The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1876-01-12
I'D woman, and her
, looked up at me in

s .Sh , looked up at me in
= s''Way a. dsup with you, didnt t
m ,,Th,7 I'D Ann.
.1vet;. No y said.
n%ht nnhsSt ous," said Jane
.,HW ut she must" said Ann
cane sthe girls eyes distend-
- ~ @lk of terror.
y" "Wh, y rs Have mercy on us all !"
10 nj Ind woman.
i,t Lining E,,1gf,pu say that now My
~ e about the place.
Efh,s R'a a|"7s happened Moth
elsN aN @ nsBred, paused and stag
'lIto ,rJt " st thes wall. Old Jane
,taIaotJ y glass of water.
'nSs ns;Is, etiH A. do But no longer
I'll. y tIa+ 1,dAss.: knew some
~ 1,mt hisSS dibheenl my wife, and
oT Eo,lo 6aRssnpt WAS that it was
thf rough @ ssa o %rI sarvor+s xvont
iHlohIo at fcking hoW}nds garden. Wo
where t Seasn: L,saL "ni 10y 10y
tall shr, f,.o., Iie. S en- ",1u ',a, o'u1' t.',
o4u ao"s; "s htoh, q Ms give went to the
~ "Jf T 81 falls q. T bugreat stone lay
oo,,1a - ban sayiAA br',
co:l,N :i u, att aiau@ core fallen in, she
S'''a I'D ID" (he iplan' hshe stone back"
dreaa @n~s hind, Sc; sawsurdity of the
,ss Unee a held him aH2nat led my MUD
lyrSs lSyrSs % they r6B.Ahhonw her form,
WIZ bright d @baoss and ran tor
on.s ',~sst that tb y Atoth a'e it. It was
ei,cc"S wo Of VIII naloylacRrown from
T"'oD w. o' pther 1r by teancising moon,
- - y he only ncy hhy {ranshgured.
.So.r ~ , case is1r sealkia, tas fruitless
'ns 'n.g hat Mr.. til, ME, i,orhood, in
oo", cine Ynbia and and in t. &c, surrounding
wa''w wsse ss sum oraF came TO my aid. All
!, -, "n, frc of their l\Aould be done.
T1bdly eli, couple Of ne, vanished: as it
80 xxx tbs Jess lie he face of the earth
%s,a % eroggiic reson 70 had was the asscr-
[ nS:nreaf. fnger servaut that she
lSr ivan mmed,ihtf ON the garden that
t nna. dry drytSptisEL She had told her
nos cI5.IS gsfH G old woman's hear
e ,.' 10y. 4d she heard nothing.
o w. w., wv tDrn. llas knew, TO suspect
10 5r,e 5"no ~ ,oT 49, ,vo al of having injured
k opl''tl ol hr o. )" vpFins anything of her
u Eou ~ ieH see9 tce, but they were sus-
d tneu ns., "nto ST. oers- not by meek
80 n.r' n,nn ., IN a. ra;uit ed.
Of !, Oh, thnt r ii oaq and darkly suspicion
" '1':S = 10 vfme. 1 knew it was
It o. . III .,,E Wn Z h' wearied of my wife,
,sTh ; paiSa 9lpf her.
!, !:SceiSeu ifdSask,t last, aad the story
LOlU NY Wl21 3A&4fHAho HAND
leVe'' Ndin% I'D LETT me for ap0ther
plge, nut ~, 81 her TO be pure es M
ger D-not' y! ' ~ id not blame stran-
Sft SsS $ ~ ag her ss as as We ws' xnnt
80. was tborSsI Rvhouse wss cmpticd
ane, I VI lts JOY H,y home w's deso'at". !
where continued my vain search. ladVcr-
,wers Used; L employed detectives and
tins went on for yeas without bring
will ing me oven the sad relief fofknowing
, kiss some terrible u:h.
grew to be an old mau worry ear
ID :or ly; my hair lay white upon my tenn
man pies before 1 WAS forty L kept III
y il my little church, for if Helen we're
with living, she would find me thero bot
,cnd ter than elsewhere If she were
how dead, it seemed to me that somo
ond token of her fate must come to me
,mon at last. Twenty years had passed,
md and still there was no answer to my
how prayer for tidings of her.
,ould There was C. prison some i've
sting miles from NJ, u gray and gloomy
lust place A man was to be executed
we.n for u foul murder. He was har-
e, 80 dencd wretch, but there was all the
such more need for spiritual aid and, the
one prison chaplain being very i'll at the
till time, | was requested to visit him.
fall I went, of course.
to be It was, strange to say, the ami
'ugh versary OF Helcns disappearance.
age The same spring weather-warm
d TO at noon, cool at night-and thegrass
II ne was sprnging in the garden, frosh
oeall- and green and tho buds were on
Ihe the trees and the lilac bushes, just
nrow as OH the day when I looked back
allow AMI saw my wife smiling at me over
her shoulder, as she knelt beside the
my garden beds, scattering tho flower
'trTt' II seeds.
~ Aoi m T thought OF NIL this even as en-
" 'Lo"o 10 tecd the prison gates and the cell
tnJ ' O. tho doomed man. / found hnm,
'eu o. " NV that death was near, more penl-
nie' tnt than had hoped. His guilt
.S'1 S''s WIS established, and he made no
'n's' W.T. efort to deny it. And when I had
uIp' SI' tlkod to him some time, he wept,
"io "m,' ,obbing heavily, as such mon do
tS thS when grief overcomes them.
"This WAS fight, and with man,
md he said, when he regained his COM
posuro. "The God you talk of may
forgive that. But prayers can't save
olisb mo. I've done one thing in my life
emnd that can't be got over. That would
allied drag mo down if all the angels tried
,len!" to save me.
"I killed woman once. It's a
~" I long while ago. But I've soon her