The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-08-15
A FEARFUL LG'NIGHr,

"Come down at once-Ellen is dy-
'insT That was Ill they said-seven
short words ]! -. Z a.. .-a
bread the telegraph paper again and
again, before l could comprehend the
full force Of the message it bore. MY
eyes wandered over tho; regulations Of
the company, their tariff Of prices, the
conditions under which they undertook
their functions, and at last reverting to
the peuc,led lines, I reused myself from
the stupor into which theirssrecoipt had
thrown me, and understood their pur-
port. Ellen Luttrell ~as dying. .',' NJ She
was my cousin, my: earliest: playmate,
my embodiment of all that was lovely,
pure and womanly.s I have no sister,
but .had1I beenso blessed, I could not
have loved her With : deeper affection
than L Bestowed Oh Ellen. My regard
fot her was utterly passionless, utterly
indescribable. Love, in the gommon
,aeceptation Of the aora,r had nsyessbsen
Il between d.; 70 seonaded to
each other all our firtatiops, all capric
es, annoyauses; I; and joaiousies which
.'s The lot Of young people. When
I was.6ntsengaged TO- Luey,I was not
happy until Ellen could share my joy,
could 80 the object Of my choice, and
ia.sveet sisterly tones oonld 1congrr.tu.'
late me uponIit. / v.smy delight to
zee the affection spriuging upi between
my cousin and her whom I now call my
ewife-to bear their mutual praises Of
each other, and to- think that, until
some favored suitor should come to
claim her for his OWL, - Encn would
share our new home. This was not to
be. Just before my z marriage, p ny
cousin went to Burgundy, on visit to
an old 5schoolfellow, whose husband, ss nqd, .
sickly and eousumptives man, was COM
pellcd to reside there for the benefit Of
his health. Her stay in France, which
Was to have occupied but few xeeks;
extended over six months.t r. heard
frcm her but twice during the interval,
but upon the occasion OF my marriage,
she wrote . long and a8estion,te~ 2letse,
to Lucy, telling her that she was per-
teetl1 happy, and speaking in thost
mysterious terms which girls love 3te
use, of = certain Vivonte de Bode, WIZ
va" paying Ter great =atteation. T~<
months after, Ellen suddenly returned
to England, accompanied by hcr broth
OF, who had been dispatched to brinf
her back. There v.s! q = :. mystery con
nected with her return which I coult
never fathom; her mother, indeed
wrote me . plaintiye letter hnentinl
the folly into xhieh, young gi,b u.u.ll!
throw away their affections, and hintipi
thstfevea Ellessgeooo ssISs;' VIII DO
proof against vomanly i weakness = T.pti
that had sheanot pbeen recalled VII
she was. she would have been d,aw,
into narriagst~hioh. for tteaso;nos hersst
terte BE- verbally e1plaistdtte4e, ms.
haze been az everlasting sourcs of mis
.rjto her. -aAt- the reseib bs of~this let
ter from my aunt, I was, it is needles
tosay, isry much ppsfueed, Z but balpl
forbidden tosnstef it (for Ellen 1s
unaware that had been written to
aod tBs sfght.of 1 letter il III 'aellI
known :kandviitise would doubtle :.
arouse NO.. J., hez 9.e M sa9pieiqns), I 1ss eonpell
Cd to Wait aIit until further q informatiioi
| was aaoraed Smsl) .16a5S-iuformatio,
never came, and until her brother .tele
srapbsd 70 NE nsss4sn III The u words 5l 3 with vhic,
t1Kssezc6S7ssssd ~ <xa5f Fzhe4 Is
nothing Of the Luttrell family. +
IN iMithi6I a. 5mindss l1sT t,ssdf..
the t.lsgssph s!s nesssgs. 50 d bed throws
few things into . earpst:bsg, had !
Gard ssitohed-onto.it With my nan.
and Bottoms, 7. lI!.anpyo4h. p for the "a
dress (for I am old.fashioned enough t
11.dlss. "A lagg.se ileassp6 HD, n
was r.ttlipg in /. Hanson = to Eusto
Square. I arrived just in time to cato
he night mail.traip ; the pktsssm "
J tbronged, there we're 9 x,fotd nsp nnssip soin
;, fback 10 the Uuivenityy y'bsrrstsrsstar
!. ing on circuit ; sporting men goid
sEdovh b6f1ks. I1auninet stesple-chas
md invalidssof to Malvern in ssase