Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-01

lot the event at the dinner table. The
lshock was so terrible and sudden, thai
the poor girl uttered one piercing cry
and sank senseless to the floor. When
lshe returned to consciousness she beg
Iged piteously TO be allowed to visi
young Emmet at once, and her family
then first learned the fact Of her love
land betrothsl. y y ~ l1
Mr.. Curran, though a great man
WIS not unfrequently hasty, and un-
Justly haTsh in temper, and was al
once raised to a towering passion al
the discovery. He had many reasons
for deplOring such an event, but none
sufficiently powerful to justify the
course he saw fit to puIsue. Though
an ardent patriot, he had studiously
kept aloof from all the revolutionary
factions of Ireland, and sought to ac-
lcomplish his purpose through the
more peaceful and lawful measures.
This engagement of one of his house
hold, with one of the foremost revolu-
ltionists, laid him under the suspicion
of secretly acting in council with them,
land not only filled him with mortitica
tiOn, but impaired to some degree his
usefulness in the path he had chosen to
Ifollcw. He sternly reproachei his
daughter for bringing this embarass-
ment upon him, and when the poor
Igirl urged her love in palliation Of her
fault, his anger Increased and Sarah
was ordered to leave at once and for
lever the home into which she had
brought distressing embarrassment,
and the tenderly reared, and previous
ly idolized girl went out into the cold
world to tind home among strangers.
But this sunwarranteo= severity did
not cause her affections ID swerve from
the object around which they had en-
twinCd. She found home with some
kind friends who felt keenly for her
power 10 Liz hten her sorrow, and quiet
her almost breaking heart.
During the awful suspense caused by
her lovers arrest, imprisonment and
trial, she endured such anguish as few
ever knew, but bore up bravely hoping
almost against hope, that he might
soon be restored to her. But the YER
dict and the sentence soon came, and
all these hop: were rudely dissipated.
She saw nothing in the future but sor-
row, and in her agony she prayed that
she too might die. During the few
hours that interviewed between his SEN
tence and execution, she remained in a
kind of stupor, but the intensity of her
grief all the while gnawing at her
heart as the violence of her sobs pain
fully attested.
But on the evening preceding tine fa-
tai day, she recovered somewhat, and
at her urgent request, wss admit
ted to the prison for the farewell inter
view. -
Emmet was leaning against win
dow when she entered, and as he turn
ed II meet her, the chains with which
his limbs had been loaded clanked dis
mally upon her ear. Stkts
The interview was bitterly affecting,
fand even the calloused heart of the
TAILOR melted under if. Little was said,
but Emmet pressed her to his heart,
and half choking with anguish, be-
sought her not Io forget MIN. He
spoke of their former happiness, of the
long past days of their childhood, and
concluded by requesting her TO some
times visit the scenes Of their early
love, and though Others should treat
his name with scorn, to cling to his
memory with affection.
They were soon notified that the in
tel view must close, and as Miss Curran
was passing through the doOf on her
way out, she turned upon the thresh>
old for one more look, and their eyes
met. 1t was but for an instant, and
the hea\ y clang of the iron door smOte
upon her heart, and with cry OF an
guish which rang doIefully through
the gloomy prison, she sank fainting
into the arms of her friends.
On the morning of his execution,
Emmet wrote two letters, one.to j. L.
Curran, the father of Sarah, and one 10
her brother Richard y 81
"I would rather have the affections
of your daughter in the back settle-
ments of America than the first situa
ton this country could afford without
them. If [ had such situation in my
power at this moment, L would reiin-
qaish tito devote my life to her hap
pine 8. / know not whether success
would have blorted out the recollection
of what l have done, but do know
that man with the coldness of death
upon him need not be made to feel any
other coldness, and that he miy be
spared any addition to the misery he
feels, not for himself, but for thosesto
whom he leaves nothing. but SORROW"
To he: brother he wrote only two
hours before his execution, regretting
that heShAd ever won a heart that he
was so soon to crrSh with sorrow, and
added:
: 'Oa, Richard. have no excuse TO
offer but that / meant the reverse. l
intended as nnch happiness for Sarah
as the most ardent love could have
given her. \ X | did dwell in Sc
cret on the prospect of our union.
did hope that success, while it afford
ed the opportunity of our union mig ht
be the means of confirming dn attach
.ment which misfortune called forth.
did not look to honors for myself;
r would have asked from the
lip7 of.no man; bat L would wish to
read in the glow of Sarah's eounte-
nance that her husband was respected
"My love, Sarahi it wss not thus that
theughtto have requited your atfec
ton. I did hope to be a prop round
which your affections might have
clung, and which would never have
been shaken; but rude blast has snap
ped it, and they have fallen over u
grave"
On the morning of the execution the
TAILOR suddenly entered the cell and
found him toying with 1.-THE lock OF
hair, while the hot tears were ruling
down his cheeks.
"You see how innocenrly l am en-
pIoyed," he remarked to the officer,
who scanned him closely. "This little
lock of hair tss long been dear TO me,
and shall wear it next my heart on
the scaffold, and wishsit buried with
me-" SaT ~ - - ~
It WIS a ringlet taken from the dark
tresses of Sarah CT "a 4 two years be-
fore.
The terrible death of her lover seem
ed to sever every tie which made life
desirable to the poor girl, and her
heart was broken. The tomb
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