Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-11-20

had ragged within her. She had shed
tears so hot that they had almost burned
her. Her means had all been tor her
self and her own misery-the misery to
which he had brought her, and her
thoughts were vengeful.
Now she resumed her old name, and
her old life, bat she was altered. She
was more quiet, and at times was moody
No one mentioned Roberts name to
her. nor did she name him to single
person.
Two years passed, and Henry Watson
resumed his attentions to he4. She re-
ceiyed him kindly, and her father and
her friends began looking forward to an
other and happier marriage for her:
Somehow these attentions of her old
lover brought back the old days, and
thoughts of one languishing In prison,of
whom she had lain awake many night
thinking, and over thoughts of whom
she now as she pictured himin his lone
" cell, often wept, not those bitter tears
which devastated like the desert winds,
but softer, milder shower. He loved
her, too, and that love had been. his
Temptation of the one. dark, deed that
had blasted his whole life. 4. $ Co
= After he had won her, a sudden fall
in stocks, in which he had speculated,
had almost ruined Robert Stone. Des.
perate with the thought of delaying his
marriage. perchance losing his love, he
| took advantage in that hour, of a temp
tation. which presented itself to commit
| a forgery: there were chances that it
| would not be discovered at all, and even
| if it was, an almost certain assurance
"a 41,e4 rriNf oI, hG2 tunlItdE np
! beyond the reach of punishment, with
| his wife in Europe, and so his love-his
! selfish love--was stronger than his
| honor. He had cruelty Wronged her.
! but then she was his wife, and she had
| as cruelty deserted him, had turned
away from him in his extremity, and
left him to strangers. And how, .klnd
and tender he had been to her in all the
years she had known him-how kind IL
/ all, in everything this. L..''
/ BY degrees she forgaye him, and then
1 she began to think tenderly of him. All
/ this while she went about her daily du-
ties, but with these softer thoughts q
| softer light came in her eyes, and softer
tones in her voice. So nearly three
| years went by, and gradually her heart
/! began to yearn for him, and all her old
feelings came back, and at length she
acknowledged to herself that she loved
him This man who was a felen, and
nothing to her now. So. gt.~#..... : 81.
So one night--it was almost three
] years from that dreadful tine-whef
/ Henry Watson told her again that ht
! loved her, and how lie had watched and
waited for the opportunity to renew his
suit, she opened her heart TO him, as she
i had never opened it to another, and to1C
him she loved the man who for few
!. hours had called her wife, but WHOSE
wife she now was not. She shed many
tears as she talked, described herself as
| she was, and told of the change that haG
come over her, of the new thoughts anC
feelings born within, and how her hear
went out to. him ia bis lonely prison,
/ Harry Watson listened and fought nj!
i Waterloo while she talked. He lovec
. this woman, and because he loved her
should he. sin. against her as the other
man had? lie was a noble: man. auG
when she ceased speaking he put ou'
/ his hand :: e;1f-tr' l.E--. -lrss.. 3.
'sMrs: Stone, for to me hencefortt
you viii be. Mrs. Stone, I believe you
are right, and will help you. - III. i +:
':How?" she said, the tears streaming
/ down her cheeks. 81 abandoned him
I in the face of the world. /, bis wife,
it is I who must speak first. My pridt
may have ruined soul" 81 p. s.
i She did speak and, when two years
| after, Robert Stone left the prison
where he had served out his term in al
exemplary manner, Sarah Leigh became
4 his wife. -. ~ =, ',,..a vi.
Forgive US our trespasses as. We for
/ give those who tresRass against Us. 81 {