The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-06-30

tell him ut the end Of that time whether she
wouldmarry him after what had happened.
She related to me long atterward, the agonyof
that wcek--how she knclt in despair at her
mothers feet and asked her to decide, how
the old lady advised her to follow her
own heart; how at last she sent note TO her
lover inviting him to call. Their meeting
she did not describe, but it was said that, sit
ting at the instrument as he entered she sang
the words
Come rest IN this bosom. my own stricken deer
Ihongh ne herd has flown from thee thy home If
! know not, Icare not II gue'pin thy henri;
! but know that love thee, whatever thou art.
After their marriage they settled at Lees
burg near Selma.
The young widow Of Mason at length
asked to 90 back to Selma, he scene Of her
short welded life Not anticipating what
was to follow, her attendants carried her
into the wide hall. There, raising her eyes,
they fell upon the hat and coat hanging
last as he had left them, which her husband
had on when she saw him last She COW
cred her face, and with a shrek begged 10
There she remained. For twenty years she
did not enter the front part Of the building.
The rooms there, opening from the dreaded
hall, were kept in perfect order and guess
occupied them as usual. But on the day
when her boy-thc isping infant when his
father fcll.-bccamc q years # age, she in
Vi ed all his blood relations 10 dinner. |
was one Of the number, Wewere all sitting
in the library, toward the rear Of the house,
when the door was tinown open and the gray
old butler bowed his announcement. With
out any intimatOn Of breaking the habit Of
twenty years, Mrs. Mason promptly arose--a
frail, fair woman Of 40-and taking the arm
of her son, walked directly into the front nal!
and thence 10 the dining room, as of Old
Our surprise was great. but no word indlCa-
ting that this was unusual escaped her or
any Of the party The spell was broken
and she Stunned the hall no more.
From the date Of the duel, even on her
deathbed she never mentioned the maine Of
her dead husband. Her boy grew up with
| the knowledge and feeling that an unspc l.
able shadow rested on die house, concert
which, however heavily it might press
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