Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-03-31

else you would have offered your arm ere
Knight, aside-The Devil Who have We
here? "Ton thousand pardons, lady fair
I was buried in my thoughts"
''Ah, yea Perhaps !, by my boidness
have frightened away one whose company
you much prefer to mine, ISL 0
ooh, no,-no-that is-you SEQ, lady, yon
take me by surprise. She is nothing to me
you are everything"
"Men are no decoitfnl.
LMost men are. am an exception. He
who could be deceitful to one 30 fair as thou
must be knave" II wonder who in the
deuce she is. Shes bold anyway
| "Men are all alike. | thought there was
one who could be trusted with woman's
heart, and he would treat it kindly, but all
men are brutes. Why do you not listen to
mep Why do you letyour eyes roam on after
her all the time2 Is my company obnoxious
to you2 If so will leave you"
dOh, no, not at all. never was so happy IN
my life l never desire to be happier than
with you. You are all tine world to me-, :
Virginia mother has torn herself away
from the domino and approaches Knight
appears to be uneasy
''Why do Won trOmble so, brave Knight
Are you afraid Of me? See, there comes
your Virginia mother. | suppose you are
very anxious to fly to her"
''Why should not be p
"Why should you not be? Do you stand.
here and talk such stuff to me2 Domino
was losing her self-possesson and getting
angrv.1 Do yon not call yourself brute
have YOU no sense of shame left in you-is
vour last atom ofselfrespect gone-what am
/ to YOU, and what is that woman to you?
Tell me"
knight appears to be thunderstruck.l
You arc nothing to me, that know OF.
It seems You would make yourselfso but You
cannot That woman is everything to me
ooh, Heaven, spare me this feel faint
and shall fall"
"For Gods sake, don't make scene here.
Are you crazy, woman
"Grazv-woman-s words to me. Ill
am not driven to insanity II my 0raln is not
turned it will be from no fault of yours.
Ungrateful monster-cruel, hard hearted
mani How was ] ever 70 basely deceived,
/ thought you all truth and nohlencss-'
"Woman, what do you mean? What will
talking SO to me Y ,
"Your wife"
eyes, mywife You would make me believe
| have none, | suppose.
81 would make you believe, monster, that
you have one whom you have cruelty betrayed
and deceived Monster, look at mo-"
domino raises the covering from her face,
hnlBnt OF JaUneS uile uOcs Hol NDPSui '"
be in the least suIprlscd.l
''Wife, come here" Virginia Mother ap.
proachesl "Mother tell me who this woman
is and find out what she wants. Either
she is crazy or is trying to drive me 70. She's
tearing me all to pieces and for, something |
have done or havn't done, don't know which
and before Heaven never saw her before in
the world. ."
Virginia Mother begins to show indigus-
- a. l,ot ta ntN
and to take hand in, too, If necessary :
"Woman, what are 20 II saying to my hus-
band2"
"Your husband"
eyes, my husband. Do you wish me to
tell you fifty times he is my husband? tell
YOU again he is my husband-and it strikes
me that some women know of might be IN
better business than coong around and
talking to an old manor getting me away,
80 that they can do so. / think that any
woman who will act hike that is no better
than some other women who don't make so
many pretensiOns as some other women do.
There, now!"
"Gracious Heavensl am deceiyed2' 1
Deceived deceived. Woman, if you've |
any intentions on my husband, YOU are de- |
ceived. There, now, what do you keep look: |
ing at him like that for2 Haven't you had
time to see him all through? Now take a
PODU lOuh az NM
knights mask was torn off,and then there
was faint scream from domino, which would
have been louder, had not just at that mo-
ment another domino glidcd up, graspod her
by the arm and fairly pulled her away.
"Heavcns, Susie, what have We been do
ing2 Not a word, not breath, come with
me. It's all mistake, and | was deceived. 4
| met my husband moment ago and was
telling him how you had William, and he said |
it must he mistake, for he knew William
h ad gone on the train. It's awful, amt ?
Let's go home. What must that man have
thought. and his wife, too. When | came
up she was Just talking law
and police and blood and thunder and ven.
geance ioarfully, l tell yon. Do You fce'
bad2"
"Oh, don't know how do iecl | never
felt 40 before. If William should know OF 1t,
I'd die"
"Ho wont know it, / aesurc You. John"
An elderly gentleman cnmo forward, es.
corted the two domnoes out of tho hail and
TO a carriage. 1t was noticed that ono Of the
party seemed very FAINT, and she had to be
lifted INTO the carriage, which drove of, and
the curtain dropsl