The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-16


"Well. then, hang it man, leave the
place for awhile, and write farewell leu
! ter"
"Agreed."
Kate waited to hear no more, but rushed
wildly into the street. Having reached
home, che hardly knew how she crushed
the wild paroxysm that she was laborlng
under, and wrote letter TO the destroyer
OF her happiness, telling him how she hal
discovered his perfidy.
This shall not degrade me-" she said.
'By Gods help / will live down my dis
grace and win for myself position at
least respectable. And by Gods help,
also will be avenged"
Seven years had elapsed since William
Gliding had seen Kate Wesley. He had re-
ceived her letter and felt relieved that the
affair ended with so little trouble to him.
OF Hates sufferings he would not allow
himself to think, and her memory was soon
buried with many others loves OF the past.
During these seven years he had inherited
great wealth from an aunt, had settled in
London, and become thoroughly dissipa-
ted man of the world. His friends doubted
his capacity for real, pure, honorable
love, and he agreed with them. That sort
of thing was too hum-drum and prosy for
him, he said. And 80 opposed was he to
matrimony, that he wagered half his for
tune that he would never enter into 1t.
Just. about this time Miss Kingford, an
heiress, made her appearance in society,
turning all the male heads, old and young.
Her beauty of form and face, and her fasci-
mating powers of conversation, were peer
less. William threw himself at her feet at
o., 10 ~ oil ho
came the most ardent sutton for her hand ;
and as people said, thoroughly in earnest
for the first time in his life. Among Niles
Kingford's suitors also was the gentleman
to whom William had staked the half of his
fortune in the event of his marriage. So
enraged was this man at her preference for
William that he swore TO hold him to his
wager. Undaunted by this, William eager
ly pressed his suit, and was accepted.
1t was new kind of happiness to Will
liam, and one that he once thought never
existed, to feel that bling bound to this wo-
man for life would be heaven.
1t was arranged that Miss Kingford
should proceed to France, where she had
relatives, and that William should follow
almost Immediately on his arrival, they
should be married.
William followed his betrothed to love-
ly little town in the north of France, where,
she informed him, the friends resided at
whose house the wedding was to take place.
On arriving at his hotel he found letters
awaiting him, directing him TO come at
o1ce to the chateau of the Count de Chan
try. Eager to clasp his bride in his arms
he hastened thither. He was ushered into
spacious saloon, the magniflcence of
which astonished even him, accustomed as
he was to luxury. In moment the object
of his visit entered, dressed in queenly
style of splendor, circlet of Diamonds
adjoining her stately head.
William started forward to greet her as
she swept into the room, but she haughtily
motioned him back.
ave will make our interview brief
one" she said, ''as my husband awaits
me-"
William gazed at her, as if doubling her
sanity.
"Your husband :" he exclaimed, hoarse-
ly, the veins in his forehead standing out
like cords. "Who are you then?
"The Countess de Chantry," she said,
bowling profoundly. "Seven years ago |
was Kate Wesley, the poor factory girl
whom you scorned. told you by Gods
help would be avenged and you see l
spoke truly.
He rushed from her presence without
waiting 10 hear her story-how when she
had separated from him she had obtained a
situation as nursery geverness, and how, an
old lady of the family being taken i'll, she
tended her faithfully until her death. and
how out of gratitude she had made Kate
her heiress, and at last, while travelling
abroad, how she had met the Count, who
married her.
That evening the Countess heard that an
English gentleman, who had just arrived
at the hotel, had shot himself from some
unknown cause. They found from letters
on his person that his name was William
Gliding.