Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1874-03-26
telegraph official, who promised to go
to Mr.. hollands at once.


ing bIankly from master to mistress
and then she said dolefully, "An'
please, sir, what's to become Of us!'
Become of you! Why, you viii
stop and take care Of the house, to b.
sure" said her master rather shortly
Then, closing the study door upol
himself and his wife, he added. "Bu
don't half like leaving you at such :
time, and with only one servant too
and all that money in the house. How
awkwardly things happen sometimes 7
lie was SO heartily concerned, 81
evidently uneasy, that, rs a matter o
course, his wife cheered him up by as
suming bright courage that she wa'
far from feeling. She lighted a can
die and held out her hand. He under
stood the gesture.
"God bless them |" he said. and fol
lowed her upstairs to where their
children slept, to give their little sleep
ing faces a farewell kiss.
AS he stood by their bed he hearc
the horse coming up to the door-ths
half-hour had passed too quickly but
another thought struck him at the last
moment.
Don't leave that money down
stairs all night, Kate; put it in my
dressing-room or. stay, putt yonder
and he pointed TO door par tly
overhung with curtain-''that Z
the safest room in the house. Good
by, my darling ] will telegraph in the
morning in time for the postman to
bring the message. If I'm not back
tomorrow, get Allen and his wife TO
sleep in the house. God bless you,
good-h.; :"
Another moment and he Was gone,
and Jane and her mistress looked two
very lonely and deserted females in
deed. as they stood peering out into
the darkness, listening to the wheels.
"Come. Jane, this will never do,
said her mistress at last wiping some
raindrops and drops Of another nature
from her face. "Let us see that all
the doors and windows are fast Ge,
your supper, and come and tell me
when you are ready for bed. "
Then she herself re-entered the
study and sat down 10 collect her
thoughts somewhat after the hurry and
and turmoil o: the last half-hour.
This illness of her father-in-law
would lie relcnt at the last, and let her
husband share his property with his
other children? Differences arising
out of John Fergusson's marriage with
4 dowerless woman, fomented by pet
ty family jealousies, strengthened by
the independent attitude the young
man had assumed-such differences
had been. after all, the heaviest grief
Of Mrs. Fergusson's married life. And
now she wondered and pondcred on
them, till the clock on the chimney
piece struck the hour of ten and start
led her out of her meditatiOns.
This is the night she thought
"for winding that time piece up, and
she sought among the ornaments for
the key. In her search she found
something she had not expected-thl:
letter, not in an envelope, slipped be-
hind the timepiece, most likely, a:
soon as read:
DEAR SIR: The sum you name in
your letter OF the 9th, that is, f10, will
be remitted TO you in the form you re
quest on Monday, the 10th inst. The
receipt of Mr.. Holland will be quite
sufficient. We beg TO remain your-
obediently,
civilian AND FREDK. MATuERs,
Managers of the Fordham Sayin.'
Bank
"Oh. John, you careless man y mur
INJURED his wife: land yet you say yol
never leave anything about. This Is
the 10th, so that's been living there
three days, suppose. LIN very gla(
Sarah has been out most of the time !
III you please, IN, Pm going up
stairs now as soon as Eve cleared
these thing. away" said Jane, enter
ing with respectfully aggrieved air
land glad shall be TO get to bed; 70
what with the night being SO rough
and master his goin' OH SO suddiAt,
feel all queer-like, and as if had th'
cold shivers runnin' down the spine 0
my back"
When the servant left the roOu
Mrs. Ferguson remembered her hus
bands injection, took the bags Q
money from the desk, and carried ther
to the room lie mad desired, there lock
ing them securely in small closet Q
safe.
Thi. done, she went and stole he
Youngest born, Ruth, from her littl
cot and carried her Off to her own bed
A lingering goodnight over her dariin
Rosie, the six-year-old daughte
whose sweet tender young face locke
wonderfully like her mothers, and 500
Kate Ferguson was sleeping by be
child, with her husbands likeness Vi
der her pillow, and a prayer for b
quick return filling even her sleepin
thoughts.
ii.
1t seemed to the mistress Of Il
house that she had slept so long th'
morning must be near, when she awol
with an inexplica0le feeling of frigl
"a feeling of something, or some on
near her.
"What is it!" she cried, starting U
in the bed, and instinctively catchin
the sleeping child in her arms. \
Only Q distinct sound of breath in
!. and then a movement like . haI
along the wall-tOcdrds her.
She began to tremble violentl.
nothing but the presence Of the Chi
on her painting bosom saved her fro
fainting. ... ....
"Who is it?" she cried, her voice
: shaking and hollow that it awakent
Ruth, who clung to her, sleepy al
| scared.
E This time she had answer.
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q SPOKE out of the darkness" if YOU gi