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. Two ybars. agti a handsome young farmer Jn Nottoway 'County, Virginia, wooed;-a; pretty maid living just by, -'ardently enough to be scorned by her. i .One year later ho was taken to the lunatic'asylumiat Williamsburg, a violent, ravin? maniac,-with reason unhjsMid, 10 it is said, by the acorii of theyomlady he loved, ; j.' Meantime another young man came along, not oxactlji more handsome, but Btill more fascinating, and without the ruddy, brown on lis cheek that the freeair aiid,.BUnghino had given his predeoessor/Fqi' a brief period they held each '.others- hands, tracing the lines in the northern'Bky.'ur mutually recorded some love wish as meteors shot through theair.' bridal gown hadVeen cut and'finished, the cut flowers'blomedinobnst.rvfc*ytnd patlor, thereailieit guests waiting for the bridegrObmJto come, they bore hii dead form; Into'the" presence of the bride. Thrown from: his hone ;and killed, they iaid.- The. .next day-auother. carriage drdvo. up ; ;t| : ;tho Williamsburg' Asyluau and another., jnaniac was Cirtjjpr ia. She ;fwaa: the bride. As she wjg' borne along, one»of r tho. ocoupaota (of ono of the cells was jieard to give a 'blopd'purdlltig- yell "and to point with eyes dbtendediafc the'young 'womßn'« fprra as it vanished intothe'gloom of the eorridor Keepm weiiito hh»; Jrjufc he drove them aw&yj and for/hours cried her name and purred Ker for 'hlavins;. -rejedted him and cauiftd.hia ruin.v They occupy cell*under the same roof-. Mav,- .living batjfcoomipetentwlinossesof th^tfaylifopllsin and put among the insignificant tilings we caU'inan.andOTman.--;';
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2682, 24 August 1887, Page 2
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