The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-10

Sweet EiliN, NCpnsIlOus q! lI' dHE '
thoughts tina, .uIlowod her, 1t seemed n
though heaven had singled her out for ITS
blessings, and her bright head bowed
sometimes under the weight Of gratitude
and happiness. On the day OH which our
story opens, joyousness beyond expires
sion seemed to possess her, nervous e1,
ultation in her happiness such as she had
never before experienced, and was far IN
tense to be unmixed with pain. All day
she hurried through the quaint old man
sion, irving in vain to fix her heetln
thoughts on some of the many pursuits
that ordinarily filled her time; her music,
her drawing, her books, her pets, she trl-
Ell in succession. but her great JOY seemed
to have become a haunting phantom, and
pursued her from them all
When ut last the night fell, and white
half-moon looked III and out OF the clouds,
a solemn calm came over her, and she
went out under the scattered oaks, and
among the blooming laurelS, and wander
ed in the silent, fragrant night with the
fearless innocence OF a child.
Once she paused and looked back
through the tangled shrubbery at the
house. thrown into relief BY moonlight,
and listened to the plaintive note Of u
whip poor-wiil concealed among the trees.
A dark cloud hOated over the moon and
seemed to shed chill upon the earth.
Edith drew her cashmere mantle closer
around her, and turned to retrace her
steps
At this moment u man leaped f o II the
thickct, ana springIng like Il wild beast
on his pray, bound her helpless with an
arm of iron, while sponge saturated
! with chlorulorm was passed To hrr mouth
and nostrils with Il force which her fran
| tir STRUGGLE seemed ONLY to augment.
Another moment and she Law unconscious
| j., tho arms or her os.oiIapt
l. seemed to him many minutes that
/ h., hrIl fine deadly druo upou her face
of,nr .bn bod ceased 10 STRUGGLE: then.
| I;f,i,,, b.r lif..ln.s form he started To tine
rivrr fb,t flowed within a hundred ward.
J ~ ,,.L.r. b,. .t,,d III. nurnn.r was IA
| throw the holv in and then loosen one
~ Mr. yy.ntw,r,I.s hoots ALLOWING il Ia
G,at wf,b,mt. - tenant and thu. TO convey
] Two ilnu nF -uiril. or accidental death
, Tnrr;rl. r,ar hi. burden came IN.
mi. HIN ,,y' -. Io hnrriad oIon~ The di,
.,.'.. ,r', .r;,..r s.o,,.J intorrinohln
,"',, ,'Idan;r, sn.nicion If nnr.uit
,,,, him Iona f. look bebind while il
m ',.,, him - reJoublrd efforts in hi.
ALL, A. Inrtb No cleared IN. tbicket
am ,7' anna in si,bt If tba river. ont here
a." r,a Ito, Iar,,.r met md tbwurted him
~ "rI Vrs WSntwnr,h attracted by
~, E ",1 ~ - tTa ~yeninT were slowly
-, ,I,a r;,.ar.honl, IN cornest CONVEX.
l fr,',,' = ''''
'; Thn ,,rrdoror turned and, thou I'll he
b,i bern nnohsrryed. the shock of the
encounter had shaken the unnatural
strero,b under which he had acted. and
he staggered beneath his load. Back
n,o,n,, ihr trra. he went but already the
"n,f,l roac,i,r from cycitnmrnt had come,
NV" Nv ~, ,,, terror which nj first had oiycn
him .tr.nc, IN now seemed to parnlize his
a ,.,, Inn rho moon bud come ont
! rIu 1onin and the broad white Iight adj.
da5 innynressiblv TO his fears. not only
tor his nrrsonoI safety. but, falling upon
the r.cr of her ne held. it seemed to iilu-