Year: 1870

For now il was not God who said,


Mother give me thy child





"Oh fond, oh fool, and blind,


God guards in happier spheres,


That man viii guard where hedid bind


Is hope for unknown years


II Thy mothers tenderest words are said


Thy face no more she views;


Thy mothers lot my dear,


She doth in nOught accuse;


Herlot to bear, to nurse, to rear,


To love-and then TO lose"


Jean InglOlC.


But no tidings came, and as soon a


her strength would permit she deter
mined to leave her prison home, TO


It's very luxury was burden. Sh'
> saw in all the price of her birthright


She went to an adjoining city, anC


stopped at the most fashionable hotel


as she thought she would there b.


most likely to learn something of tht


wanderers for such an event could


not fail to be repeated by every


tongue, and recorded in every public


print. Her dress was plain and sim


ple-an intended disguise. She took


but one servant and her wardrobe
and left, she declared, forever, not a
home but prison walls,


The scenes by which she was sur.
rounded were gay and novel, and
. could not have failed to entertain q
mind less burdened by sorrow. But
to her it was but theatrical show OF
the bewilderment of a dream. She
understood nothing as reality but
that her child was gone, and her hus-
band, oh! where was he?


Early one morning after the busy
day and evening were hushed, she
heard in adjoining room the hoarse
notes of a eare-worn nurse, trying to
drown the sighs of a child whose in-
fant nature was yearning for moth
er's gentle care. Prompted by an i'm
pulse she could not resist, she intrud-
ed herself unannOunced and uninvit-
ed to the apartment from which the
sound proceeded. Her strange ap-
lpearance, and at such an hour, great
| fy surprised the woman in charge of
the child, but her mild and gentle
voice soon calmed the excitement and
made her feel that he guest was not an
intruder. She asked that she miOht
! assist in caring for the little one, as
she had herself lost child, and this
made her feel a tenderness for every
one she saw in distress. She took it
in her arms and olasping it in one
passionate embrace, begged the priv
ilege of takingit to her room while she
/ should enjoy an hours repose. An
over-worked and sympathizing nurse
did not object to this, andAlrs. Lazelle
reached her room in safety with her
prize. She had just strength enough
remaining to exclaim, 81 have found
nv child, and let come what will,
! suffer nothing but death to seperate
us more. Then falling insensible up
pon her bed, remained for several
hours, clasping with all the strength
of mothers love, her treasure to her
heart. A length a reaction. came ;
| consciousness returned, but with it
her strength departed, and for several
| hours she was unable to raise her
hand to her head, or move her lips
save in the faintest whisper. She
! evinced the greatest concern lest her
child should be again taken away, and
| the utmost anxiety to know more
of the stratagem that had so unjustly
robbed her Of her treasured jewels


During the time no one had been
admitted to her room except her
nurse and physician. The former
was a faithful servant taken from the
home mansion, and she enjOined the
utmost secrecy on the part of the doc
tor, and as soon as her returning
strength would allow any further in
vestigation of the subject, he too, was
made acquainted with the entire af-
| fair, hoping thereby to gain more
perfect prosecution of the scheme.
He at once informed them that he
could give all the information desired.
That he had been summoned almost
Immediately after the gentlemen's ar
rival, and that he was now in the
same building in no very distant
apartment, entirely ipsensible to ev-
erything around him. Upon hearing
! the DOCTORS announcement the blood
coursed once more rapturOusly in her
veins; her heart beat high, a suffo-
eating, strangling sensation came ov-
er her, followed by hemorrhage,
that completely stopped her breath,
leaving the victim cold and ashen
pale, and thephysician pronounced
the work Of the destroyer complete.


As preparations were being made to
prepare the body for its last resting
place a convulsive start showed that
life was not quite extinct. The most
perfect professional skill was employ
ed, and a short time restored her TO
strength and consciousness. Anima-
ted hopes more than medical aid,
brought a more steady nerve and life
like countenance than she had had
for weeks, She waited but day, till
with the consent of her own and hus-
bands physician she found her way
10 his apartment, and falling upon
her knees by his bedside, took that
hand in hers that she had taken at
the altar, and which had been given
only in kindness ever since, save
when it pelned that fearful note,
pressed it to her brow, and with tears.
she washed away that stain, felt that
the vow that had been so sacredly
plighted should never be broken. And
as She moisted his locks with her tears,
she felt that his love had been ever
pure and his heart ever true, and that
il was her own hand had unconscious |
lv dealt the blow, and it should hence |
forth know no other duty than labor |
to heal the wound. Her physician /
advised her to leave the room ere he |
became aware of her presence, lest |
the shock prove too much for his /
shattered nerves. No sooner had she /
retired than he looked up intelligent
lv and inquired where he was, and /
said he had such happy dream
That an angel had visited him and
famed lis brow, and promised him a
paradise when he was well. The doc
tor smiled and said. "You have been
very sick, but are better now, and
I hope may soon be very happy, for /
health ought to bring happiness.


tNo, am not sick but have pass
ed along the side of such dismal val
lev. was walking on a beautiful /
plain, overarched by clear unclOud-
ed sky, and covered with the most
beautiful flowers. An angel was by
nv side, and we we were weaving q
wreath to symbolic our union, when
lust as l stopped 70 Gull the rarest
flower 1 had yet discovered, a mon
ster of prodigious size burst suddenly
uDon NV view, and stood before me
in the most frantic fury. I waited
but to get one glimpse of his eyes,
which were of the most hideOus green,
and then with shudder turned from
nv companion and fled to the farthest
side of the plain, where was a deep
dense forest, which I gladly entered.
Hoping to lose sight of the monster
1 wandered on for some time, not
knowing whittier, when, coming out
of the wilderness, 1 found myself by
the side of dark valley, so dark my
vision could not penetrate it. At first
l felt inclined to plunge into the dark
ness, for I thought surely no veno-
nous beast could find me there, but
I met the only one more hide
Gus than the one from which I had
escaped, and which from the sur
rounding darkness would not have
been visible but from its eagerness to
secure prev, for it came forth to meet
me while as vet 1 was only upon its
borders. Its lurid eyes glared upon (
me. I felt its grasp about my throat
and bony fingers fingers clutching my
heart. 1 was struggling violently
with this monster of giant power,
when suddenly 8 bright light shOne
round about me, and in the midst Of !
it was one every way resembling my
lost Emma. only her cOuntenance
- - It, aDd O briObt halo