The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-05-21
MAUD's REVENGE.

MAUD'S REV VENGE. Y
"You eee," he said, ''tbis may be
| our last afternoon together
Hearing this she looked up into his
! face with her beautiful blue eyes.
SO What do you mean ? " she said.
"pm going away" he answered,
'and you know how it is in the world.
| People just meet as Shey do in a stage
! coach, like each other, part, and go by
different paths to different places.
| Probably we shall never meet again.
| She made no answer. Something
| that did not seem to be her heart, it
was so cold and heavy, beat against her
breast and choked her. This man had
! been making love to her for three
mOnths-an age in the life of a girl of
sixteen. She had every reason to be-
! lieve that he desired her for his wife.
| He had taught her to love him and now
! he was cody making his adieu; but what
! could she do? Nothing but stihe every
! appearance of emotion, and bear the
blow in silence as best she might. In
! love woman has no rights that can be
asserted. We all know that we'll
enough. She may have her own purse,
perhaps some day her right to vote, but
in those matters that touch her most
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by the command of her own pride also
the veriest slave.
Aod so, said he, 81 thought we
might see our pretty river bank once
again"
Aud she got back her voice.
d" l hope it is not so damp as it was
yesterday" she said. ''Thanks I'll
not take your arm must lift my dress
and hold my parasol, you know"
"She don't mind it as much as I
thought she would" he said to himself
If 7 were only dead" she moaned
inwardly. "If I were only dead"
And then they took their walk, and
chatted, and he escorted her to her
cottage door, bowed to the old aunt at
the window, shook hands and fastened
away.
Paul Redlaw had gone out of Maud
Herman's life. Well for her 1t would
have been had he gone from her heart
also: but she had loved him so much,
trusted him SO well the blow was more
than she could bear. Next day she was
very i'll, audfOr a long time she fingered
at death s door. The blinds of the little
house were closed. The old woman
went about on tip-tOe, with tears in her
eyes. The doctors carriage stopped at
the gate twice every day, and in all the
village It was breathed that she was
dying. But youth is very powerful.
The girl grew well again, and with her
very recovery a great good fortune fell
upon her.
Some far off relative, dying, made
her his heiress, and the poor young
creature, who had had much ado to find
herself in simple muslins and neat de-
LANES, was now able to wear royal vel
Il.
Her health was still delicate, and
travel was recommended. Why should
she not travel if she chOse2-mOney
need not be thought of now. The old
aunt was sufficient protection, and the
two together crossed the channel, lin
gering long on the continent, and re-
turned after a five years absence, to
establish themselves in London, where
a circle OF fashionable friends soon
sprang up about them.
Money makes mighty difference In
peoples lives. Probably Maud would
never have known she was beautiful if
she had remained poor but she knew
it now. The lips of hatters told her of
her charms. Lovers were at her feet.
She could marry when she would, but
she had no heart to give any one. Love
died within her heart in that long i'll
ness haunted by visions of Paul Red
law. Her face had only changed for
the better; her manner wss more charm
ing than it had ever been, but within
her soul she felt a strange and terrible
change. She who had loved so fOndly
and tenderly had no tenderness left. All
those soft feelings had perished, and
the man she had loved she positively
hated. Thinking of him her soul was
10 inf nd Chn
passIonately for revenge.
els 1t pOssible-AIiss Hermann"
It was crowded parlor music filed
the air a soprano of society was sing
ing. Miss Herman turned her head
and saw Paul RsdIaw. They had met
once more. a strange thrill swept
through her frame for mOment-she
remembered her old feeling for him
and then followed an emotion of tri-
umDh. He was here. Somehow she
knew he was a batchelor still, and she
was now rich and an acknowledged
belle. She understood her power, and
meant to exert 1t. This man should be
at her feet, and she would humble him
as he had humbled her so she gave him
her hand, and looked sweetly up into
his face
"It Is an age since we met! !" she
said.
"Do you remember the garden, and
the river bank, and all the pretty
places and how did you know me after
all this time ?"
Z" One expects a beautiful bud to be-
come q beautiful rose, " he answered.
He took her do to supper that
night, and saw her to her carriage, and
/ he called, as she had asked him to do,
/ IN a day or two.
He had been a good deal in love
/ with her IN those old times, though it
/ had not been prudent to marry a poor
/ country girl, and lac had always thought
/ her beautiful Now ths passion of his
/ life fell upon him. Ambition was sat
isfied aud did not restrain his heart.
/ IL alnrnI L.r And the fanl that aha