, 1881-07-10

to torment him with her presence, to taunt
him with his crime, to teach him repentance.
uer image was ever before his eyes: she
perehed about him as relentlesiy as Edgar
The pallid bust OF Pallas.-
just above his chamber door,
not prophet or thing OF evil. hut a woman
full Of vengeance full OF determination" =
woman scorned.
Thockmorton went tn Boston tn New
York, to Philadelphia, to New Orleans. bnt
it was all the same. Ills shadow wac fotti,.
full in its pursuit. It couldn't be doIgei
Even when this man sought refuge and sur
cease in the army lis shadow. ike a Meme
sis, was still on Ills track. John Thock
morton grew gray. and thin. and shahv viii,
are, the girl grew into n woman, ami win
her naturer Wolnanhood came increased
determination. She would make hiln
suffer; she woultl teach him coutrItion.
times On the streets OF Louisville. 4 taIi.
slim man with white side-whisEers. white
hair, and face expressing mingled mortifi-
cation aud recllesness in front; a woman.
sllabbily dressed and closely yeiled. shrink.
'Tnrockmorton and his ghost" whispered
the spectators, rs the two marched silently
duwn OIL the street.
sThe woman he ruined" speaks another
voice.
The woman he scorns, tather,'' says
somebody else.
1.-The woman who will die at his heels"
says another still, and So they all talk.
John Throckmorton and Ellen Goodwin
keep up this weary Journey through life It
slonaily Throcknorton breathes IN oath or
threat, but the woman only slniles She il
carrying out her purpose. What does she
care what Throckmorton says, or whit the
world thinks! Some say She is insane,
but those who know her best say
not. Throck,norton, among his friends,
laughs the matter away. and refers to
the woman us Ills IIelrs Delight" But his
pretcnsion of carclesness is all assumed,
Upon one occasion. as the story goes, he
Street Market and curses her. For once the
wolnan's temper gets the better OF her She
seizes I'LL ignoble weapon, frozen rabbit,
and in the twinkling Of all eye John Throck-
morton has received Il blow across the face
and Is lying stretched ont upon the sidewalk.
Upon another occasion there is, according to
public testimony, u dramatic scene in the
mouth OF an alley. ThrocknOrton has be-
come desperate. LIE meets his ''Ilell's De-
liGht" and brings forth 4 razor to cut her
smile of scorn and SAYS:
Kill Me, John Throckmorton, but kiss
me tirst.''
The man becomes poweriess with awe at
the reckless bearlng Of the woman. and tlets
from her sight, but soon she is on LIS trail
Mort"n and Ills Ehost.'
AZ the expiration uf twenty-three years .
trial takes place in the Louisville Clancery
Court: Ellen Godw1n Is charged with lunacy
by John IhrocklnOrto1. and all Inquest IS
held. The Court-llouse Is filled to overflow
ins, and the excitement il intense. The PROS
ecuting witness: with scores OF other wit
l'esses to back him, tells the history of the
long Years that the accused has doggel his
footsteps.
After i while Ellen Goodwin is placed upon
the stand tn tell her story. She WIS a girl
brt Il years Of :lge, she says, when she first
met this man Throtknlorton. IIe sought
her out at home, anu she learned to love hin,
subsequently falling victim to his licentious
raresses. Even after this IL loved the man,"
she said, $50 passlDi1ately that l founu the
ueslTe 10 pe NJ Ills sue lF1eslstlole: l began
~ lolloW !lt1u 9poll LIE Stteets. so!eIy because
loved him. lie Ausncu 1T me anu SPOKE
sneerlngly Of NE to his friends. lie for
got the promises he had male me, and
forgot my loye for him. | learned to ll;tte
him. Before had followed about after him
because | worshlped lin. Now deter
mined to follow him BECAUSE lie had scorned
me and BECAUSE hated him rs intensely as
had loved him. sought to teach him COLI
triton, but lie was too proud to repent, too
stubborn to seek my forgiveness, and was
too reSolute to forget my purpose: and so day
after day aid night after night have been
upon his track I have suffered, ana so has
he"