The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1876-07-13


Mceaah Baec answered timldly ia TIC
Affirmative a thlsk cloud rested oa M
diana brow 81 be 4paia examined "a,
I document
Il lt Is bis s.ua,lra, she said, with !
choking voice. Here Is note had from
him yesterday Ii q undoubtedly hi.
writing, signed BY clergyman, toe, tb,
Rev W Jones
There is Ilcagy aomiag' exclaimed
Anne, who was looking out Of the win.
dow.
/ We will have him ia here, said Indian.
coidlY, and gave oidsrs 70 servant
You, Meeuah Baee. rtmain yelled anti
4 | bid YOU show y0urself
Captain Willousbby entered the room
with a look Of deep depression on hil
face, which AZ any other time wouid hay,
aroused lndiana' ieudcres. sympathy
but now, wilhoel observing q she bowed
IL manner that az oace stged aua
eonfouuded him, ana before be could
approach her, said
Captain Willoughbv. Won are come a
q time when your testimony Is wanted
Have you ever seen that pen on over
there before
At her sigma, Menah 1aea od hen
veil, and Wiliouehby started slightly, as
he behela The beautiful face, and answer.
ed rather vehemently, forho mneiel that
Indiana was jealuos Never, that Ire
member.
Would Il be iucopyenienl to You to ex-
ert your memory a iiitle. demanded In
diana, In the same cold bard voice, while
Meenah Baee, aNa-simins, Il Is he, il Is
my husband threw herself at his feet,
embraced his knees, and kissed the hem
OF his garment in ber rapture.
Poor Caplaia Wilougbby, thoroughly
bewildered by this ebulition of tender.
ness on the part Of perfee! stranger,
and by his betgothed's sudden change OF
manner, aud also oppressed by the sad
news that he had come to communicate,
could not speak for a while, and bis ST.
lence confirmed Indiana in be. suspicious
of his guilt At length he replied:
cannot reooIect having ever seen her be-
fore, and what she has to do with you
and me, upon my honor cannot con-
ceiye.
Your conscience should tell you, said
Indiana, So you persist in disay9wiug
her?
But Henry Willoughby's patience
could last no longer, and, without notie-
ing the last question, he exclaimed :
What all this means, Indiana, you best
know; but confess it appears to me
very dull jest, especially under the
present circumstances. 1. have sorrow
enough already without you adding tots.
You from whom / hoped for comfort be
added, with emotion, After a moment
be recovered himselg and went on My
regiment is just ordered to march, at a
moments notice, against the Sikhs, and
we start this evening.
lndiana's face grew pale, but otherwise
she gave no sign OF emotion, as she
handed him the paper, and said II may
appear as a Jest to you, but il certainly
is none to me. Read that.
Willoughby read it as desired, ndthen
said: | never signed this paper. 1t is
true ! was at Indorc about the time when
this marriage is said to have taken place,
but, surely, Indiana, you cannot believe
such story about me. Oh, Anne, she
cannot really believe it?
Miss Keith shook her head sorrowfully,
but did not speak; aud Indiana, without
looking at him, said Mecrab Daee, can
you swear to this man as your husband
and the woman unbesitatiugly answered,
Yes.
On being furthcrcd questioned by
Anne, she related That her husband had
been obliged to leave lndore few davs
after the marriage, but that she had lived
on there till the birth Of her child, when
her father, in ignorance Of it all, and Of
her change Of faith, was anxious to give
her in marriage TO one Of Der own ma
tion; and TO escape his importantly she
had fed to Agra, and whilst making in
qniries respecting her husband, she had
seen him on parade, and hearing that he
was about TO be married bad come for
ward to assert her own claims.
In answer TO all this, Capt. Willough-
by could give nothing but an emphatic
denial; but be owned thar appearances
were againstbim; and Sir William, whom
Anne had summoned % The conference,
looked disturbed, ard said that it was
just as well that Willoughby should have
to leave Agra now, before the story got
abroad. He would eanse tie matter 10
be thoroughly siited, and the witnesses
sought out whose names were appended
to the document, aud for the present,
anyhow, The engagement had better be
considered at an end.
Capt. Willoughby, whose pride was
deeply wounded al bis word being doubt
ed, scquiesced, and approached Indiana,
to bid her farewell, but his offered hand
was rejected. and haughtily bowing, she
turned away, and when that evening the
One Hundred aud Thirly-First lefi Agra,
III high spirits at the prospect Of an en-
gagemenl with the Sikhs, porbaps ,he
saddcEt heart among them was that of
Henry Wllougbby- whose only hope
now was tia, be nigh, iai IN battle, and
that Indiana might ihen rePen, her IN
justice. But be was disappointed, and
passed through 81 tie battles of Mood.
kee kee, Ferozehau, and Soubradu with