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

Is married man-wnlch /, Tor one,
never should have guessed-but his
wife and he-owing, rs most people
say. TO her bad conductive apart. She
is in England At present. and should
think IL would be just ~ we'll to give
Gertrude Ruckmann hint of her exist.
ence. Only look how she is going on
with him ~
Poor girl she was indeed, as your
dear mother in her impressive way de-
scrlbed it, going on-whispering, fiirt-
ing. receiving his attentions with such
sweet smiles OF encouragement! II was
in truth time TO open her r.ind to the
melancholy fact that she, Gertrude
Ruckmann, could not, in the normal
order OF things, hope TO be Major Comp
| tons wife.
My dearest Gerty," whispered to
her the moment found my friend
alone hated the task before me,
and being young and foolish, my heart
was beating fast), shave you heard
about Major Compton,"
She answered me with provoking
composure:
" What about him? Is anything
the matter? He was here talking TO
me three minutes ago, and'-with a
coquettish smile" will probably three
minutes hence be here again.
"Oh, don't talk so |" / said excited.
ly: shut you won't when you know
ALL"
"Know what? My dear Bessie, what
a fuss you are in!"
And SO will you be-" l exclaimed, a
little pettishly, fear, for her way of
taking the matter provoked me, " when
you hear that Major Compton is a mar.
ried man."
Greatly to my surprise and dismay,
Gerty at this announcement laughed
contemptuously.
so people say" she rejoined care.
lessly, abut, nay poor Bessie, YOU will
learn in time that you cannot always
Judge correctly from appearances. But
here he is" she whispered; "not a |
word more; l will tell you everything |
tomorrow"
This she did, and the " everything"
amounted to this, namely, that Burford
Compton had, by his own account, pro.
discovered that an infor-
mality in his marriage with one who
according to his version of the case
was simply detestable, empowered him
at any moment to free himself from
his hated bonds, and unite himself
should he SO choose, to q more congo.
NAL partner.
Il never heard Of q more odious
woman y said Gertrude, on whom the
details of the miseries by which the
Majors conjugal life was EN-.
Uttered had evidently made deep i'm.
preston. "She is foreigner and has
1ot, he says, a single nice English
habit. And then she is so ill-tem.
oered, and so dreadfully unfeeling.
Their poor little boy was lost-is sup.
posed to have fallen into he Alster-
ust the very day before the great frost
ct in. Major Compton says that he
vas in despair, but that she took it so
DOLLY! Even when she was told that
might be weeks, or even months be.
ore the poor child's body could
hanks to thaw-be sought for, and
.,osslbly recovered, she seems to have
hown no signs of emotion
And where is Mrs. Compton now ?" (
asked, feeling, l must own $50 apt are
'e to be run away with by strongly-urged
estimony, especially when that testi.
,ony comes from the lips of one who
as right to be we'll informed on the
,atter), considerable leaning in the {,
ay of sympathy toward this ill-mated
.nglishman.
don't mountaineering, somewhere,
believe. Major Compton is quite sure
ne is running him into debt but he
lrinks, poor man, SO sensitively from
liking the necessary steps to restrain
er. 1t really seems sad case. And
has such kind heart; and actually '
annot live, he says, without sympathy 6
nd affection" :
"After this, Major Compton-ofw whose n
larried life, by the way, very little was /
nown in Hamburg-became frequent
sltor, both at our house and the one q
here Gertrude Ruckmann temporarily
sided. We all liked him indeed he il
as universally popular, and society was n
Dparently unanimous in the opinion {
lat the lady who had been so little v
nown in the city-indeed, she had only z
sided therein for one short fortnight,
le fortnight preceding the loss of her
tile hoy-was the one Of the two who
as solely and entirely in fault. The
the perfection Of his tenn. g
r., and the kindlinees of Burford Y
ompton's heart spoke in q manner not :
be mistaken in every feature of his u
lndsome face. There could be no !,
'stake about it, les absents ont toujours y
RI; and Mrs. Compton-or Countess G
as her husband said she ',
sisted, notwithstanding his great oh. =
ction to her doing so, on being called q
was reprobated and abused accord. Z
gly. p
"Well, to cut q long story short, Ger. !,
ude, impressed with the belief that = =