Montgomery County sentinel., 1877-01-19


I sent it to your hotel over an hour ago
by servant. l am quite sure you will
find it there now
The hint was so direct and so merci-
less that George Howard lost his patience.
"You have thrown me over for
richer man. You have sold yourself,
Georgina, to the monoy-bags of that old
man. And this is the girl loved-thc
girl whom believed so true that she
would be all the fonder when reverses
came p
1T is useless to talk like that" said
Miss Gray, in an icy tone. II have not
been trained or educated to become
poor mans wife. Luxury is essential to
my happiness. If | should be foolish
enough to marry you in your present
circumstances, we should both be wretch
ed in a month. Nothing will induce
me so to sacrifice myself"
"Oh p said Howard, drawing nearer,
''you have heard of my uncle's will"
" have"
"When-how-who told you the
news ne asked
Louise Palmer told me yesterday
afternoon"
"As you were going to the Park to
meet me" he said, quietly.
She dit not deny it.
aud has she said nothing more to
you since 2"
II have not seen her since | have
seen no one"
Except Mr. Burton" said Howard,
laughing. "Woll, he is happy man.
He has no uncle to disinherit him.
Farewell, Miss Gray. Before long
shal! feel even more grateful to you than
[ do now; for am old-fashioned enough
to wish to marry a wife who will love
me, and not my bank account
He bowed low and left her.
AS the door closed behind him she
realized for one brief instant what she
was losing.
Come back to me, George p she said
family.
But he did not hear her.
And as he went down the street she
consoled herself by dream of the
future seen in the depths of her brilliant
engagement ring.
| X X X
Six months after, Mrs. Burton sat in
her private box at the opera, with her
aged husband by her side. She was
glorious with jewels, and her dress was
an exact copy of one which the French
empress had worn on similar occasion
not long before.
Yet people whispered among them
selves that, in spite of carriages, horses,
opera boxes, French toilets, and Jewels,
the bride of the millionaire looked worn,
and restless, and unhappy, and that the
beauty which had won cold Burton"
from his lifelong bachelorhood, was
speedily vanishing beneath that look of
care.
Suddenly the door of an opposite box
opened n tall, handsome young man
entered, leading a lovely creature dressed
in bridal white. Her golden hair was
drawn away from her fair, low brow and
oval face, caught by a circlet of pearls,
and left to ripple over her shoulders in a
profusion of large, soft curls. Her large
blue eyes were always shyly seeking the
face of her husband, to droop before his
fond, admiring gaze. The pair were so
young, so happy, so evidently honestly
in love with each other, that every glass
in the house was turned that way-the
women envying the bride. the men the
bridegroom, and some, indeed, among
the latter, not scrupling to say so openly.
Mrs. Burton looked also, and the iron
entered her soul at the sight of her old
lover, so fully enraptured with the
beauty of his young wife that he did not
even know, or care, that she was in the
house.
Old Burton looked, too, and sighed
as he marked the shy yet clinging af-
fection betrayed by the lovely bride
Not in that way had his beautiful wife
ever looked on him, since the day when
she promised to be his
$50 romantic, isn't it ?" said Garrison
Palmer, who had accompanied the ILL
matched couple to the opera. IIe was
disinherited by his old uncle Stephen,
and all the money left to that girl, who
was distant relative Of both. And
George Howard went east on business.
saw her, fell in love with her, and mar
ried her, and never knew that she was the
heiress Of bis lost fortune till month
after the wedding-day. 1t is like the
things one reads in novel But you
don't expect to see those things in real
life, do you, dear GeorgiDa?"
Mrs. Burton shook her head. She
could not have spoken. In that one
moment Of supreme emotion her rejecte'l
lovGr-had he cared to know twas
most bitterly avenged