The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-08-24

81 have not dollar mar, Jen,n said
Leonardo "but since you have heard
Il already, ] may as well tell yml that
am engaged to,an helreHs, and M soon
Ms J ain master OF her puno-srinw
yop shall have a ihousand dollars, II
you viii not trouble me again.
"lt Is not enough; shy two thousand
and I'm your man."
Leonmdl studied u moment, Ms
though hosItatlng, and then said,
swell, two thousand, then, aud you're
not to come near me again until the
Ger mOny II over, Mt least. -
"All g It, old boy give usyour paw
on that said Jeni slopping Leonard
famlllnrly on the shoulder and roughly
grospng his hand, which the Count
snatchod angrIly away, and, pointing
TO the door, said;
Enough Now gor
The man left the room and Leonard
was ngain alone, much TO his relief
The day of Mildred Livingstones
marriage was fast approaching, and
splendid preparations were being made
to celebrate the bridal Of the wealthy
American beauty and the foreign no.
bleman.
Mildred was more naughty and SUI
pcrclllous than ever dlsdalning ali
whom. the scale Of fortune placed be-
meath her entirely forgetting the fact
that she had onve been'a penniless or
phan aud had stung the hand that
mort tenderly upheld her utterly ig-
norlng that Great Lawgiver who hath
said, vengeance Is mine, | will re-
pay"
At last the wedding was over Mil
drcd's uncle, Colonel Legion, had
placed fifty thousand dollars in banl;
to her credit MS bridal present, and
all seemed brand cloudlcss in herslSy.
Jennie came to the wedding, but re-
turned home the day following the
ceremony, declining Mildred's urgent
invitation to accompany her on her
bridal tour. She returned to the home
Of her uncle in the fall, as he said he
could not while he lived let his child
leave him.
One evening, about year after Mil |
dred's marriage, Colonel Legion came
home looking pale and wretched and |
when she inquired the cause, he burst |
into tears and exclaimed ooh, my |
child, | am n beggnrn
"Impossibe!" calculated Mildred.
at IL even So" said the old man.
IL was some time before she could
fully understand their great misfor-
tune. The two banks in which Colo
mel Legion had deposited the bulk Of
his fortune had failed leaving only the
Smallest pttance between him and alb
solute poverty
"Thank God, my child" said the
kind old man, 'your marriage portion
is safe yet Leonard drew it out yes
terday and has, Of course, deposited il
elsewhere
"rhoa there is enough for us all to
have every comfort yet, dear unclc,b
said his niece, the one drop of true
womanhood in her heart bubhling to
the surface as misfortune's wand stirred
its waters; for she did love her uncle as
truly us she was capable Of loving any
thing, and she was too entirely stunned
by the blow ID think yet Of all the lux
uries that she must yield --luxuries that
she had learned to con slider neccssaries,
so long hal she been accustomed to
them.
"Where is the. Count, my child?'
asked ColoneLLcyton ut last.
"He has not come in yet" replied
She might have said she had not
seen him for two days. For many
months he had been growing more
and more careless of his wife, leaving
ler to 60 out in society unattended,
md pride had inspired her TO keep her
grief to herself, and mingle still with
,he world, as though her "bosom's lold
vat lightly on his throne" Hr
supercilious conduct had
llienated many who would have been
ler friends had she allowed them, and
he hour of adversely found her COM
,elled to meet it alone That night
lfter her uncle had retired to his own :
she sat in herro awaiting
he possible return of her husband.
Two days before he had left her in !
NIGER having, as was his custom,
aiken otlense ut some tritic of which
he was ignorant.
The French clock on the mantle
truck one, and a step sounded on the
ront porch, latch key turned in the n
loor, and moment later Leonardo u
TODD in his wifc's room. We will
ouch lightly on the scene that fol-
owed-a scene narrowing to Mildred,
nd disgraceful t. the man she had
made her husband.
When he learned that her uncle's
ortune was gone he was more like an
nfuriated demon than man in Gods
mage, and when Mildred suggested
hat her marriage portion still remain
d, ITO say nothing of his estates In A
Europe" lie told her he had as little Sc