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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 81, 1871
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13t Annie R. Blount.
CHAPTER, 111.
Bo, Bertie and Cecil young, lov
ing and beloved and utterly un
mindful of rank and pedigree whiled
the happy hours away, boating,
fishing, flmvergalhering, and horse
back rilling, to say nothing of the
volumes of Poetry they consumed
together, with flushed cheeks and
beating hearts. In a light canoe,
which threatened every moment to
upset, he would row her down the
river, and as
Tlmir hearts so swiftly glided
While the silver waves divided,
they would lift tin their clear young
voices in some tender love-song to
the music of a Guitar sirummed bv
Bertie’s slender finders. Many a
happy hour these loving young crea
tures passed together; many a ro-
manlic stroll beneath a July moon
in that dangerous hour of early ev-
enirg when twilight has first been
folded in the embraced of night.
But this could not last forever. Even
now Fate was weaving the web
which would envelop them in its
cruel folds. Mrs. Granville had re
covered, and Col. Glover had re
turned from his tour to the White
Mountains, and his hidden pursuit
of Constance Kay. We left Con
stance in a perilous position, but
still hoping Micawber-like, that
something would “turn up,” and the
blind goddess relent. But alas !
there was no such good fortune in
store for her. In vain she made ap
plications for a situation, all her at
tempts were unsuccessful, while
young women for inferior to her in
education and retail abilities, found
employment without trouble. Poor
child! she never once suspected that
two enemies had been at work—
Mrs. Granville had spoken slighting
ly of her from sheer haired, and Col.
Glover, wishing to have her com
pletely in his power had caused in-
siduous whispers to be noised abroad
of such a character as to impate
seriously the orphan’s good name.
Door after door closed against her,
and the poor child cried from the
depths of her despair. “My God!
My God! why hast Thou forsaken
me.” Constance had just conclu
ded a very disagreeable interview
with her landlady, and was indul-.-
gmg in a fit of bitter weeping, when
Col. Glover was announced. With
the privilege of an old acquaintance
he sought to soothe her grief, and in
sisted on knowing the causeof her
tears. Pride kept her silent, she
was already under heavy obligations
to Col. Glover; he had insisted on
engaging an eminent Physician for
her grandmother, and her inability
to repay him added another pang to
her already overburthened heart.
In vain he clasped her hand in his,
and besought her confidence; in vain
he al last twined his arm about her
Drinking form, and begged, as
one who loved her more than all the
world, to know the cause of her
tears. Constance still evaded him,
but Maumer Leah, who had been an
unwilling eaves-dropper, came in
suddenly, and brought the hot blood
into the white cheeks of Constance
by saying: ‘I’ll tell you all about it,
Masser Colonel, Dat drolled vilyun,
what owns dis house done been come
and ’noy do pore chile to death ’bout
de rent. De cussed scamp swears
he’ll level down on de furniture, and
ebery varsel ’ting we confess, tbout
Miss Constance pay him to-morrow
morning. Dat’s de gospel trufe
Masser Colonel, ane I hope old Nick
uil make him sweat for it one of
dese days,”
•‘Is that so?” asked the genile-
man indignantly, “and you would
not tell me: Oh! Connie, I thought
you had more faith in me- Do you
not know, dear one, that I would
gladly die to save you a single pang,
and vet, you will not trust me.”
He clasped his arm more firmly
about her, and as by a sudden im
pulses lifted up her tearful face, and
imprinted a burning kiss on her
-blinking lips. “Leave me to set
tle with this unprincipled wretch.
I’ll warrant he’ll trouble you no more,
my poor timid little darling.”
“But Col, Glover, I am already
indebted to you, to my shame,—
grandma’s physician, and now—
“Notanother word, my dear child.
My days have been few and evil;
iet me redeem them by one or two
generous deeds.”
Several days after tins interview,
Col. Glover again sat by Constance,
and in response to her rejection of his
proffered kiss, said in a harsh tone.
“Oh! Connie, you are so cruel, I
have loved you so long; done so much
to prove the intensity of my love,
and yet, you arc so cold, to distant;
have I deserved this al your hands?’,
The long silken lashes veiled her
eyes; her cheeks were crimson, her
heart was beating as though it would
burst her silken bodice. Yet, tor
herlileshe could not utter one word
rising of grief because of her cruel
ty. Master of all the arts of sophism-
try, he could make the worse appear
the better cause. In one of their
painful interviews, he said: “Con
stance, do you think it a virtue to
condemn me, as well as yourself, to
utter misery because of that miser
able Puritanical cant, which would
make it a sin for us to indulge in the
Cod given emotion of love because
forsooth, the law can not smile on
our union? Would it make my love
more sincere for a Priest or Magis
trate to mumble a few unmeaning
words over us. Your soul is too
lofty, you are too lar above the nar
row-mindedness of those empty
sticklers for ceremony to imagine
such a formula necessary to the
holiness of our marriage. You are
already my wife in the sight of God
for we love each other; and because
I am tied by legal vows to that poor
insane woman who bears my name,
a living human being chained in
in her own defense. The weight of loalhsomn utlion to dead bod Y ' vould
pecuniary obligations lay heavy up>|y°" comdemn me to a solitary un
on her, to save them she loved from
the horrors of the Ahns-House she
had accepted Col. Glover’s assis*.
tance; but now when he plead for
loved lift? Happy in the delusion
that she is one day Queen of Eng
land and the next Pope of Rome, >t
certainly could not injure her for
her love she felt a strange shrink- me to be n,ade ha PUY b J y our loVe *
ing of the heart. A curious, unde- | ,bs wa y> I have ordered a dozen
finable feeling half fascination, half j b °t-I e s °f I i-rt wine for the grand
loathing, such as we feel in pres- j molber » surely y°u will not refuse
ence of the beautiful but deadly to beracce P l ^ <)U are g row ‘
rattlesnake, had possession of her. ’ n § * bbl and P a ^ e * n lb,s crue l
Her heart throbbed wildlv when he struggle, my poor little darling. Give
clasped her hand with a strange fiery ^ U P> Connie, lay down your arms
tumult which she believed to be love; and come to mine, you know I love
and yet when he would have press- you more than my own soul, you
ed her to his heart, and sealed their cruel beautiful, Connie!”
betrothal with a kiss, ahhoug b sbe , CHAPTER, 4th.
owned that she loved him, some- j . .,
Another pair of lovers, patient ponse.
reader. Yet another pair for v hom
the current of love ran in troubled
channels.
by the tears and entreaties of Ber sublime rages
tie,—that he would wed her in spite
of her mother, Col. Glover, and
all the world besides. Circum
stances favored the imprudent and
rebellious lovers—the very next
day Cecil was to drive Bertie to the
city, as she wished to make so ne
purchases, and attend the Theatre,
where a celebrated actor was ‘star;
ring,” for one night only. It was
arranged that Col. Glover should
meet them at the Theatre, and drive
Eettie back to the Farm-house,
while Cec.l remained in the city.
“As soon as wc leave the Hotel we
will go directly to the house of Mr.
Barton—he is a magistrate and wil
perform the ceremony for us with
out raising any conscientious scru
ples, so he gets his fee. He has
forged as many matrimonial chains
as the far-famed Blacksmith of Gret
na Green, and”—
—“Tomorrow night he will unite
anolhor love-sick pair » f babies, eh,
Cecil ?” pressing his hand to her
throbbing heart. “And then you will
be mine dearest,” murmured Cecil
in response, “come weal or woe.”
“Sink or swim, survive or perish,’
added she with a merry laugh. And
with another lingering embrace they
left the grove of oaks, the scene of
betrothal, to wend their way home
ward. At the gate they parted,
Bertie to steal unobserved to her
room. Cecil to smoke a cigar on
the piazza, and wonder dreamily
as he he looked up the stars, what
the future contained for him, and
the girl of Ins love. In vain he ask
ed those mystic lamps of heaven,
they stared back at him with bright
passionless eyes, and made no res-
S! e ia a Ft.ry at
such limes rather than a womnii;
aud I am such a coward. Oh, Cecv,
you must take me wiih v u. I can
not, dare not meet ! er.” Here was
a pretty state of affairs for the boy -
Brrdcgroom. He had made no pre
parations f>r such a contingency,
and now, he foutid iunselfwith a wii»
on his f a tills; no lv Hue to carry Let
to; and about twenty five dollars in
his pocket. A b.diiant prospect
ruly! He. began to calculate even
tiling in her soul seemed to give the
ie to her words. Pour Constance!
It was her guardian angel who
warned her in that perilous hour, but
she did not know it then. But when
she learned his base purpose; heard
from his own vile lying lips that he
‘Herein this lonely bower where first I won
thee,
I come, beloved, beneath the moon’s pale
ray,
had an insane wife living, who had To gaze once more through struggling tears
been confined five years in an Asy- . “P on tbee -
, . * . - And tuen to bear my broken hoart away,
turn in Europe, and that with all bis
- . i . r i l i| , I dare not linger near thee as a brother,
passionate love lor her, he could not , T , , ,
r . _ 1 I feel my burning heart would still be thine
make her Ins own in the eyes of the How could I hope my passionate thoughts to
world; then, did her puie soul ac- ! smother,
k __.. i i -i i i • • . While yielding all the sweetness to another
nowledge with deep thanksgiving to , ... . „
° 1 o6) That should be mine.”
God, the warning which had been Jn a lremb | ing voicc Cecil read
given her by instinct, or by the good there impassioned lines from the
angvf supposed to preside over the little blue and gold volume he held,
destinies of human beings. Fierce U)en l eU j ng j t fall to the ground,
was the*struggle in that young girl’s as by a sudden impu i se> and operm )
heart. Ou the one hand, poverty his arms. Bertie, with a low cry,
ami an already blighted name, threw herself on his bosom. His
branded in the eyes of the world i; f)3 8oug h t an d f ound h erS , and
the “pure as ice, and chaste as clung to them with trembling, pas-
snow. On the oilier, rest and lux- sionate eagerness. It was thtir first
my for the two dear old creatures love kiss, and in its linget ing sweet-
dependent on her feeble exertions J ne ss was centered all the fever of
and a life of wealth aud guilty love their young loving hearts. He felt
for herself. And the Tempter ar-1 her heart throbbing wildly against
gued thus: Has not the cruel world his own, and twining his arms yet
branded you as a moral leper, a so- , more firmly about her yielding, sup.
cial Pariah, without guilt of your ! p ] e form, he whispered in her ear
own? II they dri\e you into that of pass j 0lia ( e broken words of endear-
which they falsely accuse you, does j inenI . s!ie , her senses lapped
not the sin rest on them, the vile shin- . pj E1 ysi U m, listened with a silence
derers, who have hunted to <leath ■ farmoreeloquenlihan words. How
an unprotected orphan. Ah! this long they sat thus neither ever knew,
self-righteous, Pharisaical world is
more to blame than it imagines for
the sins of itserring sons and daugh
ters. Many have been driven into
evil by the base calumnies of
lying gossips. In Constance
you see a pure good girl
where whole life had been oue of
loving self-denial, whose sole
crime (?) had been her poverty,
■whose great error (?) had been her
earnest efforts to earn an honest sup
port for herself, and two helpless
women left to her care. Will this
young girl, who has been so brave,
so hopeful, fall into the snare woven
for her? Has her good angel deser
ted her, and given her over to the
evil one?
It almost broke her heart to see
her poor patient grand-mother suf
fering for medical attention, and
sometimes her conscience reproach
ed her, for doing w'hat she felt to be
right, and she culled herseil a wick
ed girl because she was not willing
to make any sacrifice for the com
fort of one who had been a mother
to her in childhood, the only mother
save Maumer Leah, she had ever
known. “If she dies I will be guil
ty of ber murder, for I could save
her, and will not. Oh! God, was ev
er poor mortal in such a fearful di
lemma! For myself I could bear
any hing without a murmur, but to
see her suffer, and die, oh! it is too
much!” As for Mortimer Glover,
the arch hypocrite, he feigned to be
but when, with a vivid blush, Bertie
lifted her face from its resting-place
the July moon was high in the heav
ens, shining down on their young
heads with subdued brilliancy, shed
ding a so't halo round Bertie’s fair
girlish brow, lighting up her tresses
till they seemed like tangled threads
of gold as though it lived to linger
neerone so fair. “Oh! Bertie, my
bale darling, wc love each other so
fondly, and yet—we must part ”
“Pari!—Cecil,—oh! how can vou
use such a cruel word ? What would
my life be without you? No, Cecil,
I could not live without you, and 1
will not. If you give me up I will
take the black veil, and I know in a
tew years my poor young life will
waste away like a fading flower
cruelly deprived of God’s loving
sunshine.”
“And yet I would rather see you
consigned to that living death, Ber
tie, than to the arms of Col. Glov
er.”
“That will never be, Cecil, never!
I vow it here to-night in the pres
ence of high heaven, and call God
to witness that l will keep my oath.
In life or death I am your3. Yours
only!” And once again she sank in
his encircling arms, while their lips
found sweet union in “a long, long
kiss—a kiss of youth and love.”
We will not recount all their lender
speeches, nor the mad resolve
which Cecil at last made-—urged to
it, wc must shame-facodly confess,
The woids were spoken. Cecil
Chester and Bertie Granville were
one in the sight of Heaven. It was
hut the work of a few moments, anil
yet those brief words, mumbled
over impatiently by the nervous,
white-haired old Magistral marred
all the ambitious schemes of thf
wordly-mindeJ mother.
When the hurried ceremony was
over, Beitie before so brave and
sanguine, was seized, as valorous
armies sometimes are, with an un
accountable panic and clung irem.
blingly to Cecil’s arm, while she
stared at her strange surroundings
like one in a dream. Never in all
her after life did she forget that
bare poverty-stricken room with
the two tallow candles on the man
tel, burning with a pale, sickly
light, giving Cecil’s bronzed face,
and old Mr. Barton’s rudtfy counte
nance a queer greenish hue. The
whole scene was photographed on
her memory in indelible colors. The
wall paper representing Napoleon
ut the bailie of Austerlitz, was torn
in many places, and hung in ragged
festoons. Here was a soldier mi
nusaneve, the “man of destiny”
himself had one leg amputated at
iho knee by some ferocious child,
and embryo surgeon. The old
fashioned, clumsy side-board, from
which the old man with officious
hospitality insisted that Cecil should
“take a drink of brandy,” himself
meanwhile with well-filled goblet
toasting “the fair young bride.” A
table with three legs propped against
the wall; two ragged cane-bottom
chairs; and an old horse-hair sofa,
sadly the worse for wear, from
which the wool and wire protruded
in various places. A coarse gaudy
looking print over the mantle-piece
yclept “Amelia,” and a companion
piece styled “The young inoUier.”
The old gentleman’s wife, and two
ragged, grinning descendants of
Ham, who stood in a doorway, eye
ing the bridal pair with admira
tion and awe, were the sole witnes
ses of the ceremony which united
the wealthy and beautiful heiress,
with her “lover of low degree.”
The original plan had been to go
on to the Theatre, and there rheel
Col. Glover, ihe unsuspecting rival;
for Bertie to return with him to her
mother, she seek her own opportu
nity (or revealing the clandestine
marriage. But, as I have stated,
an unaccountable panic seized the
poor foolish little bride, and when
they were again in the carriage, she
vowed with convulsive sobs that
she could not go back. “You must
take me to the Hotel. Cecil, until
we can arrange some plan for the
future. I dare not meet my moth
er. Oh, you don^t know what a fear
ful tiling it is to see her in one ofher
n the midst oi her -eloquent despair
how long such a triffuig sum would
pay Hotel hoard, and completely
lost himself in a maze oi' Mathe
matics. However, his courage, hoy
though he was, was equal u> th> em
ergency, ami dismissing unpleasant
thoughts he set himself to llie tusk
of soothing his girl-bride, and soon
had the satisfaction of kissing away
her tears and regrets. They drove
up to the Hotel. Cecil dismissed
the carriage: handed Bertie into dm
empty parlor,. registered theli
names, and ordefed rooms.
Here we !ea\’e them and turn to
Col. Glover. Great was his sur
prise when the third act was over,
and yet no sign of his promised
bride, and her escort. A dozen
sensation stories of brutal robberies
and murders rose in his memory,
and he tortured himself trying to
conjecture what horrible mischance
had befallen them; but not once did
a suspicion oi the truth cross his
mind. His acquaintance with Ce
cil Chester was very limited, and
never once dreamed of him as a
possible rival. He was ignorant of
all that love-making which had
been going on at “Woodstock,”
while he was courting Constance
Kay, and making brief tours to va
rious watering places.
boy! for he had scarcely lasted food
since his parting with Beitie, and
had consumed the nights in restless
vigils, a mere shadow of his former
handsome self; his brenzed cheek
w hit* almost as Bertie’s own, he
presented himself at the Granville
mansion and was admitted. Mrs.
Granville, siiff’, stalely, and severe,
clad in a rich black velvet dress,
with an immense turban towering
over her curls, was sitting in Hate
m ihe parlor, and beside her sat a
gray-haired Privst, I slher O’Hara.
Two nuns sat on the sofa, and poor
Cecil felt as though he were ^sum
moned to judgement, when their
stern passionless eyes rested on
tiiua with a look of upbraiding.
(TO EE CONTINUED.)
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prizes : First, a solid silver compos
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third, a bronze mesial. The trial
must take place on Wednesday, May
10, J&71, and on noother day, and is
open to all competitors in the towns
and cities of the United States or
Canada in which printers’ unions
exist.
Post offices.—Oue dollar per
annum, paid to the post-master at
Ad iline, Marshall county, West Vir
ginia, is the lowest salary received
CHAPTER V. m the postal department, and S6,000
When Col. Glover returned to i’. 1 ' 1 annum, P a ' d ppsi-master at
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Woodstock wuh Ins disastrous
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that prevailed. The aflah was : ! lb - U P° :; Germany, that of
■ j t „ i i j nearly 1,300 students who were at-
wrapped in a mystery; no one could ! J
imagiee what had bef dlen the miss
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provement on the race of apes, will
he out from Appletons press in a few
davs, and it is said “ will creale a
•ensation.”
Facts bv the Census.—Accord
ing to the census of 1S70, the popuia-
ionof t he United States is 38,307,398,
against 31,443 321 iff 1SG0.—Geor^
gia ranks as the thirteenth State in
point of population, and numbers 1,
J ?D,.SSG.
vants, aga.vky country girl who
SAmeiime* waited on Ber io, appear
ed on the scene of action, with a
broad grin on ber countenance, and
said to Mrs. Glover. “1 found this
here on Miss Bertie’s bereau (bu
reau) it mout tell where she’s gone
may-be.” The frightened mother
glanced over the crumpled piece o!
paper, and staggering to a sofa, fell
into strong hysterics. It was a note
from Cecil to Bertie and plainly point
ed to a clandestine marriage. For
the next half hour every irrmnfe of
of the house was busied with the
hysterical mother; «nd when she
came to her senses, it was pilable to
witoese her impotent rage. She
insulted every member ef the fami-
ily, called the house “a den of vi
pers;” bade ber maid pack up her
things at once, ordered her carriage’
and swore roundly, she would move
heaven aad earth in the effort to
Beparate them. “Thank God! the
marriage is not legal” she screamed,
“unlass she was married by a
Priest, and I’ll warrant the little
fool never thought of that. Col-
Glover, she was to have been your
wife—the deceitful little huzzy, you
will help me I know. Let me ence
find ber and set Father O’Hara
upon her, and I will soon undo this
file plot.” So furious arid ravii g
the floor lady departed in search
oi her run-a-way child, leaving con
fusion and consternation behind
her,
A week had passed away, and
Cecil Chester had not once looked
upon the face of hi3 fair young
bride. From thehour when herwraih-
ful mother tore, her weeping and
affrighted from his arms he had not
exchanged one word with her, or
ber, or even caught a glimpse ofher
in the distance. He was but an
inexperienced boy and lie knew
not what steps to take to reclaim
his lost bride. So he haunted the
street where she lived like a shadow
and watchful as any sentinel
kept guard over the stately autnsion
which held his lost love. But in
vain. All his notes ;o her were
returned unopened, and he was
eating his heart out in impotent
agony, when he received a note brief
aRd curt from la-mere Granvilie
commanding rather than requesting
an interview. Pale and wan, poor
tiding the University of Munich iast
sumtci r, there are at prhsent only
-ibout G00.
The much-talked-of inventory of
the late Thadeus btevens* estate has
it last been published. The amount
-if personal property included iff it
toots up the sum of SIS,GIG.25,
There are no Pacific Railroad binds
comprised in the inventory. The
executors say that there is an unset
tled account between the surviving
partners of the firm of Bievxns A. Alii
and the estate of Mr. Stevens, which
nas been in controversy since the
death of Mr. Stevens, but they are
unable to state any amount which
will or may be recovered from this
source.
Mr. Cresswell ha3 reported :n
Congress that in six months the total,
number ol franked letters was 1U,S
44.4S7 ; postage, $933.070 ; banked
printed matter, 2.C-5o ; IS6 pounds ;
postage, $333,593 ; total for six
months, $ I *275,693 ; total for one
year, $2,543,326.
This is a startling exhibit cf cor
ruption. That 300 Congressmen
and a few' heads of departments
should write neatly eleven millions
of letters in six months, or over 35,-
000 par head, is a simple impoassi-
bility, and shows how monstrously
the privilege ins been abused.
The census reports show* that in
population Iowa has beat ail tier sis
ters in the relative order of rank,
having jumped lrotn the nineietulii
in 1S00, to the thirteenth, in 1870.—
In the same timelier population has
increased over 500,000, being now
1,177 515. Many ot the northern
counties have during this time gained
irotn five to fifteen times the number
of population they had ten years ago,
Now farms are being opened in ev
ery direction over her broad and fer
ule prairies, while new towns spring
up as if by magic along all the new
lines of railroads.
The foreign mails passed ihorugh
the New York Post Office, during
last November, were made up of 1,0
43,347 letters, on which 873 029 pos
tage was paid. Of these letters, 45
4.088 were received from, and 504,
763 were sent to Europe, paying $6
4,051 postage. Of the letters sent
from Europe, 201,331 were received
from Great Britain, and 131,741
from the North German Confedera
tion Of the letters foiwarded to
Europe, 231,703, were sent to Great
Britain, and 106,042 to North Ger
many.
Logan’s election to the United
States Senate from Illinois is nota full
Radical victory. He fought the bat
tle successfully as an anti-Grant and
anti-tariff man, and conquered on
these issues.