The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-02-21
CHAPTER XIV.
CYRILLE EYTING.
A story Of sorrow and guilt.
A tale IS all stories 60;
OF manhoOd's love and wOmAn's GRIN

A story Of sorrow and guilt,
tale all stories 90;
| OF manhoods love and woman's crime
1 And agony, falseness snd Woe.
Ronald Darlington had more than one
motive in accepting the offer Of Colonel
Adams to enjoy few weeks sojOurn at
Myrtle Villa He was not in any way
friendly to the newly made bride, and he
did evince a more than ordinary friendship
for the Old fri end Of his father whom he
he had chanced to meet and recognize in
the city Of Washington during the sojourn
Of the Colonel and his bride there. He
well remembered the duplicity and falsities
Of Beatrice at the Acton Hotel Just three
year previously, and he was half persuaded
to tell her husband, and even at the sacri-
nee of the peace Of mind of the Colonel, to
expose Beatrice III all her evil and let him
know her true character as 1t lad been IN
the past.
! But he argued otherwise when he came
to My-:io NIlla-he thought that this bold,
I bad women Of the world had changed-hsd
\ become a really better woman, and re-
! solve came into his mind to await for a
I time and to see if the woman had changed
/ from the frivolous adventures she had
I been.
/ The cumpanionShip If Myrtle, in a
measure, cnnSpired 10 render him content
ed. and lie did not at all do what he had
resolved 10 do-to watch Beatrice. And
So for a day or tao time went on pleasantly
al the Villa.
The second day after the return of Colo
mel Adams o. Myrtle Villa, as he and his
dau. .hter Myrtle were seated in the library,
a servant announced the presence Of lady
visitor, IN the drawing room. Mrs. Adams
was an her own Room at the time, and as
he supposed 1t u be some of the nelghbor-
my ladIeS called to pass the congratulations
IT the season. he did not move, but simply
SAID
Take the lady card up to Mrs Adams. "
''She left no card, sir, replied the ser
want.
Then tell Mrs. Adams lady wishes to
see her
Still the servant fingered.
The lady wishes to see you, sir
Colonel Adams arose in some surprise
To see me q he said, interrogatorially.
"Yes, sir"
He proceede1 to the library as he spoke,
and he was greeted By a repossessIng
1OuI2 Idu1 d. lit GiALCI6h NllO AOOhis NAAohi
ne had never seen before.
You are Colonel Adams I" was the wo-
mans abrupt query.
"Yes, madam. Whom have l the honor
OF addressing q
My haze is Oyrille Etyng," said the
woman, simply. Colonel Adams, If you
will give me the benefit of one hour quiet
conversation | can communicate to you in
formation which it is to your best interests
TO know"
Expressing some surprise, he arose and
courteously led her to his own study, an
apartment of the house which was never
entered without his permission.
! The woman requested him to secure the
door as she seated herself in his study.
There is no fear If interruption here,
he said, as he complied.
"rhat may be" was the woman . reply,
but what | have to say u you must ind
no other auditors"
| Colonel Adams, struck by the ominous
gestures and words of the woman, felt
slightly chilled with being in such close
contact 10 what she had assured him would
be most important communication.
81 have not come here to make you any
trouble or to cause you sorrow; but it is
my duty to tell you what 1 know Of the
woman whom you have quite recently made
your wife"
MY wife !" calculated tho Colonel, in
the excess of his varied emotions arising
to his feet
Eyes, Colonel Adams. | have come to
you upon an errand, and | cannot mask
my declarations in fine language. What
| g / uyffo nd
let me irst ask you if you ever have known
a man by the name Of Eugene Allerton. >
"Yes, was the ColOnels reply, as he
awaited the further developments from
this unknown womans words.
Il have come to tell you, proceeded the
woman, that the woman whom you have
married % only an unprIncipled and base
adventuress-a woman who has once been
forced to 60 from society with the ban of q
positive crime upon her.
And that crime
''Of deluding and ensnaring for the pur-
pose Of realizing money from young mar
who had never before seen the glddy, socia
world"
She paused a. she noticed how pale hel
companion was growing. Whether he be
lieved her or not, her words were poison t
his mind, already awakened to a Sigh
suspicion by the Washington affair. Bu
she proceeded-averting his gaze that SHE
might not see the pain which she inflicted
"That young man was Eugene AllsrtOn
the person whom you once valued az . very
dear friend. Shall l tell you all, or vii
you question your wife first - to thu
veracity of my words e.
''Tell me all, faltered the Colonel, as h
passed his hand over his bewildered brow
and attempted to realize if her words wer'
true or not.
''Then let me be brief in my story,
continued Cyrille Eyting. ''Some thre'
years ago / was servant at the Actor
Hotel Acton is fashionable place upoI
the coast Of New Jersey. l was witness
to all that there transpired, and l speal
from knowledge of the truth. had no
been there long when the spring time visi
} tors began to come, and among these wer'
/ the woman whom you have just married
| and man with her, who was then know
as Vane Evelyn.
''Beatrice Vernon was married woman
: her husband wealthy banker, 1t va
said, being in Philadelphia at the time
the lady's sojourl at Acton. But this Vsn'
| Evelyn was q mere hanger-on, persoi
) whom she had taksna fancy for, and wb'
; was gambler in the bargain.
1WeI. Beatrice Vernon became . grea