Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-12-11
SUNBURY. Pa, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER II. 1874.

offer me a bouquet, and my monstt
wounded him in the arm forit. After thu
lived III a perfect state Of terror lest b
some careless word, or even look, I shoul
bring about calamity, and for some tim
| succeeded in avoiding any excuse 70
quarrel; but year afterwards. at TeideI
berg, q German professor wrote a Sanscri
ode upon me my husband cut his nose Of
with weapon they call schloger. II
never ill-used me, or even upbraidet
me-indeed | gave him no cause but h
watched me as 4 cat does mouse, so tha
life was perfect nightmare. l asked hin
one day when he was in a soft humor j
there was anything in my manners, o.
dress, or way of speaking which excited
his unworthy mistrust.
NO said he, with a grim calmnes:
which made me sbudder; If there had
been, l should have shot us
us 2 ! exclaimed
Yes, he said you first and mvselt
afterwards
lie hated England because he could not
fight duels there, but lie was obliged TO paw
periodicals visits to this country on busi-
ness and as this conversation took place
during one Of them | went straight to my
family lawyer, and he took me before 4
magistrate, ana l swOre the peace against
my husband, under whose roof l never
again stepped, and in due time | got a
legal separation from him, my success be-
/ ing principally due to his own violence in
the witness box, where he gave vent to the
most atrocious sentiments But though
we were separated he did not give up
watching me. At the most unexpected
times and places lie would turn UP, gener-
ally disguised and if any man happened
, to be in company with me on several occa-
sions running, and to speak to me rather
more often than to the others, | was sure
to receive a laconic note warning me to
shun that new acqaintance and since |
burst neither disobey nor disclose the
tyrannical order, l fear that | acquired a
reputation for fcklencss and prudery.
Little did my censors know the nervous
distress occasioned BY the idea that an eye
is always up2n you. / feel as ifit were on
me now
Good gracious y
Compose yourself, it is but fancy. !
have neither seen nor heard of him since
August last. That would be relief, but
l. - Df I,tasy,ec 10 . l.
either. 1t is rot only that he has not
Transmitted me my money he has drawn
none for his own use. Every other means
having been employed to trace him without
success, at last thought of you. We met,
you may remember, for the first time at
the Richmond Easter bail and afterwards,
whether by accident or design
Accident, pure accident, madam l as
sure you
'Qui s'excuse, s'accuse,' said the lady
smiling.
L know it, know it; though 1 cannot
pronounce it. But still, madam, though
own appearances might haye been against
me, there was no design whatever
And the poor man wiped his forehead
You are not a tlatterer, at any rate
continued the lady. Well, the accident |
recurred quite frequently enough to exas- |
perate my husband; and rs l saw him /
disguised as a waiter, at Lady Chiswick's !
fete the las: time we met and as you went |
away directly after, M husba nd disappear
ing simultaneously and not having been !
heard of since and as you are lame, and .
in a deplorable state of nervous prOstration .
cannot help suspecting that you went .
abroad, that he followed you and forced .
you into 4 duel, that he wounded you and .
you killed him
4 have not been abroad at ALL gaSped .
Mr.. Peters, pouring himself out another /
glass of sherry. But come he cried pre-
sently, nerved by ree stimulant and despe- /
ration; you have told your story, and | .
will tell you mine have met your hus- .
band. though do not know for certain
what has become of him. II will be Il re-
lief to speak, for this life of secret appre-
hension and perpetual anxiety is killing
me.
In August last, few days after the tcte /
You alluded TO, | went for my annual hOli-
day. l have Il selt-impOsed task he-e, n
little book, which takes up good deal of .
my time, and causes me to lead 4 some
what sedentary life, and l find month of
air and exercise necessary TO my health.
Ny idea was to walk through North Wales,
with change of linen and few necessa-
rics in Il knapsack. SO | went first to
Chester, left my portmanteau at the hotel I
there and took the train on 20 Conway,
from which place made circuit, which
brought me on the third day to Capel
Craig, where | remained a couple of days,
and then started again in the early morn
ing, with the intention of crossing Snow
don, and sleeping that night at Llanberris,
on the otherside.
4 had not as yet picked up any acquain-
tance during my walk, rs one generally
does in n pedestrian excursion over such
favorte ground though l knew that
another excursionist was following the
same track, for had caught sight of him
several times half mile or SO behind me.
Once, feeling inclined cOmpanionship, sat
down and smoked pipe to let him come
up with me but his taste was evidently
for solitude, for he declined the chance |
gave him and halted too. ! rather regret
ted this British excusiveness now, for a
lightens the journey when you
have 4 long climb up q steep hill on la warm
day.
The first six or seven miles was easy
walking on the level road then came an
hours wading through marshes; then
came the narrow neck of lake, which | /
crossed in boat ingeniously fastened to
both banks by the same rope, by hauling