Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-03-12

wife in love with you! You are treacherous
to the finest instincts of mans nature This
unhappy passion for Gadbury's wife you had
better fling to the winds, not only tor your
own sake, but for hers. may be light
headed enough, generally speaking but be-
lieve me, this counsel of mine is sage. There
are plenty of women to loveand 60 mad over,
without filchng mans wife from the sacred
hearthstone of his heart. The love of a mar
ried woman, for any man but her husband,
has poison in its perfume; and the flowers OF
her passion are beset with crucifxion thorns' y
Damar dropped his face forward i'll his
hands, and sighed deeply.
90, I know all about being in love! said
Dalaval, sententiously; "I've been in love
myself! That is, after my own fashion; and
a good fashion it is, tool!
"Damnation !"
80, yes, swearing is we'll enough in its place
but tell you, I've been in love. l fell in
love with my mothers seamstress, when l was
sixteen. She was thirty.one but | loved
her-madly"
Damar looked up, and burst out into fit
of hysterical laughter.
"Oh you need not make light of me, and
sneer down my heaven-born emotions! My
taste suited me, just as well as yours does
you! May be you don't know all l have
seen? saw that little twisted roll Of paper
under your spoon when Mrs. Gadbury handed
you your cup of amber tea. All! saw, al
though I was talking to that old imbecile, the
elder Gadbury!"
Damar opened his clenched fist, exposing
the infnitesimal bits of paper, and in an In
slant he had thrown them into the spittoon at
his feet.
Dalaval regarded him with astonishmcnt-
"How could you have the heart to destroy it !
Why, preserve all my love-letters, locks OF
hair, dead rose-buds, verbena leaves, and such
things. 1t is true, of some of them, man
might aptly ask, Did you pull that straw out
of horses tail?' But would console my
selfand do my sweet-heart's memory justice
by answering: 1t is not her fault that it is
not softer =" he observed, with simplicity.
81 am going to bed !" said Damar, some
what angrily.
"Why, man, you arc so ill-tempered! My
meerschaum is not half out!"
go to bed am going"
II won't do it I'll throw the candle-stick
at your head, first! Hold on don't 60. Tell
me about your note! What did she say
Any thing kind in her note, to make you SO
angelic'" quizzed Dalaval.
ut was cruel it was Infamous" said Da'
mar, reused to storm of anger "she treated
me as she would bastard She insolently
dismissed me the house. She is tigress-a
fendp %
"Why, man, you are so changeable, one
hardly knows how to count on you! You
told me in one of your raphsodies that she
was an angel"
"She is a devil !"
"But you love hcr?'
II worship or love herr I despise her
OH you may smile as much as you like
mean it! I despise her."
He shook his fist violently, and concentra
ted the hate of his nature in his accents.
"Ah you are angry with the woman, be-
cause she is chaste and wise!"
"Chaste and wise?' Was Cleopatra chaste
and wise? That woman loves me, I tell
you"
"She may; but I confess to doubt"
Damar uttered u terrible oath.
Il tell you, that woman loves Gadbury
1 commend her for it, and she loves nobody
else!" persisted Dalaval.
"You're fool"
"Well, then if that's so, I shall 60 to bed
1t IS late and Docia, my new Dulcenea, will
accuse me of looking like dying duck in 9
thunderstorm, if I don't get a good nights
rest"
II will 90, too. My restless night will be
tray me. will not give Cecilia Gadbury
such satisfaction as to believe she could inf1icI
pang on me" said Damar savagely.
"God knows, Damar, were I woman I'd
be afraid of you"
"Cecelia shall yet be mine! Mark my
prophecy"
81 trust in God you will fail in your attempt
to degrade her"
"'The prayers of the wicked avail naught, -
said Damar. indifferently.
II know something about your sweetheart
old fellow; but 1 will not divulge part until
I learn the whole"
Gas you choose but I want you to do me
service. Tomorrow, when Cecilia and Do
ca 60 to walk, I Want you to manage to gel
Dociaa, and leave Cecilia to me"
"But they are going away tomorrow
Don't you remember the engagement to dine
at 'Avondale,' near Harrodsburg
81 had forgotten that, clearly" said Damar
rising from his chair and vigorously stretch
ing himself; II wish the devil would upset
the carriage on the road !"
"Do you contemplate being passenger
If so, there will be- fear, a vanishment in
thin air-when his internal majesty DEPARTS
of a man not thousand miles away"
"Well, goodnight, old fellow"
"Good-night, Damar."
"To.morrow we will talk more on the sub,
ject," said Damar.
Gall right" answered Dalaval.
There was a quiet sound of softly closing
doors and sliding bolts. Then all was STILL
CHAPTER XXXVI.