The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-04-22
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slant, and then with loud cry Reu-
ben why are you herep" she sank almost
insensible to the floor. 4 ar
At the sound of that cry, Mr.. Stuart
jumped as if he had been struck. lie
pressed both hands to his head, his eyes
started wildly, and he gasped for breath.
Mr. Lawton and his son looked at him in
amazement and we'll they might. The
man Yves no longer the same (; the express
sion of his face had entirely changed its
hard, ,contemptuous look had given place to
one of extreme mildness and the cold
keenness Of the eyes had been changed
to gentle gaze. But he was in state of
the most utter bewilderment. He looked
about him and said:
Where am l? What is this place P''
The two gentlemen in turn were as much
bewildered, and thought the man insane,
so the superintendent was summoned Mr..
Stuart continued to ask questions, and was
beginning to grow quite wild, seeming pos
sessed all the time to get rear Mrs. Cray
ton but he was held back, and physician
called in quickly. A long and careful ex-
animation was made upon the strange
patient. He seemed to recognize no one
about him never remembered having seen
Mr.. Lawton before did not know where he
then was or how he came there. He made
inquiries for unknown persons, and kept
repeatedly asking to be allowed to speak to
his wife. When asked who his wife was
he pointed to the room where he had seen
Mrs. Crayton.
The physician at length expressed his
opinion, which was That, for an unknown
space of time, Mr.. Stuart had been out OF
his right mind, from some cause also un-
known that the spell under which he had
been, had been suddenly broken by some
agency with which he had not come in con.
tact during the time of his insanity. That
agency seemed to be Mrs. Crayton, whom
he affirmed to be his divorced wife, and
whose scream of recognition had recalled
him to himself.
The woman upon being questioned ad
mitted that he was once her husband, anC
that the last time she had seen him was il
vorce was granted, at which time his whole
manner and appearance seemed to change
at once, so that many questioned whether
he was not mad
The case was explained to Mr.. Stuart
and he was assured of the kind by feeling
of all toward him. He slowly recovered
his self-possession, but was like strange
in strange land. The very last thing HI
remembered was being in the courtroom
and it seemed but a moment ago that HI
was there; all the intervening time wa
blank.
A week later the scene at Mr.. Lawton'
Stuart was still there, but how changed
He was almost the reverse of what he ha,
been before-tidy in personal appearance
} good-natured and gentle, with winning
smile and pleasant voice. One would no
have known him. Mrs. Crayton, too, ha
changed. And what a pretty woman sh
was The light had come back to her eye
the rose to her cheeks, and years SCENE
} to have rolled from her brow during on
short week. She was now standing will
her arm resting on her former husband
and both having promised to forgive an,
forget, and to live happily in the future
! were about to be reunited in marriage.
The whole story soon leaked out as sucl
stories will, and great was the sensatio
made thereby. The lecturer was forgive
when the circumstances were made know
and his lecture no longer treasured u
against him.
All the family kept the secret of M
Lawton's wrong-doings to themselves; an
although the alms-house superintendent
suspected something wrong, yet he coul
never get hold of any facts to prove it, an
so said nothing. But Mr.. Lawton ha
learned lesson, which he never forgo,
: and he tried to atom in many ways durin
his life. He could not but reflect upon til
strange freak of the crazy man, and no
very much he had said in his lectul
;, which was true, which applied to himsel
!, although probably not one in the hall
the time suspected it, And he reasone
with himself:
How far can this apply to others? Ho
! little we know of men and their inner live
" How little we dream of the way some
our respected men have made their none
N and how little we realize their unhappine
,r in its possession, because of the ankle