The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-04-26
INrltu lot tuy MUSAiNss ~ : Ar'u' mr.
WHO WAS TO BLAME
a Womans Vengeance.
~ WELDON y. CORR. ~.

Evenings shadows. gray and cold were
Y rt.m- .u>uaiIy enough around the man
-ur Mo- Mn Thurndykr. retired banker
! r,,fiu- u g beautiful villa. situated "a
\ th, Eluk w the Hudson rvrr. some forty
uiIr~ from New York
Do Nu- ~ place Which even wealthy
man might have ,uylel ": Its possessions
Y t,r. am rhut luxury could Afford, ~ wealth
/ suggest had been cd upon the house
Y us.lf aud thr grounds Mr. Th"rndykr's
Y uIte h.ll lied some luycar, previously, leay-
. u- the old man yhlldless. and, al the date
I ,t aur story. Nr lhurudyhe vas the >1le
...uuaut NJ the mansion. with the eNcep-
. um uf % nephew. Robert Thurstnn. by
u.tuc. ana thr servants uf the house, all of
n u..m hul been long IN the service of the
/ family
4 f,u r,is from the villa IL Mr. Eugene
! ruurudN Nkc. Nas situated the home NJ ms ia
I v.ritr NEPHEW. Nhn hurr tue same name as
/ himself Eugen, Ihorndy ke, the younger,
vlS man whose thirty-tvr years 81 life
| h.tl hyru mingled with varied aud event
| hl experience Care apparently, sat
/ lightly upon the clear, intellectual brow,
tet I'd close observer might have traced be
side the ~trnnglv-markrd induces uf mind
Atm education ia Mr. Thnrndykr, the
yuuugers face, irony, deception, and cru
! city
After having spent five years Of hls life
! ND foreign travel. and traversed the stcppes
II Russia. the plains uf the far West, the
I desert, VI Arabia, ana the jungie-embow
\ eryi yerdurt of India, Eugene had return
! VI to Mapl,grove t. find An elegant man
s,u prepared for hun, at the hands NJ his
generous uncle and immediately adjoining
Tie lattrrs villa. One thing, however,
dcpr.yrd him IL the enjoyment of his good
estate During his snJ"urn IN foreign
( e.uutrirs his uncle. Ia the loneliness pre-
.ung III his household, had adopted the
only child Of his dead sister, Robert
Thurston. ana the probabilities were that
he Robert. would become heir ~ the un
Gle. m case # the old mans death.
u t. the date of our narrative, for one
year. the Younger Thorndyke had resided
in the splendid home provided for HIM by
his uuselhsh uncle, with but two objects
III h, life And as our story hinges upon
th,sr. it will hy as Vrll tn detail them her
The first object Vas 10 b,,msh from his
ud past memory which gave to hlm a
t.tltss. uuavallng rcmurse, and rendered
linn. At tunes, a moruse, unhappy being,
hose whole existence became rabld, prof
itless. almost uncomfortable.
J. vas the memory Of a past marriage,
cunsecrated III an obscure chapel on the
island of Cuba. near Havana, and now re-
pudIated although untorgutten. Wan
derIng through Cuba he had met lnez
Tlita. FAIR daughter of poor, but proud
possessor If an ancient name and broken
down hacienda He had loved her, that
is. 50 far as he WAS capable Of loving and
had IN a moment Of passion and excite
ment, welded her For three months the
marriage Was preserved secret. Then
the young American began to tell Of hl:
beautiful. alfectlunate but capraclous wife
She demanded 10 he taken 70 his American
home desired to become the mistress O
the elegant mansion he had told her wa
his own Bitterly did he regret the hasty
marriage, but there was no help for it.
An. W. there iras a chance for free
dom. and satan led him t. adopt It. H'
asked her to ride out with him one evening
on the ocean, III a roN-bnat. He learned
from her lips that his true identity anC
name were unknown 10 any person bu
herself And then, CALLING under the re
straint Of an unloved wife, he leaped mt
the sea As the boat upset hy wave, ant
swan ashore
He neither looked back. nor waited
He heard her appealing cries for help, bu
he hurried N Some adverse fate ha'
gwen him tins opportunity Of becoming ri'
Of her The next day he was miles iron
Havana, feeling secure and satisfied tina
Inez Tilita had found "A watery grave.
But. when he had settled down in hi
new home, the memory of this woman be
came curse, a heavy blight upon him
, If he smiled, her mute and agonizing fea
lures became presented to his vision.
he slept IT was to awaken, often and sud
denly. As in a nightmare, with consciOu
sense that a murderers guilt lay heavy o
! his soul and that his victim wIerd wrath
unseen, Was accusing hun daily, hourly
and Was dragging him irresIstibly INTO
tide Of misery, remorse and horror.
Eugene Thorndykes second object wa
t. prejudica his uncles mind against Rot
ert Thurston Possessed Of ample mean'
the Younger Thorndyke witnessed, wit
envious jealousy, how, day by day, thi
: younr lad was gaining the old mans favol
and. unsatished with the almost princel
fortune which was already his, he sough
7 by all means fair and unfair to place tn
boy. Robert, in a disadvantageous light.
He was a bright eyed, merry lad, tn
Robert Thurston, and twenty-five veal
had made him lively, intelligent youn
man, with deep, revelence and affectlo
for his uncle, and an impetuous mind, III
pulsive. chivalric and generous.
Il was the evening of the day upO
Il. which our story opens, that old EugeI
4 Thorndlke, sat in the library, awaiting Il
ID advent Of Robert, his nephew, for who
he had Just sent. 1t was evident, from Il
p old mans excited manner and quick IN
it patient strides across the floor, that he wi
deeply annoyed at something, which hs
rutfied the ordinary solemity of his manne
\ As Robert Thurston entered the hbrar
the old uncle evinccd his displeasure by
deep frown.