The Morning herald., 1877-10-29
/ supposed from thu

| supposed from the
reserve that each olsplayed, that tbey
were strangers to each other, and had never
batore encountered, but that both were
| greatly agltated - 10th were trem.
ding.
Scarce word had been exchanged be-
tween these two unhappy beings, when
Mistress Camelford, with haggaru eve, a
death-like pallor overspreading her sunken,
deeply furrowed, cheeks, ,-tottered SLOWLY
and painfully into the room, sustained by
her waiting woman, Laura Hutchinson, on
whom she heavily leaned, and without
whose assistance she had been unable for
single moment to uphold herself upon her
| feet.
Heavily she sank into chair, and cast
! her head back, and closed her eyes, and
| looked like death itself
Only her short thick breathing gave
token to those who looked upon her that
, sie WAS living still. "a
| Seized with illness where little COMPASS
SION or attention might be hoped Ttsl,
Mistress Canelford had determined to
r'@ltrn without delay to her own
home.
chose whom Size hated, against whom she
had contrivca, "1li was contriving still, to
be witnesses Of her tortures bodily and
mental.
The rcproaches with which Gresham had
been prepared to load this wicked woman,
died away upon his lips, when he be.
held her SO feeble and 40 CHASTITY.
But Mistress CameHord, byher indomita-
bic will presently revived, opened ag ain
her eyes, and gazo1 with nlalignity fear
tl.l to behold, on those whom she SO cruelty
lad injured.
lior eyes grew bri'liant, hectic flush
rose to her cheeks, as she told her victims
ov what means, by what slllful treachary
she HAD gratiIed therevenge she had sworn
against them.
"iAnow you, wcman, you have committed
crimes would give yon to the scafold ?'
Gresham donanaoa when Mistress Camel
ford, still exultinG ia Ill that she had done,
had finished her recital
''Beyond your power, to harm ,na-and
lave but treHted you accord ng 30 yourmer-
It's; Why did yoa write to me those fatal
letter.. ?"
G-cshar1 was again about, as years be-
fore, to ,!act.re that no Letter had he ever
written to distress Cameliord, but, ere he
had time to frame a word a loud shrek
rang through the apartment.
Laura flutchins,l. shrinking into the
renotest corn9r OF tre room, had listened
with terror to all shat had been sad, had
recognised how infamousy she, herself, had
acted; and now, slfleklnt and WI n, ing her
h., ic M :, ,u,lI nd aS.t
helsolt upon her knees.
"Ah, what A-tye I done what have I
done-Alll me y ahe rtyed. Il have been
u wretch. AMI deserve to die"
Arvhur Gresham rem 4mbered the dying
words OF Albert NJ 1rSdun, and graspiug the
arm OF the wretched woIuaA kneeling there,
ne cricl:
"On! l understand-Yo arc Laura
Hutchinson: she from whom | WAS to re-.
celvc q clue to that mysterious trearh2ry
which h.s undone us all--confess ! beyond
al remedy is the evil which has
'een wrought, but, confess, woman, con-
Jess ~
And L,ura Hutchinson did confess.
Those letters wnch had duped Mistress
Ca'nelIo"i /, ID driven her to acts which
We're Perfectly emoniacll--those letters
had boen written by ALBERT MArsden, with
the hope, ut u further time, to compromise
her f;tlne, ard to a'enge his own double
rejection by her--iLnd Laura Hat ,hinson
had been his elnisstry, for a substantial
reward hid betrayed her mlstless; but far
from her had been, she said, the thought
that such terrible calamity would result
from her perflly
Now was it Mistress S;tmelford's turn
to shrek, and groan, and wiring her
hands.
Already suffering terribly, she was en-
tirely prostrate by her con!idante's confess
ion-she sank helplessly to the floor, and
lay moaning and grovelling at the feet Of
those TO whom she had done such dreadful
in the dust implored
them to pardon, to have pity on her.
''Oh in what terrible guilt have stepped
my soul,' she groanel. "Oh! how l suf-
lor! and she pressed her hand to her
breast, Il am burning an inward fire is
deyouring mel Oh this suffering is more
thLn | can bear-death death rather than
this horrible torture"
Terror stricken. Rosalie looked around !
for Laura Hutchinson to assist her mistress,
but that worthy contidant was gone, haa
stolen from the apartment, and WIS mover
again seen, nor heard of by those to whom |
her pertidy had been the first cause OF all |
the horrors that had followed
Presently, Mistress Caneford uttered |
desparing shriek-she had Remembered |
the fate to which, the night before, she hid
doomed Rosllie's son.
Young Arthur! young Arthur sh
cried 'snve him !-ho----"
And then suddenly her mind began t.
wander, and she rayed incoherently, f,n,
madly laughed, and so was borne back
the chamber which she, the night beior
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