The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-05-14
THROcKMORToN,s GHOST.
How n Woman saa even with H
DESTROYER,

II A4puAoNAlAC upon n VIII uS ee"t-~sSSC
inQatirendo, and discharged, developed
a train of circumstances which not only
Guido the creations of the novelist and
romancer, but can only find their paral-
lei in the gloomy and grim Nemesis of
Grecian mythology. Miss Eliza God
win is a member of & respectable fami-
Sv. a well-educated and cultivated lady,
who, when a mere schoolgirl, twenty
four years ago. made the acquaintance
of Maj. John Throckmorton, an accom-.
plished and fascinating man of the
world, then twenty years her senior.
His influence upOn her amounted to an
infatuation which she could not control.
She was confidIng and inexperienced.
like most schoolgirls of idealistic ten
denotes, and she very soon engaged her
self In marriage to him. When be had
secured this advantage, he ruined and
then abandoned her, but the shadow of
the darkness into which she fell envel-
oped him also, and it has never left him
or her, and never will, although he is
growing gray with years and passing
the years of passion, and she is a faded,
weary woman, out of whose life hope
has disappeared, and for whom remains
only the passive obedience to fate.
When she found herself abandoned she
did not throw herself into the slums.
quo AlANA uOb DIGdh uuueE the Calamity
which wrecks so many lives. She did
not hurry herself ont of the world.
The disaster revealed her to herself,
and all the aimless and restless ele-
ments of her life crystalized into one
settled pupose, which, for over twenty
years, has absorbed every other pur-
pose, hope, Thought and energy of her
being. She calmly and firmly came to
her resolve after long meditation. She
could not marry any other man, for that
would be an irreparable injury. She
had no desire TO injure her betrayer, as
she stated during the trial. She left
his health and his lie in the hands of
God. She did not stop to weigh any
effect her purpose might have upon her
relatives or society at large. In the
scope of her purpose there were but two
beings in the world--her betrayer and
herself.
For two long years she sought by
every means IN her power to win him
back to her; but when she foNnd this
was trultless, when she found that he
had forever abandoned her, and that no
influence of hers could ever reach him.
then she determined that, as he had
wrecked her life, she would wreck his
that as he, under promise of marriage,
had clouded her whole life with unhap.
Piness, he should help her to bear It,
by suffering in kind, and that the mem
DRY OF the ruin he had made should
ever be fresh and constant. She had
thus lar t0lhlled her purpose. For
twenty years she had been his waking
and sleeping thought, and no effort OF
his has been powerful enough, no STRAIT
egg cunning enough, to shake off the
silent, relentless spectre which has fol-
lowed him with reprOachful eye and
IRON purpose, as calm, and rigid, and
silent as though she were the very en-
bodiment of fate. Wherever he went
In the city of Louisville, she was a few
PAGES behind him. Did he 90 to call
upon friend, he knew she would be
upon the opposite side of the street
when he came ont. He went TO New
Orleans, and when he arrived there she
was there also. He went TO New York.
but IN the thousands of strange faces
which passed him in the busy streets,
Inefe was one familiar face always near
MIN. HIS own shadow did not follow
him more surely or persistentlv than
she followed him. It was all the same
IN summer or winter, in spring or fall.
IN storm or shine, by day or by night.
mus the years went on. She never
molested him. She never personally
lnterfered with his business or his err
loyments. She never spoke to him nm.
less he spoke to her, and then the bur-
den OF her conversation was only that
u was her late to follow him THROUGH
life, and his fate to be followed. In
al THESE years Mr.. Throckmorton has
grown gray IN the shadow, and Throck-
morton ghost has grown faded and
pale and weary with her restless wan
derng. At last he could endure her
calmness, her silence, and her constant
presence no longer, and he brought her
before the courts upon the writ to which
we nave alluded and sought to establish
the TACT that she was insane, her insan-
1ty taking the form of a nonornania
But this was her opportunity as we'll
as his. 1t was the Opportunity she had
long wished, and for the first time she
had the chance to tell her story before
the public tribunal. There were doc
tors and experts in attendance. who mar
rowly watched her as she narrated this
twenty years story, but they found no
traces OF insanity IN it. There was but
one expert who deemed her a rnonoma-
MAC, and he has been connected with an
insane asylum for thirty years. and ao.
knowledged that he expected n liberal
Zee Tor his opinion. He had concluded
on general principles, that Miss Goodwin
was insane because she was differeni
from other women, and other women
similarly situated would have orieved
until they died, or recklesslv gone h
the bad IA ruling which would consign
great many very sane people. who
happen to b. inhexible in purpose. Id
the insane asylum. The Jury did moi
accept the opinion of the expert. bui
acquitted her and left her free TO do rs
she pleased.
During the trial she did not follow
Throckmorton, and there will be some
curiosity as TO her future course. This
episode may divert her from her nnr.
pose, since she had the opportunitv r.
tell her story in the most public man.
ner and to vindicate her course
whether she abandons or continues Ia
follow him, matters little now. In ali
these twenty years her victim has bad
opportunity to make amends for fine
great wrong which he inflicted upon his
victim, and there are very few people
who will not look uron il as an instance
OF poetical retribution in a case i
which the law affords no ADEQUATE rem.
edy and social forms are more liable K
iavOr the stronger than the weaker mar.
w The Nemesian idea is completeIv
exempihed. He ruined her life Sb,
ruined his. He destroyed her happi
ness She destroyed his. The two are