The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-04-25
INVISIBLE POWER
4le Secret Of Life and Death.
BY
AUTHOR OF s'UNDER THE SHIELDS"
'sTHE TENANT HOUSE," sfTHE
SEVEN CTTIEs," ETC.
CHAPTER xxxIIL
A. j. III. DUGANNE.
"B1LLY" AND Jimmy.


but Saul himself lay extended many week
upon bed of suffering, before his natura
strength returned. Susie and Ameli,
might have been taxed severely by their af
fectionate cares, if those cares had not beer
made lighter through the ready housewiferJ
of Mrs. Revere, and the eager help of Fanny
who was already looked upon as . sister
by her brothers promised bride. AL
thought OF return to Boston poverty was
oyerruled by Susie's resolution to share heI
thanksgiving over Saul's safety with her
New England visitors and 50 Mrs. Revere
and her daughter remained domiciled with
their New York friends
Moss Cohen was often absent, in neigh
boring cities. on his own business and t.at
of Saul; and Captain Hooper, sitting by
| his son-in-law's bed, found occupation
! daily in making drafts of that convaleScent
| rich mans plans for building dwellings
better fitted to accommodate poor working
! people, than those drear tenement-houses,
| of which he had his own experience to add,
| with general notions of their character. So
! the months passed, until. one day, letter
arrived from ''the 'front.'" next day after q
!. battle which had been announced as timlni-
ncnt" in another letter, which Amelia kept
! close In that secret drawer for loving
! woman 3 secrets-her bosom.
! Lieutenant Revere was not the writer of
| this epistle, "after the battle !" because
that officer was on a hospital cot, with
| another bullet-hole in one arm, and saber-
cut on his forehead not deadly hurts for
| the stout young cavalry-man, but severe
enough to confine him to q "sick list'' for
several weeks, so that Sergeant Frank
Schuyler was quite handy" an aman-
uensis. Frank wrote that his ''leftenant"
was "bound to be promoted captain, for
both majors went down in that last affair -
and their company lost captain and first
Nd ,oH
cidentally that !" Leftenant Revere hada tip
top report from the Colonel," and ''ca1ne
within an ace of going under, bat the ball
glanced y
When Saul Macy, to whom this missivs
was addressed, looked up from its audible
perusal, he was almost inclined to think his
own eyes Watery, there was such a flowing
of tears from four pairs of dark eyes, all
fixed upon him, when he held up something
which Frank Schuyler had enclosed In the
letter sheet
Yes! the ball had glanced! And that
email locket, with an indentatiOn on its
guinea gold disc, had received the force of a
missile which marked it-GS the shield of a
precious lite
Amelia's hand was the first out-stretched
to take that golden defender of her lovers
heart; and as she looked at it, her oversight
grew dim, her brain became dark, and she
Tell upon the floor in swoon.
Trouble and hurry followed. Saul Macy
half sprang from his bed, but the pain of a
bandaged side bore him back, exhausted,
on his pillow, Then Susie had to resign
her daughter TO Mrs. Revere, and fly to her
husband. But Saal smiled family, saying,
''Poor girl !" and nodded his head.
eyes, know her" was Susie's reponse,
wipiug from her husbands forehead the
beaded sweat. Mrs. Revere lifted Amelia,
and applied her "drops," as she called q
simple remedy of her own in phial of harts-
horn, causing the ''poor girl<' to open her
mouth and eyes together, just as Charlotte
answered the bell which Fanny pulled,
as her volunteer part in the affair"
Charlotte was "sIow, )" and undoubtedly
"dumb,' if heavy eyes and eallopy checks
were tokens, in that inexpensive individual
but whether she was Irish, English or Ger
man, or all three, in native variety, might
appear, or might not be known, from those
black broWs, thin lips and full cheeks. She
saw the situation" at once, however, and !
that she was not "wanted" just then and
her glance was quick enough, also, to notice |
something glittering on the carpet, at her
feet and she picked it up.
"oh, my ~ said the @dumb'' girl; cts
q gold locket."
Her gaze fastened ,as she spoke, upon the
fractured eirclet, and she added
sits broke !"
"GiYe it to me, Charlotte" said Mrs.
Revere and the girl handed it to Fanny,
who took it to her mother saying
Dear Eddy's life was saved by grand
fathers loeket Bless it ~ /
And before resigning that amulet, Fanny I
kissed 1t over and over again and then her
mothers lips greeted it.
"No matter, now, Charlotte" said Mrs.
Macy, with Amelia's check resting on her
bosom. ''Is tea most ready 2''
IL ! L. Il
without moving; her "dumb" mind seeming
still followed the locket, which Mrs. Revere
passed 10 Susie
Susie, always unguarded, in her innocent
way, cried out
".0h, dear Saul-here's the crest and In
itials-'
: Then this poor little woman stopped abb
ruptly-her honest face crimson with the
thought of her indiscretion; while Saul Macy
& gain took the locket in his hand; his own
face showing, to Susle's quick perceptions 4
that he he could easily recognize,a as she had
done, a familiar cipher.
Familiar, without doubt, TO both. For
upon that golden disc were the initials, "W.
b. in Old English Black Letter; and also
that serpent figure Of the WypeTn, which was
graEen on all the golden settings of their
eYes! !" said saul-his eyes fixed on the
loeket--s'very like those we saw, Susie!-
Does 1t open, Mrs. Reyere?" 8
eyes, sir y answered the widow
'tthere's a spring'' ArtIess as her New York
friend, that other Yankee" lady gave no
thought to Susie's momentary agitation,
but showed Saul how to open the double
case, within which was her own miniature;
and Saul, looking up, as he recognized tho
said ss f.
sfBIother was near Ned, after ALL /"
HOh, yes, motheri You saved brothers
life! . cried Fanny hugging Amelia, whose
waist she was enfolding.
ssYou needn't wait, Charlottei Hurry up
tea, please!' - said Susie to the stdnmb"
servant girl. And then, as those s.slow"
limbs moved leisurely away, Susie added
& / do believe Charlotte's getting duller
every day! =
Poor girll'' said Amelia ssShe has one
brother in the army, and he don't write to
his poor sister. She's afraid something has
happened, mamma" That reflection had !
and she coald almost have parted with one
letter from Edward if that could be sub
stituted as a brothers" message.
Charlotte's brother, however, preferred a
personal interview to the uncertainty of
writing. And that very evening, when
Captain Hooper and Moss Cohen were sit
Ting by Saul's bed, and the remainder of
the family chatting at little distance, the
dumb" girl slipped out of her domain, be-
low stairs, and stole out Of the garden-ga
which opened near the stable. Thence she
betook herself TO that oyergrown tenement
house In the rear street, and climbed its
lark stairways to room door on the third
floor, which was opened at her knock, By |
man-her brother in the army who
sneyer wrote" to his sister,
And the 'sdumb" servant-girl displayed
uncommon loquacity, as well as liyeIiness, a !
lew minutes afterwards, while slipping milk