The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-05-24

OF excitement was most interesting, and
public sympathy with his sutlerings wa.
proportlOnately great. II had hardly
begun TO subside when our party-some,
thing to my regret, for we left many
kind friends behind us-found ourselves
steaming rapidly away in the John Bull
to London.
"And now, my dears," continued,
"comes the pith and marrow Of a story
which you have, fear, found lacking i'm
interest, but which ! have undertaken
to tell in order that you may see the
advantage Of looking before you leap.
or, in other words, of not being carried
away 10y your impulses.
III had not been more than week
in London before received letter, in
an unknown but foreign hand, signed
Marie Compton, nee Fenigstein, request.
ing me in meek yet urgent terms TO
meet her, at any hour which il pleased
me to appoint, in Kensington Gardens.
You may imagine my surprise. For a
short time l hesitated as to whether or
not l should accede to this strange re-
quest, but curiosity got the better of
every other feeling, and | went"
"And what was she like? o, aunt
Bessie, how oddly you must have felt /"
oddly, indeed, and a good deal
ashamed of mys II, too, when l looked
at The sweet, gentle face and heard the
pIaintive, accomplishing words of the
woman who had come to meet me.
"You will forgive me, won't you
You look kind, and you will tell me
how can make my English husband
love me?'
"This was the burden of her piteous
song. She had heard that he had been
much with US and with Mile. Ruckmann,
and she hoped to learn from me how,
with all her love for him, she had failed
to win his tenderness. There was no
jealousy, no word of complaint of him;
only breaking heart clinging to last
and well-nigh desperate hope What
could / say to her? How preach to that
gentle creature on the text of her great
folly? She had given up all for love,
and what was left to her in exchange
Simply nothingl
1--WE talked together long, and she
seemed to take such comfort from nv
that we parted like friends
Of years. Afterward learned that her
appearance, her words and manner, had
,ot belied her character. She was. at
he time speak OF (so arch dissem.
bier was the Major), staying with his
people, who fully recognized her sweet |
md amiable qualities while the child
-ah, 1 am doubtful whether she was
lot in fault there, doing evil that good |
night come-had never been lost at all, |
tut was taken away by his anxious |
mother, who feared for him the effects
# evil example; the example of par.
mt who, while caring nothing for the
10Y, amused himself by teaching the
title fellow to drink and use bad words.
IN, hers was hard life, poor soul, and
ertainly she acted for the best"
And how did it end ?" "Did she
o back to him?' Sand are they hap
Ter now?" were the questions with
Which, in their haste to hear the sequel,
was simultaneously assailed by my
Dung auditors.
Yes" answered dreamily, for my
thoughts were with the past, "the poor
hing returned to her unloving mate,
Dr. her sense of duty was strong. Hap
lily, however, for her-although doubt
'hether she has ever realized that truth
Major Compton was killed soon after
a duel, and she, hear, has devoted
erself ever since to the child, which is
he source of all her earthly happiness"
"How sadw murmured Minnie 81
'as so in hopes that she and her hus.
and would have been happy together
, the end"
"It may be-" l said, "that to the last
cor Mrs. Compton shared that hope
ut, dear children, remember this, that
!, marrying a thoroughly SELF sh man
no has no principle TO guide him
'raight, woman's chances against
,ipwreck of her happiness are simply
4. And now, for the fire is burning
w, suppose we take ourselves to bed
il ten o'clock, and we must not forget
ar beauty Sleep"
Half an hour afterward the girls were
the land of dreams, while /, as
iddle-aged folks will, lay long awake,
linking of the days gone by, ana The 1
,uth which had fled away for ever
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