South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1891-08-07
we're possible to make him anything
that required thought.

0oo'Se uutised MS brother when
'hey we're boys, aud showed a total
want OF affection for him when thew
became men. Indeed, he see med ia .
capable OF love. until Agnes Fleming
came from Richmond to visit Mrs.Ls.
grange. her mothers old friend and
sehoolmafe.
Agnes Fleming was q bella in
Richmond. where beautiful women
are the rule; her goodness and beau.
~ had preceded her.
From the DIST Mre. Lagrange saw
With alarm, that both her SOM Seem.
ed enAmored OF Agnes Fleming. and
she wi'hed the innocent girl back
again. but the fates willed IL other.
wise.
With characteristics assertion. Geo.
Lagrange forced back his brother and
seemed determined to mouoooliz.
Miss Flem!ng's lime while Expressing
her with his rude, though no doubt
well meant attentions.
With fee deIicacy Arthur remain.
ed in tho back ground, but this verv
tendency won the admiration at first
and finally the heart. OF The beau,i-
full girl.
Oae afternoon. about a week be-
fore Agnes Fleming wss to fetusn TO
Richmond, she and George took a
horseback ride up the pountaiu.
With more feeling than he had
ever manifested before, George La
grange told her OF bis love, and asked
her to become his vito.
At the proposal she turned pale
AMI tremblei.
l cannot, che said. give you heart
that is not mine. nor the hand on
which another has q claim. But 7
hope to retain your esteem, and can
promise to give you with pie asure
what you can claim IS right.
What is that be asked, hoarsely.
A sisters Lowell
A sisters lover he Kissed.
Yes.
Am to understand, he asked the
blood rushing from his red neck to
his heavy face, that You are engaged
10 my brother, and without my knowl-
edge ?
l intended to have told you, but
supposed he might have done so .his
morning. Until last night only
suspected Aethur's feelings, she an .
swered.
Very well, Miss Fleming. Let US
ride home.
Not another word did he speak TO
her from that time until the day she
left.
Vain were tho eff,r's OF his m 9th
or, father aud brother. to dispel the
clouds from his face, or change the
logged madness that seemed to pos
sess him.
He rode on. every morning, and
when he came home at night, his
horse was jaded aud foam covered
and the young man staggered into the
house. under the double excitement
OF liqnor and jealousy.
The wedding took place in Rich
mond, but George Lagrange posi-
lively Refused to ateld. When told
that Arthur would bring his young
bride directly home, George laughed
like a hys,erieal madmau, and swore
be would give thsm Earm welcome
The judge and his wife began tc
think their oldest son insane, and the
former determined to have his case
inquired into Immediately after The
wedding.
All the young people in the valley
were at Judge La0range's to welcome
home Arthur aud his bride. TIL,
mSnsion was flooded With light, tn,
trees in the ample grounds bore illu,
minAted globes for fruit, and music
started tripping a hundred happy feet
The servants wero out Ia their best
and Georges gloom was forgotten II
the blaze OF so much happiness, and
his mutterings uDheard for peals o.
merry laughter.
AT midnight, Arthur Lagrange apC
bis wife were alone in the large cham.
Der a. the eastern corner OF the man.
sioL but still the music and the q me
went on below.
Why did the music stop so sudden
~ and the color q ! from tue faces o
the dancers, while they stood 70 lis
ten 2 One shot. and q woman's cry
enoihor shot and a heavy groan {; a
third shot, and the sickenlng thud oil
a mans body, crushing through tho
branches OF tree and falling on The
ground
From q tree that commanded Q
view of The Interior OF the room
George Lagrange had slain the bride
and groom, then shot himself. The
house Of 10y became the house oil
mourning. The Judge and his wife
soon followed thsir sons TO the grave.
The servants Here scsttered, and the
house 'eft tensntles3 forever.
This was UncIe Nsd's story, told
through tears and with a choking
voice. A cad story, dear reader, but
IL is a record Of life and chance. do.
serving TO be recalled for the sake Of
The Iononu e. raavF