The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-08-04

lowered around devotedly, but was
rot rewarded by the lady's maud.
She married Dr. Hunt, aud after his
Heath became the wife Of a wealthy
pork man, named Armstrong. When
Ibis gentleman died, it was rumored
That atlast Major Throckmorton was
to be blessed for bis life time devo- |
lion, but the handsome widow drives |
about 70 the finest private turnouts |
the city affords, having paid no more |
attention TO the addresses Of the Ma
jor than In the days Of her girlhood
The beauty Of the Kentucky belle,
Sallie Ward, made her fame world
wide, and the persistency with which
the Major followed her gave him a
certain interest 10 the eyes Of the
multitude, but it was another woman
that held him up 10 the gaze Of man
kind, a woman who Swallowed him
more constantly than he haunted the
path of the famous belle.
Throckmorton was a pleasing and
frivolous man of the world when he
first met the school girl, Ellen Cod
win. He was about 30 years of age /;
che was 10. Her family was at least
the equal Of his, and to an older sis
ter he had been paying attention.
The girl was impulsive, interesting
and innocent. He deliberately set
to work to fsign love and gain her
heart. Having gained it, he threw
it aside without concern, and went
his way,
Soon after a yelled figure appeared
on the streets ofLouisville-a girlish
form that moved silently after the
man wherever he went. She never
spoke to him, mother uphraided mol
reyiled When be entered ihe hotel
she stood al the doer; when be
emerged from bis club house she was
Faiting. In New York, in New Or
leans. she was at bis side, phantom
Ike lie peculiarly spoke Of her to
his friends as bic "H5lrs Delight
Ten years past. Her old friends
decided her crazy for keeping the
thing up.
Fifteen years rolled around, the
police knew her, they watched bel
faithfully, as some harmless. dement,
cd thing, and passed her from bea
to beat, as she ploughed her way
| homeward in the wee sma' hours o
the stormy night. No human eve
offered her harm or insult, although
She often stood all night before thl
places where her guilty lover wa
| hidden.
Twenty years we're gone; oil
| friends had died-father, mother
school mates Her hair had thinnel
| and whitened; her form stopped,
cough sounded hollowly on the air
her step was more feeblei yet non
llhe less it tracked a portly, gra
haired, fasbionably attired man froI
mansion to mansion on New Year
Day, from theatre and club room
night after night.
Twenty three years past. Eve
the little children grew TO know th
plain, shabby, black robed woman
and tiny fingers pointed at Throck
morton's ghost. Young girls locke
v6nderinglv after her as she passe
them silently. Wives eighed 9
smiled pityingly-they were 30 Sc
icure and sheltered-when her gar
ments brushed their own. Mother
grasped their girls more closely
suppose This womsn's wrong shoul
be The fate Of their sweet daughter
10 TIE days to come. So, for 2
years, the phantom, silent, certai
logged the hetfayera steps. At lai
friends OF his had her arrested as
luaatic, and, through their misguide
precauli0n, the man and woman wei
brought face to tsce in the eou
room at Louisville Then It w
that ali the city woke up to Il
knowledge that this woman W.
neither crszy nor fool. Her la
auar WAS eloquent, her manner e
faed, her face 6rm The whole sa
story OF her lie was told--hor vo
to follow natil the hourof retri QUITO
r. her persistent watching, her silenl
and revenge Before The woman
hhad wronee1, Throckmorion quaile
land Ms brsvad0 was not equal 10 q
d cross questioning to which be VI
\ exposed Al last, one evening as
Yves walking on Jefferson street, ne
the court house, a great shout a
esnded. cheer after cheer went u
The ola court house rung with a
b nlHuse Men threw up their hat
Eln Goodwin was acquitted, az
, IThockmor,on's ghost was laid; f
ID ihe woman having brought him
the usr and having told the STORY
her perady aaid that her work VI
done. "a She wouldn't haunt hi
no more
Thgockmoriaa, conscious az b
guilt, hal refrelnel hom arrcstlf
3 her. greatly as sh2 annoyed him, 90
Ing all the % years, AND Tho sloi
would have been untoN, aud e
would have lived and died, regard,
IS the present generation as mon
manisc. had GOT The gallant Major
: friends iuttrposed their well meaniH
muader. There never was trial
the city chat equaled this ia interes
ktits close the entire room was iilll
with shouts, which thos outside toe
ub. until lhe whole city rung wi
I Itho news Of the vindication. I'll
= Jurors crowded around aud shoe
hands With the accused, aud persoi
Who Tor years had passed her witho
recognition asked pardon Of The
Old friend.
After The trial. ms friend tells d