The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-03-14


4 sight tremor shook Dora Austin s
frame, and her ghastly lips quivered for
/ an instant. But only for an instant
one had risin now, and was addressing
Neville, who listened silently until she
hat ceased spsaklng. stupefed, doubt
iess, by the dreadful import OF what
spe haa attefaa.
| lhat man, Melvitie, is my husband.
rive years ago, oeiofo yon and l had
ever nst, poverty, had reduced myself
and mother 70 tis last stages q want.
On my motheiss death, anu Nhiie was
stii almost 9 fsissa " far-, Mar Dil-
ION asked iae ~ vss 9 vile. We
we're married n'isasis discovered
thal my wrsseledT frianstlsss position
haa been exehaBgea ffr one ot still
greater misery. 1 NAT oaeome united
toa nan from ~hose vie, w'eSei iifs
ny Whole nitafa tafiea IN loathing-
Oae evening, IN fit O fnry, he strnck
me. barng the year that followed. l
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rarS Doraf we mast not--We snail
not part
lie had drawn hsr to ms breast with
Il wild, lmpnIsiFe movement. Az the
same instant the door OF the staqlo was
suddenly opened, ana woman voice
Grief ous IN clear, ringing tones : Mr..
Diiton Hes MIS- Austin, when he dares
to call himself yonr husband /
wronged, deserted. outraged as have
oeen' am none the less MS laWiuiIy-
welded wife, married to nm seven
years ago. Let nm deny 1T II he dares.
You need not scowl ami glare at me,
the woman went on. kotty; what
speak ls the truth, ana 10 not fear to
utter II.
A low cry of rage escaped Dillon's
lips as he sprnng towards the woman
who had spoken. But with blow Of
iron, Melville Austins hand hurled him
backward. For moment the villain
stared at his wife's protector with I'll
gerish heTceness in his dark, dangerous
eyes. and then, like the coward he re-
ally was, slunk from the room.
Aud from the hoase too, never enter
ing 1t again. An hour afterwars his
wife, Ellen Dillon, followed hun.
against the earnest entreaty OF Melville
and Dora.
HE viii beat me when return :"
him, perhaps she saii''~'ta mourn :
fnl smile on her exquisite face, "bnt
must So' ne'er'he'eSS IL seems mae
cnrse, sometimes, that IN spite OF this
oruteilfy and wickedness cannot nate
Mark. But whenever 1 think OF our
child ut home, beiieve thai THIS WEAK
ness is All ior the pest. L can 8"ara
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his villainous treatment. What a mar
velous mystery love is
"Marvelous, indeed. Dora"
.'Did you really mean. Melville, that
nothing should part us-uot even the
knowledge of being anotass's wife
when YOU spoke so passionately inst
| hoforo Zion Dillou entered feom the