CONCLUSION.
"From that day forth, in peace and joyous bliss,
They lived together long, without debate;
Nor private jars nor spite of enemies
Could shake the safe assurance of their states."
SPENSER.
Our story is told. It only remains to condense the subsequent lives of
our characters into a few lines.
Jaspar Dumont lingered along a few weeks after the return of Emily; but
his life had lost its vitality. Continued devotion to the demon of the
bottle laid him low,--he was found dead in the library, having been
stricken with an apoplectic fit.
After the death of Jaspar, Maxwell was tried for a variety of crimes,
and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years.
Dr. Vaudelier, accompanied by Dalhousie and his wife, removed to New
Orleans, where they spent many happy years, devoted to those pure
principles of truth and justice which the events of our history
contributed not a little to create and strengthen.
Vernon,--or, as he has changed his character, we may venture to change
his name,--Jerome Vaudelier, went to California in the first of the
excitement; where, amid the temptations of that new and dissolute land,
he yet maintains the integrity he vowed to cherish on the night of the
attack upon Cottage Island.
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