Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-23

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ly; "but you won't when you know |
"Know what? Ny dear Bessie, what |
fuss you are in! p
"And SO will you be-" exclaimed, a
little pettishly, l fear, for her way of
taking the matter provoked me, when
you hear that Major Compton is mar
ried man."
Greatly to my surprise and dismay,
Gerty at this announcement laughed
contemptuously.
$50 people say" she rejoined care
lessly, "but, nay poor Bessie, you will
learn in time that you cannot always
judge correctly from appearances. But
here he is" she whispered; mot a
word more; will tell you everything
| to morrow."
This she did, and the 'every thing"
amounted to this, namely, that Burford
Compton had, by his own account, pro-
videntially discovered that an infor-
mality in his marriage with one who
according to his version of the case
was simply detestable, empowe cred him
at any moment to free himself from
his hated bonds, and unite himself,
| LIE 81 CUOOSc, " d IlOIC CODSO-
NAL partner.
81 never heard of more odious
woman p said Gertrude, on whom the
details of the miseries by which the
handsome Majors conjugal life was en-
FILTERED had evidently made deep i'm
preston. "She is a foreigner, and has
not, he says, single nice English
habit. And then she is so ill-tem-
pered, and so dreadfully unfeeling.
Their poor little boy was lost-is sup
posed to have fallen into the Alster-
Just the very day before the great frost
set in. Major Compton says that he
was in despair, but that she took it so
coolly! Even when she was told that
it might be weeks, or even months be-
fore the poor child's body could
thanks to thaw-be sought for, and
possibly recovered, she seems to have
shown no signs of emotion"
"And where is Mrs. Compton now ?''
, l asked, feeling, l must own $50 apt are
we to be run away with by strongly-urged
testimony, especially when that testi-
mony comes from the lips of one who
has q right to be well informed on the
matter), a considerable leaning in the
way of sympathy toward this ill-mated
Englishman.
81 don't mountaineering somewhere
, l believe. Major Compton is quite sure
, she is running him into debt but he
' shrinks, poor man, so sensitively from
I taking the necessary steps to restrain
! her. 1t really seems sad case. AnC
: he has such kind heart; and actually
f cannot live, he says, without sympathy
: and affection"
"After this, Major Compton-of whose
5 married life, by the way, very little wa
j known in Hamburg-became frequen
n visitor, both at our house and the on
g where Gertrude Ruckmann temperate,
b resided. We all liked him; indeed h
e was universally popular, and society wa
s apparently unanimous in the opinion
q that the lady who had been so it'll
l. known in the city-indeed, she had onl
J. resided therein for one short fortnight
}, the fortnight preceding the loss of he
e little hoy-was the one of the two VIII
d was solely and entirely in fault. TIL
d excellence, the perfection of his ten
It per, and the kindliness of Burfor
o Compton's heart spoke in a manner nc
n to be mistaken in every feature of b
n handsome face. There could be n
v mistake about it, les absents ont togjoG
4. tort; and Mrs. Compton-or Counte.
q Fenigstein, as her husband said sh
a insisted, Notwithstanding his great o.
t. lection to her doing so, on being Gale
lie was reprobated and abused accor'
J. ingly.
g "Well, to cut long story short, &c
Re trude, impressed with the belief TIL
Ds the Major was single man, grew
attached to him as her nature was cap
Il BILE OF being. That she would one da
id when the truth concerning his ma
IN riage with his supposed wife should
made apparent-be led to the altar /
to her fascinating admirer, the infatuate
yh girl firmly believed; and it was whe
p this blissful dream was at its height tn
it the frost broke up, the passage of Il
Elbe became open for steamers, and Il
en- hour of our departure drew nigh. b
as before we took our leave of the pleasal
Jig sunny Jungfernstieg, we were mac
in cognizant of the fact that the search
So the now unfrozen waters of the Alst
ce for the bodies of those whose remain
~ had been for months locked up therei
st was taking place. Many were taken OF
.c- but among them, much to the surpri
OF Hamburg society, was not the lit
of six-year-old corpse of Major Compton
re son. He, during that trying season
,ly suspense, remained in his own apal
sr ments; but it leaked out that his sta
he of excitement was most interesting, al
ed public sympathy with his sufferings W
i proportionately great. 1t had hard
be begun to subside when our party-som
nd thing to my regret, for we left ma
er kind friends behind us-found ourselv
ho steaming rapidly away in the John b
Sc to London.
CT Sand now, my dears," continue
ed g comes the pith and marrow of a sto
nd which you have, fear, found lacking
interest, but which | have undertak
est to tell in order that you may see t
MS advantage of looking before you les
lie or, in other words, of not being CARR
le, away by your impulses.
his ~ had not been more than we
de IL London before l received letter,
he al unknown but foreign hand, sign
Id Marie Compton, nee Fenigstein, reque
We ing me in meek yet urgent terms
St meet her, at any hour which it pleas
on me to appoint, in Kensington Gardel
You may imagine my surprise. For
ur short time l hesitated as to whether