Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-05-07

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iusen. nephew. has been brought up
in the household.
To teach this youth and three other
children Of his brother, Mr.. Dickinson
agreed to pay Lillian s5 per month
horrd and washing, and TO furnish her
with schoelhopse and allow her to
get any other scholars IN the neighbor-
hood she could.
DARK DAYS.
That Lillian found in Mrs. Dickinson
q kind, mctheriy woman, every letter
that she wrote mentioning her name
proves. Yet she must have been I'M
measurtbly miserable IN Bath. A good
while before Christmas she must have
known that she was not only ruined
woman. but that il was only question
Of few months more before she would
be shamed before the world: when.
perhaps. she would be disowned by her
relatives when good Mrs. Dickinson
would refuse 70 know her longer; when
the girls with whom she had gone to
school at Bruington would mention ber
name with contempt; when new friends
would ignore her and old ones despise
her; when she would beh bye-word
and reprosch, and, may be. not have
roof 70 shelter her in her confinement
She must have had the worst fears.
the most painful apprehensions. BY
srtful eontrivapees she concealed her
true condition but she must have
stood in mOmentary dread Of discovery.
She knew her day would come az last
She had but two things 70 hope for
marriage with the man who had won
her confidence. OF. that failing, TO find
3 place Of refuge. out OF the sight Of
those who knew her, until her cOnfiDe-
ment was passed and her baby DIS
posed Of.
DOUBLE LITE.
Day and night Lillian must have been
haunted with the shadow Of coming evil.
She was living q double life. She had
10 be to Mrs. Dickinson 8 pleasant and
.ocisbls companion 10 the children,
an attentive and agreeable teacher.
With gay and happy young-lady friends
she had 10 seem one Of them to gentle
rDen she had to be 9 sweet, innocent
young lady.
in her own room. IN the stiffness OF
the night, she saw what WAS before her.
She had been reared IN good society /;
she had had excellent educational hd-
vsntnges she had been thrown with
ambitious girls at Burlington she wac
| sentimental, and no doubt had roman
tic plans---and now she was 10 be an
| OUTCAsT
THE JANUARY VISIT.
What letters. if any. she wrote TO
Tomlnie from Bath are in hls possession
] or DESTROYED. With his arrest the Com
mouweslth got none. What letters he
wrote 10 her while she was ID Bath, she
burnt up the night before she made her
start for Richmond. A few empty en-
velopes left III the trunk prove that he
did write 10 her, but what he wrote
about is not known.
But in January, OF the plea Of going
TO see her aunt Mrs. Tunstalp' who
was said by Lillian to be i'll, Lillian
gained permission to leave school for
seme days. She came TO Richmond.
but proceeded no further. She went to
the Exchange Hotel here January the
9th and registered as Mss i. L. Ber-
ton. Roanoke City. At the same time
Tommie came here from down the
country. He registered at the Davi,
House (near the Exchange under hii
true name.
THE COUSINS MEET AGAIN.
Ii viii be shown on the trial that in
January Ouverius called al the Tx
change 10 see Lillian; that he went ny
to her room. and that one night she
STAYED elsewhere than IN her room a
the hotel.
Tommie is described at the Exchange
a. having had "a light moustache.
Mr.. A. ". Archer, chief clerk at th'
Exchange Hotel. has been to the Jal
and positively identifies Cluverius.
So far as is known. on this visit LII
lian saw no other person with whom
she was acquainted-no other persor
excep; Tommie.
Yes. there was one exception. Sh'
met in the Exchange Hstel, face TO face
Mr.. Clagett Jones, Of King and Queen
They had brief conversation on com
monplace topics, and soon thereafts
Lillian left the city.
Returning to Bath, she told Mrs
Dickinson that she had been met II
Richmond by Cousin TOmmie ; that b
drove her to her aunt's; that she fount
her aunt much improved, and that he
aunt urged her to return to Bath, an
paid all the expenses Of the trip. Also
that she had taken breakfast al Rich
mond hotel with Cousin TOmmie, AM
that he had gwen her two books an
some candy aud oranges.
So Lillian explained that she wa
back much earlier than she had ex