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JEDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
(NO. 44 ANNSTREET.
al q {$2 PER ANNUM,
TERMS, [*iy abvance.
Entered acconing to Act
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LADY CLAUDINE;
THE DOUBLE MARRIAGE,
A DRAMATIC TALE.
BY DR. HORATIO W. NELSON
CHAPTER VII.
ree of the coachman now began to strag-
meu tad “Tabor, and baving got bis ead down te
current, was unable to make any but a downw:
ogress} eal bo and bis rer, who loudly shout-
‘ed for help, were soon b of sight of th
rest, disappearing in the ‘darenca ana irmoit of
the wal poured over the bridge as over
bed of rapids It was no time for words, or
pressions of sympathy. Each one was striving for
his own sty
« Fear not, Lady,” said Brinsley, as be presse
i is lov ay brea ange ih
"1a afew seconds we suull reach
safe?”
He Bowls no aid! If
ry of a in
agony.
nse drowning, and the man also,”
“We can do nothing to save
is for our own safety! We
hare got a mile and a
house in the town, where alone we can get shelter.
et us on!”
thal kare any man®” exclaimed, with a groan,
‘the master of the coachm:
“He is past all ald! this silence tells the
whole tale! Horse and rider have both drowned. | secure hi
1 you value the health or safuly of your ehild,
we have not a moment to waste on vain regrets’
You are rightt | cers cruel; but let us on-
may.”
ith sud bears the enna and his daughter
rode forward, Claudine, as we have once hea
her called by her tah ing till, ag the only
alternative, in front of Brinsley, and suj
ia arm. Shortly after, amid ‘driving bail and
thunder-peals that shook the solid gromnd, and
ad borne 60 afely across the wild waters, but of
her father. An inti 1d upon circumstan-
ces was the m result, Invited to the al
of Mr. Heathcoate, Brit e8 was not the
the very maiden, the
propentirs, he bad come from India hoping to
and ister of Argyll and
Cher eatheoate
entloman w23 living in retirement
having lost his fortune in the stoc!
fared cnongh to eduaslo snd bring up his daugh-
ter in the style becoming her rank as an eatl’s
granddanghicr. His two eons bad early beca
sent to their uncle in Bengal, as the reader is al-
ready aware,
Six ment after ths night of adventure Dias
ley Onkes addres formally I
seein ng fa red by her faiver, ahe accepted him
on the ota {that her brozhers in Tndia should
consent ut the reader al
of ber letters Tt was not safe for Brinsley
brothers consulted, and
nel of her letters
pse of time forg-
course favorable replics She
cer on balépay, of
sonal presen:
Giatdine, of
termed, even from a child, by all w
r Lady Claudine (as she was always
sho knew het,
fil and evil man, com-
bode | inexplicable
was Katharine Cecil! The rest of the Distorg of
this union is all kuown to the reader. But
scene needs to be 1
nor go near
LIETLE
for women, not far fro
own cost, she re
from her son, who
referred to Defore we clase a
prot
take her boy fron the spt nor injure him ;
she
caPTAy
se never t
é
would
‘name of his far
m
.” Here, at his
ted
ree inteaa Brinsley Onkes tea grea in a0,
visiting him anaually, ftom
jo fascination.
his flock, belay careful
to the cot
When Reubon deseribed | ‘to bis mothe
somi
Te found him at such
‘man | fimes in the plains or on the uplands alone with
nev ve ‘come near enough
drew.
found him writing the name of “Argyll” upon a
picee of the door of the shealing, and also upon
¢ flat roel
six
‘The reader has seen thes use be sade orttisa ae
who cor m year to
ising
the coarse and igdorant life of @ herbert, and yet
raise not his little lager to improve bi
‘mind as
if, and truly, he hoped in the darknes of bis ig.
norance, to hide forev
science of his father, who, when
i lent at imitation, should con-
ige of his
ceive the fendich idea of making u use oti it to fur-
t his own criminal devices,
ifferent | have n¢
to the consequences that might ultiatelyf fall upon
the unconscious
tife eure deetruct tion of his chi
}- | hope that the life he dared we
med to acknowledge—would
sacrificed to the laws of the Jan
But it is not for us to
the eon he was Be
opening of our Tale, we shall
ly planning
secre!
pon the nature
our wanralive, which We have
¢buich, and an unseen witness of the ceremony
figre of Katharine, after the paril to fror
the as, on the nig!
Posi
tory bey
Hon in ae Brinsley “Oakes found
himself to
and its Coanequeees to and tr
to fe bin gue
| may, in an Bout of
is piazza
OAKES BEARING CLAUDINE HEATHCOATE TUROUGI THE FLOOD
he pace with bent head and his hands crowed be-
bind his ack, was as followa:—but we give the
in his own soliloquy, the tight of the distant
is conta tion ehining redly upon his
lighting up with a strange vividuess bis Blow
eyes and haggard visage!—for in one night h
re, before we continue our tale cleanly
to disclaim, dear reader, any efiort to from
impression the character’ of an evil and Punpsine
pled man, ‘The course of crime is always the same
in direction, though differing in degree, with all
ment | ‘The frst link demands another Ik to be
forged, and insensitly a chain of crime is length-
ened out, link by Tale, until ita weight ia grea
for the etiminal to carry ; and it becomes too in-
volved and entangled for him to straighten it, and
rishes ; like the fabled genii who stole from
jimself from fulse
anotiter evil act, greater still! and e0 the fatal
es is surrounding
himself hour by hour with a more complicated net-
Wogealt ‘hat wan he ean of my troubles!
Then came the fear iseovery of the deep. | nls
Miont only ailaged Sally ty fhe Tncky death of
fet Thea there
is the boy in the way 9 living testimony slays
before my mi hava I been
tempted to ma him out of the world Twas foster
mental in bringing him into! bat ¢iscrime could
never bring my hand to! But now, by other agen-
es, Topo I hall ee Tong be well id of him!
I must make my appearance among the lords and
feteen ‘there, a, with ia mony to poy, Tamst
‘0; Tmast put a bold
seen and have m:
among my equals! But, where shall I
means? Not from play ; hav iking
to begia to play witht nce sefund this efght
thousind Pounds got 80 \d dangerously,
Soret the Iuxury in this house
Town not a penay ; unknown to Claudine T have
mort every article, even to her own toilet!
jewel and
placed by ‘he 4 enc imitaiont wich tow che
t
er eyes! No—I have no resources left! WI tere
will this end? To what brink of a horrible preci-
pice am Idrifting? Bah! I will shut my eyes.
seal my conscience! ‘The present! the
ive to-day and Dic to-morrow ! I must act for the
f
day consume me! But hush! this voice of con-
i i morrow! Let me
at it will bring forth.
Hore is my slavet Well, did you follow the wo-
” answered the African,
‘em ¢ gow way out far as de fields.”
she never come back agnin,” answered
“A great eburch tad the large handsom hous?
of acu Stan'Iu
“Yen oe, dat’s it—Stan‘lum!
“This is a strange colneideneet
burned out the same night
“What, massa?
and ect some sleep
Teenteved fi Tis by the long venetian
C
water and the slave threw himself, ant hecusiom
was, by the door, fad fa moment
Meep. Us master regarding him for a itde
while ith looks of | on
“Would to God Loould sleep thus like a brute
teat {0 dreams—no horrors—no tervific aight
ares trouble that animal African! For
tour cleep lke bis T would for that twelve b hours
He fs safe a prisor e has robbery ; | change places with him! Sleep! I fear its awful
and he can have neither counsel norhelpof friends, | and irresistible power to torment! We
10 means and no funds! He must there! p were an eternal oblivi w
be sentenced to Au: for life! This is better | feeling as the stone itself, and where eternal silence
his blood ; which, if he had growa up in and everlasting torpor no dream could invade—n:
Jand and ever acknowledged himself my son, I fear ry or conscience feel en would I lie
I shoutd'not hava, hesitated to shed. fear- down there beside fat African slave, and bidding
ful alternative! ‘But when ema iB once begu re of themeclyea for all the
to do evil there is isno end to it! He must wade | fut tare ort time, commit, I myeclf to dream mnless oblivion.
through the depths of guilt to tis bis ult And
here is my forgery of Claudine
reveal! Here is this robbery—posibly,
though not by my weakness, this may be fastened
upon the tr trator of it! Then here is
ac
is
himt- Ihave had notice sccretly sent to th
before me! I hav
cheek! tat wall & one trouble less! But tais will
take all m:
over after doing ‘rst
‘The club houses will all be open ina day or two!
at or vanoth
@ forged | en
How easily thus could man escape the consequences | Tt
at be has on the morrow: how glibly
would guilt elude its certain punishment on the
wl Ab, is something in my inmost
nature that tells me there ean
-an beno annihilation for
being that punishment must be met, | ni
here or otherwhere; that the causes we originate
must extend to their legitimate, onsequenes, and,
at the isues we start, we must meet in this world
Would that the annihilation and non-
state of nothingness which from cenit. bad pre
geded my existence Ne remained, aud that it still
spected, and
i that I dare | on;
with this
¢ | robbery of Colonel Stanley, as I hear bis name is,
N face on tt ani be openly
to maintain my oe
“Y see
Robbed and
the
of
“1 did not fp, , Now go to bed. T shall try i
remained! But the bark is launched! There is
no returning e that we may cease
tobe! But what avail these thoughts! I will try
wred laudanum from a vial
lass of wine, and drank It off He then
ii owe, utterly weared fo mind und body
a book, » (bceause he Feared .
think.) till be woul te overpowered with drowsi-
ness, which soon followed.
Leaving him ‘ao tis slave thus sleeping ; and
business, or health, or pleasure,
called forth, filled, as on the das
squares, and places of,
of the wheels of commerce, and the rattle
chariots of plearare, were Beard mingled with the
aried sounds of a busy
Lady Clandine arose ater 8 few bour of un
1e | casy rest, not from ‘guilt—ol 0 !—but from sor-
row aed fear! Mary was deeping ail, but awoke |
as the sunbeams shone full upon her. face.
“Ob, mistres, am I here? What is it
now recollect all! Poor is in priso:
Wits you help me to get him out
fast is over, I will go to
the magistrate and nd do all in | my Power for him,
les may ecrve to make me forget
rindy! You have Intend troubles!”
art when te came to hear lo was the highway.
at Lady Clandine felt deeply concerned about
p (and this
ught made het tremble), it would be evidently
wih money obtained from a fresh forgery !- How
little did the ‘aba lady supeet the tre soe
‘At the houref opening the banks Brinsley ous
might bave been seen coming out of
jank, and entering the vestibule of the bank ‘where
Treatheoate, he had begged to
a | Lis white locks were now covered by a wig of
dark bain.
“There is one devil less to torment me,” he
he ecattered
dressed, young t nobly ‘accosting “What
tas altered oe ten geass older
Tast weel
m0 vot, how d’ye do!” answered Oakes,
confounded fire
1
awake half the night, Bad for poor Stanley
They sy he has lost everything by the braing of of
ase, And I hear ‘find rooms either
fae bimectt or his teaatifal, daughter! Bath is
crowded! It will be a pity if he has to go back to
London, and take sich a superb flower from our
as Emma Stanley!”
“Thave heard she is svery beautiful =
“But poor! Her
was rumored she was
ceive some twenty honsand pounds from het fe
ther cus dovery; ut he had no insurance.”
a what is more, did you bi
win and robbed of eight ‘thousand pounds Inst
igh rr eel the captain, with perv vet coolness.
1, Oak
“t thought it Seas all all over town.”
“I did not bear of it
ted | lane in the rear of my garde
ss is sconing close o you, wits 8 witness”
“The ms ea dia the
“Was t Thea iat
“Yea!
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