The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17

! jeweled fingers, while Master De
Moray, the son of Bavarian gam
bier, who had been killed in q dis
graceful sffray across u green baize
covered table, turned a somerset,
and bawled out:
4 "Aiu't I glad he's gone? And
now ma, can have the cake and
preserves myself
h s'And | may as well take advan-
tage of the opportunity to spend a
! few days in Saratoga" said Mrs.
Rylstone complacently-and she sat
down and wrote long letter to her
absent husband full of 'dears' and
'darIings' and loves and winding up
with a request for check for three
hundred dollars.
He might have thought of it be-
fore he went away from home" said
she, ''But men are all soselfsh"
She had hardly completed the
wardrobe she deemed necessary for
her Saratoga triuInphs, before a
telegram set the semi-deserted house
in wild commotion.
"a railroad accident. And my
poor dear husband killed. shrieked
Mrs. De Moray Keystone. .eOh I
the uncertainty of this life. What
pity it is bought the lemon-color-
ed silk now! And the AMETHYST
jewels, and the thread lace. Oh,
dear ! dear! how very unfortunate !!
And Mrs. Rylstone ordered the
most expensive mourning to be in
readiness for the funeral, English
Grape, wrinkled like the waveIets of
the sea; handkerchiefs. bordered
inch-deep with black, and bombazine
Of the choicest quality.
''And how about the poor little
BERTHE :" questioned old Miss Sea-
bury, who kindly made her friends
business her own, on all possible oc-
casions.
oh! he'll stay where he is, of
course" said Mrs. Rylstone 81
can't be bothered with other peoples
children. and l always did detest
that stupid little BERTHE. Now that
am rich widow [ mean to have
my own way little. Keystone was
all very well, but he was n good deal
Older than l, and if l ever marry
again--''
Il think there was plenty Of time
to Think of that" said Mr.. Rylstone S
old-maid aunt, with a toss of her
Grape bonnet. Some folks would
wait until their second husband was
buried before they commenced to
scheme for third"
Mrs. Rylstone laughed out defiant
~. She knew her husbands will had
been made in her own favor. and she
felt she could afford to hurl defiance
at her adversaries.
I never did care two pins about
Rylstone," she said; but | wanted
nice home and plenty of pin-money,
and got it. am quite young, and
pretty enough yet to get another
husband. and
And it's u pity you will not have
the chance said a vOice--the voice
Of the deceased himself.
And George Keystone. alive and in
the flesh. stood before his astonished
widow. -s--t--t~.
Aunt Rachel Strengthened her spec
tacles.
$50 you're not killed after ALP
said she. e-r.aE.ET
Fortunately escaped unhurt, al
though the man next me was killed."
said he; land it seems | have reach
ed home just in time to assist in my
own funeral =
Mrs. Keystone had risen and was
hurrying towards her husband.
dearest George p she began.
but Mr.. Keystone evaded the serpent
like caress.
Pray do not trouble yourself"
said he, 4 have heard and seen
quite enough of your character to
justify me in an entire separation.
Hereafter we will go our own several
ways-Bartie and | will find what
happiness we can among the blue
hills of Vermont"
And Mrs. Rylstone found her hus-
band inplacable to all her tears and
entreaties.
But the life Of Mrs. Keystone, on
an allowance of so much a week, in
lodgings, was quite different from the
life of George Rylstone's idolized
and INDUCED wife; and the ex-ac-
tress found that she had made fatal
mistake. p
But it was to late to mend matters
now.