The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-04-05

water and holds her there, her body In |
the boat and her head In the sea till her
struggles cease and life Is stilled, then
drops the limp body, fastened to a bar of
iron, into the dark deep and rows back
to the shore"
AS the Colonel paused o shudder pass.
ed through the crowd and no one spoke.
1t seemed as II each one saw the MUIR
dered girl as she hung over the edge of
the little boat and sank In the cruel sea.
The Colonel glanced at his newspaper n
moment and then went on,-
"The job had been so well done thet
no one suspected thet the girl was-er--
| drownded and murdered IL was thought
che had gone to seek her lover or to visit
| friends in another town. The fellow
| was not suspected, and he went about
| his usual business secure and SAFE But,
somehow, his-er-conscienc troubled
him, although he got the extra fifty
dollars, which ought have eased a con-
science such as he possessed-and he
couldn't sleep, and lie became afraid of
the sea, and turned colors when people
looked at him, and started when they
talked to him and looked behind him as
If some one was followln' him until one
night he disappeared from the set
tlement."
The Colonel paused to take Il fresh
chew of tobacco, and with teeth closely
pressed upon the quid, continued
cit might have bin month or so after
ward, thet lot of sailors were splashin'
round in q ships yawl off the coast
fishin' fur sharks, when one of 'em
| spied somethn' afloat sort
o. water logged, part out of and part
| under water-on the waves. Comm
closer they saw it was human body,
drownded woman, and they hauled 1t
aboard. The clothes was still clingin'
to the slight and willowy figure, and
rope was tied about her waist and was
sort of gnawed off like at the end as If it
had bin broken from an iron bar; and
there was letter in her pocket, and a
ring on her finger and handkerchief
in her belt with her name on it, 'Jttlid.'
When the sailors got to shore her par
ents came down to the beach among the
crowd and recognized ther dead child
and wept and took hel home sorrowing.
But even then no one knew thet she
he'd bin murdered. The letter in her
pocket was from him. The letter prom
ised her fair, and offered her money to
support her child and spoke of old
times, and love and sch like id
| xya at Of
disappointment and remorse she had
gone and drownded herself. The loss of
little skiff sometime before gave some
probability to this-er-natural cOnjec-
ture. She he'd grand funeral, fur she
he'd always bin good girl and the
people loved her, wherefore this ere
newspaper says thet there in her beauti-
full southern home close to the soundin'
sea they made her grave and laid her in
it, herself the fairest flower of all thet
flowery land, and all the people wept
fur the poor dead mother bearin' her
unborn babe"
And the Colonel paused again, this
time to wipe tear from the end of his
nose. He scratched his beard reflective
ly and changed his quid to the other
cheek before he proceeded
"Lemme think,-it was shortly after
the findin' of the corpse thet the lover
and the fellow wot he'd drownded the
girl met in New York. 1t was stormy
meetin', and reused bad blood in both
of 'em. 'D-n you and your money y
said the fellow when the lover offered to
pay him for his silence. 'Nothin' can
keep me silent. The whole world shall
know it. What do care fur punish
mentl-no sufferin' can be greater than
1 now feel, no punishment severer than
I now bear,-even hangin' believe
would be a relief to me'--in which
opinion cordially agree with the fell
low mo SIR" parenthetically mused
the Colonel, sit couldn't hev bin worse.
The fellow wouldn't hev suffered more
in bein' hanged and 1t would hev bin a
condemned sight better fur the world at
large" and the Colonel smiled widely.
"Well, as was sayin', they he'd a
meetin'. 1t was in the private rooms of
the lover, who he'd a sort of position in a
bank in New York, and was livin' in
good style, and sported round like a
handsome young fellow as he was"
William started. "What was his
name 2" he asked, without attempting
to conceal his deep interest.
Everybody turned at once to look at
} the man who dared to interrupt the