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I throw myself suddenly upon her. cast my arms about her, but her struggles were so violent, and her maniac strength so great. that she must have escaped me, had not her screams brought the whole household from 'their beds and into the room. The scene of amazement, horror, anguish, and despair, that ensued now, defies all description. In the sttirmy chaos, I saw old Mr. \Vaill» raven sitting on the floor, with the 'form of the fast-dying Wolfgang drawn into his arms and pillowed upon his chest. I saw Constantia, half dressed, with her black hair streaming, kneeling by his side, wringing her hands. “Father! she was mad, father! Do not let her be molested ; do not desert her. Protect her, father,” faintly murmured’ the dying man. I saw all this, while, with the as- sistance of Constant Wallmven, I was disarming and securing the maâ€" nia‘c. “Uhhappy boy ! tel] mevon; thing. You did not deceive her! You told her your position!” evil genius, her mortal ’foc, who lo'ved her unto death, is dead! Take me to her! Lay me at her feet! Let me die there, looking up- on her I” 'Regina was now lying on the so- fa exhausted by her frantic strug- gles. ()ld Mr. Wallraven beckoned Constant, and between them Wolf- gang was lifted, brought near the sofa, and laid upon the carpet, with his head supported as before upon his father’s arms. He looked up at hot, but did not- opcn her eyes to look upon him. He feebly raised his hand and took hers. At the touch she opened her eyes, and as soon as they fell upon him, with a, frenzied cry of anguish and despair, she bounded to her feet, foaming at the. mouth, and went- iuto the most violent; paroxysm of madness. Conâ€" stant Wallraven and myself seized and tried to hold her ; and while she The next day a coroner’s inquest; sat in the saloon, and the crowd, collected by the rumor of what had taken place, filled the house. I was tho. principal witness, and as soon as 1 had given in my testimony, and was permitted to retire, I wander- ed toward the chamber whence the terrlhle screams of the maniac bride still issued, filling all the air. “Father, no! I had not the cour- age! I thought to have got her to France, whereâ€"~01). God! I die !â€"â€" where she would never have knownmâ€"J’ "Oh, wretched Wolfgang! I can- not, reproach you now! This decep- t-iciyhaf; post you your life 1” “And her, her reason, father! I die by her hand! It is just! it is just! it is just! Oh! bring me near her! Let me see her again! Lay me at her feet! Let me die there I” WHH struggling, plunging, and screaming in our arms, Wolfgang mused himself upon his elbow, gave one lung agonizcd look upon the wreck, fell back and died! Constant, (‘0nstuntiu, and my- self, were constant and unremitâ€" ting in our attentions to my wretâ€" ched sister. For 1m» days: and nights she raved in high. delirium, and then sunk, uudm‘ the united efâ€" fects of um'vuus exhaustion and opiates, into a profound stupor. "I loved her so--I loved her so~ that. for the brief possession of her love. I endure death. Father E she must- not die! She ‘must; recover. Nav she will, when shef’lknows her During all this time, J could rea- lize to myself nothing that had tak- en 01‘ was taking place. I seemed out, of myself, in some unreal 0xâ€" i‘stcnce, and, sometimes wildly. desperately, hoped to wake {ind find it. all a hideous dream. That evening, when we returned from the funeral, I fullmwd Mr. Wallmvcn to the library. "Oh, VVngang! that you so ter- ribly deceived that unhappy young lady I” “Be seated!” said the old man, himself sinking (Elle-J18th into a chair.- 1 flat and wniu‘d fur him to speak. He leaped his forclwaul down upon his ope)! palm, and. af~ to? a, ailencc of :1- few minutes, siglh ed heavily, and said: “Give mo,” said 1. “some explaâ€" nation of that which has wrecked all our happim‘ss!” The Lady Brandolin ; CHAPTER XI. OR. THE LOST PATRIMONY. “I aim unequal, now, to the task of giving you \any lengthy letail. Listen then! I married my meâ€" thcr’s maid. She was a quadroon girl. brought up at my mother’s knee; a simple, gentle child, whose lifo of chamber seclusion had kept her unspotted from the world; a loving, religious child, whose faith in her Heavenly Father was like a babe’s innocent trust in its moâ€" ther. She had been taught in her childhood almost to worship her young mastc r’-â€"the ' mother’s spoiled and willful boyâ€"the idol of the household. She learned in girlhood to love him with all the blind and passionate devotion of h-zr race. I had the power of life and death over herâ€"yes, of eternal life and death~for her life hung upon my love»~â€"her integrity upon my honor. The alternative for her was ruined fame, a broken heart, and the grave ; or the marriage ring and benediction. The alternative for me was sin without infamy, or infamy without sinâ€"~or so it seemed to me in my passionate youth. I chose the latter. I loved her, I married her, and lost caste, I and my children, forever! The whole community recoiled in loathing from us. ‘The minister who united us was ungowned and degraded from his pulpit. Our marriage was declared illegal, and my mother, to oblige me to break the connection, made a. will, just before her death, by which she left me Constance and her children, upon condition only of my never freeing them. Upon my attempting to break this condi- tion. they were to become the proâ€" perty of'a distant relative. Con~ stance brought me three childrenâ€"- Wolfgang, unhappy boy! and then (.‘(nstant and Constantia. But they could not be my heirs, because they could not legally hold pro- perty. At my death they them- selves would incvxtably become the property of others. And the more legal light I brought to bear upon my mother's will, the more. decided was this fact. My other propertyâ€" the land, negrocs, bank stock, hall and millsâ€"wl inherited from my faâ€" ther, without restriction. I was unutterably wretched. Constance, seeing the misery of which she had been the innocent cause, fell into a deep melancholy, from which neiâ€" ther the affection of her children nor my own love'and unremitting endeavors could arouse her. Her health failed, and she died when Constant and Constantia were but twelve months old. Again I con- sulted the ablest lawyers in the State, only to be more than ever convinced that there was no pwsi- bility of setting; aside my mother’s will. There was not in all Virginia a father so unhappy as myself. A thousand times I prayed for the death of my children. If one of them fell ill, I watched the progress of his or her illness with extreme anxiety, not fearing they might die, but fearing they might live. Con- science, and not a wish that they should survive, induced me to proâ€" vide necessary nursing and medical attendance at such time. At last it suddenly occurred to me that I might easily evade the. will. It is stmnge that this expedient never struck me until years of misery had passed; but so it was in my case, and so I have often seen it in the case of others. The remedies for what we conceive to be. incurable ills often lie very near us unseen or neglected. It suddenly struck me that nothing hindered my sending my children, while they were mine, to a foreign country, and transferâ€" ring my whole property thither. I resolved to do so. My sons were then at College, and my daughter at boarding-school in the North. I war in robust health, and of a race ncver subject- to illness or sudden death; therefore I felt that there was no occasion for hurry, and I was not in haste to sell, and leave forever my native soil, while my children were ri‘oeiving; their eduâ€" cation. 1 (lvtermincd, however, to do it upon the first indication of declining health. W011. month slip- peu after month, and grew int-0 years. Constant returned from Princeton, where he was educated, and commenced the study of divinâ€" it-y as a private pupil of Mr. Dav- enport He formed an unhappy at- tachment, but: Constant possessed a. strong mind and righteous heart». He struggled with, and conquered his passion, coming out as pure gcld from the furnace of his trial. After this experience, I determined to guard my unhappy children from forming indiscrcet attachments. “When Wolfgang returned from Hatvard, accompanied by yourself, 1 saw your sudden admiration of my daughter. I withdrew her from ycur presence. I warned Wolf- gang against the society of young ladies. I knew nothing of your sis- ter or I. never should have conâ€" sented to his visiting you at your own home. The first knowledge I had of Miss Fairfield was from the letter of Wolfgang that announced his engagement. Without literal- ly telling me so, it was couched in such terms as, with other circum- stances, to mislead me into the be- lief that she knew all! This was not unnatural. I thought to some his infinitessimal proportion of Afâ€" rican blood might be no objection â€"while his many distinguished â€"â€" pardon me! It was a father's dotâ€" ago Wolfgang told me in his let- ter that his bride had consented to depart with him to France imâ€" mediately aft-er the marriage cere- mony. This afforded me the oppor- tunity I wanted to secure a fortune to my son, by settling it upon Miss Fairfie‘ldmto which there. could be no legal obstruct-ion. A few weeks before the marriage 1 received a ling letter from “’olfgang, telling me that his Regina, willful as charming. insisted on coming to Hickory Hall, and being introducâ€" ed to her fatherâ€"inâ€"law before her departure for France. In this turn of affairs, he requested me to send Constant and Constantia to hint, and above all things, to imprison old Nell, whose very sight would appall Regina, and whose extreme boldness and malignity would as- suredly instigate her to present her- self before the bride.” “But what, then, is the ground of snc‘h malignity, and how could (-ne so degraded be in any manner related to one s( beautiful, so anâ€" gelic, as was Constance, judging by your description of her, as well as by a portrait I saw and missed the same night from the walls of my chamber, and which I now suspect to have been he'rs.” “Yesâ€"it was hersâ€"old Nell stole it that night. She had long wanted the small personal effects of Conâ€" stance, and had watched her ‘opâ€" portunity of getting into the closed chamber. You left your door unâ€" locked, and she entered the room, rifled the bureau, and carried off the. portrait and had returned, it is likely, to rob you, when a slight sound of her steps attracted W'olf- gang, who happened not to have retired, but was in the next room. He followed her into your chamber the last time, and arrested her at your bedside: You asked me the cause of Neil’s malignity, and exâ€" pressed astonishment at the idea of her relationship to Constance. She is, really, no blood-relation to Con- stance or my children. “She was the stepâ€"(laughter of, Cmstanee‘s father, and hence the claim to relationship, hence her presumption to a high degree of no- tice and favor, even while her ex.- tremc deformity and her disgusting habits and vices, made he): very‘ presence in the meanest capacity insufferable; and hence her envy, hatred, and demonim: malignity. She openly said and swore among her fellows that she would ‘kiss her pretty niece.’ Upon ‘the night, therefore, that the bridal party was expected, we locked her up in her remote cahin, charging old John with her custody. She escaped, and concealed herself, evidently with the object of seeking and in- sulting the bride. This gave. me only uneasiness, for .l supposed Reâ€" gina at least knew our position 7. but it filled “V'ilfgnng, who knew, and fie brother and sister, who had lately discovered, the illusion unâ€" der which your unhappy sister had given her hanl in marriage, with consternation. While we were seeking the hag elsewhere. she had effected her entrance to the house, and found her way to Wall- raven’s pI‘CSOIK‘O ! You were there ! You know better than myself what; followed. It- is necessary to repeat, however, that- there, for the. first time, I discovered the concealment- that had been used tmrard the ill- furi‘ed lady. I have nothing more to tell. If I have sinned against the conventional usages of the soci- ety in which I was born and lived, my whole life has been one long uni terrible expiation.” In “the course of a week. I dis- cm'eréd that there was no one who possessed the leaSt moral control “over the maniac girl except Con- stanfin. Mr. “Wallraven prayed that she should remain at Hickory I took his bind and pressed it, and silently withdrew from the room. ’ Hall, when I talked of removing her In truth, the change from their affectionate though sorrowful care, to that of a lunatic asylum would have been a most unfortuâ€" hate one for the victim. She had the best, medical advice that the country could produce, or wealth could purchase. For more than a. year. her malady has constantly in- creased until it has left her the ruin you see. I. also, Mary, was nearly blight- ed when you met, pitied, loved me. The reading of the manuscript had occupied the whole night. It was sunrise when I-folded it up, and began to make my simple morn- ing toilet. Before this was com- pleted a low tap was heard at the door, and, to my “come in,” Mary entered, apparently just; returned from her nightly visit. 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