The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-12-30


I'm pay you out for this, madame. This
is some OF that confounded old Penne.
wells doing I've seen you two together
holding coulab, aud spying upon me.
Madame, I'll leave you, do you hear p
You can't The doors locked, you
know.
III break it down I'll kick the pan
: els out
They're oak, Eustace.'
Very well. I'll try other means.
First of all, so you shant see aclat means,
I'll stop up the keyhUlc.'
This purpose he Immediately executed.
Mrs. Inglcsby now began to feel
alarmed. What could he mean? Sui.
eide, perhaps
She FASTENED to find old Doctor Proth.
er~ood
Doctor, I've locked him 10, and he is
in "A furious rage. He threatens to es.
cape by desperate mcaps =
Locked him in, and he's in furious
rage! Good This confirms my theo.
ry, Mrs. Inglesby, that your husband is
insane. Yes, yes. We'd better put him
in straightjacket, and send him to an
asylum tomorrow. A few weeks quiet
will probably cure him.
But, oh, doctor that is such o terrible
step'
Not at all. You don't want to live
with dangerous lunatic, do your
What can he have meant by limiting
that he would escape from the room by
desperate eans?'
AT this moment there was terrific
yell somewhere out of doors, succeeded
by the sound of struggling.
'Ah what do hear y cried the doc.
tor. His desperate means meant the
window. But be cannot have got free
for my men were posted on the grounds.
Both FASTENED down stairs, and into
the darkness without.
The struggle still continued, and there
were sounds Of oaths.
A large crowd had already been drawn
around the combatants, and when poor
terrified Mrs. Inglcsby, clinging to the
doctors arm, arrived on the spot, she saw
singular sight.
There was Eustace, it is true, tied hand
and foot; but such a figure
lie had dressed himself in hose and
doublet and wore at his side sword and
on his head wig. His face was pow
dered, and his cheeks rouged across his
forehead we're drawn thin black lines, to
represent wrinkles.
His wife rushed into his arms, but be
pushed her off.
No, no!' he said We are hence
forth strangers =
I Doctor Protherwovd threw up his
hands, and said, in a low voice, to old
Mrs. l'enncwel, who had just arrived,
brcathless
Il was right, alter all, you see, He is
hopelessly mad.
Mrs. Inglesby was about to faint, but
the sound Of another voice revived her.
A lady rode up,her horse covered with
foam, and dismounting, advanced.
In the light OF the lamps, candles and
lanterns scattered about in the crowd,
she was recognized as Mrs. Charlotte
Rushton.
What is the meaning of this? she
asked, cxciiedy. 'Ah do my eyes de.
ceive me? No, no; it is he y
She flung herself on Mr.. lnglesby's
shoulder. He pushed her off, likewise
/ Mrs. Rushfon, this is reality, if you
please, and we are not acting Every.
body seems to have gone mad hereabout
and | am the victim, you perceive, Of
their first caprice
The rehearsal, Mr.. lnglesby, is post.
poned till Tomorrow evening. We wait.
ed for you until we were tired, and at
last | determined to ride over to Mont.
rose, and discover for myself the cause Of
| your absence
My wife was the cause, madame. She
locked me up. Determined not to disap.
point you, at once dressed myself loi
my character, as you perceive. tore uF
some sheets, descended by them from the
window, and on landing was seized by
these ruilians, who were lying in wait fol
me.
Oh, Elstace - cried poor Mrs. lngles
by, bursting into tears, Il think | see il
all. You aud Mrs. Rushton have beer
arranging private theatricals, and
And didn't want ill the world to know
the fact till the proper time. 'Exsctly !
SAID Mr.. lngle,by, with cutting sarcasm
Wise littlo womaur
'All your love.speeches in the peact
orchard were not the signs OF insanity
not realities at all
Only the language of my part. Don
Jose de Calcarelle, in tho comedy o
Smiles and Tears, replied Mr.. Ingles
by My peculiar conduct when intcr
rupted by you and your friends was alst
acting, but the joke has cost me dearly
This modification will kill me. | sbal
never be able to show my face again
But the letter, Eusiace-thc letter
found, speaking OF eopement p
"A properly letter, OF course. s.
you searched my pockets, too, eh?
missed the letter this evening,and couldn'
imagine what had become Of it. With
out that letter the dress rehearsal wonlC
have been ruined Well, what is to b,
done with me, ladies and gentlemen p
Doctor Protherwood had disappeared
also Mrs. Pennewell. The two captor
of poor Mr.. Inglesby Of course at one,
released him.
lie said nothing more, but passed
through the crowd and returned to tn,
cottage. But there was litter behinC
, him, and many smo,hered remarks wer,
exchanged regarding suspicious wives
Mrs. Inglesby followed her Eustacc few
steps in the rear, but burst not speak t,
him.
Next morning they both left Path
bridge, and Mrs. Charlotte Rushton
private thcatrieals ended in nothing. Bu
everybody has version of his own whcr