The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1878-07-26

ld1u cane 10 lOuge IN the same house. He |
was the gentleman of the place, and rented
two rooms on the first floor dingy and dis.
mai as the street was, the rooms were large
and, owing to the locality cheap. From
the very first he began paying attention to
this woman and in the end he made down.
right love to her.
You may fancy how this poor creature
felt flattered by the honorable ap pNoaches of
the gentleman on the first floor. Well to
cut 1t short, in a few months they were mar
RED; he was too cOnsmumate a liar to say he
loved her, and he in the full consciousness
that she had been left, year before, about
10000 bya great uncle who died after com.
ing home from Jamaica, aud of whom she
had heard little or nothing all her life. The
money had been devised to her father and
his heirs absolutely, and had been adverti.
cd Then he got scent Of il and hunted her
down.
sharp as he was he counted with
out the law. lie thought that things were
STILL with regard to married women's prop.
husband could say to his wife, What's yours
is mine what's mine is my own He
showed his hand too soon. After a week he
grew careless Of her. This nearly broke
her heart. In q month he told her about the
legacy, and steps were taken to realize it.
Seeing how the thing was now, the landlady
penetrated the whole design. The good
woman's husband brought Mrs. Rvland pri-
vately to me. To sum up, we proved the
will, got the money, and | invested the
money in stock. BY this time ] found that
he owed large sums of money he had been
speculating through another and had got
heavily let in. He continued his bad treat
ment OF her, and at last, just as her baby was
about to be born, We gave 1900 to take
himself off and leave hel in peace. All
could do would not induce her to have le-
gal separation. Her whole soul, her whole
nature, now seems centered in that child
He might leave her, and did leave her,
but the baby came in the winter of her life,
in her worse than widowhood, the baby boy
came. She had given money to the husband
to 90 away, but the baby bad come instead
and lay in her arms all day and all night,
sweet for her kisses, sweet for all her love,
| the companion of her worse than widow
hood, the unconscious confident Of all her
sorrows, the antidote which, when pressed
against her bosom, healed her of her memo
| ries-'
Get me back my child or kill me
here
4 sprang up and turned round. The wo-
man was standing in the.door way. Both
her arms were stretched out toward Langton
She was rigid as statue, and at each corner
of her mouth appeared foam. Langton
| turned around.
Get me back my child; or kill me-here, ,
she repeated in the same tone as before, a
tone that made lis shudder.
Still she stood rigid in the doorway.
Langton looked at me and whispered, This
case is now one far you. Go to her and
speak to her.
| i approached her and took one of the out.
stretched hands. 1t was damp and cold
As led her into the room | slipped my fin
ger on her wrist aud looked into her eyes
! The pulse was low aud weak had expect
ed to find ii high and strong The semi.
transparent ruby colored flaws in the eyes
had dilated and gathered deeper fire the
! expression was one OF intense subjective oc.
cupation. a bad case thought to my.
self; the child and the image of the chile
are gone this always means insanity. Thi,
woman will be numbered as she is now, un
til either the child i, returned to her arm,
or the image to her mind
How did this happen ? l asked her in a
gentle a voice as could,
'He waited for me outside. He took hC
child from mel did not let il 60 until i
cried until | knew he hurt it, Wei i
cried and lot it g. There were peopl,
around and | asked 81 policeman 10 get u.C
back my child. But he said he wa, NV hus
band, aud that the child was his. I he pO
licrmtn asked me was he my husband, uuC
WAS the child hi.? aud | answered, ye,
The policeman shook bis head aud walked
away. Then he got into q cab and drove
away-do vou understand what say he
got Il cab aud drove away with my child in
his arm.-you find it hard to understand?
don't for felt him do it. Irll it here in
my breast where my child used to lie asleep
| iclt the child drawn out Of my breast.
4 dropped her hand and, having left her
whispered to Langton, Is there any means
of compelling that scoundrel to give up the
child at once p
lie shook his head and muttereI maledic,
ton.
''rhen,' said | you had better send her
home in charge Of some one.
you don't think she'll do violence upon
herselfl' lie whispered
mo. But some one should be always with
her until the crisis arrives
what do you expect 10 follow the cri,i, {?
She will either be cured or grow violent.
My dear Baird, | can't leeve here just
now. Would you see her home, tell her
landlady to get some one to look after her,
see her own doctor, aud ask them to send all
bills to me-.
i had nothing very particular on hand,
so did as requested.
When | next arrived at Langton's outer
office the clerk beckoned to me aud said,
Our clients husband is inside again
Without stopping to knock, turned the
handle and went in Ryland's back was to-
ward me, and Lsngton, as formerly, stood
on the hearthrug This time, however
there was no straddle. He stood upright
with his feet and his lips close together, lie
was deadly pale, and could see at a glance,
in deadly rage. Ryland was speaking as !
entered he bowed with great polteness to
me, paused, and then resumed
1As | WAS gavinu Mr. I.nntn, H. h., Z,