The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-11-13
A W0MAN'S SORROW.
THE COURSE EOFFRUE LOVE
MEYER RUNS SMOOTH.
Terrible Result Of q Little Family Quar-
rel--How the Parties Repented.
From the Danbury NaaS.

~ ""e "o VtIlh scasOu Ol INC year,
Just seven years ago, that an ex-
traordinary scene occurred in Dam
bury 1t was in the evening, and
u couple were bringing in several
pots Of plants from the yard to save
them from the frost which the tenn
perature of outdoors threatened.
While thus engaged she spoke, re-
ferrlng to d geranium she had in
her hand:
II wouldn't lose this ono for
great deal, as mother gave it to
me-"
He looked at it.
"Your mother gavo it to you il?
Guess not. 1 bought that plant
myself"
"Why, it's no such thing"
81 tell you I did," he added,
speaking with warmth.
"And tell you, you didn't" she
firmly asseycrated. EDO you SUP
pose [ don't know what was given
to me?"
''Do you suppose I don't know
what | bought with my own
money!"
IF you say you bought that
gersnium," she said, speaking very
slowly, and with white lips, "yor,
say what you know to be false"
"Do you mean to say I lie?" he
; hisScu.
IF you say that, I do"
"Iou shall be sorry for this" he
Threatened.
Never" size retorted.
He pat on his Lat and coat and
left the house.
That was seven years ago this
fall. She never saw him again, Il or
heard from him, in all that seven
years. What must have been the
thoughts, the agony of mind en-
durcd by that wretched wife in that
time, no one on earth knows. She
kept her thoughts to herself, and
patiently, as far as outward appear
. anco went, bore the burden put
upon her.
On Frd'y evening of last week
her door opened, and man walked
into her presence. There was q
look, cry, and she was in the arms
Of her husband. What u happy
homo was that All the agony OF
the seven long years was forgotten
III that hour of reconciliation and
reunion. A hearty supper was
spread, and with tears and smiles
she hovored about him, ministering
to every want. After supper there
WAS long talk f tho past.
ut is so singular" she said,
speaking in one of the pauses, "that
it should have happened as it did.
| can scarcely comprehend it all.
1t seems like an awful dream. We
both lost our tempers, and we have
both suffered for it, The miserable
geranium Do you know I cannot
bear to see one of those plants
told mother to come and take il
back, for I would not have it in
sight"
"What!" ho calculated, "do you
still persist in saying that she gave
it to you?
why, John, of course she did.
Haven't you got over that idea
yot 2"
mo, I haven't" he persisted, his
face darkening. 'I bought that
geranium just as sure as I'm living
man"
She thought of his years of cruel
desertion, of all he had caused her
to suffer because of bis obstinacy,
and her heart hardened, and her
face flushed.
"You arc mean to say that when
you know 1t is false"
1T isn't false. It's heavens
truth"
"It's no such thing. It's mean,
contemplate lie
He jumped up from the chair,
seized his hat and coat and shot
out of the house in o fash, and she
mover uttered word in protest.
She sat there with clenched hands
and n white face, and let him go.
And so he is gone. And to-day
:he is alone again with tho old
burden and the old pain.
At the railroad meeting held at
the Carswell Institute, Anderson,
on Thursday, resolutions were
adopted by the citizons Of Hall