The daily gazette., 1877-06-01
WILMINGTON DEL FRIDAY. JUNE | 1877.

"When-how-who told you the news?''
''Louisa Palmer told me yesterday af-
| ternoon."
Gas you were going to the park to
meet me" he said, quietly.
| She did not deny it.
"And has she said nothing more to you
| since?"
81 have not seen her since. / have
seen no One."
Except Mr. Burton" said Howard
laughing. "Well, he is a happy man. He
has no uncle TO disinherit him. Fare
well, Miss Gray. Before long shall feel
even more grateful to you than do now,
for / am oldsfashioned enough to wish
to marry wife who will love me, and
not my bank account"
He bowed low and left her
| AS the door closed behind him she rea-
lized for one brief instant what she was
losing.
"CJme back to me Gsorge, she said faint
| ly, but he aid not hear ner.
Aud as he went down tn street she con-
coneoed herself by dream OF the future
seen in the depths of her brilliant engage.
ment ring.
SIX months after Mrs. Burton sat IN her
puvate box at the opera, with her aged hus-
| band by her side. Sue was glorious with
jewels, and her dress was an exact copy o1
one wnlch the French Empress had worn
Oh similar occasion not long before. -,
| Yst people whispered among themselves
that, III spite of carriages, horses, opera
boxes Flench toilets and jewels, the bride
OF the millionaire looked, worn, restless and
unhappy, and that the beauty which had
won Old "0.d Burton" from his Lifelong
4 han nhal 10 t,a
meath that look of care.
Suddenly the door of an opposite boz
opened a tall, handsome young man en-.
tered, leading lovely creature ressed i1
bridal white. Her golden hair was drawn
away from her fair, low brow and oval face
| caught by circlet OF pearls. and lett to rip
| pie over her shoulders In proiusion o
large, soft curls. Her large blue eyes wers
always shyly seeking the face of her hus-
baud, to crOop before his fond, admirine
gaz.. The pair were 80 young, SO happy
so evidently and honestly in love with each
other, that every glass in the house was
turned that way-the women envyiug the
bridegroom, and some, indeed, amoug tht
latter, not scrupiing TO say SO openly.
| Mrs Burton looked also, and the iron en-
tered her soul at the sight OF her old lover
so fully enraptured with the beauty OF his
young wife that he did not know, or care
that she was In the house.
| Old Burton looked, too, and sighed as he
marked the shy Yet clinglng affection be.
| trayed by the lovely bride. Not in that
way had his beautiful wife ever looked on
him since the day that Sue promised to be
his
| 80 romantic, isn't it ?" said Garrison
Palmer, who had mpanied the i,-match.
ed couple to the op,ra. He was disinheri-
ted by his old uncie Stephen. and all the
money left to that girl, who was d distant
relative of boLh. And George Howard
went Eass on business, saw her, tell in love
with her, and married her, and never knew
that sne was the helFeas OF his lost fortune
till month after the wedding day. 1t Il
like the things one reads in a novel. Bu
you don't expect to see those things in rea
life, do you, dear Georginia p"
Mrs. Burton shook her head. She coulC
| not have spoken.
In that one moment of supreme emotion
her rejected lover-had he cared to knov
twas most bitterly avenged