Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-11-19
Helena, Montana, Thursday, November 19, 1874.

sooner" and Jennie quite broke down in her
incoherent aud sob-interrupted utterances.
Mrs Sullivan employed every means that
her ingenuity and pity could suggest to rea-
sou and comfort Jennie under this great blow.
But it was too late; the mischief was Gone,
and she powerless to remedy it. With the
deep reverence we feel for woman's grief
we are disposed to draw vail oyer the man.
ifestations of Jcnnic's sorrow, feeling sure
that the reader would not wisl, to peer be.
yond it. She recovered from her tears after
4 time but returned to Der own house with
the bitterness of her sorrow still strong with
in her. Eut reaching her own room the tears
burst forth again; and where Of late she had
. "ften sat rearing bright structures of fairy
like beauty upon the foundations of her love,
she now rested grief-shakcn and heart-brok-
Ell amid their ruins. Oh, ye dwel!ers in
Love Land, though moving amid scenes of
ravishing beauty, and attended by bliss akin
to heavens own. how uncertain is your tenure
Of these delights! For this land in despite Of
its beauty has many hidden pitfall, many
an unsuspectcd but impending avalanche,
many slumbcring subterrancous fire, many
wicked wizard with terrible powers of
transformation. and while your enjoyment
and expectation arc at their height, you are
ever liable to see this beauty vanish out of
sight or transformed into hideous ugliness.
But the many that are swallowed up or buried
by the wayside, the many more who go forth
and give testimony to the nutabiity of its
faircst prospects, will never deter the count
less pilgrim throng ever crowding upon its
borders from pressing on to see for them
sel,,s, and enjoy or suffer as their individual
lot may be. the sights beyond in this beaut-
full. terrible, wonderful Land of Love.
In Jennie's case the wizard l,ad wrought
his transformation. The unknown author
who boarded at Mrs. Sullivan's $, who had been
sort Of bug bear to her ever since she had
to place her author in contrast and CIV
over the lattcr's superiority. This dreadful
and loathed unknown, and the admired and
beloved known, were now resolved into one
and the same person. All the romance she
had wreathcd about her future was now dis
sipated. The necessity of Withdrawing from
the engagement seemed as imperative as
though her affianccd had turned ont con-
firmed maniac who in his calmcr moments
had deludcd her into belief in his sanity
and won her love under It's cloak. The heart
might cling to the maniac with love, bu; jujg-
ment stcrnly forbade the bans, and the heart
must yield in the contest So Jcnnic's heart
yielded, but seemed to break under its sub
mission: and with many sigh and tear and
token of misery she sat down at her desk and
pcnncd the following note:
B.. June 30. 1S-.
Mr. Scribblcton. Circumstances re.
ouirc the termination of our engagement.
Do not attempt to call upon me or seek an
explanation. rs either will be useless.
Jennie Howard
This dispatched, she set about packing hel
trunks, resolved to accept an Invitation tO
! spend Il few weeks with relative in the
country, in the hope that travel and change
of scene would enable her sooner to regain
serenity of heart.