The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-17
THE DYNAMITE FIEND'S END,
A Love story Began in New York and
Ended In Bremen--The Fortunes of n
Beautiful French GirI--An Indulgent Hus-
band and his Petted wife.

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Ended In Bremen--The Fortunes of n
Beautiful French GirI--An Indulxent Hus-
band and his Petted wife.
Jane G.. Swisshelm writes the follow
ing romantic story from Saxony: Some
years ago a Scotchman migrated to
America. By unknown ways he sue
ceeded in getting enough money to give
him the appearance of great wealth.
He spent freely was OF eminently
pleasant manners and social instincts; /;
liked society, and made himself most
delightful member of it; was matri-
monial catch, and might have married
money, but he saw one who put out of
his mind all thought of making it by
marriage.
The lady who sealed his fate was
much younger than himself-a French
! gijl in New -Yerk, without permanent
home, or friends on whom she could
rely for support. She was beautiful
surprisingly so--accomplished, grace
full and elegant; had been born and
brought up in Paris, where her mother
still resides; spoke several languages
with fuency, and was fitted with every
thing but money for adorning the circles
of upper tendon. Our Scotchman be-
came deeply enamored of the beautiful,
friendless girl; proposed, was accepted,
and they were married.
| His wife's tastes were expensive. She
believed him to be a person Of almost
unlimited resources, and spent freely
for the adornment of the lovely person
| he loved so much to see beautifully
adorned. He proved TO be an almost
adoring husband, gentle, affectionate,
devoted, attentive-often performing
with his own hands for his wife and
children services usually rendered by
servants, and for the performance of
which he had plenty of paid attendants.
For instance, he thought no one could
prepare his wife's coffee and carry it to
her bedside in the morning SO well as
he, or wrap her shawl around her SO
carefully when she sat up to drink it.
II baby cried, nurse and mamma gave
place to the superior tenderness with
which he soothed its sorrows. Their
style of living was superb, and his out
lay lavish. His resources were sup
posed to be very great, and, when he
begun to complain of his wife's bills,
she thought him stingy, and spoke of it
to her intimate lady friends, who spoke
of it again to their husbands, and it was
good joke to think of the capny
Scotchman being alarmed by the mil
liners bills of his beautiful young wife.
Years ago they came to Continental
Europe, and here he passed as South
ern American; and, as a matter of
course, they were all the possessors of
untold wealth. The war might have de-
prived them of their slaves, but the
aroma of vast estates and great expecta-
tiops, as we'll as of past magnifcence,
attached to them,
Our Scotchman and his bewitching
French wife lived here in Leipzig in
fine style, and had many warm friends.
The lady's almost perfect knowledge of
several languages fitted her for society.
They had plenty of money, and lad a
very nice time. A gentleman made q
short journey in his company, slept in
the room with him, and concluded that,
notwithstanding his great good humor
and pleasant manners, something must
lie heavily on his conscience.
No innocent man could make night so
hideous with groans and execrations.
uttered In the Inconsistencies of sleep;
but he did not often sleep in the room
with st angers, and it afterward became
question whether he ever awakened
the suspicious OF his wife by the horrors
that attended his sleep. Those who
knew them most intimately think she
never knew his secret; but she did know
that with all his lavish expenditure of
money, he did object to her milliners'
| bills.
His objections being overruled, he put
them into the form of commands and
prohibitions; but these proved as un-
avaiiiDg as remOnstrances in milder
form; and, while they were here in this
quaint old city, he made q determined
stand about one dealer in particular. No
more credit was to be given to his name
there-no bills run on his account-and,
when larger bill than usual came, there
was fierce alteration; but the lady 3
tears and loveliness. her pretty airs,
| poutipg defiance, martyrdom, and mis-
cry disarmed him, and he retired to his
own room and bed to mediate on ways
and means. These came up before him
in ghastly procession.
| The ways he had followed; the means
he had taken to clothe those delicate
/ limbs in the next room in purple and
fine linen; the price he had paid for the
| jowels that sparkled on those dainty
fingers; the soul he had exchanged for
baubles; the misery, the anguish he had
sent into other homes that his might be
nest of luxury for birds in gay plumage;
! the confidipg friend of his youth
doomed to sudden and terrible death
that this woman might dawdle away her
life in ease and Incidence, and disregard
all his admonitions and orders about
carelessly lavishing the money won by
such terrible expedients These
thoughts maddened him, until, spring
ing up with foam on his lips and furious
revenge in his eyes, he rushed into her
room, dragged her from her luxurious
bed, dashed her to the floor, and, with
repeated and furious blows, sought to
make an end of her. Her cries brought
all in the house into the hall; but no one
dared to enter the room, except an old
nurse who had been with them long
time, who rushed in to her mistress
rescue.
The sight of her diverted the maniac's
attention from his PROSTATE wife, so that
he left off beating her, and darted after
the nurse. The wife made good use OF
the diversion to get to an open window
and throw herself out, although the
room was IN the second story. Some
vines aud trellis caught her, and she
held on shivering lest he should murder
the children. The nurse got out of his
way; and after searching for them botl
for some time, and making every one
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