The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-02-14

send men to Sir Rupert's room with TOOLS
to break the door. | knew they heard ana
me. though | never stopped 20
say it ; and | fled on breathlessly up the
stairs and along the corridor, CRYING now
in my passionate eager fear, that was COM
to rescue my darling. But this knew,
I cried below my breath, in the death.mul-
fed fear which was clinging rouho my
heart.
Here I am, my pet" ] whispered; bend.
ing to the key-hole ; "you snail De let OUT
in a moment now ~
But no answer came from my imprisoned
child.
sSpeak to Inc, Dolly, DEAR | cried my
voice shrill and tremulous "Just one
word.'
And listened with beating heart for the
distant voice. But no answer, not even a
faint. faint word, came back to me. -.
a am so lonely here without YOU pet.
No answer still.
Then | beat at the door wildly, crying
literally shrieking-for help. | heard loot
steps hurrying up the distant stars. ana 1
called to the servants to make haste. break
ing off in that cry to plead again WIN my
little one for just one word
dolly darling! Dolly! Dolly, answer
me one word, nv dearest
The steps came on through the passage
and into the room, and a crowd OF curious
or troubled faces gathered round me. Some
one took my hands from tire door, ana l
started back, uttering brOkenly my thanks
and gratitude,
One heavy blow upon the door broke it a
little, but lid not opeSk Ny glad exult-
ant cry pierced the thick panels.
"No,o we are coming. Dolly dear. on we
are coming;'' and while they tried a second
time in vain. | wrtng my hacds. still cry
ing with all my Useless strength. NOW
darling. no,o you are to come t. me.
The door burst open; then l felt sud-
denly blinded and bewildered by looking
into the darkness beyond, and | crept back
a lite way. The men clustered into a mar
rev closet. Hugh and Harry. foremost OF
them all, were coping in the dark as they
called their little sisters name.
With a new and sudden strength pushed
the crowding forms aside, took the neaVy
pictures easily in my shaking hands, and
moved them away as il they had been OF
feathers weight. Then even in the deep
gloom, | could see her-l often see her so,
now, in my troubled dreams.
With the little whit figure in my arms,
the long br' ght hair hanging against me
one tangled, clOtted mass touching my
hand with n touch that wrung my heart
WllU u SUdTlt dllb y ihS "S''s
out from the darkness.
NV darling, All, il was o. hard just yet
10 think this little bleeding form. in its
Soilpd and stainet white dress, was no my
little onc. but that she lived already another
lie than ours. far, tar away from us all, III
a white room that never should be stained
nor spot.ed more.
lad her in ne: own little bed in the sofr-
ened lampiight: | washed the little white
shoulder that had bccn 50 cruelty bitten;
washed and bru hel the soft ripping hair,
ard hen sat beside her. and my eyes Were
aciin.. aching a they were fixed upon tint
little white still face.
know not who came or went; | know
ro, # any one STAYED withme. know not
how many hours | sat so, but at last, late
very la:e-in the winter night. whose chill
cnuld not feel, | knew that me door mad
opeued for the mother TO come in. | heard
each footstcp. as it fell upon my " heart
while she came up TO the side % the it'll,
bed opposite me. 49,,
slowly lifted nv heavy eyes, in whici
all lif. and light seemed 70 hav, died forever
from NV little one 'alc Ia tie one tina
bent above it-a fee | crnli hardly have
recognized. My lips move ; was tryln4
TO t,il the mother how had killed her child
but No SQUAD came. Iiancied | WAS speaking
las. anu lDuu, bui NllpbSh w wv We w.
framed By my light, suif iips. no solnt
followed. looking across the bed, I'M
mother strangely, cnldiy Signed To some on'
Ia take me away. They raised me and lee
me toward the door, while the iguroS al
melted slowly and misIily from ar"Ind ne
leaving nothing dis met but that wild. col,
look with which | had been Sent from my
darl ng's side. Ny feet tottered. my hea'
swan. | suppose drew back as they forced
me on | suppose ! would not let II
take me away. know | iancied | wa dy
ing too. and wantei Z" die there BESIDE th'
child whom ! had killed but a that in
slant Sir Hugh. his face fierce and or al il
its anguish, shut the door with his owl
hand against mc Tnen, through I =
/ closed door there followed me N t~lrillinI
aponizcd cry-sc cry like which | never hav,
heard cry since. like wh,ci | hope that
NAV die before | hear 4 cry again and thcl
ali The drcary world was buried from me il
a sudden. heavy. lasting darkness.
MANY and many a winter day | spen. il
nv own roou, apart from all sound in liz
great silent Abbey, too i'll and weak &
move, after tie terrible blindness had LEI
me. Sometimes a plying face would lGol
in upOn me. sometimes a plying word D
said, but never Il loving one. never a tendr
one. did not wonder that only the ser
] wants Chlut ~ 4 Nv hh'" " 49,
would be for any one who had loved Doll.
to bear to look upon my face. SO. on
early morning, rs soon as l wa abb
TO walk, | crept away To lily darling
crave. anu fl o n there. when the sun hat
risen, | crept further Ouf into the wide
cold world, which seemed TO me, just then
only a yastrr, ~lonelirr grave ihan the one %
which nv fevered check had rested.
did not know until long afierward tina
had been alone mt Cra,dOn Abbey Wit
the servants through all those weeks; thi
Lady Hurst and Sir Hugh had lett II afte
the funeral, for the mothers heart wa
broken. and they feared her life or reasoI
going, if she stayed in the memory-haunte'
place. That is twenty years ago. as | said
and Sir Hugh aud Lady Hurst have neve
returned to England. Nj. Hugh ami hi
wife and children live ut the Old place now
but the long gloomy passage has been bull
no. and the G is n" entrance now To Sir Rt
pert's room. Sir Hr"h'- grandchildren hay
not even heard of it, cyi-tence, nor do the
ever hear rhe "scufilng SOUNDS, whic
must have frightened my darling n death i
that rat-hauntfd darkness, oven before II!
savage bite was ~given--thc sounds that sh
used to say she heard in that past time, vine
she fancied Sir Rupcrt's ghosciought still Il
times with the betrayer.
Henty years. ana Ea'c hc'ci ~ th'
tale before. | do it simply now without pre-
face or appendix. Ii matters not where
lived before those few months which | hay
told of, and which set IN to hold my entir
life: ( mrtters not where | have lived sine,
The name have given here is not my owl
yet is my little story true-most sadly. pit
fully true.
CURE PoR A FELON.-There is a cure for
fe!On always safe, and etlicacious, r~elievin
instantly and ALWAYS. ce. a Dhysician