The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-05-15

-ASSA
I fell upon the bed. and in an instant
was in that other world, with the
glittering eyes Of my wondrous love
fixed on mine.
"'Ah!' said she in low, mournful
tones, I fear you are like them all.
They pretend, but they do not love.
Where 4 love there / give my all.
You, like the rest. fear the pallid wo.
man whom / hate. She sits upon
my throne and am widowed OF the
world nay kingdom gone. my rights
denied; loyeless, helpless. hopeless =
and she burst into food of tears.
An infinite tenderness and love for
her thrilled through me. and what
she would have me do that once
more / vowed to accomplish. Look +
said she, placing in nay hand jew
elled dagger; you know where her
white palace stands; it is guarded
well, and it may be long ere you can
plant this dagger in her heart while
she sleeps. Do it while she sleeps
for you cannot kill her if her ewes
look intO yours. And oh nv lover.
when she is dead men win acknowl-
edge me as their Queen, and shall
come to my own, and then, NV
Prince, thou and I-thou and I
We will hold the world-thou aud L.
>l." Fired with her passion II grasped
the dagger, and returned alone
through the garden and to the city.
threaded the lanes and alleys as If
l had already known them. and soon
| stood before the palace which I
sought, eager to do the bloody deed
For several weeks now Mr.. AL.
lens manuscript tells of how he was
borne between this world and that
other. and the description OF his
love for Bertha on earth and his ut.
ter horror of meeting the woman who
steadily kept him to his task Of mur.
der and sacriiege in the othor world
are heartrending. The whole fs told
so eeherently that it seems hardly
possible that poor Allen could have
been a madman. Indeed, was ever
man known who was mad only i'm
his sleep? When Edward was awake
he showed no marks Of insanity, but
was even more patient, gentle and
loving than he had ever been before.
1t should be remarked that, strange
as it may seem, throughout his trou-
bles he was In excellent bodily
health. The manuscript tells of how
at last he found his way TO his vic
TINS chamber and murdered her
while she slept. 1 continue the &C.
count from this point in Aliens own
language
Having murdered the woman
returned to the garden to find my
Princess where she had promised 10
meet me. She was not there; I
sought her everywhere, but found
her not. went back 10 the CITY
and in front of the palace. saw a
vast crowd of men crying for ven
geance on the murderer and COMP
ling my name with that Of nv be.
loved. i tried to escape. but was
rooted to the spot. The crowd saw
me, and with one impulse rushed
upon and seized me. This occurred
OH the night 25th Of June, and just
as l entered the hall of justice and
saw that my Princess had already
been arraigned; 1 returned to earth.
Unspeakable was the misery of that
day, for foresaw my death, and nay
love for Bertha, whom then must
leave forever. was intense, with the
pang of parting. That night when
| returned home took heavy dose
of opium. q drug which, as / had
found by experience kept me awake
more effectuaily than any other drug.
| walked the door till dawn, and then
fell asleep from sheer exhaustion.
My trial at once proceeded before
twelve judges and an immense con.
course of people rising above me.
ring after ring. in vast amphithea-
ire. MY beloved and / were shown
to be guilty and were sentenced to
death. We are to be hurled into
the abyss tonight. the 27th Of June"
The manuscript abruptly ends
here, for oa the morning Of the 2sth
Edward Allen was found dead ia his
bed. / refer the case to DIR. Ham,
mond and beg him for solution Of it.
- ---- afas'
A Sunday school teacher was tell
ing her scholars, the other Sunday,
about a boy who stole hundred dol
lars, when she was interrupted by
one of her auditors with tha query:
"And how the dickens did he get
such q bully chance p
joaquin Miller says Of one of his
tangled haired heroines that she
swept the lonesome sea-" 1t would
have been more to her credit to have
been at home sweeping the lene-
some kitched or helping her poor old
mother wash up the supper dishes