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And I was pleased not long after to read that an individual named Clodman, a noted swindler, had recently been shot in a street-fight in St. Louis, by a husband whose domestic peace he had disturbed. The last word of all, that ends this strange, eventful, and, alas! too true history, remains to be said. For some months, we had heard nothing of Pendlam.
This was considered exceedingly kind in Clodman; he not only treated Susan to delightful dramatic performances, but at the same time imparted to her his valuable magnetism. One Sabbath evening Horatio came suddenly upon me in the street, and pulled me breathlessly around a corner. "Wait till I can speak; the miracle of miracles!
I was there, and glad to hear it. But I was enraged. I could have wrung John Henry Pendlam's neck for him, when he said, with his quiet, charitable, mild, incredulous smile, that he was already aware there existed in the community a good deal of prejudice against Clodman!" Matters were now progressing rapidly to a crisis.
Clodman is day and night at the house; his magnetism being considered indispensable for the restoration of the child." A month later, Horatio brought me word that the child was dead. Another month, and I learned that Susan had been sent to some celebrated Western Magnetic Springs for her health. "How did she go?" Horatio hesitated.
We passed up the aisle, reached the hall, and waited for them at the foot of the stairs. Presently they appeared. Clodman was praising the performance; Susan expressed her delight; Pendlam said something about miscellaneous magnetisms. They had reached the foot of the stairs, when Horatio sprang upon them like a brigand, and seized John Henry's collar. "Ha!
One day during the ensuing summer, I asked Horatio the usual question, "Where is Pendlam now?" referring, as John Henry himself would have said, not to locality, but condition. "That is impossible to say," replied Horatio, "for I have not seen him since yesterday. Then he was situated opposite a bottle of pale sherry, which that rascal Clodman had just brought to the house.
I shall read with interest what I had to say on the subject before my mind had attained its present plane. Good night! You see where I am," added Pendlam. Thenceforward the Pendlams were frequent visitors at the theatres. When John Henry was too much occupied to attend, Clodman had the gallantry to escort Susan.
"My dear John Henry," I interrupted, "allow me to say that you are quite mistaken. If I know any thing of affinities, there is none between Susan and myself; no more, I judge, than there is between you and the gentleman I met going out, as I was coming in. "Oh, Clodman! You saw him?" cried Pendlam.
Susan had no part in his life; she was left with that hungry, yearning heart, until the sympathy even of a Clodman seemed food to her perishing nature. Pity her, Horatio, but do not condemn." The Initial Association failed. Clodman did not return; and it was found that he had appropriated to his private use the funds of the Association.
"I am sorry to say she has gone with that rascal Clodman, who is travelling on business for the Association. Pendlam remains at home, hard at work on his book. I will now add what I did not wish you to know," said Horatio. "For some months Pendlam's family subsisted almost entirely upon funds advanced him by that rascal Clodman. They talk of his wonderful generosity!
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