The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-06-11

has left the body?"
"Hewill forgive you now," replied
Eunice. His is noble soul, and he isl
your husband. Let me. bring him here"
'Oh, do not! dare not meet him! Be4
fore could tell him all he would curse
me! cried Anita. shnddering and shut
ting her eyesas if TO hide some dreadful
sight. i ....n-,. q-o
fA"Youd not know him. replied Eunice.
He is honor itself. Whatever is pitiful,
honorable, manly, Christian, that is Her
bert. He shall forgive you!" 81.
He will. I cried. advancing to the
bedside, Eunice started; Anita, with a
wild cry, hid her face in the pillow. S.
"Your wlfeis dying" whispered Eunice.
"She has suffered terribly. Be to her all
you can in her fewremainlng moments =
And in an instant Eunice disappeared.
Tenderlya | raised Anita in my arms and
kissed her brew. She opened her eyes
and gazed into mine With look at once
glad and imploring
Herbert" she whispered, II was in
iatnated on that awful night, but I re-
pented before I had got outside the
grounds Icursed my tempter as if l
were mad. I hurried back to secure my
note before you should see it, but | ar
rived only in time to see you fall Then
ran away know not where-but
never dared TO come back to you. was
swept overheard at sea once, and before
was rescued was smtten with terrible
cold from which | never recovered :.
When found must die I dragged my
self here, disguised n male attire, +" look
at you once more. Your noble wife rec
lOgnizeG me, and told her my story l
couldn't help lit seemed like confess
+ ing to pure angel. She declared she
would tell you; that should have my
lawful husband; and she would leave you
forever. | only prevented her by vowing
to kill myself if she did, Then she de-
clared these rooms were NINE; that |
i should live in them;she forced me to come;
did not want to. She has fed HE; she
has been doctor and priest to me. She
oh, God!' -aa..
), Anita stopped suddenly and struggled
for breath. I gently brushed her heavy
! black hair back from her temples. Again
she spoke. - m 81
"Herbert, hear my last words, they are
true as / hope Tor mercy. No lips but
; yours ever touched mine-no arms but
J yours were ever around me- For a few
, hours Ny heart forgot you. and for each
hour have paid year of suffering. Was
: it enough?" Haag
| Her great dark eyes struggled against
: their fate as they looked for my coming
a answer; her pale, thin lips, once so rich
I aud red, now twitched nervously. Fol
. an instant pressed her tenderly 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 left them. A moment later Anita
Locate stood at the bar OF the Judge
: who knew OF her atonement as well as
her sin.a soa .sdge
| went in search of Eunice and found
her sobbing on her bed. / kissed her and
whispered. 1899" f"A4
"She is dead, darling"
80 is my secrst-my terrible secret,
sobbed Eunice. i.
With my own hands dug her grave
in maze in The garden, where she used
to spend many Of her moments Eunlce'
self-forgetful. sanity Eunice, robed the
poor clay in the drtss it had worn on her
wedding day, and together we laid her
in her last earthly home. None but Eu-
nice, Anita and myself knew the key to
the maze,so that one evening when stole
in to look at the ground where so much
sorrow had found rest, and found the
grave covered with forgst-me-nots, |
knew that Anita had taken with her all
misery that had been poisoning Eunice's
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