Connecticut western news., 1872-11-22

l 0 at last.
 One morning when the latter was sit. ting in the parlor, Wurmin entered and asked for Marie.
 s'She is in the garden,'' answered her mother. "You will find my daughter there if you would like to see her."
 The young officer hastily walked out into the garden.
 Petrowna crossed herself, murmurisg, "God be praised! To- day. trust his visit will have some result" Wurmin found his beloved, clad in white, sitting under tree by the side of the pond, book upon her lap, like heroine of romance. The usual saluta- | tions over, Wurmin, who was strangely agitated, told her how be had long yearned to pour out his heart before her, and begged that she would listen | few moments. She closed her book and nodded in token of assent.
 "I love you," said Wurmin, "I love passionately,"
 Marie cast down her eyes.
 "I have been imprudent enough to see you, to hear you-daily. It is now too late to escape my fate. The thought of your lovely face, of your sweet voice, WILL uCnCSlOIUH COISI1UuGO Ol1C JOH uhNi the anguish of my existence. But I have 8 duty to perform toward you I must reveal to you secret, which has placed an insurmountable barrier be- l tween us" .
 "That barrier" murmured Marie, tex. | isted always-I could never have become yours."
 "I know," replied Wurmin, in sup pressed voice, "that you loved before; but death-three long years of mourning dearest Marie, do not deprive me of my last comfort, of the blissful thought that you might become mine if" "Cease, I conjure you! You rend my l hearr."
 "Yes, you will grant me the comfort of knowing that you would have become mine; but, most wretched of men that l am-I am already married !"
 Marie gazed up at him with look of astonishment.
 "Yes, married for four years," con- tinued the lieutenant, "and I do not know either who my wife is, where she is, or whether I shall ever meet her."
 Explain yourself more clearly" said the girl.
 q love you, Marie, and will confde in you. You shall know all, and you will not judge too ssverly an act of youthful levity. It was in the year 1872, I happened to be on my. way to Wilma, with the intention of joining my regiment. Late in the evening reached 8 station, and had already ordered that horses should instantly be put to again, when a fierce snow storm suddenly arose. My landlord and the postilien urgently advised me to postpone my de- parture; but was determined to go in spite of the rough weather. The postil- ion had got it into his head that, by crossing a small river, the banks of which were perfectly well known to him, he should find shorter route. He missed the right crossing, however, and got in- to region to which he was an entire stranger. The storm continued to rage; at length we deserted light in the dis tance. We made for it, and stopped be- fore Q church, from the brightly illum- mated windows of which the light shone. I The door was open, three sleighs were in front of it, and I saw several persons in the vestibule. One of them called to me This way this wayp I got out and walked toward the vestibule.
 |" The person who had called advanced toward me.
 "'Great Heavens!' he said show late you come Your intended has tainted, and we were on the very point of driving home again
 "Half bewildered and half amused. resolved to let the adventure take it's course. And, indeed, had little refec- ton. My friends tugged me into the interior of the church, which was poorly lighted by two or three lamps. A female was sitting upon bench ill the shadow, while another stood beside her and chafed her temples.
 l "' At last p cried the latter. "God be praised that you have come My poor mistress liked to have died"
 'sAn aged priest emerged from behind the altar, and asked, Gan we begin ?
 "'Begin, reverend father I cried, unadvisedly.
 "They assisted the half unconscious girl to rise she appeared to be very pretty. Tn fit of unpardonable, and now quite incomprehensible, levity, I readily stepped with her to the altar. Her maid and the three gentlemen pres ent were so much busied with her as scarcely to throw look at ne. Besides, the light in this part of the church was dim, and my head was mufied in the hood of my cloak.
 s'In few minutes the nuptial ceremony
 was over, and the priest according to GUS
 tom desired the newly married pair tc
 embrace.
 "My young wife turned her pale, charm
 ing little face toward me, and was about
 to rest her head upon my shoulder with 8 sweet smile. when suddenly she stared al me as if turned into stone, tottered anC with a cry of It is not hep fell to tht s floor.
 'All the funes of hell lashed me out O
 church. Before any one could think o v staying me hsd jumped into my sleigh f seized the reins, and was soon beyond th 8 reach of pursuit"
 l The lieutenant was silent. Marie als' s gazed in silence upon the ground. D :'And have you never discovered wha l became of the poor girl?" she finally asked
 'Never. I know neither the name o
 the village where was married nor do h recollect the station where I stopped. Tn 9 servant whom had with mo was killed il e battle, all my efforts ts find out the pos . tilion who drove us proved unavailing, ant i so every clue seems mdeed'lost by whicl n I might again find the scene of that foll, q for which have now to suffer so heavily. j. Marie turned her pale face toward hin h and took both his hands. The lieuten
 ant gazed thunderstruck into her eyes " dim foreboding awoke in his breast, vail suddenly dropped from his eyes. "Marie p God of heaven, how coul 7, I have been so blind Marie, was .. indeed you ?"
 :. "I am your wife p was the only all . swer of the girl who sank fainting int ai bis arms.-From th. Rwssian of Alerandt u Pushkif.
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