The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1872-10-10
Disease of the Heart.

Christmas holidays Of 1870, young farm
cr of the neighborhood and the particular
rural belle, who was supposed to reclpro'
cate his partiality for her, attracted the at
tention Of the the embarrassed company
by uuequivocal signs Of a serious breach
Of good feeling between them The ar
rival Of the girl under escort of an ad'
mirer whom she had previously treated
with marked Indifference, aud the subsc.
quent appearance of the yeoman alone aud
in an apparently sullen humor, were the
FIRST occasions of surprise to the assembled
-makers; but the common feeling OF
wonder grew still more serious when, up
on tho fair coqucttc's court refusal to dance
with her lately favored swain, the latter
denounced her in round terms and high
voice rs a faithless airt, and threatened to
cast her cavalier Of the evening from the
nearest window. The insulted woman
burst into tears. angry words passed be.
tween the rivals, aud when finally the re-
of older friends induced the
now furious young farmer to retire from
the scene, the pleasure Of all the guests bad
been so elfectually destroyed that the whole
soon broke up in something like
a panic. What has caused the alien.
alton Of the lovers and this ensuing scene
was never known in Waverley. Rumor
explained it in various ways, and specula'
tive comment on the subject varied with
public fancy until the spring Of the follow
ing year, when the heroine Of the affair
was married to the person who had been
her companion at the merry-maklus :
From the nishtoflhe latter, her 50 strange.
" discarded suilor never spoke to her
again, and soon after her marriage, him.
self married young woman to whom ne
had paid some earlier attentions, and
moved to Evansville, Ind. Here him and
bis bride lived in seeming harmony, if no'
very passionate devotion, until toward the
Christmas holidays again. when q dreary
change appeared to come over both Ofthem'
aud the few acquaiutances they had made
in their new home believed that some SO.
,ret trouble had fallen upon them. While
lhk Impression rchaiued, the young wife
was found dead ip her bed one morning,
' " =
ef Asiat corouer's jury pronounced DIS
eapssof the Heart. A foreknowledge OF
this fatal affection had, it was thought,
been the cause Of the gloom noticed IN
both The husband and wife, and the for
njer, in his increased depression and silent
under bis bereavement, rccelv-
I'd The cornmiselation Of those to whom no
le;gned no other expression Of feeling than
IN obvious desire not to DO questioned
about it. There was mystery here,
however, even as there had been in the
very different affair at Wavcrley. The
,lum, uncommuuicative widower moved
,pain, some distance out Of Evansville,
where as the Journal Of the latter place
.elates, he has recently died, literally of q
broken heart and remorse, after making a
,tartling confession to kind old woman
who, from motives ofhumanity, attended
md soo.bed bis last hours. His wife whom
he had married more from spite against
mother than from love for himself, con-
iessed to him, some months after their
marriage, that in The desperate hope Of
him back to bis former allegiance
10 her she had turned bis latter sweet
heart against him by managing to intro.
luce one Of his old, undated love-lctters
% herself into the envelope Of q letter he
lad intended for her rival, and pretending,
when called to account by the latter, that
he writer was playing them both falsely
1t the same time. She had interrupted
he true letter and changed it, and told
his ingenious faIsehood about it, with the
result above described. Upon hearing
he confession, eztorted from her by re-
morse aud consciousness that she was still
her husband declared that he
would never forgive her while he lived,
and warned her to leave before his hatred
made him do that for which he would
never be forgiven. She did not heed his
hoping desperately, perhaps,
that her love might yet plead for her;
IL ,o.l;ro IN his own raoant dvinp