Connecticut western news., 1877-05-04

moment heard the terrific screams of women, saw that the driver was miss ing from his place, and that the horses rwee running away.
 "In an instant, forgetting every thing else at those cries of distress, dropped my pistol and sprang into the road. Just for moment the startled horses paused, and in that moment I seized the bits. Then commenced a furious battle with the frantic plunging steeds. I was thrown down, trampled upon, but chung to them with desparing energy. Ten minutes ago, my only thought had been to take life, now, my only desire was to save it. So it was, ] chung to the horses and kept them there until I felt stronger hands assisting mine, and then the wild struggle, the broad fields, and the white road all faded away, and left nothing but dark ness and silence.
 "When I awoke-well, boys, thought Aladdin's lamp had certainly come back upon the earth, and somebody had been using it for my benefit. If l had come back to live in our own room, cluded that the whole affair had been a horrible dream, and so said nothing more about it. But it certainly was surprising to find myself in a strange room, on strange bed, with a rosy old gentleman leaning over me on the one side, and rosy old lady on the other, their faces expressing the most lively solicitude, while a grave medical gen. tleman first felt my pulse, and then rubbed the palms of his hands together with great satisfaction. Nor was my astonishment decreased when the rosy old gentleman said:
 7The dear boy has come through. Allow me to take your hand doctor. We owe so much to you.'
 "Whereupon he shook hands very heartily with the doctor, and then with the old lady, and they all seemed ex- travagantly glad of my recovery.
 ''It was astonishing too, in the days that followed, while was lying there, too weak to move, to see how I was waited on and made much of by the whole family. They told me after a while how l had saved the lives of the rosy old lady and her daughter, who were in the carriage that night, and how l was dragged out from under the horses feet, bruised and bleeding, and with my left arm broken; how 1 was brought there, and never recovered con- sciousness, but went off into a raging fever, and laid next to deaths door for weeks. They told me how had talked in my delirium-now arraigning MT. Laclede for base ingratitude, then fancying that Ranald was upon my track wherever I went, and that he was going to take me commit murder. Then 1 was waiting behind the hedge, with my finger upon the trigger of the pistol listening to the rattle of carriage wheels far away on the road, and the next mo- ment l was crying that there were wo- men inside, and that must save them ; and would strive to rise and would fall back exhausted, only to begin all over again.
 "Do you picture, boys, how I had fal- len upon Paradise? After all, there is divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we may They had gath cred the whole story from my rawlings. They knew what had been in my heart that night beside the hedge, and, yet they could be kind and tender. They restored strength and manhood in me. They made me feel that I was worthy of being honored and trusted. When I was able to work, the old gentleman found me splendid position, and continued my law studies in all my lei sure moments. MT. Lyndray gave me most cordial invitation to make his house my home, and treated me with such confidence that must have made myself worthy of it, however ignoble and unworthy might have been. So it was that when MT. Laclede came and offered me position as book-keeper in his establishment, I was enabled to de- cline the honor, with the old speech a little more proudly uttered: ''I am Kenneth Lane, sir" And so it was that every holiday took me back to the home of my preserver, where MT. and Mrs. Lyndray treated me like son and their fair daughter smiled on me at in- tervals. At last I was admitted to the bar, since which have become-well, boys you know the rest.''
 ''The most promising young lawyer in the state," said Fenner, emphati- cally.
 "But what about the daughter, Judge?' said Graham. "You surely are not going to leave us in the lurch, after we had all concluded that there about it ?''
 "Oh, yes-the daughter!" said Ken meth Lane, with blush. Then the rising young lawyer drew himself up with the grace and pride of young god. My friends" he said, with un- mistakable sweetness, eff you will go down to MT. Lyndray's on the first day of the new year, you will see me united to Ethel Lyndray, my queen. among women.'
 "Hurrah! Three cheers for the Judge and his bride!' springing to his feet and waving his cap, and the cheers were given with vim that brought back their college days afresh.