Year: 1874

| .-. and Untfmely End.
Avery strange story was told me the


other day. In town not far from


London there lived young lady who


was handsome, tolerably wealthy, and


more than usually we'll educated. Her


father was an invalid !; her mother was


an insipid, cold and heartless woman.


Two years ago physician of London


was called to attend the father in this


way the young lady saw him. He paid
| no attention to her-his mind was en-
| crossed with his professional duties
| A few weeks ago this doctor, after pay


ing visit to his patient, was somewhat


surprised by being asked by the young
lady to give her the favor of a private
| interview. She took him into draw


ing room and led him to the further
end OF the apartment. Doctor said


she, 81 suppose that gentlemen of your


profession are accustomed to receive


strange condolences. have confession


to make to you" He supposed that


the impending confession had some


thing to do with the state of her own


health, or with that of her father, and


he begged her to proceed. You will,


however, be scarcely prepared for what


L am about to say" she continued.


"But wish you to hear it. It is now
just tive years since I first saw you.
You have scarcely exchanged word
with me, but / have learned much
about you. I am not miataken in be-
Heving that you are unmarried"


"No," he said, " I am not married."


"And your affections are not en-
gagged ?"


You scarcely have the right to ask
that" said he.


"Well, then" she replied, ''I will
not ask it, but must make to you my
confession. I love you with all my
heart. I wish you to marry me. I
loved you from the first moment / saw
you. said to myself, will wait for
two years-if he then speaks to me I
will know what to say. You have not
spoken and now speak. / say I love
you with all my heart you are neces-
sarY for me will you marry me ?"


The doctor, who although not a very
young man, was twice the age of tho
young lady, recovering little from his
surprise, tried to turn the matter off as
joke; but the young lady was very Sc
rious.


"No," said she, /" I am in very sober
earnest. I know all that you may say
or think as to the indelicacy of my pro-
posal, but cannot help it. I ask you
ouce more, can you love me, and will
you marry me?"


"In sober earnest, then" he replied,
-" cannot marry you "


"Then I shall de-" said she, very
calmly and left the room.


The doctor had heard people say be-
lot box a1, hn
left the house without attaching much
to the prophecy, although
wondering greatly at the other portion |
of this interview.


A few days after''the young lady was
found dead in her bed. Two letters
laid upon her dressing-ta table. One was
to her family solicitor. 1t re-
called to his mind a promise he had |
made her. She had gone to see him,
and had asked him to make out for her |
a paper transferring the whole OF her |
to person whose name she |
would not then give him. He was to
prepare the necessary paper and send it |
to her to fill up the blanks and to sign. |
She had done this, and she now inclosed |
the papers, filled up and signed. Every |
penny of her property was given to the |
tuu GuS SOllClIOL Was
to make the tranfer to him, .,to ask no
questions and to take no receipt. The |
other letter was to the doctor. 81
told you l should die" said she, "and
when you receive this I shall be
dead. For ten days I have taken
no food nor no drink but that does not
kill me, and now have taken poison.
[ have no reprosch to make to you, but
[ could not live without your love.
When [ am dead, look at my heart.
You will see your name there. I have
two requests to make of you. Go to
my solicitor and take what he has for
YOU, and then go off on a holiday to
italy tor a few months. The other re-
quest is that you never ask where I am
buried, and never come to my grave. "


There was a post mortem examina-
ion made of the young lady's body.
On her breast, over her heart, deeply
in the flesh, were the initials
If the doctors name. The characters
jeemed to have been made there two or
hree years before. They we're proba-
1ly Imprint ID by her own hand on the
lay when she first saw him.-LOndOn
Letter.