Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-11-12
STORY.
Recovery Of n VITO nfer Ten Years.
Absence.

Recovery OF a .SStfo ufter Ten Years
Absence.
From the st. Joe Union.l
About ten years ago the hand Of q
young lady, whose father had paused
beyond the stage of mere competence
in point of worldly substance, in tho
city Of St. Louis, was sought by a mer-
chant. Pressing his suit for some time,
he was finally accepted by the parents,
and being a gentleman of means, the
marriage took place with considerable
eclat and display. On his part be was
in earnest, and raj IN affsctionate
sutton /; but by the parents of tho young
lady it was degraded to the degree OF a
marriage a Ia mode. Their own establish
ment was set up, and the handsomest
and most elegant appointments pro-
vided for a luxurious and wealthy
home +; but it lacked tho very essential
that will make a palace of a cot. One
of the clerks in her fathers store was
the wolf which beset that household.
Between him and her there had been a
clandestine courtship, and he was 10th,
wher the prize was carried away, to
surrender the hand Of the woman whose
heart he already possessed. The kind
Of life the married couple led will not
bear repeating. The husband tried ev.
cry eIpedisnt to win the woman, who
always regarded him with esteem, but
never with affection.
One morning be found his home de-
serted by his wife, and a note telling
him not to pursue her, that it would be
a hopeless task. He Immediately COM
municated with the father of his wife,
and to hi, utter establishment found that
the fdes cehate,, the confidential clerk
| of his fat~her-in-law, had also ~absconded,
taking with him a sum OF money, but not
enough to endangor the interests and
prospects of the house. By n system OF
hushiug only known TO those in such
entanglements, the whole transaction
was concealed from the public. The
husband, wearied out by the absence OF
the woman, finally obtained a divorce
on the ground of dessrtion. He mar.
ried again, and with his second vile
lived happily. Last summer she died,
leaving motherless q boy and girl, both
interesting, sprightly children.
The trunnt woman (this part Of the
story We have from her own lips) nc
companied her paramour and lover to
the plains. The first yenr they spent at
Central City and other mining points in
Colorado, the lover, with his small cap.
ital filched from his employers safe,
and his knowledge Of business, being
able to do some mining trade and 10
make some money. Thence they wen,
to Salt Lake and into Southern Utah
and finally drifted with the tide of ad'
venture to the mines Of Nevada. No
| tidings Of their whereabouts or mean.
derings ever reached the ears OF the
heart broken parents and stricken Il
band. At last ill-fortune befell them
He grew sick and their accuuulatiens
gradually wasted away. The State;
Began to haYo moro attractions thar
heretofore, aud they driftcd eastward,
The lover, who, in the loose civilian
ton of the frontier, regarded himself o,
tho lawful husband, established board
ing house on the Central Pacific Rail
road.
Here he died. Alone in the world
tho woman came back, and when she
landed 10 Council Bluffs was utterly
psnniless. Repentant, only as II woman
can be r~cpentant, even to despair, sh'
wrote to her father, but both parents
being dead, the letter fell into the hands
Of the executor, who showed it to thu
beroft husband. The latter came here
as speedily as possible, and met his lonr
lost and truant wife.