Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-10
"FORLOvE OF SUsY."
BY ETTIE ROGERS.
"For Love shall still be lord of ALL"

SIR Waiter Scott
The October haze hung like cause Of
gold about the purple tops Of the low-ly
ing country hills. Perched among then
shone the yale stone walls and ornate ROO
Of a superb country-seat. Behind it roll,
ed and rumbled the glistening river, ano
before it, almost under the pretty bay.
windows, ran the elm tlanked common
highway.
A man, very young and very handsome
with brown, dreamy eyes and a proud
Grecian head, rode by that day.
He looked Up and saw a lady standing
on g balcony above him. About her re-
gal figure fell folds Of lusureless amber
silk and foam pale ]aces. Her Spanish
eyes and delicate, naughty features smil
ed down upon him from behind an exquis
ite fan; she wore white roses on her bosom
and an arrow of gold and diamonds held
back from her dusky brows the glossy
plaits of her ebon hair.
1T is Madeline he thought, drawing
rein. "Shc is very beautiful. They told
me she is past thirty, but she looks young
er than !, and I am twenty-one. 1t
won't be very hard for me to obey my
uncle, fancy"
The wealthy and eccentric old uncle
who reared and educated him had sent
Algernon Heath to this elegant place
with friendly letter of introduction,
ostensibly given that his beloved nephew
might have week Of change and quiet,
but really, privately and commandingly,
that the said nephew would meet, WOO,
win and marry q beautiful creature whose
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great expectations.
A glance from those brilliant eyes told
the young man that he had reached his
destination.
He had never seen the lady before, but
it was flatteringly evident that she knew
him, and was a bit merry because,
through his ignorance of the locality, he
had missed the entrance.
He returned her smile, lifted his hat
CALAMITY, wheeled his horse and rode
back to the gloomy gate of iron guarded
by two bronze lions rampant.
81 have crossed the Rubicon," he
thought again, as the big, grim gates
changed behind the heels of his uncle's
favorite black. "Mcthinks when Irecross
I shall carry to my good relative the mes
sage, Il came, saw, | conquered
Algernon Heath was only twenty one
He had had his fancies and his follies, but
he knew nothing of the love that can
make a life time of misery or a single
day of rapturous, blissful peace. He was
welcomed warmly, and his stay was pro-
longed unreasonably, and he left only to
return in few weeks to clam the Spanish
eyed Madeline as his bride.
Algernon Heath was proud of his hand
some, stylish wife. She was passionately
fond of him, and, alas! quite as passion
ately jealous.
Why should she not be-this world
worn coquette of thirty, who had shared
the fevered fancy of his youth, we'll know
ing that his untouched heart might some
day thrill to the claim of a fresh and true
affection?
But they we're reasonably content in
their marital bonds for ten quiet years.
Out of Madeline's money her hus band
had had a prodigal share, and she never
reproached him lor his lavish extrava-
gance- He was always kind and true
and devoted, and surely she could ask no
more.
Her father died thetirst year after her
boarding his millions for a munifcent,
final bequest to favorite charitable in
stltution, it was said and believed.
Madeline believed it, and, with the in
stinct of jealousy, guessed that the eccen-
trio old gentleman had planned her mar
rage with his young nephew for pur-
pose of his own.
HE imagined that a rich wife would
rid him of Algernon's extravaganza de-
mands for money" she thought, bitterly,
when she felt death creeping through her
veins. ''He knew his plans, of course.
If my husband married me for love, he
will never take another wife when l am
gone. If he married me for my worldly
possessions, I have way to thwart his
sordid, heartless Desires
And so Madeline Heath made Just
such will as rich and aged men often
make who have taken unto themselves
very young, very POOR, and very unthink-
ing wives.
And with this jealous bitterness in her
soul she died, leaving to her husband, if
he remained unwedded, the whole Of her
fortune; but should he marry again, he
would be penniless as he was the day he
led her to the altar.
"Poor Maddie" was the only comment
made by the husband who had faithfully
been fond of her in his way, II have
never yet seen a woman her peer in
beauty and goodness"
And for five long years he was the
most inimitable widower who ever wore
Grape on fashionable hat.
He was not gloomy and lugubriously
uncongenial not. The world
thinks no better of US for bearing out
our solemn sorrows and displaying them
with the purple amaranths pinned on our
velvet lappels!
But Algernon Health accepted his
wealth and his freedom in an easy way
that seemed selfish if not enjoyable.
1t was an October day, when the lus-
cious rosy apples were dropping ripe
from the branches, and the scarlet leaves
were drifting, breeze-borne through the
yellow haze, that he met Susy Wright
He was out on lonely hunt for the sly
foxes and wild rabbits which had de-
spoiled his hennery and gardens.
A timid thing, with coat of snowy fur