The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-06-27

anger, his sorrew, or his. arguments fteI
lskye terrier was no more insensible &c
reason than CECILIA.
But there came day when tine nanK
of which he was treasurer became IN
solvent. His honor was 'impugned, his
creditors clamorous, and his princely
fortune gone, and in all the great city
.Ise had mot one true heart to counsel OF
comfort him. Months of. sleeples
anxiety had bowed his handsome head
and whiteued his hair. yet the needless
and hearties Oleiia was utterly ignorant
of his Trouble.
lie had not been brave enough TO tell
her. fer he felt that this woman who
had ruined his lite wenld madden him
by her insipid and selfish wonder and
regret, for of any stronger emotion she
was incapable.
But at last ms grand house was seid to
satisfy q mortgage, given as security for
money that mad been wasted in the iiaces
and aiIks and jewels that Clelia wore
with such imperial pride, morey that he
dared not take from the bank, already
shaking for the final Sali.
Then he resolved TO tell her OF the
trouble that was to end her life OF
splendOr. 1t was unavoidable, but he
shrank from the ordeal with q weak and
heavy heart.
1t was at the close of q peaceful golden
day when he drew up his spanking pie
bald roaDs before the uptown palace
that was his no longer. The silver of
moOnrige and the rose of sunset yet
fingered on the purple dusk of the even.
ing as he wearily descended from his
glittering coach, and with tagging feet
went mp the granite steps The hand
some paflOrs were blaze Of light. The
heavy oder of costly cut flowers filled the
air. In the center of tine room stood
Oleiia, her supple, rounded figure clothed
in amber ailk and cloudy lace, her
naughty lips red ms the priceless rubies
on her arms and bosom, Or the red rose
fastened in the anaky coils Of her black
hair. A heavy sigh parted his pale lips
as he looked at her.
81 ann sorry that you are to give a
sOiree tonight, aClelia," he said, gently
drawing her TO q tste-a-tete upholstered
in psle blue satin.
"Why7" she inquired, for once i'm
pressed by the dumb misery of the pale
face inst had grown 80 aged AND thin
during the few past weeks.
"FOr many reasons," he responded,
with painful hesitation, 81 have some
thing unpleasant TO tell you, Glelia, and
i hope you will listen patiently"
SO, 1t il about money, of course" she
cried, petulantly as she impatiently tap
ped her dainty boot upon the pale-green
carpet strewn with woven roses like
drops of blood.
eyes," he said very grayely, sit is
about money, andI wish to tell you that
mine is gone to the last dollar. lam q
man broken in health and heart and
fortune, and suspectedef gross dishonesty.
This hsuse lie sold, and my personal pro-
perty soon will be. i have nothing left
nothing"
His broken voice had the sound of q
wall as he uttered that last pathetic
word. Not q CLEAN of pity softened the
hard, handsome lace of tine woman before
him. For moment he sat naughty and
Silent; then the angry blood burned
refiiy in her cheeks, and q strange cold
light aparkled in her sullen, lslambsrous
eyes.
"Yon wish me 10 understand that d
am the vile OF poor and diahsnared
bankrupt she observed, and each chilli
ing word stabbed his heart like sharpest
steel. CT viii never forgiveyou. i viii
never forgive you,,' repeated the woman
who had tempted and beguiled and mad
dened and destroyed him.
And he shoughtof her whom he had
wronged by faisehood and disloyalty.
whom he had repudiated and iorsaken.
He thought of Heien ashe saw her last,
standing injured and hsartbroken be-
fore him. and yet crying 10 him ont OF
the depths of her outraged love, 81 for