, 1874-11-14
FATAL FORTUNE.

Ono Aue morning. moro than three months
Hnec, you wore riding With your bsother, MIsa
Austeli, ID 1Tylo Park, It wns hot dizzy md
yo, had allowed your horsos to fail into walk
Ing pace. As you pnused tho railing ON tho right
hind eidc uoar tito chste1n oxttcntty OF tho
lake II, tho park, notthor you nor your brother
noticed solitary woman, folt1ring OIL tho foot
path 10 look at the rItlcrs na thoy wont by.
Tho solitary woman WAS my old n1,rso, Nancy
Connol. And thoso wore tho words Rho hoard
exchanged bctwecn you and your brothcr, as you
slowly passed. her:
Your bsotaer said, ITS It really true that Mary
lsradiug and her husband have gone to Ameli-
ca?"
You 1nughcd (as II the question amused you'll
anil answered, "Quite srna!"
"11ow long will they bo awny!" Jour nfo'ner
next aBkod
"As long as they live" you answered, with an
otl,cs laugh. ...
Dy this limo you had passed beyond Nancy
CouueII's Aoas;ug. 6ho owns to having followed
your horecg few alops to hoar what was said
noxt Size locked particularly at your brother.
no took your roply seriously ho seemed to De
quito astoniaaod by It.
Leave England, and sctt1o in America " ho
exclaimed why should they do thas?"
.Who can tell why 7" you answered. Mary
Drading's husband is mad-aud hlary DradinK
hcrseif Ia not much hotter."
You touched your horse NTH the whip, and, In
d moment moro, you and your brother were out
Of my old nursoB hearing, She wrote aud told
mo, what hero tell you, BY recent mall.
uaye been thinking Of thoae last words OF yours
in nv lcisuro honrs. more seriously than you
would suppose. Tho ond Of it ID that take up
INV pen OH behalf OF my husband and 'mysolf. 10
Tell YOU tho Htory OF our marr!age and tne reason
for orr emigration to tho United States OF
America. .
il matters litt1o Or ncthlng, to hin, or to ,no.
,yho,hor our friends in England think ua both
mad or not. Thcir opinions, hostile or favor
uIle, arc OF no sort Of Importance to us. But
sou arc IN exception to tlio rule IN hygono
days NJ school We were fast aud firni friends;
apd-what weighs with mo oven moro than this
YOU wcro heartily loved and admired by my
tloar mother. sho spoke Of you tenlerly on her
leath-bed. Events hhyc sepnrAtcd us OF 1ato
years. But cantos forget tue old times ; and
i caunot feel indifferent to your opinion OF mo
aud Of my husband though all OCEAN does sep.
arato us, aud though we arc mover likoly to look
on ono auotller again. It Is worry foolish OF mo,
/ dare say, to take serionsly to heart what yoA
raid in one Of your thoug|.tless moments. lean
ercataeal Of suffering, md TINT vas atwaya (aa
YOU may remombof) d porson Of sensitive temper
al,,ent, easily excited end easily depressed.
Enough Of this Do mo TIC Iast tayor shall
for yourself whether my husband aud arc
quito 10 mad as Yoll were disposed to think us.
when Nancy Cornell haard Won talking to your
brother in Hyde Park.
II in now moro than year siuce went to
Eustbourue, on tho coast Of Sussex, with my
1a,her and my brother James.
Nv brother htu then, as To hoped, recovered
from tho offocts Of u fall in tho hunting field.
lie complained however, at times Of pain ia liiB
head; aud tho doctors advised US to try tho sea
air. Wo removed to Eastbourno Without a SUE
he had received. For few days. all went we'll.
We liked tue place; tho air agreed with us; and
We determined 10 prolong our residence for somo
Tocks to come.
: DAY to me, for reasons which you havo still to
'heur--my brother complained again of the old
pain in lliH head. tie nnd wont out together to
try what exercise would do towards relieving
him. Wo walkea through tl!o town to the fort
at ono end of It, and then followed footpath
running by tho sila Of tho sen, over a dreary
waste ofsl,ngle, bounded ut it's inland extremity
by tho road to Hastings, and by tho inarshy
We Ind eft tlic fort ut somo little distance be-
hind Us I was Walking in front aud Jasnaa was
following me. He was talking rs Quietly as
usunl,-when ho suddenly stopned In the middle
Of scntonce. I turned ronud in surprise. md
discovered my brother PROSTATE on tho path, in
It was tie first cpiioptic ct Ind ever witnosa
cd. NV presence Of mIud entirely deserted me-
I could onlv wiring nv hands III horror aud
pcrea,n for helm. No ono appeared either from
tho direction Of tho fort or ct the high road. /
wns TIM far on. su,,,,ose to mako paysoIf heard
Lookine ahead Of nc, along tue path, iscov-
cred. to my indnito relief, tho figure OF q man
that ho was, upmiataknbly, geutlomau-young.
aud eager to bo Of service to inc.
"p1ay compose yourso1f! |" he said, after lool;
at nv brother, ut IL very dreadful to 500 bnt
It is not dangerous. Wa must wait untl lilo
conyulsiops are over, aud Then can he'll, you,"
Uo seemed to know so much about Ii that +
thought no might 10 o medical man. / mt the
question to l,itl, plaitilv.
Ho colorcd and looked O. little confused.
~ nm not doctor" he salI, II hapnon to
hnyo seou ncrgous afflicted with opilongy: aud
have heard medical 1neu eay tnat Il ii useless to
interfere until tho tit is over Sea-" ho added,
your brother is ouieter already. fIo viii soon
feel scnso Of relief which viii more rhau COM
peusato lin for What bo bus suffered. 1 viii
Golp lin to ret 70 tic fort-and. ouco tnoro. va
cat, send for q carriage to talro him home"
In fiyo minutes moro wo wero IN our xrov m