The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1872-11-13

Edith, would you have wed the ma
/ who now lords it over you if left eI
tirelY to your own free will:'
Never %
And do you not believe that IN
heart should 60 with the hand--loyt
with the promise to obey?"
As | believe in heaven"
'sThen when it is falsified there
can be no real marriage, I am no be
lever in free love as preached by
mad women and hrainless, passionate
men, but | do believe in extreme
/ cases like our own we have right
to use the only remedy left US.
She was too pure to comprehend
his neaniEg--had never for n single
moment thought Of breaking bonds
of any change in her position
any relaxing Of the holy bonds of
wifehood, and sat silent and earnest
ly gazing into his face, as he contin-
.ued more and more to break down
the barriers between them.
4 mean separation. It is guilty
for US to continue living in this
manner" ~
loH mesa. she questioned very
slowly and as if endeayoring to grasp
the full purport Of his words you
mean that I should leave my hus-
band =
.Exactly--as I shall my wife"
And what then should I do"
That is an after consideration.
let me think
lie sat for a long time gazing into
her beautiful face and misty eyes,
and thinking how he could best un-
fold bis plans-ones that had sud
denly sprung up in his mind. No
cool plotting villain was Roylst0n.
Int man OF strong ag--easilv
led away and impulsive The love
he bore for tie fascinating woman
by his side was rapidly driving away
all other considerations. Still he re-
manned sane enough to feel the dan
gerous path upon which he was tread
ing, and pondered how the end
which be had Il view might best be
obtaiGed.
What vou wi'l subsequently do
lie continued. will, as | have said,
be Rn after consideration. though /
conli instantly decide It for YOU !
am determined TO leave my wife
shall never return to her. When we
al hour since. though she /.
little dreams o. sueA : thing, it was
for the last tine
You cannot mean t}is* she
questioned. seeing that kc waited for
an answer.
i do mean it-haye been long ex-
3ecc.a5 that i would come AID ma /
king preparations for II. y
"IEpossjb.e -
AS heaven will be ny fudge il Is
rae. Sue has driven me TO madness +
9y EeF savage tongue, and--I must .
confess it am made sill more 50 .
3v seeing Won the wife Of another
"Still. ] am his wife
~Ict how long must you be thus
tie5-baztere3 body and .
soul, 10 one. who has neither aprre- !
ion Of either yoar loveliIess or
GOODNESS -
lie haH possessed himself Of her
lani, aud sAe permitted It 10 iimger +
within the warm grasplnz, though .
he blood sargeI - her face as she .
.emembered it belonged to another,
Hear me. my darling. You ask
ri what YOU should do when YOU left
our husband. Come with me. We
sill battle pursuit iiy 70 another
and and"
She shivered as one who comes /
and without warning upon /
xenoInous serpent. The same /
leaily chill crept through her veins
0 her heart-theu she partially re
tore her hand away and
Frank, Frank what have you
aid:"
Nothing but what heaven and
.a-th alike would sanction.
Leave my husband and hy with
-ou
You viii think differently from
ghat YOU now do when YOU have
ime to reflect.
perhaps SO. I--will-think.-
me.
lie woald have stopped and kissed
er, but she waved him of and as he
isappeared sank 70 the ground, COW
red her face with her hands and
-ept long and bitterly as she remem-
cred how she had almost courted
he insult she had received, eourted
/ by her own actions.
The murmmuring Of tie river, the
ongs Of the birds, the rustIing of
be leaves, the low sighing Of the
ind. everything in nature appeared
0 whisper into her ears guilty"
nd she arose and fed homeward, .
rept into the house, sodght her hus-
aud and throwing herself into his
rms family articulated through her
obs
John, dear John, save me -
From what, my darliug"' he ask
d as he tenderly folded her in his
rms, seated himself and drew her
pom his knee.
From myself-ererything-
rank Roylston:'
The strong man trcmbleI even
1ore fftfnlly than she had done when
he base proposition of the tempter
as whispered into her ears. But
G controlled himself and pillowing
er head upon. his breast at last
card the story from her quiyaring
ps.
MY darling. my Edith, my wife ;
e said when she had finished, and :
t the same time smoothing back the ,
2ft hair from around her flushed
ice and kissing her more lover-like
ian ever before. ''this hour, sad as ;
is. makes you an hundred fold :
iore precious to me than ever ;
efore." ;
what she answered, in aston !;
hmcnt, and venturing to look at {