The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-01-10
HOW THEY WERE REUNITED.
One New York Husband and Wife that Passed n
Happy Christmas.

Jennie June's Letter to the Baltimore American
A somewhat romantic incident took
place within stones throw from where
am sitting, the happy denouement of
whichwas due to a souvenir of this kind.
A party had assembled at Christmas
dinner on Christmas Day, when gen,
tIeman present noticed, with some agitaN
ton of manner, pendant displayed by
daughter of the house as one of her
gifts, and inquired ifit would be deemed
an impertinence to ask how and from
whom she obtained it. Evidently it was
an undesirable and somewhat embar-
RAISING question. However, the gentle
man was known to have been deserted
by his wife nearly year before under
circumstances which left no taint upon
her reputation, but rather clouded his,
and it was only in consideration OF long
acquaintance and intimacy that he had
consented to join the holiday throng.-
With some difficulty he extracted the in
formation that the pendant was a gift
from gentleman friend, and also gained
his address, the individual being out of
town for the day, and therefore not pres
ent at the gathering.
With this clue the gentleman started
on search, not so much for the recent
owner Of the pendant as for his wife, for
the ornament had been hers, and he had
recognized it at once as a birthday pres
ent from himself, and knew notwith>
standing her desertion, that only the
direst straits had induced her to part
with it. The gentleman when found
could tell him nothing but that he had
purchased it of a second hand dealer, a
fact he was very anxious to keep from
the lady to whom he presented it. and to
this dealer, woman well known and
doing business on the upper part of
Broadway, the distressed husband went.
The pendant, it seemed, had only been
lin her possession few days before she
sold it. She remembered perfectly the
small, slender, closely veiled woman
from whom she purchased it; in fact,
she had bought it partly out Of sympa-
thy with her apparent distress, and had
promised that if it was not sold before the
original owner was able to redeem it, to
let her have it back at slight advance
on what she paid her. OF where she
lived or what she was she had not the
faintest idea. Stay-she had a slip of
paper with a name upon it given her as
a means OF identity, fol- the writing was
that of his wife and the name portion
of her own before she was married.
With redoubled zeal, but almost in des-
pair, he found the policemen of the pre-
cinct and, describing the personal APP
pearanCe of the runaway closely, begged
to know if they had seen any such per-
son in making their rounds.
After a time one thought he had he
remembered her very well; a dark little
figure, closely veiled, going into a groS
GERS in the vicinity, where she bought
small loaf of bread and herring The
husband groaned. Was his delicate
Nellie reduced to this They had only
been married year and half when she
left him, and the way of it was this: He
had been foolishly led into paying some
attention to pretty but somewhat un-
| scrupulous woman--one of those who
float on the surface of society without any
visible means of protection or support.
On the evening in question he had gone
to theater in party, of which she was
one, but unaccompanied by his wife,
Afterwards little champagne supper
was proposed at an elegant restaurant,
and then it became his evident duty to
see her home. He did not arrive at his
own house until the early hours of the
morning, and carefully concealed the
facts Of his detention from his young
wife, whom he found sitting up, in great
anxiety. awaiting his return. Ignorance
in this case would undoubtedly have
been bliss, but it was not to continue. A
lady friend, one of the party, informed
her the next day of the facts, coupling
the husbands name with that of the vi.
vacious Mrs. -, and perhaps exagger-
ating little the champagne and escort
business.
Of course it was not in the nature of
woman to keep still. She taxed her lord
and master. He put on airs, and, though
he had secretly determined never to be
caught in such scrape again, insisted
on his right to do as he pleased, and pay
attention to whom he pleased. ending
with taking his hat, slamming the door,
and when he came home, at II p. M,
walking. off to the spare room.
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She had taken but little of her clothing
with her, and none of the Jewels that he
had given her, with the exception of her
wedding ring and this pendant; !; and
though he had searched daily from that
day down to Wednesday of the present
week he had never succeeded in finding
her. He had put advertisements in the
personal columns Of the Herald inform
ing "N.," with the singular obtuseness
of a man, that if she should come home
all should be forgiven and forgotten"
But IN" didn't seem to have seen it lii
any sense, for no reply had ever reached
him. He had given up their pretty
house, gone to a hotel to board, and
spent his leisure in walking up and down,
staring through the veil Of every small,
slender woman he could meet, expecting
to find his wife. But he did not COM
municate all these facts to the police
man. He simply told them of his de-
sire to find the lady answering his de-
scription, and it was while he was still
talking with them that one exclaimed,
"By Jupiter There sheis now" Sure
enough, the light figure, the delicate face
now very thin and worn-that he
knew so well came out of store with
bundle in its hands, and without waiting
even' to complete his sentence the
husband sprang across the street, seized
the hands, from which the bundle rolled
off into the gutter, and drawing one
within his arm said to the poor trem-
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