Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-08-05

| tended to despatch messenger 10 her
friend. But she came not, | now
knew she had not been communicated
with. My charmer seemed not at all
Disconnected, but | was half-distracted,
| What should | do? Our names were
registered as married. There could be
no move made at that house without
creating q hub-bub, which now saw
she would not hesitate to raise. She
protested that she should go with me
to minister on the morrow. To cut
a long story short, she by her bold
ness and prOtestations and promises,
accomplished my ruin. Who shall
depict my anguish on the morrow,
when she coolly informed me that her
talk about the clergyman was only a
ruse, and that she had no intention of
marrying me. But she soon found
that she had gone too far. / became
so violent that she feared | would
commit suicide, and promised to mar
ry me in few days if would keep
quiet. This would not do. She had
deceived me once, and though | loved
her as madly as ever, / would not
trust her. Towards evening | rushed
out of the hotel and went hurriedly
towards the docks, intending to drown
myself. She ran after me, and just as
was about to take the fatal leap laid
her hand upon my shoulders and ex-
claimed, as she jerked me backwards,
"What a fool you are to take on SO.
| Ifyou are as bad as that will marry
you. saw my friend Judge Blank
in her Office rs came by. Come to
her; she will marry us quick enough.o
|, consented TO so. AS we entered
the office, | saw a look of intelligence
pass between the Judge" and my
lady that would have seemed to me
to mean more than their commOn-
place greeting had not been 50 in
fatuated. A witness was called, and
the ceremony was gone through with
decently enough. | kissed the bride
rapturOusly when it was over, and she
said, smilingly, "Now, you feel better
| SUPPOSE ! was very happy for a
while then. My wife appeared to be
very fond Of me, and, like so many of
my sex, | seemed to forget all her
treachery and cruelty, now that she
was really mine. wrote my parents
that was married and happy. What
she wrote to her parents | do not
know, as she would not show me her
letters, while insisting on reading all
Of mine. Towards the end of our
honeymoon, however, she seemed to
weary of me. When wanted to stay
at home, in q continual routine Of
sweet talk and caresses, she wanted to
be out shopping, or riding, or gossip
ing with her acquaintance. One day
an old friend of mine took me aside
and asked me if | was sure that my
marriage certificate was genuine. He
told me, moreover, that it was Il cur
rent talk in the town that there was u
year old child at founding hospital
in Boston, that bore striking resent
blance to my wife. This maddened
me with suspicion again. HUNTED up
the supposed judge who performed the
ceremony, and found she was q petit
Jogging lawyer, who had been bribed
to be in readiness, in case of emergen-
cy, to perform Il mock ceremony.
Close enquiry also convinced me that
the child referred to was really my
"wife's," and that we might thus 40
count for n long visit she paid to Bos-
ton the previous year. Such cold
blooded villany, i'll girl of seventeen,
appalled, me. | rushedhOme and con-
fronted her with the facts | had learn
ed. Dependent rs | was upon her
/ for support, and with my reputation,
as found already blasted, | was pa
ralyzed, | seemed to lapse into a state
Of dumb despair, with no inclination
to try suicide again. We fell into a
routiue life. She had got control OF
a legacy left by rich relative, and
SO had plenty of money; whereas !
having ncverreally learned to do any
thing well, having always relied upon
my beauty as means of making q
living and marrying well, found my
sclfquite at her mercy. She hired q
comfortable little house in the suburbs
for us, and when ] was resigned and
did not upbraid her, seemed to bc still
quite fond of me. One day | wrote
I, ! her mother complaining of how
In 4 been treated. She wrete an in
sull ing reply, telling me that l was
rirh, ly served for daring to think o
mar riage alliance with her family
and in, forming me she hal no doul
her daughter would desert me as sh'
had n sin. 'ilar fOola year ago. For he
mart she dl d not care what the young
woman did in such ways so that sht
did not run IN debt. She knew tina
nil GIRLS must SOW their wild oats be
fore they SOW any worth keeping, ant
she admired herspirit.
AS the months wore on had TIN
satisfaction ofleaTning that my com
nanion would again become mother
and | hoped this new tie would binC
us so closely that she would conscn
to n real marriage. l spent man!
happy hours brooding over this, ant
dreaming of possible future happines
in store for us. But she seemed t
, regard the matter very lightly, ant
was more than ever in company.
was often grieved to see how familia
+ she was with other men. AT length
a in due course of time, my eyes wer
| blessed with the sight of my beautl
= FIJI boy. For a while it really SCENE,
r that it would prove a tie TO bind II
more closely. She even talked mucI
i'm those days of marriage. But i'll
f few DAYS she became quite indilleren
: to both the child-and myself; in fac
n left him entirely to my care. AT las
9 things came to crisis. One day
@ Tsat bewailing my fate, and fecdin
/ the baby with arrowroot, she came !
# accompanied by q middle-aged, tinel
1 dressed lady, who seemed to devou
q me with her eyes. l shrank back il
n llignantly from hergaze; atwhich the
d both smiled, and / heard my pretenC
ed wife whisper, "He will soon g
Il over IT," begun to suspect how IL
I matter stood, and when they wei
v out made up my mind what course
- would pursue. That night, rs | e.
a. pected, the hard hearted mother
= nv child coolly told me that she WI
.ot fired ofme and the "bratn too, AZ
~ ~ was boundto be rid of us both. Flu
s. thermore, that the lady who had callt
&c was very rich and very much in lo'
" with me, and that she would take
70 both and provide well for us, il wou
v agree to it. indignantly secuted IL
nj idea, and holding the babe up befo
as her, implored her by that innoce
lr fruit of her treachery to repent of h
W evil work and make me the on y rep
s. ration in her power by marrying II
rs and leading a virtuous life henceforl
at She laughed at me, said was TAXI
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