Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-18

his manner would have made them the
( cynosure of ali eyes.
! And would you be willing to take
me. with SO many dark suspicious about
me, SO much unaccomted for and
which must be forever hidden from vou9
Could YOU still trust me?'
Kate, answered the noble fellow. ;"
Il know there Is some secret which
places You III false position. Mt present;
but, rs there Is II God above us. | be-
lieve you are incapable of any wrong
that YOU are IN some manner the Vie
TIM OF clrcumstances-and if an angel
were to come down and confirm it |
could not he more positive than am
now OF your spotlcss virtue and purity
Kate, | ask YOU, in all sincerity, will
YOU be my wifc?'
Il will, for | have always loved YOU"
answered Kate, rushing into his out
stretched arms, after which there was a
little scene which the reader will please
( imagine.
The marriage bell had rung-Mr
Warren had pledged his new son-the
neighbors had wondered-the honey
moon was Overland the happy couple
were costly cnsconsed in Franks Gle
CANT villa after their three months tour
through the principal places of interest
ON the continent Frank had never
said another word to his wife about her
previous life, and she had been Just as
retcent. One day, however while sit
ting at the large bay window looking
out upon the lawn, his arm lovingly
! placed around his wife's waist, she look
ed up to him with happy smile, and
| said -
And now, Frank, dear, ann about
TO make confession"
/ Confession of what, my pct?" in
! quired the happy young benedict.
"Why, of my adventures from the
time | eloped with Colonel Darcy until
| met YOU again"
'Now, my dear" said Frank, Edo not
harass your mind imagining | am
curious about that time, for | am not
| always was satisfied that my wife,
whatever We're the circumstances, did
what she thought best
A wife should have no secrets from
her husband, Frank said Kate. laugh
| ing.
And rice ,ersa," retorted Frank.
"Of course" said Kate, sauciy.
Was it not cruel in me to leave YOU
my bctrothed husband, without word
of explanation, to clope with the dashing
colonel?'
There must have been good rea-
son for it, little wife" answered loyal
Frank.
There was. But to my story You
must have wondered often as | did
/ Frank, why my father had such obiec-
tons to our marriage because, previous
to that, he was full Of your praise, and
has confessed to me since that had he
been free to choose he could not hay e
chosen a better man for my husband.
But Colonel DArcy, than whom Il great
or william never walked held secret of
his like the sword of Damocles over his
head, threatening to let it fall if he
thwarted him in any of his wishes You
were III his way, and my father had to
act coolly to you, 10y the colonel's orders,
remember not by any wish Of his own.
The secret was this: My father, while
a student III Vienna, met an actress then
rising into considerable note. She was
beautiful, talented and fascinating. and
my father, bewitched by her beauty and
genius, with the rash impetuosity of
youth, fell in love with her, proposed ;,
was accepted and they were married.
The marriage was far from being II hap
Ply one, and my father very soon re
pentcd the hcadstrong act that had tied
him to one whom he found to be nothing
but scheming adventures. The bick-
erings Of this mismated couple | leave
YOU to imagine; sufficient to say that ut
last, 10y mutual agreement, they scpara-
ted, my father settling IA large sum of
money on his wife, She promising never
to return to England while he lived. She
returned to the stage under her original
pscudOnym Of SignOra Bettin, and, five
/ years aftcrward, the country rang with
\ the news of her death by fire III a Paris
ian theatre. My father FASTENED to Paris
and buried his wife decentIy. Two years
after her death he met my mother, and
their meeting soon developed into that
| love which has been the mainstay of my
| fathers existence since Six years ago,
this so-called Colonel Darcy called on
my father and gave him the astounding
news that his first wife was still alive in
/ Naples-that she had never returned to
the stagc-but that the Signora Bcttini
who was burned mt Paris was her Young
cr sister who had not yet made much Of
Ia reputation and, as she resemblcd her
elder sister good deal, desired to gain
/ it under her name. How this intol'i-
gcnce affected my poor father YOU can
! Il 10, /,