Chapter XLV: The Duel and the Wedding

In the first gray of the morning, a female ran up the steps of Paul De Montreuil’s dwelling, and seizing on the knocker sent one loud, prolonged reverberation through the building. The servant who had let Paul out was in the passage, and hurried to open the door, fearing that another summons might awake his young mistress, who had gone to her room ill, the night before.

Amy looked wistfully into his face, but asked no questions, though her lips moved. She passed him before he could stop her, ran up the stairs, and, guided by the bronze statue in its niche, entered the chamber to which she had carried such bitter sorrow the night before. The light was dim, but she saw the toilet in its drifts of lace, the glitter of jewels cast upon it, and on the carpet a wreath of white roses that, had been cast down and trampled upon. In the centre of the sumptuous white bed Laura De Montreuil was lying, pale, exhausted, and in a troubled sleep. She had taken off her wedding-dress, which was trailing partly around one of the bed-posts, partly on the floor. The rest of the superb costume which she had tried on in such triumph was still on her person; for she had thrown herself down half-clad, with her face upon the pillows, and there sobbed and moaned herself into a slumber, which left her beautiful face contracted with pain, and great purple shadows around her eyes.

Amy flung aside the curtains and put back the hair from Laura’s face, revealing all the anguish that had settled there during the night.

“Laura, Laura De Montreuil, hear me! You must not sleep. They have gone to kill each other,—kill each other, I say!”

Laura started up, saw who it was that stood over her, and pushed the young wife away.

“You here!” she said, with intense bitterness. “How dare you break in upon me!”

“Oh do not stay to hate me, or death will come of it!” cried Amy, wringing her hands. “They have gone to fight.”

“They, who?”

“Your brother and my——and Benedict. I was ill, and could not sleep. He left the house softly, but I heard it.”

Laura leaped to the floor and rang the bell violently. The servant came hurrying up-stairs.

“Your master—where is he?”

“Gone twenty minutes ago.”

“Where?”

“I heard him order the driver to take the East Haven road, and something about the shore and a cedar grove.”

“Have the horses harnessed, quickly. Before I am dressed the carriage must be ready.”

The servant partook of her panic and went out in haste.

Laura gathered up her long hair and twisted it into a knot back of her head, thus leaving the misery in her face exposed. She looked around for a dress, lifted the mass of glittering silk and frostlike lace that she had worn the night before, and flung it away in disgust. She opened a wardrobe, found some darker garment and a black-silk cloak, which she put on. The white shoes and ruby buckles alone remained of her bridal costume, but she had no time to cast them off.

“Come,” she said, turning to Amy, as a carriage stopped at the door. “First let us find your husband’s father.”

She went down-stairs, saying this, and stepped into the carriage. Amy followed her, breathless and trembling.

The cedar grove ran parallel with the beach, which lay a narrow strip of white sand between it and the sound. Sometimes the shadows of its tallest trees stretched almost to the water. It was so thick with an undergrowth of barberries and juniper-trees that a person standing on the beach could only be seen by any chance fisherman that might be early upon the water.

The sun was cresting every tiny wave that rippled the sound, with rose tints, and dew-drops lay like diamonds among the thick purple berries on the juniper-bushes. The morning was so lovely that the two men who had come to the beach, burning with wrathful passions, paused one moment to wonder at themselves. But this feeling passed with the moment. They came to the sands by different directions, and were forced to walk some distance in order to meet each other; and the hate that had sprung up in their hearts—not less with the wronger than the wronged—burned fiercely before they stood face to face. There was no mockery of forms between these two men, who, twenty-four hours earlier, had been as brothers. Each lifted his hat haughtily, and that was all

De Montreuil’s French servant proceeded at once to measure off the ground, having first assured himself that no one was in sight, either on the water or the land. This man had seen duels before and acted his part well. Not a word was spoken while he loaded the pistols, and, obeying a signal from his master, gave Arnold the first choice. Then they retreated, each to his position, and stood ready. Both these men were brave, and one had been fearfully wronged, but there was solemnity rather than hate in their white faces, as they turned upon each other.

They stood within the shadow of the cedars. There was no advantage on either side. The stillness of death was around them, save that the birds sung, and the waters rippled. Slowly, steadily, and with deadly intent the pistols were raised. One terrible instant, and their sharp reverberation rang over the waters. When the smoke cleared away both men were standing. Paul had missed his aim by a hair’s breadth, but Arnold had fired in the air. He would have advanced to Paul, but the young man tossed his pistol on the ground and ordered the man to load it again.

“Take your place, sir,” he said, addressing Arnold. “I will not be insulted by forbearance. If you fire in the air again I will shoot you down like a dog.”

Arnold’s forehead flamed scarlet; his eyes blazed; he was not likely to fling away his fire after that. Again they retreated to their places with terrible purpose on both sides. They had not heard the sound of wheels behind the cedar grove, for the roads were sandy and gave forth little noise; but two females were wildly forcing a passage through the thick undergrowth, and with them came an old man, from whose face drops of anguish were falling like rain. Out upon the beach they rushed, dumb with terror. The combatants saw them, and enraged at the intrusion lifted their weapons with a fierce instinct of murder. But, with a cry that rang over the waters like the scream of a wounded eagle, the old man bounded across the sands and stood between them,—his gray head thrown back, his chest heaving.

“In the name of the living God, I charge ye, do no murder!”

That old face was eloquent with solemn power. His voice swelled upon the air like the vibrations of a trumpet. The grandeur of his courage struck the combatants mute; for he had rushed between the uplifted weapons while their fingers were on the triggers. It was a miracle that his body had not been pierced by two bullets.

The pistols dropped. The young men rushed forward in terror: they could not believe the old man safe. But in his progress Arnold was stopped by his wife, who fell upon her knees in the sand, and with her poor white face uplifted piteously to his, besought him to have compassion on her, and heap no more guilt on his soul.

Laura advanced to her brother.

“Paul,” she said, “I and that poor woman alone have been wronged by this man. It is my pleasure that he should live. Would you, a De Montreuil, satisfy our honor with the small revenge of his life? I give it to him with all my soul, as I would have bestowed this hand three days ago, knowing that there is a God in heaven who shall avenge us both, if vengeance is just.”

Paul made a gesture of angry impatience, but the noble girl clung to his arm.

“Look at the old man. Think of his daughter, your betrothed wife. See that poor creature groveling at his feet. Are we barbarians to sacrifice four innocent persons that one guilty one may be punished?”

She stooped to the sand, took up her brother’s pistol which was half buried there, and hurled it into the sea.

Paul made no resistance: her sublime forgiveness silenced the storm of passion which had led him almost to murder.

“Laura,” he said, “you have the true De Montreuil courage,—that of a sublime forgiveness. I am but a pretender.”

They went up to the old man, who had sunk to the earth with his white head bowed upon his two hands. He was sobbing like a child, and every nerve in his stout frame quivered, like rushes swept by the wind.

Arnold saw his father thus stricken to the earth, and would have gone to him but for Amy, who was seized with a fit of trembling. Laura turned her eyes upon him for the first time. She saw that the features she had once thought so noble were quivering and that tears were rushing to his eyes. She went forward and raised Amy from the ground and supported her with her arm.

“Go,” she said, in the grandeur of her forgiveness. “You can comfort him. We have not the power.”

Arnold thanked her with a look, and going forward, bent over the old man.

“Father, I will obey you. As God is my judge, I did not wish to harm him,—only to prove that I was not the coward he thought. My pistol was fired in the air.”

The old man lifted his face with a glance of yearning thankfulness that smote his son to the soul; for all that was kindly in his nature rose uppermost then.

“I would give half my life that all this had not happened to wound you so,” he said, careless that Paul was standing by to hear his confession.

The old man grasped the hand his son held out between both his.

“Is God giving back my son?” he said. “Let us go home now. Your mother will be frightened.”

Arnold supported his father to the carriage, for the almost supernatural strength which had brought the old man to the ground utterly failed now. Then he turned to lift Amy in, but she clung to Laura.

“No, no, he needs you most. It is better that you should be alone with him,” she said. “I shall feel the joy of this reunion just as much.”

Amy had spoken with courage and cheerfulness, but Laura saw that it was forced, for the poor young creature quivered like a frightened bird under her clasping arm.

“May I go in?” faltered Amy, as the carriage stopped at De Montreuil’s door. “It—it is only the fright; but I tremble so.”

Paul, who had driven home more rapidly than his sister, stood on the steps ready to help her to descend, but she put him gently aside as Amy was getting out, and went up-stairs with her.

Another day and night brought the Leonards to New Haven; and the three families that had been a fate each to the other were assembled at Paul de Montreuil’s dwelling; for in its bridal chamber Amy Arnold lay dying.

The storm of sorrow and passion that had disturbed the group now gathered around her bed, only a few hours before, was hushed and silent. That gentle creature had sunk under her suffering, and a harsh thought would have been sacrilege there.

The white bed had been drawn into the centre of the room, and its curtains, gathered up in a cloud, brooded whitely over her as she lay with her eyes wide open, and her golden hair heavy and wet with the death dew that rained from her face. She was dying of exhaustion,—continual anguish had broken up her life.

The toilet, still covered with lace that draped it like falling snow, was cleared of its rich litter. Jewels and white roses had been swept away, and in their place stood a small coffin covered with black velvet, and studded with silver nails. The lid was unscrewed, and through the crevices came the pure, sweet scent of tuberoses, cape jessamines, and heliotrope, that pervaded the whole room.

When she first heard that her daughter was very ill, the grief of Mrs. Leonard had been terrible, but now, bravely hushing her sobs, she knelt by her husband in waiting silence.

No one charged Arnold with being the cause of that young creature’s death, but he felt the bitter truth, and his strong heart ached under it.

The clergyman, Osborne, was there. He had Just administered the sacrament to the dying woman, and she had whispered him to wait till the last.

Amy had just strength enough to move her hand, which sought that of her husband.

“Father,” she said, “have you forgiven my husband?”

“As I pray God to forgive me,” was the solemn answer.

“And you, mother?”

Mrs. Leonard burst into a hysterical fit of weeping.

“I can’t say. I hope so. But it’s hard, oh, it _is_ hard!”

“Father, mother, listen: I am dying. You will not refuse me what I ask.”

“No, no,” sobbed the mother. “Oh, if God would only let me die for you, Amy!”

“It is of Benedict I speak. I consented to marry him in secret. That threw him into temptation. He saw another,—the true mate for him. He loved her.”

“No, no, Amy,” Arnold broke forth. “I never loved any woman but you.”

Amy’s cold fingers clung closer to his a moment, and fell away again.

“It was my disobedience, father, that led him into that terrible temptation, but his enemies will not see that. When they know that he was about to marry another it will be imputed to him as a crime.”

“It was a crime,” Arnold broke forth. “Do not waste one precious breath on me, Amy.”

She turned her eyes upon him full of yearning love,—then spoke to her father again.

“Father, our marriage was a secret to all the world outside this room. Let it rest a secret still. Those invited to his wedding must never know that he had a wife.”

Leonard rose from his knees.

“Amy, my child, remember our neighbors,—the church.”

“They will forgive when I am dead. Father, where I go, all things are known.”

“But, my child——”

She moved her head on the pillow wearily.

“Let it be so, father; I am dying. Had _it_ lived,” she murmured, struggling to rise up and look on the coffin, “I would not have asked it; but now, but now——”

She paused, and the lids fell softly over her eyes,—not in sleep, but restfully.

Arnold fell upon his knees on one side of the bed, utterly subdued.

“Oh, Amy, my poor, martyred wife, ask nothing for me! Let the world do its worst. I deserve it, I deserve it!”

“Hush!” she whispered. “Hush! it troubles me. Father, did you promise?”

“Yes, my Amy, I promise.”

“And do they all promise—never to tell, never to let any one know that we were man and wife?”

A low solemn murmur went up around the bed. A smile trembled across her lips as moonlight glimmers on a lily. She rested peacefully a few moments. Then she spoke again:

“Hannah, my sister.”

Hannah came close to her pillow. Amy’s shadowy hand struggled out to meet hers.

“Paul De Montreuil.”

The young Frenchman arose and left the chair on which he had been sitting.

“You love each other,” she whispered. “After I am dead the old pride may come back and separate you. Let me see you married before I die.”

No one spoke. This strange request struck them all with profound astonishment. Laura came up to her brother and took his hand.

“Paul, let this be as Amy wishes. Our guardian angels are here now. Do not let us wait till they sleep again.”

“She desires to save us from an eternal separation. Hannah, in spite of all, do you love me well enough for this?”

Hannah Arnold lifted her eyes to his face, and he was answered.

Upon the toilet where the coffin stood lay a prayer-book, from which the minister had just been reading the prayers for the dying. He opened the volume again, and his deep, solemn voice filled the room while Paul De Montreuil and Hannah Arnold stood side by side in the shadow of that death-couch, and pledged eternal faith to each other.

When the august ceremony was over, and all had been silent for some time, Amy opened her eyes wide, and looked from Arnold to Laura.

“When I am gone,” she was saying, but Laura turned deathly pale and put up both her hands, shuddering visibly. Amy saw it, and her eyes turned upon Arnold. He too was shrinking in pain from the idea which spoke in Amy’s dying eyes.

“Is it so?” she murmured, “then it was not love—not—not love. That was mine—mine—all mine.”

“Oh Amy, Amy, my beloved wife, hear and believe me! I did love you and you only! Great heavens, if you could only understand it!”

“I do—I—Arnold—husband—love!”

She started up from the pillows, reached up her arms, drew herself up to his bosom, and died there with the word love freezing on her lips.

On the day that Laura De Montreuil was to have been married the wedding invitations had all been cancelled, and a funeral went forth from her home instead. Accepting this mournful reason for the delay, it occasioned no unpleasant comment; and not long after Paul left the country to travel in Europe with his wife and sister. Even before this Arnold bade farewell to his native State, and entered upon a career of ambition which ended in an infamous immortality.

When the news of his great political treason first reached Europe, Laura De Montreuil, the most lovely and coldly beautiful woman at the Court of France, fainted in the presence of the queen and all her ladies. But the pledge given in that solemn death-chamber was never broken; and when people passed the grave of Arnold’s young wife, and saw only the simple name “Amy” on the tombstone, they little knew how closely that name had been linked with his destiny.

THE END.

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HUMOROUS AMERICAN WORKS.

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THE SHAKSPEARE NOVELS.

_By Robert Folkstone Williams._

The Secret Passion, 1 00 The Youth of Shakspeare, 1 00 Shakspeare and his Friends, 1 00

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CAPT. MARRYATT’S WORKS.

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LIVES OF HIGHWAYMEN.

Life of John A. Murrel, 50 Life of Joseph T. Hare, 25 Life of Monroe Edwards, 50 Life of Jack Rann, 50 Life of Jonathan Wild, 25 Life of Henry Thomas, 25 Life of Dick Turpin, 50 Life of Arthur Spring, 25 Life of Jack Ketch, 25 Life of Helen Jewett, 50 Ninon De L’Enclos, 25 Desperadoes of the New World, 25 Mysteries of New Orleans, 50 The Robber’s Wife, 25 Obi; or, Three Fingered Jack, 50 Kit Clayton, 50 Lives of the Felons, 25 Life of Tom Waters, 25 Life of Mrs. Whipple, 25 Nat Blake, 50 Bill Horton, 50 Galloping Gus, 50 Life & Trial of Antoine Probst, 50 Ned Hastings, 50 Biddy Woodhull, 25 Eveleen Wilson, 50 Diary of a Pawnbroker, 50 Silver and Pewter, 50 Sweeney Todd, 25 Life of Mother Brownrigg, 25 Dick Parker, the Pirate, 25 Life of Mary Bateman, 25 Life of Captain Blood, 25 Capt. Blood and the Beagles, 25 Sixteen-Stringed Jack’s Fight for Life, 25 Highwayman’s Avenger, 25 Life of Raoul De Surville, 25 Life of Sybil Grey, 50 Life of Rody the Rover, 25 Life of Galloping Dick, 25 Life of Grace O’Malley, 50 Life of Jack Shephard, 50 Life of Davy Crockett, 50 Life of Guy Fawkes, 75 Life and Adventures of Vidocq, 1 50

DR. HOLLICK’S WORKS.

Dr. Hollick’s great work on Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Figure, with colored plates of the Human Figure, 1 50 Dr. Hollick’s Family Physician, a Pocket Guide for Everybody, 25

EXCITING SEA TALES.

Adventures of Ben Brace, 75 Jack Adams, the Mutineer, 75 Jack Ariel’s Adventures, 75 Petrel; or, Life on the Ocean, 75 Yankee Jack, 50 Red Wing, 50 Life of Paul Periwinkle, 75 Life of Alexander Tardy, 50 Life of Tom Bowling, 75 Percy Effingham, 75 Red King, 50 Cruising in the Last War, 75 The Corsair, 50 The Pirate’s Son, 25 The Doomed Ship, 50 The Three Pirates, 50 The Flying Dutchman, 50 The Flying Yankee, 50 The Yankee Middy, 50 The Gold Seekers, 50 The River Pirates, 25 The King’s Cruisers, 50 Man-of-War’s-Man, 25 Dark Shades of City Life, 25 The Rats of the Seine, 25 Yankees in Japan, 50 Charles Ransford, 25 Morgan, the Buccaneer, 50 Jack Junk, 50 Davis, the Pirate, 50 Valdez, the Pirate, 50 The Iron Cross, 25 Gallant Tom, 50 Harry Helm, 50 Harry Tempest, 25 Rebel and Rover, 50 Jacob Faithful, 50 Phantom Ship, 50 Midshipman Easy, 50 Pacha of Many Tales, 50 Naval Officer, 50 Snarleyow, 50 Newton Forster, 50 King’s Own, 50 Japhet, 50 Pirate and Three Cutters, 50 Peter Simple, 50 Percival Keene, 50 Poor Jack, 50 Sea King, 50

W. H. AINSWORTH’S BEST WORKS.

Life of Jack Sheppard, 50 Guy Fawkes, 75 Above in 1 vol., cloth, $2.00. The Star Chamber, 75 Old St. Paul’s, 75 Court of Queen Anne, 50 Dick Turpin, 50 Life of Davy Crockett, 50 Life of Henry Thomas, 25 Tower of London, 1 50 Miser’s Daughter, 1 00 Above in cloth $2.00 each. Desperadoes of the New World, 25 Ninon De L’Enclos, 25 Court of the Stuarts, 75 Windsor Castle, 75 Life of Arthur Spring, 25 Life of Grace O’Malley, 50

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