The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-08

will accompany YOU. Mr.. -, and he
stepped to her side and took her arm.
She recoiled as though she had been
stung and exclaimed. with blazing eve
and pallid face. and in the greatest
agitation, For heavens sake, do not
let that man touch me :!
LET it be me, then. Mrs, the
younger of the couple then said. all
vancing toward her. Again she star
ted away s~huddering, with the words.
"You are no better than he. You are
both in league against me. You have
some dreadful plot OF which | am the
innocent victim. OH. God on. God
these men Will kill me :!
She allowed the conductor to lead
her through The train. her custodlans
following. and speaking 10 the pasSen-
gers. as they went, expressing pity Tor
her. explaining the nature OF the case
and the painful duty they had To per
form. Everybody thought the lady
insane. and her excited. frenzied look
was reason for their thinking 50.
Poor thing" Poor lady" "Gnhappy
case" How wild she looks" were
heard as she passed. But nobody knew
her: nor could she find a single face
that was not strange to her. She
looked eagerly on both sides OF the
aisle. and in the last CIR said. IN heart
broken tones, No one l know: not a
face | have seen before-not one.
What will become OF me = And then
she sank into the silence of despair.
AS the conductor rather drew than
accompanied her back to her car. she
moved mechanically. as If half uncon-
scious and in a dream. Having taken
her seat, she burst into hysterlcal
tears, sobDing bitterly, and exciting
the commiseration Of her fellow pas
sengers. Then She grew comparatively
calm. and moved hardly a Muscle. She
Sat upright III her seat. pale as marble:
her features working and her limbs
twitching as though she We're suffering.
from epilepsy.
All this had been done in less time
than it has taken to tell it. She had
not been long III her seat before the
whistle sounded for Utica-only four
teen miles from Rome-and the two
men approached, saying gently, You
must come with us now Mrs. -.
We will not harm you we wish you
well: we are your friends: we are
doing what your friends desire.
Again she expressed her horror of
them appealed to the passengers
~besougEt them TO protect her de-
clared that she was perfectly sane, aud
that these men intended TO cary out
some base design. Nobody believed
her.
The train stopped. The conductor
stood near her. having told one of the
brakemen to call a carriage, and the
custodians caught each an arm of the
lady. She resisted for an instant,
gave a little shrek. and then seemed
10 faint. One of the me caught hel
up in his arms once more, saying
Poor lady - and bore her to the
carriage, and while his companion
held open the door, placed her inside
both got IN after her: the carriage
was driven off, and the train dashed
forward.
The train arrived at Albany in due
season, and the devoted husband. who
had been at the station for near al
hour, was impatiently waiting for his
wife. He waited and looked in vain
Everybody had gone, AID st IL she
was not there. He was directed 70 til,
conductor OF the drawing room car
who, on learning of the appearance O
the lady sought for. perceived ut once
that she must be no other than Mrs
, who had been pronounced insane
lie remembered, too that she ha,
said she expected to meet her HUSBAND
at Albany: but one of the false guar
dams had explained that meeting he
husband was one OF her deluSiOns. ant
and that her husband was in Bostol
and had himself engaged them to TAX,
her To Utica.
The revelations made to the hua
band We're terrifying. The conIucto
secured Il locomotive. and, with tn,
diSmayed husband. started at the ear
Hest practicable moment at full spec,
for Utica. Arriving III that city a
about / O'Clock in the morning. the.
could get no trace Of the men: but the
discovered the hackman (whom til
conductor knew that had been ell
} gagged by the pretended cuStodians
+ He said the men had told him nothin
OF an insane person in an ASYLUM
l but had ordered him to drive to a cel
ain house in a certain part of tn
town, and he had ebeyed unquestio1
| ably. He would show the conducto
the house, and in a few minutes h
: and the BoStonian. who preserve
| outward calmness despite his terribl
| excitement, We're at the door of ahous
IN the outskirts of the town, whithe
the hackman had gone the previou
evening. He had noticed that N {
+ the men had carried q woman in. bl
2 he had thought nothing OF it, as h
D had been told that she was i'll.
The inmates We're aroused. not Will
0 out difficulty, and, frightened by Il
intense manner of the husband. aG
h mitted that a lady had come there ii
o evening previous with the gentleme
V (such was the language as reported
o that they had been shown To q room
: and that the gentlemen had gone ava
soon afterward, saying that the la
. was tired and not very we'll. and desi
r ed to stay until morning.
II The husband went to the room
d directed, and discovered his poor wifi
II almost nude. lying in bed. nearly i
d sensible, and We'll nigh deprived
her reason. She did not recognize h
1t husband ion some time. and when 81
r did her mind wandered off again, an
?, being once more brought to hersel