South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-05-14
Romney, Hampshire County, West Va Nav H. 1878

been an indefatiaahle worker, and now
he felt that he needed rest for awhile.
I'VE will take trip to Europe, moth
err ne said. ut will do you more good
than you can imagine.A
A great many gentle hearts felt .
pang to see the good DOCTOR leave, al,
though their endeavors to catch him had
been in vain. lie felt no preference for
the opposite sex; he had recovered from
his disappointment, and he never ceased
to remember that he was married man,
or to think kindly OF the unknown wo,
man who had SO radically changed his
life.
They travelled leisurely through the
tour they had marked out before they
started. and one night found themselves
in French village.
About the middle of the night the
doctor was awakened by some one tap
ping at his door and calling him for to
come out.
He did so. lie found the landlord.
who told him, in broken English, that
one of his countrymen had jus. fallen
down stairs in q fit, and seeing his name
registered as Nj. d.. they called him up
lie went into an elegantly furnished
room, where n man, some fifty years OF
age; was lying in dangerous condi-
ton,
A young lady sat near the bel fam
ming him, The doctor hastily examined
the patient, and found that it was impos-
sibie for him to live; but the day pass
ed and still another, before he drew his
last breath. lie never recovered his
consciousness.
The lady told Doctor Pomeroy that
he was her father. His name was Eu-
gene Syudenham, native of England,
! and she would like to have him buried
where he died. They were travelling
for the benefit of his health, she went on
to explain, and he was a widower. Her
only remaining relative was younger
sister, who was being educated in the
Convent of the Sacred Heart, in Paris.
After Mr.. Syndenham was buried,
Miss Syndenham went under the care of
the doctor and his mother, to Paris
| She insisted upon them taking their a
bode where she had apartments, and so
not day passed hut she was with Mrs.
Pomeroy. The old lady got warmly at
tached to her, and talked dolefnlly to
herson about the time when they should
be separated.
She told them confi,entially not to
wonder that she did not mourn for her
father, for he had endeavored to wrong
her so deeply that it was not love which
held her to his side; and that in all her
life she had never been so happy as now
that she was free.
! Doctor Pomeroy watched her. At
first he was very gallant, but at last he
began to be reserved and cool. A feel
ing which he dared not cherish was
growing in his heart, and it alarmed him.
~ dare not love her." he muttered to
himself. II am bound! ~
Then, for the first time, he felt how
heavy were the letters he had forged for
himself, She noticed the change. She
tried to beguile him to forget the grief
that was evidently bearing on him and
ut last, in fit of desperation, he told
her ALL
81 am a married man p he said, impe.
tuously. 81 love you, and am not free
to love !"
She recoiled, but babe him tell her all.
1T was cruel, unkind of her, to bind
you so,' she said.
mo, no - he calculated. "She saw.
ed me-zshe blessed me-and shall al
ways respect her, but never did nv
bonds hurt me until met you. Now /
shall be miserable forever"
you may meet her."
Impossible -
"But-possible." she said, with sor,
rowful look. 81 know your Ellen La
tour.
You know her?"
Yes. Tomorrow | will introduce
you to her. She is anxious TO see Won:
she knows you are here, and--she he,
lieyed you loved me, and wondered If
you were as upright as she had always
thought you 10 be-"
lie bowed his face in his hands and
Miss Syndenham left him.
The hour had come which he had hop
ed for in by-gone days-he was to learn
whom he wedded-but il gave him no
pleasure now.
At an early hour the next day n ser.
want told him that Miss Latonr awaited
him in her private parlor, and he was
ushered into strange room.
lie scarcely lifted his eyes ne he en-,
tered, but, when he did, they fell upon
Miss Syndenham.
~ am Ellen Latour." sho said simply.
That is my real name, though / never
anticipated revealing the truth to YOU"
"Ellcn Latour? My wife?" asked the
doctor.
Listen 10 my story before you blame
me-" she said "The man whom Won
saw die was my stepfather, He mar.
ried my mother when / was but five
/ years Old and sister Ada baby. Nv
mother was weakly, and she died few
years later leaving all our fathers pro,
. perry i'm that mans hands. lie was our
sole guardian, TO hold our property un.
der his control until we we're married,
or became Of age. lie placed me in the
Sacred Heart, and kept me there until