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rpTTTi ninr nirur ir .1 mirr Lim HUiMAUAl iUAlWl. A STOKY IN FIVE PARTS ET HESTER II ALL! WELL (Continued.) What more lie would have said, if any thing was interrupted by Clara Elliot. Sho sprang to the tea table, seized hold of a hlice of bread and butter, which was lying there ou a p!;Ue.. and offered it to the woman. Take it, she said; you ga.ve me some of your potatoes to-day. Not for me, Miss, was the answer; 1 can do without it. If I might give it to my little boy instead looking at me-I should be gl;td. She had held the boy in her arms all the time, but with difficulty, for he seemed to be a most restless child, about two years old. He's always up at the sight olfood ma'am, for lie don't get enough of it, and children has such appetites. Mr. William Elliot took the bread and butter fivm Clara, doubled it, and gave it himself to ti e child. He shall get enough in future, he whispered to the mother, with one of his hindjy looks. We saw the people drive away again. The man sat down first, helped up his wife, civilly enough, and stuck the boy between them, on Clara's sack. Mr. William Elliot and Alfred Gorier stood at the gale whiie they mounted, Alfred in a fienzy of delight at the scene, and Mr. William writing down in his pocket book the man's ad Jres3. Almost at the same moment. Lady Elliot drove up in a hired cab her own horses were tired. She was painfully agit.iied when ehe heard the details, although thankful to receive Clara safe and sound. The girl's half-clad, ludicrous appearance, the wretched substitutes (which we speedily consigned to the dust-bin) for her own clothes the description ot her conveyance home, the nondescript vehicle on which sho sat in state, on the coal sack, behind the donLey, tbti rotiijh eonstemongor and his half starved wife, and, worse than all, the fil l's utter indifference 'to the shame! IndilL-r-ence? she enj yed ths remembranco of the novel ride. AH this was as wormwood to Lady ElSior. Oh, William, what a disgrace! she murmured to hei son, p.s the red iluh came into her pale cheeks, the l:rli into ht-r irlistoning eye; better I had no daughter, you no sister, than to have her thus; better that it would please Go I to roraove her from in. Little less agitated was lie, as he bert before his mother, lime ie.si n ..i.-a i face, bat it was wuh pain at hearing such words from her. Dear moiher, he whispered, as he took her hands, look not upon it in this spirit. Uather b-j thanklul that ihe affliction is so much lighter than it might be and especially thankful this day, as 1 am, that she is restored to us unharmed. She strained Li 3 hands in hers, before parting wi:h them, and gazed tenderly into his handsom-3 face, feelintr thankful for the bies.-org bestowed upon her in him. j And she had cause; for there are lew sons, in these degenerate days like William ElHot MARY GORING. So that warming chill had worked itself out at last, and th tribulation had corns. Was it my fault? Was it my fault? I shall ask myself the question to the latest hour of my life. Perhaps, when they invited her to spend some lime i:i their luxurious house, 1 ought to have remembered the chill, and that it waa the first time I saw them together when it had stolen over me, and theiefore have refused my consent. But they pressed earnestly for her, saying what a comfort 6ho would be to their union unate daughter, and I was laughed at for hinting at any objection to it. Lticy laughed atme; Miss Graves laughed at me; Francis Goring, though sho was but a child, la lghed at me; and when they inquired my grounds, I had none to give, for not even to mvself did I, orcould 1, define them. They live m style, they kep gay company, it will be giving hlnxy ideas beyond her sphers of life, were all the arguments I could urge; none difficult to overrule. So Mary went for a few days at Easter, which would havo been nothing, for she came home, 1 do believe, perfectly heftrt-whoie; but she wen again at Midsummer, to accompany Lady Elliot and Clara to the sea-side, and then the mischief tvas done. What else could have been expected, thrown, as she was, into the fascinating society of William Elliot. But who is to know that ho would make one of the party? Nobody. In the Grst week of Lady Elliots arrival at Spa (as good a nane as any other for their marine residince, it not being convenirnt to give the right one) she was surprised at being followed thither by her son. He was come for some sea bathing, he said, and forthwith engaged apartments at a hotel. Nine weeks her ladyship remained nine weeks! and the whole of that time were he and Mary perpetually together. Sir Thomas wrote once, a curt, decisive letter of three lines, demanding how much more tinu he meant to waste, and .Mr. William wrote back that he was studying where ha was. just as hard as he could in his chamber. bo he was: s tidying the sweet face and pure mind ot Miry Goring. I guessed how it was, Miss Graves said afterwards to me. There were climbing up the cliffs; and ramblings up the beach, after sea-shells; and readings in the afternoon; and moonlight lingerings in the garden in the evening: Mr. William could not We published this chapter about two) cars ago. But its own powerful intcrest.and the ner light it gams from the chapters which have preceeded, and that which is to follow it, justify a re-publication, nor, thatwc give the story .-. tire.
quite deceive me. I as left to take care of Clara Elliot, whii- ,'ie talked sentiment with Miss Goring. Strolling on the beach together, and talking sentiment by moonlight! I uttered in dismay. And you could see all this going on, and r.ever write t." me! It 13 the moonlight does it all, peevishly retorted Miss Giaves; sentimental strolls would come to nothing without it.. The moon puts more nonsense into young heads than all the novels that ever were written. I'll give you an example. On.' night they were all out into the garden. Mr. William, Clara, and Miss Goring. A lng narrow strip of ground it was, at the back of the house, stretchi.ig down nearly to the sea. Tea came in, and Lady Elliot called from the window, but nobody answered, so I had to hunt them up. I tied my handkerchief over my head, for I had got a touch of tho toothache, and away I went. An intensely hot night it was, with the moon as bright as silver, and I looked there, until I got to the end of the garden, on the bench there, fast asleep, with her head resting on the hard rock behind her, was Clara, and standing close by, was William Elliot with his arm round Mary, both of them gazing at tho moon. Now I ask you. Miss Halliwell, or any other impartial person, if such a scene could havo been presented to me in broad daylight? Peoplo are reserved enough then, and tale care to stand at a respectful distance. The moon is alone to blame, and I'll maintain it. Dear me! she quite vexed mo with her
rubish about the moon. As if when she saw those wo growing fond of each other, she could not have dispatched a hint of it to me by the post! What could Lady Elliot bo thinking of? I inquired. Bless yon. she saw nothing of it, return ed Miss Graves. Her idea was that William hunted us for the sake of taking care of Clara, and she was rarely out with us herself. She makes so much of Mr. William: she would never dream of his falling in love with anything less than a lord's daughter. But there's no great harm done. When I was Mary Goring's age, I had lots of attachments, one after the otiier, and they never came to anything. A dozsn at least. It was so stupid, her comparing herself to Mary Goring! Not that I wish to disparage Mis3 Graves, who is a very estimable young woman, but she and Mary are differenily constituted. Miss Graves is full of praciical sobriety, without a grain of ro-manc-3 in her composition, p.il head; while Mary is made up of refined feeling at.d imaginative sentiment, all heart. The one would be likely to have a dozen attachments, and forget them as sooon as they wore over; but the otl.-ir, if she once loved, ypuhl rpf.lin tliA trn.-a frr nil liar fulipr. iiie. It was of no use, however, saying this to Miss Graves: sho would not have understood me, and I was too vexed to argu. Besides, it would undo what was done. I saw it as soon as Mary came homo. There was a change about the girl: a serene look of inward happiness, an absence of mind to what was going on around her, a giving way to dreamy listlessness. And when, in the course of conversation, it camo out that Mr. William had made one of the party at Spa, my surprised exclamation caused the damask flush in Mary's cheeks to change into glowing, conscious crimson. It is true Mary had. in one of her letters, mentioned Mr. William's name, but I never sr.PDOsed he wa3 there for more than a day ci to; run down to see his mother and sis-tt.-V. perhaps an excursion train. So that suspicious crimson convinced me at once: I wished it anywhere but in Mary's face, and when Miss Graves came to our house, a few days subsequently, to spend an evening with as, I spoke to her about it, and hence the above conversation. You need no: annoy yourself over it, persisted Miss Graves, who was anxious to excuse lurself. If they did fall in love with each other which I daic say they did, and I won't tell any story about it ihey will soon forget it, now they don't meet. If you keep her out of sight when Mr. William calls here, he'll soon cease coming, and the aiiair will dio a natural death. Of course Mary will not bo permitted to see him. I warmly rej. lined; but as to the affair dying out, that ii another thing. Tho cro9Sea, one'a a good resolutions meet with! the ruse young people are up to, unsuspected by old ones! Would naybody believe that at that very timö, that same identical hour, when 1 and Miss Gravc3 was in the drawing-room, laying down so cleverly oar plans for their sepertion, they were together, in the dining-par-lor below us! Upon my going into tho appartment some time afterwards, who should I seeetinding there, at tho open window, but Mr. William Elliot and Miss Goring! Enjoying each other's society in the dangerous twilight hoar of that summer's night; in the sweet scent of the closing flowers; in the calm raya of the early stars all dangeious together for two young hearts. The feaying of knocking one down with a feather could nctprecisev apply to me, for you might have knocked me down with half a one. Well, I am sure! I exclaimed, in my astonishment, not quite to courteously, I fear, as politeness to a guest demands, I did not know you were here, sir. Have you been here lorg. Not long, replied Mr. William Elliot, advancing to shake hands with me. Not long! It came intj my mind, as he spoak, that I had heared a bustle, as of some one being showed in, a full hour before. I had not seen him for three months, and his good looks, his winning manners, struck upon me more forcibly than ever. Not eo pleasantly as they u.ed to do, for the annoying reflection suggested itsslf If they won over to them my old heart, what must they havo done by Maiy's? I took my resolution; it was to speak openly
to him, and I Eent Mary up stairs to Lucy and Miss Graves. Mr. Elliot, I began, in my heal, is this well done? He looked fearlessly at me, with his truthful eye and open countenance. There was no guilft there. It was well done? he rejoined. I am deeply grieved at having suffered my niece to accompany your mother to the sea-side. I did not know you were to bo of tho party, or she should certainly not have gone. Why not, Miss Halliwell. Why not! I hear of ramblings on the sands and moonlight interviews in the garden you, with Mary Goring. Was this well done eir? It was not ill done, was his reply. Mr. Elliot, I continued, I-am a plain speaking old body, but I had soma experience in life, and 1 find that plain speaking answers tho best in tho end. You must be aware that such conduct as you have pursued cannot well fail to gain the affections of an inexperienced girl; and my belief is, that you havo been willfully setting yourself out to win those of Miss. Graves. I will not deny, I have tried to win them. Because, dear Miss Halliwell, he added advancing to me, and speaking with emotion, because she first gained mine. Hove Miss Goring, truly, fervently, with a love that will end but with my life. From the first day I saw her, when poor Clara she had found a new sister you may remember it she never oeasad to haunt me; lwr face and its sweet expression, her manners, her gentle voice, were mine continually, and I knew they could only belong to a good, pure, and refined nature. It did not take long companionship, when we were thrown together, to perfect that love, and, that done, I lid set myself ou', as you observed, to win her'sin exchange, I trust I have succeeded. If I had raced up to the top of the Monument (where Ihavt never yet ventured;) the run could not more effectually have taken away ray breath and my senses
than ihis bold avowal, which to my c .r sounded as much like rhapsody as reason. And what, in the name of wonder, do you promise yourself by all this, sir? I asked, when my amazement could fid speech. What end? There is but one end" that such an avowel, such as mine! could have in view, Miss Halliwell. The end, the hopo, that Miss Goring will become my wife. Well, you will excuse me, Mr. Elliot. I said, after a long stare at him, but I fear you must be crashed. He burst out laughing. Why do you fear that? There is no mote probability of your marrying Mary Gor; ig than jhr 'f .....n..'3 ..',n.,n sir. r (h best thing you can uo, is to get nerout oi your head a? speedily as you can. He did not speak for some moments, and I saw the color mount to his brow. What is your objection to me Miss Hal liwell! I suppose you are playing on my simplieity, sir, to ask what my objection is, 1 replied. It is your family that the objoction will come from, not mine. The son of the great Sir Thomas Elliot will never bo suffered to wed simple Mary Goring Miss Goring is of gentle blood, ho remonstrated. I trust sha is, I said, drawing myself up, though we, tho sister of her mother, are obliged to keep school fur a living. But your friends will look at position, as well as gentle blood. May I ask, sir. If Sir Thomas Elliot and Lady know of this. Not Yet. As I thought, Mr. Elliot. Your romance with my niece must end this night. It will not, indeed, Miss Halliwell. Sir, it shall. And I must observe that you have acted a cruel part. A young lady's affections are not to be pi lyed with like a fo H-ball. However, you have seeu her for tho last time. Allow mo to see her oncs more, he rejoined, Not if I know it sir. For an instant only, in your presence, j ho earnestly pleaded. Surely that can do no harm, if we are to part. Something came into my brain, just then, about George Archer a vision of m"v last interview with him in Lord Seaford's Park. Why should I ceny these two adieu? I asked myself. Sol relented, and called Mary down and was exceedingly soft for my pains. She shrunk to my side when she came in but William Elliot drew her from rue. I have been avowing to your Aunt, how matters stand, hi said. She would pursuade me to relinquish you; she thinks such love a3 yours can be thrown off at will. So I requested your presance, Mary, that we might assure her our engagement is of a different nature; that we are bound to each other by lies irrevocable in the spirit, as they hereafter shall be made in reality. So that was all I got for calling Mary. She had paled, blushed and faltered, and now she began U cry and shake. Mr. William leand over her writh reassuring words of deepest tenderness I saw nothing but perplexity before them, and not one wink of sleep did I get that night. On-i day the renowned physician. Sir Thomas Elliot, was not . himself. In lieu of the stately imperturbability which characterized the distinguished west end practitioner, his manners betrayed a nervousness, an abscence of mind, never before witnessed. To one lady patient who consulted him for dypepsia, ho ordered codliver oil and port wine; to another who was deep in consumption, ho prescribed leeches, and to live upon barley water. He had a large influx of patients that day, and an unusual number of calls to make from home. No until a faw mjnuts before the dinner hour did he find his time his owu.
He went straight to his wife's room, and sat down on a low ottoman which stood in its midst. Lady Elliot glanced round at him, sc mewhat surprised, for it : was uot often her lieed knight favored her with his presence during the day. She continued dressing without comment. Sir Thomas and Lady Elliot rarely wasted superfluous words, on upon the other. Can't you finish for yourself, and send her away? cried Sir Thomas, indicating the attendant by a movement of the head. More surpiisu still, but not curious (for Lady Elliot, young and handsome as she was yet, really gave one the idea of possessing no interest in what pertained to this life or in the one to follow it, for that matter,) shedismissjd the maid, but did not withdraw herself or her eyes from the glass, as she continued her toilette. I did not think, Luisa, you could have been such a fool, was tho complimentary opening of Sir Thomas Elliot, in a low tone of intense indication. Lady Elliot looked at him as wall she might and a flush rose to her face. She paused, however, beforo she spoke, coldly and resentfully. I proved myself that, years ago. Sir Thomas knew well to what she alluded; to her own hasty and unsanctioned union with himself; and a peevish 'tush' broke from his lips. You havo proved yourself a greater one now, Louisa, aid you must pardon my plainness in saying so. If you and I rushed into a headlong marriage, itought to have b?en the more reason for your leading William into one. William!, echoed Lady Elliot, in a startled voice. It wis, perhaps, the only subject that could arouse her. Sho idolized her son. You havo got into this habit of taking your own course, without consulting or referring to me going here, going there doing this, doing that, proceeded Sir Thomas. When Spa for an eternal number of weeks, had you informed me that it was your intention to have William and Miss Goring there also, and make them companions to each other, I should have put as op to it. Any one but you might have seen the result. Result? filtered Lady Elliot, with a sickening foreshadowing of what was
coming. Of course, angrily repeated Sir Thomas. When a young fellow, Jiko William, is thrown for weeks in the society of a girl, lovely and f.is;iua:i:ig as as--the deuce Sir Thomas, at that moment, could no' think of any more appropriate simile only one result can be louke'd for. And it has turned up in this case. You mean with',ilc.'ie..!?..0.y.9I head and ears in love ask my sanction to the marriage. I wish you joy of your daughter-in-law, Lidy Elliot. Lady Elliot scarcely suppressed a scream. It is impossible, impossible, she reiterated in agition. I njver thought of this. Then you hae lived at Spa with your eyes shut. But I can hardly believe you. To think that you and Eliza Graves could bo moping and meandering all those weeks, and not seo what wa3 going on under his very nose! Women aro the great est What, Sir Thoaia3 did not say, for he dropped his voice before bringing the sintence to a conclusion. I thought William was at Spa an unaccountable long time, and wrote him so, he continued, but I never imagined you had got that Miss Goring tlnre. You must havo known it, returned Lady Elliot. How should I! I saw she was staying here the day or two before you went, but 1 thought if I thought at all about it that as a matter of course she returned home. I say you arc always acting for yourself. Lady Elliot. Without reference to my feelings if I have got any, which perhaps you don't believe. When, the morning of the day fixed for our departure, 1 was summoned in haste out of town, you might have delayed it till the following day. Most wives would. But no, not you! I came back at night and found you gone. How was I to know that you look Miss Goring? It i? too preposterous ever really to como to anything, observed Lady Elliot, eager to find comfort in Lio opinion. William, with his personal baauty, his talents and his prospects, might marry into a Duke's family if he choose. Eexactly. but ho choses to marry into that of a school-mistress. He mii3tnot choose, persisted Ladv El liot, growing excited; ho must be brought to reason. Brought to what? asked the knight lteastn. I doa't know, was the significant reply. Reason, did not avail in a similar case with you or with me. William may prove a chip of the old block. It never can be permitted, said Lady Elliot, vehemently. Marry Mary Goring! It would be disgracing him for fife. William would never be so ungrateful. Leaving your ladyship the agreeable reflection that you were I he chief bringer about of tho disgrace. Looking at the affair dispassionately,! do not see how it is to be prevented. William possesses money, independent of us. Enough to live upon. Enough to starve upon! scornfully interrupted Lady Elliot. Twice, nearly thrice, as much as we en joyed for many year3 of our early life, rejoined Sir Thomas, in a subdued voice. And to themselves, who are ju3t now spooney with fantastic visions. Love in a cottage may wear the appearance of love in a paradise. , Can nothing be done can nothing stop it? reiterated Indy Elliot. Ono thing may. I should have put it in forc this morni ig, but I certainly thought you must have bsen a party to the scheme.
after what Wiliunu lei out ol tiic goings on at Spa. And that thing? she eagerly asked. To forbid it on pain of my curse. As I believe our parents very nearly "did by us. I do not think William would brave it. Lady Elliot placed her hands over her eyes, as if she would shut out rocollection of the years which had rolled her rebellious marriage. The retrospect was ono of dire anguish; in all probability, than had been in reality. Her husband turned to leave the room. Sho sprang alter him, and drew him back. Oh, Thomas, anything but that. Never curse our boy, whatever beside. Think of the misery our disobedience entailed on us. Do not force him into it. Thee you will let him marry the girl? Yes. If ihe only alternative must be our fate over again for him. He comes to night for the answer continued Sir Thomas, standing with the door in his hand. What is it to be? Consent? I leave the decision to you, for I will not, in this matter, subject myself to after reproaches. Consent, she replied. But Lady Elliot wrung her hands as she said it. She had anticipated so much more brilliant an alliance for her son.
S) sunshine came into our dewling. for Willi m Elliot hastened down, and laid his proposals before u for Mary. I could hardly believe my own ears. He frankly slated that Sir Thomas and Lady Elliot were not cordially inclined to the ma'ch, for they had withheld their consent, and, was certain Mary would soon win her way to their entire love. Perhaps this was as much as Mary could have hoped for, indeed more; for in point of worldly greatness William Elliot, was abova her. I suggested that they should not marry until the entire lova of Sir Thomas Elliot and his wife had been obtained, but Mr. William laughed at me, and of coursa Mary thought with him. These were both in a maze of enchantment and cammon sense was put out of the question. For a few weeks our house was te pleasan test of the pleasant. Preparations were set on foot fr the approaching union. Mary's tilings were bought, and Mr. Willliam took a pretty abode in tho Regent's lark. He did adopt my advice in ono particular, and that was, to begin life iu a small way; more m accordance with his own than his father's incomo. A good fortune must come to him at the demise of Sir Thomas and Lady Elliot, but the' might live many years. So ho agreed to set off in a very moderate style for him though I thought ii a sufficiently sumptuous one. One man and two maid servants no carriage, onlv cSuicfoV-'glv ip? AmuswhahuSfgfitfu"l discussions we had on those warm evenings, not one of which did Mr. William ever fail to spend with us. He had discovered that dining in the middle of ihe day was good for his constitution, and never felt well, he protested, without an early tea, which he could not get at home, so begged leave to join us. It was quite an every day thing, now, for us to take it in the drawing-room. 1 don't know whether Mary saw through his depth, about his constitution and his early teas, but I did, and was pleased, and a merry party we used to make. Sometimes he would get R19 to give Mary a lesson in house-keeping, and set himself to listen with a serious face, while all the time those handsome eyes of his would be dancing with merriment. About legs of mutton and apple tarts, he would say, which would send Francis Coring oil" in fits of laughter, almost as bad as poor Clara Elliot's. I would sometimes give them an opportunity of being alone days, and tho rapture that was mini yn I had a solitary moment with George Archer. I limited their interviews to three minutes, at tho last lick of the third, in I would pop to the drawing-room .again, with speed, I believe, rather exasperated Mr. William. One evening, as soon as tea was over, he asked me to let Mary go out walkiug with him, but I declined, and offered myself instead; and he never asked me again. Not, I hope, that any one will suppose I thought ill of William Elliot. A morn honorable young man never breathed; and I could hare trusted Mary with him anywhere; but my dear mother brought mo up io uusei v wiese punctilious manners, and I cnnot get out of them. But ihey did not want foi opportunities of being alone together. Mary wa3 occasionally invited with Clara to spend the day at Lady Elliot'swho, I may mention, was growing less cool to her with every v isit more like she had used to be before, she knew of her son's preference. Tho carriage would bring thera home at night, escorted by Mr. William, and a nice time these two must have had of it, for Clara was sure to go to sleep the moment they got in, and never wake till they got out.--Plenty of opportunity then, for talking secrets; but it j irred against ray old fashioned notior.3, and I hinted as much to Mr. William. How ho laughed! and I laughed too, when he told me I was a good" old dragon of a guardian. Then, changing to seriousness, lie took my hand in his, and whispered me with that sweet earnest expression mi h?3 face, that I could not protect Mary more faithfully than he would, for that ehe was dearer to him than ever she was to me. An end came to it alas! alas! as 1 think it mostly does come to all things that am joyous and brigntin life. And then Iaski 1 t r a . m myseu now i could ever have been deluded into the belief that the son nf Sir Thomas and Lady Elliot would really espouso iViry coring. A telegraphic summons came early one morning to tho popular plivsician. Sir Thomas .Elliot. He was wanted, in.' all haste, at MiddJeburv. a town n few hour journey from London by rail. Sir. Thomas naswnea to mo l'aamgton station, caught
ilc eXpieas iialn, ana a Willi I. la patient, a lady, in the afternoon.. Her medical attendant was a Mr. Ashe; Dr. Ashe as he was often styled in Middh-bury and Mr. Wai burton had also been called in. When in conversation, the discourse of the medical men led to matters loreign to their pa tient no very rare occurrence in medical consultation, I should like to know what her previous constitution has been; remaiked Sir Thomas to Dr. Ashe, speaking in referonce to lh patient. I presume you Lav been her usual medical attendant. No, I have not. replied Dr. Ashe; tfcrs to the first time 1 have attended her. Dr. (coring used lobe the family attendant. But she must have enjoyed pretty good health, for he has been dead let me see more than two years, and no one has Ixeen ealhxl in to see her since. Dr. Goring! ?ir Thomas Elliot pricked up his ears, and a flash of intelligence darted into his mind. Sh?, who was soon to bo his ton's wife, was a native of Middlbury. and tho daughter of a medical man. This Dr. Goring, then must have been her fallier. He would ask a few particulars.
m m m H hat son of a mar. wa3 Dr Goring? he suddenly said. to,9 ReapecUble? PopuVery much so, was Ashe, the reply of Dr. Until lha nasty business occurred, about his wife, broke in Mr. Warberton. He lost both respect and popularity then. What business was that, inquired Sir Thomas. She was recovering fiom an illnesa on of the nicest little women you ever sawin fact, all but well, observed Dr. Ashe. I had seen her in tho moring or I attended her with all her children and told ber that the n;xt day she might more into tle drawing room. That was about eleren o'clock. By fire in ihe afternoon the was dead. What from? inquired the physician. Poison. Poison! echoed Sir Thomas Elliot. Strychnne. Not any common poison. By whom administered? There was the question, said Dr. Ashe. It has never been clearc-d up from that day to this. With ßome people, poor Goring got credit tor it, but 1 believe the man to b? as innocent as myself. Sir Thomas Elliot rose from his chair in a perturbed manner. His son about to marry the daughter of a man suspected of He sat down again. The case was published in the Lancet, resumed Dr. Ashe. Of course without casting as to the administer. I remember reading it, cried sir Thomas. But it never struck ma that What lEC.ra.,hft rounds for suspecting the husIn my opinion, were no grounds, repeated Dr. Ashe. I never saw a more affectionate husband than Goring was; and ho had nothing to gain by her death, and everything to lose. The insurance raony.suggested Mr. Warburton. Nonsense! I know, a few cast that in his teeth: very unjustly, if they only had considered the facts. Mrs. Goring had a clear income of 300 a year, an annuity, which died with her. Did not go to ber husband or children, understand. Sir Thomas; absolutely died with her. She had insured hei own life, some years before, for two thousand pounds or three I forget, now for the benefit of her children. But what is two or three thousand pounds compared with three hundred a year? And Goring did not touch the money, he invested it for the children He was a maligned man. Was he accused of the crime? asked Sir Thomas. Oh no no; nothing ofthat. At his wife's interment I never saw such a crowd in the churchyard before some voices hissed at him murder! murder! Poisoner! that was the extent. But if ever grief was genuine in this world, it was Goring's for the loss of his wife. Tkey were on the wrong scent, muttered Dr. Ashe, in a lower tone. to de continued TFrom Washington. Washington, Wednesday, Oct. IP. The President and Secretary of War were together several hours yesterday on malles connected with the proceedings at Harper's Ferry, the result of which conference was the sending of United States District Attorney, Ould, thither to superintend the legal procedings in fhe premises. Tho excitement which last night existed at Washington and vieinitv has subsided and tho extraordinary force relieved. It is siad that the affair at Harper's Ferry is the first case of the kind which has ever occurred in this country. Involving at the same time State and federal jurisdiction. While the State is affected as to slavery and locality, the Federal Government is interested with regard to the public properly, it having exclusive rontrol over the Arsenal grounds independently, and for the State also with regard to tho mils. Already, in distinguished quarters, the question of jurisdiction is discussed. Governor Wise will, it is said, claim the prisoner row held by the United States troops, to be dealt with according to tha laws of Virginia. In this case the question of jurisdiction wi'l have to be determined by the Judiciary. New Yopk, Oct. 24. The Herald's Washington correspondent telegraphs: 'The sectary of War has received, since the affair at Harper's Ferry, an insolent letter, ptsrporting to come from the notorious Cook, dated at Chambersburgh, Pa. informing him that it is his intention to morch ::n army of several thousand men, and take Harper's Ferry and Charleston, liberate the prisoners, and perform sundry other lidiculous feats.They would hardly have given the Sectary warning in advance if they really inttidsd to carry out their threat.
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