The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-14
The Story of Mrs. YelvertOn.

giri OF some genius, who signs her
self ''E. H." is writing letters from Cal
iforna to the Louisville Courier-Jouraal.
She is travelling around the country with
two other young ladies, called "Joe' and
"Percy," without male escorts, and gives
an interesting narrative of the experience
of the party. She writes from the 70 Sc
mite:
Its astonishing how these women do
get their own ways about everything,'
said Mr.. Snow, who lives up among the
cliffs of the 70 Semitic. "There was an
other fine woman here, who stayed in the
valley about four months. Her name was
Mrs. Yelvcrton.'
Mrs. Yelverton ~ we all say at once.
The one who was divorced from Lord
Somebody, and whose case was tried in so
many courts?''
"The same one. She was a-staying
here while the thing was being decided,
and say what people will, there never was
better nor smarter woman here than
Mrs. Yelverton. She was Just heart
broken, but she was that proud that she
wouldn't let on. You see she was mar
ried in Ireland. Lord-well, l forgot his
name myself; but after they had lived to-
gcther several years and had little boy,
who died when he was a baby-this old
scapegrace had gone through all her for
tune and his own for racing and gambling
debts, and then he tackled rich woman
and got in love, and couldn't marry her
nor get her fortune unless he got di-
vorce, and he hadn't any grounds except
that as an Englishman his marriage
wasn't legal in Ireland. So he goes to
prove he never had married her, and one
time he meets her in a railway coach and
strangles and beats her to make her give
up her marriage certificate to him, and
she wouldn't do it, for she said it was all
she had to prove she was an honorable
wife, and he might kill her, but he should
never take away that piece of paper. Then
he goes into the courts, and the case is de-
cided in her favor every time, and it is
tried times and times, and in every court
in Ireland it was decided she was legal
wife. Then the scamp bought the House
illegal, that she never had been married,
and he married the other woman and is
living in great style in Ireland. His wife,
Mrs. Yelverton, is now in Russia. She
loved that man. l never see such a de-
votion; and when the word came that he
was married, and her lawyers told her to
bring some technicalities to light and as
sert her rights, she just said, in kind of
tired way; l have fought for my posi-
ton for three long, long years. Here is
my marriage certificate, properly signed
and certified; but it is worth nothing,
they say. My husband is taken from me
his love is gone; my house is gone; my
child is gone. have fought long and
well for my name and honor; but am
tired and worn out with the dirty lawsuits,
and l give up the struggle and sink from
sheer exhaustion and from that time she
just wanders around these mountains
like ghost, but if any one comes up she
puts on a smile and seems as lively. The
way women can put on-they have so
much pride. Their hearts may be break
ing, yet they will keep kind of mask
over it. One time she got lost in the
mountains here, and it was in the winter
time and cold. She crawled into a hol-
low pine and held on to the horses bride
all night and made him stay close, for
company and shelter, and when morning
came she tried to find her way home, and
a grizzly bear came along, and scared her
horse, and he threw her over precipice,
and she fell down on the snow distance of
perhaps sixty feet, and some men riding
along the trail saw the bear. tracks and the
horse tracks, and then looked around and
saw her lying, bloody and insensible, on
the snow. She was nearly frozen to death,
and they carried her to the valley, and it
vas hours before she came to, and she had
long spell, and was delirious, and they
said at the time she just went over the