, 1874-04-28

"o'gh any otfoct her purpose might havo
upon hor rclntlvoa or society at largo. In
tho hcopo Of hor purpose thero wore
out two bcinRa In tho wor1d-hor
botraycr and hcrself. For two long yonra Bho
sought by ovory means In her powor to win him
baok to her hut when Bho found this wna fruit
loas, whom sho found that lo had forever aban =
donod hor, and that no Influence Of hcrB could
over roach him, then aho determined that, aB 1lo
bad wrooked her lifo, Bho would wrock his that
as he, under promise Of marriage had cloudod
her whole lfo with unhapplneas. ho should help
her boar it. by suffering In kind, and that tho
memory Of tho ruin ho had malo should ever bo
fresh and oonHtant. She haa thus far full
tlllod her purpose. For twenty ycars 8ho has
boen Ills waking and alooping thought, and no
effort Of Ills has beon powerful enough,
no strategy cunning enough, to shake on
tho silent, ro1entless spectre which haa followed
him with reproaehful oye and iron purpose, as
calm. and rigid and silent as though aho wore
the very embodiment Of Fate. Wherever ho
wont in tho City Of Louisville sho was a few
paces bohind him, Did ho go to coli upon
friend, ho knew Bhc would be upon the oppo-
Hlto side Of tho street whom ho came out Ho
went to Now Orleans, and whom ho arrived thore
sho waa there also. Ho wont to New
York. but In tho thousands Of strange
faceB which passed. him in tho busy stroota,
there was ono familiar faco always near
him. His own shadow did not follow
him more surely or perslstontly than aho follow
cd him. It was nil tho samo in summer or win
ter, in spring or fall, ia storm or shine, by day
or by night. Thus the years wont on. sho
never molested him. Sho never personally IN
torfcred with his business or his entoy1nonts
sho mover spoke to him unless ho spoke to her,
and then the burden Of lor communication
was only that It was her fate to follow him
through life, aud hts fato to be followed. In
all thcso yoara 1Iaj. Throckmorton has
grown gray in tho shadow, and Throokmor-
toms ghost hus grown faded and palo and weary
with her rosslesB wandering. at last lo could
endure her calmness, hor silence, and her con-
stant presence no longer, and ho brought hor bo-
foro the courts upon tho writ to which We havo
alluded md sought to establish tho fact that
sho was insane, hor insanity taking the form Of
monomania. But this WAS her opportunity Ga
well as his. It WIS tho opportunity sho had
long wished, and for tho first timo she had tho
chance to toll her story before public tribunal.
There woro doctors md experts IN attendance,
who narrowly watched her as she narrated this
twenty years. story, but they found no
traces Of insanity in It. There WAS
but ono export who deomed her O
monomaniao, and ho has boon connected with
an insane asylum for thirty years, and acknowl.
edged that he expected liberal foo for bis
opinion. Ho had concluded, Oh general princi-
ples, that Miss Goodwin was insane bocausa ahe
was different from other women, and other
women similarly situated would havo griovod
until they died, or reckleasly gone to the bad,-
ruling which would oonsign great many vory
sane people, who happen, to be inae1ible in pur-
pose. to the insane asylum. The Jury did not
accept tie opinion Of tho export but acquitted
her and loft her FREQ to do as eho p1oased. Dur
ing the trial she did not follow Throck-
morton, and there will bo aome curiosity
es to her future oonrse. This episode
may divest her from her purpose, since she Inns
had tho opportunity to tell her story in the
lnost public manner and to vindscate her COURSE
Whether she abandons or continues to follow
him, matters nttlc now. In ali these tweuty
years hor victim has had opportunity to make
amends for the great wrong which he inflicted
upon has victim, and thore are very fow people
who Will not look upon 1t aa m instance OF
pootical retrbution in caBe in which the law
affords no adequate remedy and social forms are
moro liable to favor tho stronger than the
weaker party. The Nemesian idea ia completely
e1empllaed. He ruined her life. She ruined
his. He destroyed her happiness. She do
stroyed his. The two are even.