The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-04-07

loon Albany MoOff WAS Waiting 10
claim my hand for the rext dance.
care you ill, Mrs. Glen? How pale
you look"
81 am not very veil. | wish you
would have my carriage called for me,
Mr. Moore"
For now felt that home was the
proper place for me
Hurried by some upaccountable i'm
pulse, ! sprang out the moment the
carriage wheel touched she curbstone,
and rushed up to my husbands room.
The door was locked but could see a
light shining family under the thresh-
old. / knocked wildly and persist
emily.
"Geraldl dear Gerald for heavens
sake, let me IN p
Something fell on the marble hearth
stone within, making metallic ciink,
aud my husband opened the door lit
tie way. had never seen him look SO
pale before, or so rigid, yet SO deter
mined.
Who are you ?" he demanded wildly.
Why can not you leave me alone in
peace ?"
"It is |, Gerald-yeur Madeline
own little wife"
And / caught from his hand the pistol
he was striving to conceal in his breast.
its mate lay on the marble hearth, under
the mantel-and flung it out of the win.
dow.
"Gerald, would you have left me ?''
az would have escaped !" he cried, still
half delirious, to all appearance. 81
- disgrace - misery-her reproacn.s
All | should have escaped
His head fell like that of aweary child
ON my shoulder. drew him gently to
sofa, and soothed him with a thousand
murmured words, thousand mute ca
resses For had it not been altogether
my fault
And through all the long weeks that
followed, | nursed him with unwavering
care and devotion. had but one thought
one desire-to redeem myself in his es-
timation; to prove to him that i was
something more and higher than the
hefe butterfly of fashion | had hitherto
showed myself. --.-.s--.-.
Wsli, the March winds had howled
themselves away into their mountain
Businesses; the brilliant April rain-drops
were dried on bough and spray and now
the apple-blossoms were tossing their
fragrant pillows of pinky bloom in the
deep blue air of latter May.
Where we're we now?
It was picturesque little villa, not
far out of London, furnished very like
magnified playhouse. Gerald sat in a
cushioned easy chair in the garden, just
where he could glance through the open
window at me, working busily with my
needle.
"What an industrious fairy it isl' he
said, smiling sadly.
swell, you see like it, lisa great
deal better than those sonatas on the
pisno!"
eWho would ever have thought that
YOU would make so notable little house
keeper p
laughed gleefully; l had all child's
delight in being praised.
Are you not going to Miss Dela1eey's
croluet party? he asked.
"No; what do i care for croquet
parties? am going to finish your shirts,
and you'll read aloud to me-"
Madeline, want you to answer me
one question"
What is it ?"
"What have you done with your dia-
mondsw .....--...s
81 sold them long ago; they paid sew
eral leavy bills, besides settling half a
years rent here"
But, Madeline, you were 80 proud of
your diamonds"
az was once; now they would be the
bitterest reproach my eyes could meet.
Oh, Gerald, had | been less vain. and
thoughtless, and extravagant
/ checked myself, and robin, sing
ing in the perfumed depths of apple
blossoms, took the dropped current Of
sound.
That's right, little red-breast," said
my husband, halfjokingly, "talk her
down! she has forgotten that our past is
dead and gone, and that we have turned
over a new page in the Book of Exist.
ence! Madeline, do you know how fee
) sometimes, when look at your
"Nom
" Well, l feel lite widower who ha,
. married sgainp'
3 " Like a widower who has married
= again, Gtraldp'
" Yes;I can remember my first wife
| a brilliait, thoughtless child, without
3 any ides beyond the qualification O
present vhims-a spoiled plaything
: Well, that little Madeline has vanished
, away into the past somewhere; she ha'
s gone ava, to return no more; and in hel
stead / lehold my second wife -
I. thoughtfua tender woman, whose watch
full love surrounds me like an atmos
fPhere, whose character grows more noble
, and developes itself into new depth and
. beauty eye,y dayp
: | was kheelino at his side. now. with