Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 October 1880 — Page 2

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

*ERRE IIAUTB, OCT. 80,1880

SLANDER.

A whisper woke the atrA soft light tone and low, Yet barbedwith pain and Vow might it only parish there,

ain and woe

Nor farther go! Ah me! a quick and eager car Caught up the little meaning sound! Another voice had breathed it clear,

And so it wanders round. From ear to lip—from lip to ear— Until it reaches a erotic heart,

And that—it broii'*.

It wan the only heart 51 found. The only heart twa* H«« .sut to flna, When flnrt its acc*?nt woke— It reached that tender l«cart at last,

And that—it broke. Ix»w it wcr. In other's can. It came a thunder cru**h to hern—

That fra«He girl, /air and RayThat guileless girl—pure and true!

Tls said a little humming bird. That in afrajni ut lily lay, And dreamed the summer nn.rn away, Was killed but by the enp's ivj^irt, JVuiK- !lic 1 *y had flred in *jxrt!

T.it very soi*.vi—a death-blow came.

And thUH her happy heart that beat With love and hpe no font and sweet, (Shrined in its Lily Ux—

For who the maid tliat knew But ownd the delicate, flower like grave Of her young form and face?)

When first that word Her iiuht heart heard, It fluttered like a frightened bird,

Then it stut It* wings and sighed, And with Mllt.nt unudder—died.

Barbara's Story

'l don't think I have over inontioned that our village la tho Country town. It has always been so since the colonial daya and though it is really now of but •mall lcn«tit to us, yet we are very tonadou.M of the honor,

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The little wo know of her history was this: Her husband—for Barbara wasa wife (which I mention to show that oc-contricit-y is not altogether confined to npinsters)—her husband, I say, had her

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in jail for some slight ofronso, preferring no doubt that tho law should punish her rather than himself, which Hhe so deeply resented, or felt tho indig- ... jj( liity so keenly that she doclared she would never eonto out of duranco. lie may havo laughed at hor, knowing tho law never keeps a prisonor longer than the allotted time but Harbara was in earnest with her throat, and hor woman's wit helnod hor. Every timo sho was discharged, sho committed somo ixtt net ef violence, such as breaking windows or leing disorderly, for which BIIO

would bo arrested and again Imprisoned. This sho did so often that the Sheriff sum that wllfu' woman wi' havo her way as well as a wilfu' man, and, thinking that as sho was determined to live at tho cxttonse of tho country she might as woll bo useful, omploved her as servant in tho jail kitchen. She had full lilwrty to go in and out, and she was particularly fond of going down to the river shore. Whether sho wasInland woman and tlie night was novel to her, or whether the water was an old loved friend, as it is to all of our community, Barbara never said.

Tho children regarded her with much awe and curiosity, and would always leave their sand pies to sneak to hor. Whether it was because they admired the wonderful firmness of hor character which preferred Jail, under certain clrcumstanees, to freedom, or became thoy knew she insisted upon being locked in her cell every night as tho rest of the prisoners were, can't say I only knowshe \v,'i heroine to most of tho children of the village.

One morning it was announced that obi lVirKtrn was dead. She had died in her cell. Utvping to her word, and eontinuing a prisoner until tho great roleasor of nil captives frttxl her.

But it isn't old BarternS own story tin: 1 Ivgau to tell, but one sho was fond of narrating, and which made no liule ir at tlie time it happened, th tm-i now it is only remembered by a o?' he old inhabitants.

l'h-y that was in the shorifTs hcu«^ uv 1 came there," old Barbara Kai :o •»». one day. "was Amy Wallace, She had ovw lik^'for-get-me-nots, and a akin like "wax, and there was no more harm in her, to everv one's thinking, th-m in a pivttv doll.*'

The sheriff was very fond of his daughter, sir,.! well he might bo, for she was his mily ohild. But ho wasn't altogether comfot.tMo alvnt her for though she'd never given him ft hit of trouble in her Uft!. he was afraid she'd marry a worthless follow, or if not marry fall in love with one. You w\ his wife was dead, and s« lv had all the responsiblJHy. He di.b»'t kn nv nvtvlx atwnt girl*, and ho Vul aivnt men, »wk! he wasn't for trustiue thi u. wIks4a!Vv •A ith his,ta t*»r. jHo he her iwt/tight, only ling her go now and theu to iw an aant who livrt? coimtrr

Ainv eoUWift i^BSde living In the Slw^ritts bouw, MM said it mad© her low st^tfted, atMf couldn't sleop at night thinking of the ortsoJiew. It worrit her that folks had to be fcr I and punished, and she alwmv* d«d«uvJ if v.« liCt there shonMnl ha a primmer to be tvkxl ?owrt s, she'd

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them mi rn^ny C-incw t« -Hp out. seetneJ ?o vex W W much that the sheriff never mentioned anv?hing*!*Mit the jaii iu her hearing, and you may be sure Whe s«*ked no »ncd »v. it was nmr tN» end of March, Ainv I chanced totv tr^hftr In tho hail. 1 wa« wcr.j'^na H, and she had atoptwl t»tell m-» t»he was jroln* to jx,v a vi4«t :o her auns during the May ». wind Itlowing tierce *ut of i-'V..! niv brush vran

making its own noise, so we failed to bear an footsteps, and I thought it was the wind that had buret open the front door but Instead it was two policemen with a prisoner.

It didn't often happen that a prisoner was brought through the house, and I knew that Amy was vexed at being caught. For myself I hadn't any whimsies about the matter, and left off my scrubbing to look at our new bird. We hadn't anything like him among us. A rare gentlemanly fellow with handsome brown eyes and soft, silky beard Ho had a fearless look about him, not a bit cowed or worried at the position he was in, but rather as if he came to us by some mistake, and it amused him. He had a pleasant voice, too, and could laugh merrily, for he bade me good morning and made some jokes about ono of the policeman, who had awkwardly fallen over my scrubbing pail, "kicking the bucket."

I felt sorry for him, for I was certain he didn't know what it was to be locked up, and the gay, merry ones are sure to feel it most. So when I had set my bucket out of the way, I glanced up at him to answer. At first I thought the sight of my face had bewitched him, I never saw a more surprised, startled look than his but in a moment I knew ho was looking beyond me, not at me, and I turned my head to see Amy standing in the parlor door. She must have run there to get out of the way when the front door opened, but she had gotten no further, ana stood there with a look of horror in her blue eyes, which I didn't wonder hurt tho poor fellow.

I know how Amy hated to see the prisoners, and I told* the policeman that the sheriff didn't like them to come in by tho hall but ono of them laughed and said it wasn't often thoy had such gamo as was used to front entrances, and he didn't like to sneak him in through the sheriff's offlco for fear he'd feel offended.

Just then the Sheriff himself came in, and

Amy

much so that we

have frequent difficulties with a sister town, who liecaiiso of sizoand population, like all other big things, is apt to bo greedy, and wishes to absorb the Court-houses.

After every small victory in which wo manago to hold our own, we have quito grand illuminations, and the boy mAke oonttres. I suspoct that some of our old mansions woro built prophetically of just such illuminations, or else why should one of tliom I wot of extremely well have twenty-four windows in its gablo end, all facing tho northoast? Of what could tho builder have leon thinking savo of an illumination, which would certainly lo superb if one could afford the proper amount of candlos?

Ourljcing the country town introduces among us nomo quaint, odd characters, which would bo quito lost in any othor community. A diamond in a rnodorn netting gives no hint of its ago, nor that it lias a history but in an antique one, you know at once that it is an heirloom, and leg in to grow curious as to its antecedents. And so old llarbara would bavo been a simple old woman in any othor utniosphoro than ours, but to us she was ono of our characters, and as uueh noticed and made much of.

slipped into the parlor out of

sight. It was certain tho sheriff had never seen tho prisoner before, but he was very civil to him, as ho should have been, as he wasn't convicted as yet. It didn't take long to unlock the strong door which divided the house from the jail, and they all went in. and the door shut with a clang, and the key grated harshly as it turned in tho lock. I who had seen many and many a one go through that door, went back to my lbblng as a matter of course but I must say I never felt so sorry for anyone, as I did for that cheery, light hearted prisoner.

In a little whilo Amy came out of her hiding place behind tho parlordoor, looking as white as my sunday cap. "I wonder what they suspect him of?" she asked in a frighted voice.

men had loft on tho wot floor. Thoy must suspoet him or thoy wouldn't bring him horo," sho answered shortly. "Tho liko of liim don't got in hereon suspicion. There's plenty to go his bail, unless thoy are prottv sure they did what thoy accuso liim of.'*

But what (»uId they accuso him of?" she asked. 'Of murder, most likely. He's too genteel for a thief, and ho doesn't look assai con

gon liko an assault and battery. for

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iiim aro genorally put in for murder." is if she didn't know exactly what tho word moant, aud thou she laughed a queer, littlo uneortain laugh. "You can't frighton mo in that way, Barbara. He couldn't look so (*ol and indifferent if lie had killed anyone accidently. Blood will cry out against us, ovon if we never intend to shod it."

Muroor," sho ropoated, as if

It's your own idea that bo's innocent," I said, cool v. "He'd bo a fool to look guilty until he's sontonced." "But you don't know any more than I do, and vou'vo no right to put the worst of crimes at his door," sho answered, angrily. "You sot mo guessing, and then you aro vexed at my answers. If ho were ragged and disreputable looking, you'd as lief ho'd bo a thief or murderer as not but just bocauso bo has a good coat to his Imck, and a jwirof handsomeoyos—" "Ah, Barbara, so you have boon looking at his eyes! A woman is never too old to notico such things. So for the sake, of his tine oyos, I want you to find out and tell mo what thoy have brought him horo for."

Find out yourself," I said, crossly. "But I can't, and so liko a good Barbara you will for me," sho answered coaxinglv. 'Why can't you? You can ask your father, I suppose. IIo's sure to know all about it," I answered.

But father doesn't liko me to ask such questions and besidos, I'd have to tell him I was hiding behind tho parlor door while ho was here. So bo good, kind Barbara, and find out for mo what I want you to, and I will give you the handsomest hat ribbon that can be bought in town."

I did not caro a bit for tho cap ribbon, but theto was no use in kooping secret what everybody who chose could know so I told Amy before night what it took very little trouble for me to find out, and that was that tho prisoner was put in for horse stealing. "Ilorsestewing! What nonsense!" sho exclaimed. "llo'll not find it nonsense if he's convicted," I answered. "Men think mightily of their horses, and, as thoy maHe the laws, it goes hard with tho horse thief." "Oh. yes, I've heard that a man classes his horse first, and then his dog, and then his wife. But I intend that tho man who marries me shall put me first, for I shall prove myself more

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his horse ami more faithful than his dog." "You'd prove yourself a pret ts fool," I said, for 1 was angry at her luik. Much she knew of men and how they rate us. One I wot of, stables his horae comfortably, ami gives his dog the right of ih« chimney corner—but his wife, ave sho traveled off to jail one dav. and the worst of It was. I don't believe The ever cured whf*ther she came home or not. 1 didn't *m much of Amy for over two weeks, for she sat in her own room the most of tt»e time sewing, getting ready for the visit she had to!d mo *h* expected io~pavKer aiint during the May term, ft-/ .*had "en weary of sitting by h' and-••!!•. day aho brought her work down to the kitchen.

Sb© took her place on the window seat, which was broad and low, and as she aewed ahe lold me of the dresses her father hsd bought her. It was plain to see she .dnlro'.' heart in them, for 'rally at a gW tells well is the tsu-imlag e' a dnwa, and Amy wasn't one above oiling for audi things. Bat ».ui-vewr. like, and by sf ended to trim her Wue muslin with pink, and heaven k~t-w« what ahe pat thr pink It v..-"it hard ttacet-n wa- .••wt '.'king for *s sake, and wnsnl minding a bit wha *e was saying. '•if if***," mid she sodden Iv, "do yoti things--- will«*•!.%'.Mt

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likelv to do without knowing an vthing about the evidonce against him?" I answered, with a sudden feeling dawning in my mind that Amy took a deeper interest in the matter than I had hitherto dreamed of. "Barbara," said Amy, coming to me and hiding her motherless, face in my bosom ana elasping me abontthe neck, "Barbara, I want you to learn every particular concerning the pretended evidence against this man, and let meknow it at the earliest possible moment." "But," I began, by way of remonstrance. "Do not deny me this, I beg of you, Barbara," said the girl, with an energy and a vehemence that I had never hitherto witnessed in her. "If that man is guiltvofa crime," said she, impetuously, "then there is no truth left in man," and the tearful face turned to mine revealed the shuddering horror that I then saw was making her life a protracted agonv, the more intense in her own bosom. "Amv," said I, with all the firmness I could muster, "tell me the oarticulars of this mystery in all their details and will do all you wish."

The agitated girl sank upon her knees at my side and began her recital as follows: "You will remember, Barbara, that during tho February term of the court I went over to spend a week with aunt at B— and remained nearly a month, returning only whou sent for to attend to papa's illness that so alarmed us all at that time. "It was whilo at aunt's house that I met with Mr. Fitzbugh, who is now confined in that horrible cell that causes me to shudder every time I think of it. The evening after my arrival at my aunt's house cousin John camohome with a couple of acquaintances to spend the evening with my namesake, Amy Blessington, who is a noted belle at B—, and always has a crowd of young men fluttering in her train. "At the first glance from Mr. Fitzhugh's handsome brown eyes I felt an irresistable attraction towards him and it seems that tho attraction was mutual. I saw before tho evening was over that both my cousin John and his sister Amy wore put out at the mutual interest shown each other by Mr. Fitzhugh and myself. This pi quo became so marked that when next day in walking to the village postofflce I accidently met Augustus and he insisted on walking home with me, I begged him to leave me at the corner of tho street leading to my aunt's homo without coming with me to the door. "This littlo mvstory thus innocently begun led finally to repeated meetings and many strolls out to the park like commons surrounding the pleasant old village of B— where my aunt resides and before my return to mutual interchange of vows of unalterable affection between us. Augustus came rather rarely to my aunt's house during my stay, as my cousin Amy was so evidently "and deeply enamored of him as to make mo almost wild with agitation at her opan preference for him and my cousin John nearly as mad with jealousy at mv as imperfectly veiled sentiments. "Tilings remained in this condition until tho dispatch from homo of my father's illness caused mo to return suddenly without even time to see Fitzhugh to say good-bye to liim and from that timo "to this I "have not seen nor heard from liim until I Baw liim brought in hero yesterday as a common malefactor. Why*ho has not written mo nor come to see 'me nor my father before this I have no means of knowing. If his assurances of lovo for mo wero sincere, why has he not given ino some evidence of It-)-somo word in tho tlireo long months that have elapsed since my return from B—? It is the doubt, tho agony of this uncertainty that is killing mo. Pride, in part, sustained me up to tho timo I was horrified at seeing him lod in between two constables tho other dav but all my doubts faded away when I looked into those eyes of his, and I long to tell him that I at least do not believo him guilty, and never shall so believe as long as life remains. "My poor child," said I, with a forced smile, yot with a dread sinking at tho heart, "let us liopo forth© best, but wo must go direct to your father and tell him all." "Oh! I have wanted to tell him the truth," said tho now crushed and weeping girl. "I should have doneso at once upon mv return had not his illness at first prevented, and shame at what was Augustus' unaccountable silenoo afterwards prevented."

I took her hand without replying and led her to hor father's sitting room, and after a brief statement of the facts left them together alone. I afterwards learned from tho Sheriff tho main facts of that interview, which was a long and sorrowfuljone to that shocked and affectionate parent who saw his only child thus hopelesslvattached to a man suspected, as appeared, justly, of being a common thief.

Tho report of tho Sheriff was disheartening enough. Augustus Fitzhugh was a young man from a respectable but reduced fatnilv, his widowed mother having onlv a li'mitod income to support herself, and with tastes and habits that made it difficult for her to spare much to her son. The latter had accordingly entered a mercantile house as soon as he left school and had risen to a good position and tho ostcem of his employer. Amv'scousin John was his fellow clerk, and "although a sort of friendship existed between tho two young men, John Blessington was of a jealous disposition that found constant outbreaks at Fitzhugh's superior address and business tact. When tho former became so suddenly and deeply enamored with our little Amv this jealously could hardly be rest rained, and a settled coolness arose between tho two young men

The day that our dear Amy was called home Augustus was went" very nnexpeeUxlly to a distant town to arrange the

Viirs of a correspondent of the mer•utile house where the young man was employed, and had been there hut a day or two before his appearance as a prisoner at our jail, as recounted at the beginning of this story. On the Monday preceding he returned and left, as be stated, to come to our village, Instead, however. 6T coming direct he had deviated to ptassthrough an adjoining county town, whtwe ho bad brought his employer's horse and offered it for sale, expressing great haste to receive the money and haft walked across the country the same evening after dark—some three or four miles—to reach the depot to catch the train that should bring him to oar town whea he arrived the train had gone, and, suspicions having been aroused at his sudden exit, an officer had followed him and arrested hfm for selling a supposed lcn horse. The horse proved he hi* tunployer's property that he to had riddc red for 4,aa W! value

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

wav without leave am! of tithoat authority, rsceivhown, much lass Uflui was .Jd. "My child," said rant the stricken Amy, :L. ijwts hat the Pnwecatimr pr ired to ^o»vc. of

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whole night long in sleepless agitation At the trial these facts wore clearly shown by the testimony reluctantly giv en of the young man's employer, out Augustus Fitzhugh upon whom the full horror of his situation seemed to dawn for the first time, declared that on the evening before leaving B— his friend, John Blessington. had put into his hands a letter from the firm requesting him to take the horse in question to the county town where he had sold it and disposed of it at the best rate he could. The letter, he alleged, his friend John had handed him the evening before he was ready to depart and he had accordingly gone to tho stable, saddled the horse and set out early the following morning before light. "His employer denied having written anv such letter. John Blessington denied having delivered any such instructions, and here the case rested.

Everybody expected the verdict would be returned guflty within five minutes but, to the surprise of all, there was a disagreement and the Judge ordered the jury to be locked up for the night. As the* prisoner was led away to his cell, Amy suddenly darted across the passage in front of the prisoner, catching for one her flounce on tho large brass moment button of the officer. For a moment she

put out her hand to disengage the frail lace, then, without looking toward the prisoner, tore the ruffle impatiently away and disappeared, leaving a not© unperceivod in the prisoner's hand. 'Fitzhugh was led, dazed and startled at the operation, to his cell with the note crumpled in his hand.

The following morning as tho gray dawn began to steal through tho halls and corridors of the frowning building, a sudden hurrying of feet and shouting of men was heard, and tlio cry rang through the chill morning air that there had been an escape of prisoners. Men hurried to tho Sheriff's room to find him torpor that, when he finally was awakened, it was to learn that the key to Fitzhugh's cell had been taken from him in his sleep, the cell door unlocked, and tho prisoner was gone. The look that came to the Sheriff's face when the full appreciation of this information dawned upon his mind it is impossible to describe. "Where is Amy?" said he, turning to me with a look o*f agony, but without waiting for an answer he hurried to hor room and burst in the door without turning the latch, to find her bed untouched and tho poor child gone without a vestigo to indicate her whereabouts. Tlie distracted father, in a stupor, sank into a chair from which, for the moment, ho refused to stir all tho commotion and rushing of tho deputies throughout the jail, all talking at once, were unable to rouso him. An hour later one of the assistant deputies camo towards the house with a woman's straw hat and a fragment of a veil that had boon.found on the slope of the mill-dam caught upon a branch of a tree that lay lodged upon the apron to the dam.

With tho crowd that surrounded the officer who brought in those mementoes of the missing girl camo John Blessington, with a face such as I never saw on mortal man before. Tho poor Amy had drugged her father to cause his unnatural sleep, released the prisoner, and either destroyed horself in tho mill race, or been murdered by Augustus Fitzhugh, seemed now self-evident to all, and many were of tho opinion that to tho crime for which he had just been tried he had added that of murdor of the poor deluded girl. Excitement was so great that tho officers of the Court decided to convene tho Court, and adjourn over until tho next dav. As tho Judge came into Court through aside door a shout was heard outside, and a few minutes afterwards Augustus Fitzhugh rushed into the Court-room, followed with a crowd of men who seemed ready to tear liim limb from limb.

With a faco as white as that of tho dead tho prisoner took his seat upon the liencli. "Officer, bringin the jury," said tfle Judgo, with a sternness awful to hoar. As tho jury filed into their seats the prisoner arose, and in a voice out of which all life, all hope, seeemod to have fled, declared that he desired to withdraw the plea of not guilty and change it to guilty. Tho prisoner's counsel sprang forward to stop the impetuous youth, but it was too late.

Gentlemen of the jury," said the Judgo, "have you agreed upon a verdict?"

Before the reply could bo formulated a voice from near the Court-houso door rang through tho crowded room "Hold," anL John Blessington came forward is oyos bloodshot, his clothing in jy, and walking to the witness' bencltp turned to Judge and jury, •Hold," said he, In a hoarse and agitated voice, "Augustus Fitzhugh is innocent. I forged tho order for him to sell our employers' horse at D., for which he has been tried for stealing. I carried him this pretended letter, and afterwards stole it from his pocket. I followed him to tho town where the animal was sold, and incited tho officers to follow and arrest him at tho station whore bo missed the train that night. I intercepted his letters to my cousin Amy during tho time that he was away at tho South, and left poor Amy to suppose that ho had forgotten her. "I did ail this for lovo of that poor child, and jealousy of Augustus Fitzhugh, the prisoner at the liar.

Iii the midst of the revulsion of feeling that came over the crowded Court the jurymen gathered one moment for consultation, and, in the midst gf a sudden rush, the foreman announced to the Judge: "We have agreed, and our verdict is, 'Jfot gulltv."

The shout that rent the court room was taken up and echoed outside, and Augustus Fitzhugh was borne on men's shoulders out into the publie square, where he swooned away and was thought to havo died from the sudden joy at thus escaping from a fate ao ignominious.

As the crowd of awe-stniek spectators stood around the seemingly dead or dy ing vouth, the Sheriff's door opened suadCTilv, and that officer appeared on the scene with the lifeless body of his danghtor in his arms that he brought forward, and, kneeling on the ground beeids Augustus Fitzhugh, placed her cold hand in that of her now Insensible lover.

Slowly the blood returned to lip and cheek. and the young man's eyes opened, dazed at first, but lighting upon the angelic face at his *5de. it welled back in torrent* to his pal* features, and he n^rang forward to clasp the dead girl in

AmyTrecalled to life by this embrace, open her eves and smiled, with one hand c&wped in that of her lover's, and the other by her happy father.

Sudden Iv the report of a pistol was heard, and John Blessington was carried awav with a pistoiTmU baried In his brain, and he never spoko nor moved

One rdln explanation of Amy's disappear »nr4 and supposed suicide by drowning and sodden reappearance on

rearing of the jury withouta

verdict, which was the result of a doubt tving arisen in the mind of one of the •inrmnn «f the testimony given by John 1*.tig worthy of beli- f,

Amy resolved to rescue the prir fiee-^-she knew not where. i» an opiate in her father's ooflSw*h ir night, secured his key while ho slept, and, after sending the watchman away on a pretended errand other father's, she opened Fitzhugh's cell door and begged him to flee until his innocence could bo established.

Ho relectantly consented, but fearing that the intrepid girl might suffer harm returned, and learning from a returning markot man from tho town that Amy was supposed to have committed suicide, he rushed in a state of hurry to the court house and declared himself guilty of tho crime of which ho was aecused. John Blessington, supposing Amy's, death to have really occurred, avowed his crime, from what must be presumed to be remorse. Hearing Amy come down stairs habited for her night sho knew not whither, that night, lfollowed her to the bridge across the mill race, whore shq paused to rest one moment, aud where she evidently for the first time began to reflect where she should go. A sudden gust of night wind blew her hat and veil into the stream. I camo forward and caught tho poor child in my arms as she sank down inasort of swoon, and bore her back to my room, where she continued in a series of fainting fits the remainder of the night. Not thinking her equal to being interrogated tnen, I left tho household in ignorance of her plaeo of partial concealment and condition until Augustus was borne out into the square, where I led her father to his still swooning child and he carried hor to the same place as has already been narrated.

Not long afterwards tho Sheriff resigned his offlco and retired to private life, and Amy and Augustus married, and, happy in each other's affection, made his declining days far pleasanter than they had ever been while vexed with the cares and responsibilities of his unpleasant public duties.

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