Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-09-25

ways seem as real TO them as realities to
us" am rn.H
Morning finds me In q condition of
mind that closely approaches real mad
ness. Twelve o'clock is my wedding
hour: feel very enormity of yearning
to reach Honoria in time, combined
with dark certainty that such an event
slall not occur. I picture to myself
again and again the agony which Honoria
will suffer at my absence, knowing so
well that only death or something like
death can keep me from her at such a
time. ,,.,..S
But, in spite Of all my pain, physical
exhaustion asserts ITSELF Men sleep with
the scafiold threatening them in few
hours. l sleep, with the thought of q
bridegroomless wedding land that we'd
ding meant to have been my ownD
haunting and taunting me.
/ 90 to sleep at dawn and awake at ten
O'Clock. The hour / am still able to as
certain, having remembered to wind my
watch on the preceding night.
Ten o'clock; and (oh ghastliness of the
future tenseD am to be married at
twelve.
Well, two hours yet remain, My
sleep has made me calmer-mipded,
stronger of nerve. Marvels have hap
pened in two hours. t.
Presently discover that breakfast has
been left in the room for me while was
asleep. The coffee is still warm; drink
a cup. Another hour passes. AT its end
my keeper enters the room.
To-day was to have been my wedding
day." calmly state, looking at the man
with steady eyes, AT twelve o'clock
to-day was to have been married, sew.
eral hundreds of people witnessing the
wedding. | swear to you that l speak
truth. My name is not what your EN-.
ployer supposes, and am no more crazy
than you are crazy. My name is Alfred
Durand. Unfortunately for myself the
initials on my under-clothing are tho
same as Allen Derbrow's, the person
whom your employer asserts me to be.
As soon as i have finished, broad, in
credulous smile edges his lips, while hC
turns away, with these words:
You are cute one and no mistake
Going to be married to-day! I'm blowe(
, if it don't Just beat everythingw
sink back in my chair with q grea
3 sigh. What is the use of wasting word
! like this? l look at my watch. Sever
minutes past eleven. Less than an hou
before the timel There is no hope.
, cover my face with my hands, and a grea
shudder shakes my frame.
just then steps sound in the outer hall
through the open doorway, heavy, firm
; and quick. They pause on the thresh
old of my room. i uncover my face
+ The next instant, with glad shout,
have recognized Dr. B. and sprung t
my feet.
He is paler than have at any tim
i seen. him, as he seiZes my hand
Alfred, hors ran YOU ever forgive me
L don't expect 1t, my boy-I don't ask it!
4" Not moment must be wasted nowl
affirm, speaking at fleetest speed
y Have you vehicle outsider"
s Eyes, my own"
l / catch his arm. -r
n "Take me out of here, then, as quiell
I as you can. Remember where l am du
n at twelve"
= "My poor Alfredn These words II
; utters as we hurry down stairs, arm i
arm. see nothing of Dr. Fordyce as "
, leave the house. | afterward learn the
" " overwhelming shame keeps him away.
q Presently we are in DR.. B--'s cal
# riage, being driven with all speed dow
!. town. This is what the doctor finds tim
:. TO tell me during the journey, short q
q his good horses make it,
. THE letter / should have given 70
/ was very harmless one, to be left in a
y uptown street How confused it wit
n the other is only explainable, ] suppose
8. by the rankest negligence. You saw N
take it from my pocket and hand
y you; but the mistake had been commi
; ted before then. The letter which yo
Y brought DR.. Fordyce told him that yo
:. were certain Allan Derbrow, whom Il
had good reason to know, because of fr,
quent conversations on the subject wit
% me, as tricky, dangerous, unmanag
q able sort of monomaniac.
l Last week it was agreed between l
If that, if possible, would cause Derbro
v lover whom l have considerable il
tluence) to appear at the asylum with
note to DR.. Fordyce. Not only were yo
d mistaken for Derbrow, my dear Alfre,
s. but this man, a most admirable discipl
le marian and ruler among harmless p;
b. tients, was terrified and discouraged b
d you at the outset. He attempted Il
s, treatment, was nervous about appearin
/ in your presence, and, before you ha
% been in the house two hours, pal
ii a visit to mine, only to find that
had gone to Philadelphia. An hol
e or so later he concluded to tel
v graph me that Derbrow had arrived
|" but that he wished to be rid of him
g soon as possible. This telegram, my de;
l. boy, has been your salvation. OF cours
the instant read it was amazed at
u seeming impossibility; and then, when
% remembered the two letters which ha
v that morning prepared, the truth fiashe
: across me. The first available trai
n brought me north again. Luckily l al
/ in time"
; "I hope so, DOCTOR" is my excite
q murmur.
d Nonsense, Alfred You have y,
/ more than half an hour to dress in
a Just then the carriage stops before m
I door. dash on your wedding clothe
70 which are doubtless already waiting fC
you, give that yellow hair and beard
yours brush or two and you are read
q. Meanwhile, having learned from you I'll
Ie address of the bride, will drive thei
o. instantly and do all the cheering up, ei
Is couraging and gOod-news bringing tn;
n may be requisite. Depend upon il, a
It shall yet Ito use most pertinent quoti
tom go merry as a marriage be" F"
y The doctor proves no false prophe
Our bridal party is just fifteen minute
,s late as it enters the church; but whe
were any earthly nuptials exactly pune
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