Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-26

O4e strong chain fQ5 damning evidence
against my wife. She had loved the
foreigner-she nd brought him into
the house OF the aspA q ssRsrenoinal
= LAbss had seereted kim in the rooms
she Knew were safe from intrusion-she
had even fed him from her husbands
table.
A terrible calm quickly succeeded my
fury, but found me cruel, vengefuf.
merciless. I would surprise them. I
would quickly and surely slay them,
and then, taking my little daughter, I
would fly forever from the home which
had SO terribly disgraced me.
Hastily 1 threw open the door, but it
turned noiselessly on its hinges without
disturbing the occupants of the room,
and revealed to me scene which
struck me dumb. On the pillow of the
dainty couch of my lost wife lay the
worn, wasted, unmistakable face of
Anita Lozatos By the bedside clad in
white, with her golden hair unbound
and ripping over her face and shout
ders, stood Eunice. Her eyes were full
of tears, while all the tenderness of
pity, sorrow and compassion heighten-
ed the beauty of her pure features into
something almost angelic. One of her
hands was tightly held by Anita with
the other she was pointing upward.
"Forgive me again." groaned Anita,
hoarsely, for the pain my presence
has given you"
"Ask forgiveness of God" replied
Eunice, II have only done my duty"
"The years of pain I gave Herbert, "
continued Anita" can he ever forgive
"Ask God," said Eunice, still|point-
ing upward.
"Ah, yes, my sister," said Anita,
"but I am not saint like you. God
had all His angels to comfort Him
when I sinned, but Herbert was alone
with his sorrow. Do you think he will
forgive my soul after it has left the
"He will forgive you now," replied
Eunice. ellis is noble soul, and he
is-your husband. Let me bring him
here"
"Oh, do not! I dare not meet him
Before I could tell him all he would
curse me?" cried Anita, shuddering
and shutting her eyes as if to hide
some dreadful sight.
"You do not know him." replied
Eunice. "He is honor itself. What
ever is pitiful, honorable, manly, Chris
tian, that is Herbert. He shall forgive
you p
"He will p cried, advancing to the
wild cry, hid her face in the pillow.
Your wife is dying" whispered
Eunice. "She has suffered terribly.
Be to her all you canin her few remain.
ing moments" And in an instant
Eunice disappeared.
Tenderly T raised Anita in my arms
and kissed her brow. She opened her
eyes and gazed into mine with a look at
once glad and imploring.
"Herbert," she whispered, II was
infatuated on that awful night, but
repented before I had got outside the
grounds. I cursed my tempter as if
were mad. I hurried back to secure
my note before you should see it, but I
arrived only in time to see you fall.
Then ran away-I know not where
but I never dared to come back to you.
I was swept overheard at sea once, and
before was rescued I was smitten with
terrible cold from which never re-
covered. When + found I must die
dragged myself here, disguised in
male attire, to look at you once more.
Your noble wife recognized me, and I
told her my story. couldn't help it
it seemed like confessing to pure
angel. She declared she would tell
you !; that I should have my lawful
husband and she would leave you for
ever. I only prevented her by vowing
to kill myself if she did. Then she de-
clared these rooms were mine that
should live in them she forced me to
come I did not want to. She has fed
me; she has comforted me she has
been doctor and priest to me. She
oh, God p
Anita stopped suddenly and struggled
for breath. gently brushed her heavy
blackhair back from her temples. Again
she spoke:
"Herbert, hear my last words, they
are true as I hope for mercy. No ips
but yours ever touched mine-no arms
but yours were ever around me. For 8
few hours my heart forgot you, and fol
each hour I have paid a year of suffer.
ing. Was it enough?"
Her great dark eyes struggled
against their fate as they looked for my
coming answer; her pale, thin lips
once SO rich and red, now twitchet
nervously. For an instant I pressed
her teuderly to my heart, and when ]
again looked at her, her eyelids were
dropping over the eyes in which deaths
dimness could not hide the love there
was there, while her lips were breaking
| into the smile which never again lef
them. A moment later Anita Lozato,
stood ut the bar of the Judge who knew
of her atonement as we'll as her sin.
went in search of Eunice and founi
her sobbing on her bed. I kissed he
and whispered:
"She is dead, darling"
$50 is my secret-my terrible secret,
sobbed Eunice.
With my own hands I dug her grav'
in maze in the garden, where she. ..uset
to spend many of her moments. Eunice
self-forgetful, sanity Eunice, robed tn
poor clay in the dress it had worn O,
her wedding day, and together we lai'
her in her last earthly home. None bu
Ennice, Anita and myself knew the ke
to the maze, so that one evening when
stole in to look at the ground where s.
much sorrow had found rest, and foun
the grave covered with forget-me-nots
I knew that Anita had taken with he
all misery that had been poisoning Eu
nice's life.
| A GREY hair was espied by a lad
among the raven locks of fair frien
of hers q few days ago. "Oh, pra
pull it out" she exclaimed. "IfI pu
it out ten will come to the funeral,
, replied the lady who made the disco,
cry. "Pluck it out nevertheless, sai
the dark haired damsel cit is of II
J sort of consequence how many come 1
the funeral, provided they all come j
! black"
! CURING BEEF AND HAM.-Forevery OF
hundred pounds of beef, seven po1,nt
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