had fired the pistol
and now lay on the sofa as white as
death and entirely unconscious, while
he knelt beside her. sobbing as though
his heart would break. We were all so
wretched that suppose the rest thought
il perfectly natural for him to show his
feelings as he did: thought it natural
too, but for Il very different reason. NV
mother and the rest of the ladies did
everything they could to restore her,
and after a while she revived so that
she knew us. but for IL long time she
seemed dazed, and could not talk CO.
hercntly. She took my kisses very
quietly, and told me not to cry, wiping
my tears of with her handk erchief.
After il little she sat up, and seeing Col
CaStleworth in another part of the room,
she put me gently aside, then rose to
her feet. and going over to him, she put
her arms round his neck, and laying her
head on his shoulder. said in the most
heart broken voice ever heard %, take
me away from here, take me away !!
There is nobody who will save me from
what | have borne tonight and worse,
all through my life, but You, because
there is nobody else who loves me so -
He had put his arms round her gently
when she first went to him, but when
she said that he clasped them tightly
about her and said quickly and tender
lN. 'lOu want me To take YOU away
from here. home with me Think, Hat
tie, what you are saying; hc sure before
you speak, and then, if you want to go,
you SHALL i have thought she said !;
Il do want to 90: do mean what | SAY.
What is there for me that is not worse p
she cried ont paSsionatclv what but
to he bought and sold from master to
master. aS they desire or grow tired of
me. or find freedom and rest for myself.
as | have been trmpted to do to-day. at
the bottom of the rivcrr
%. Hattie, my father will free vou.
| said. going To her and taking her hand.
i will ask him this very uipht. and
know he will if tell him he must
.Y,Ir f,ther can't free me- she said
.or he vould have done il Yesterday
when Smell set his own price upon me.
You wanted me to tell Won what allied
nm. to-d;,y. didn't want to then. for
if would only have troubled Won. and
Nould have. done no good. now il can
make no difference. He rave me until
suudu>yu to-d,y. to couscut to a propo-
sitiou h, made, me-a proposition that
,,.,.ds un mann. frnm me :, slave. and
wb.n / .t,urk his b.nJ h,rE with which
no .,ttcmnt.d tn tax. hold of me. he
urev frantic with rage and said if |
didn't chance my mind. and tell him SO
between that and night. he would whip
me before Won all. He only laughed at
me when | threatened to tell Your ia
thcr and said he couldn't protect me.
and he told the truth. | don't know
how if is. but your father is in his mower :