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 perhaps curses.
 Unhappy Theoi A year of wedlock had made her wretehedly familiar with such igno- minyl
 He turned toward her, his face livid, his thin. tigerish lips trembling.
 "You have seen waldcmar Bcresford9" he asked.
 "Yes," she answered weaIfly.
 "And of course, he has Informed you that he is still unmarried?" he answered. And whas else has he been pleased 10 tell yon2"
 She was yet too faint and dazed by her uneI- pected meeting with Waldemar Beresford to fully comprehend the enomiity ofthe treachery of this man whom she had made her husband.
 "what has he told youS' repeated Rufus Aldrlch, is she shrank from him yoiceless and trembling.
 "I hardly understand yet" she replied, In q weak whisper. Ruins, you professed to be our common fricnd-the confdant Of each; but you were false to each when you persuaded me to believe thai Waldemar was false to me. O. 1t was Il cruel thing to do!-why did you do it?" The dull agony and ptsous reproach of her tones and words seemed to move him.
 "Why, Theo?" he demanded, hoarsely; "do NOu hol SuSNo WHyf bS'slubS T IONVu sbaB anu because had vowed that you should be my wife though should stain my saul with worse sins than falsehOods to make you mine. You believed that Bcresford was untrue, that he had trihed with your love; and so you accept cd me, whether in pique or in pity for my pas sion, do not know; scarcely care, as you arc my wife"
 "You have ruined my life" she moancd "you had been kinder to have killed me-"
 Her infinite misery stirred all the good that remained in the callous nature of the man. In the whole world she had none but him, and he had used her badly, and he knew 1t. He had been hard and cruel and coarse toward her; he had taken her away froma pleasant life ard kind friends only to neglect her. True he had given her all that money could buy, but hs had made his fine house but little more than q pri. son for her. In q sudden emotion Of remorse he would have taken her in his arms and comforted her. but she shrank from him as If he had struck her.
 "Thco," he said, moze kindly than he had ever spoken since the first weeks of their mar. riage. "I have wronged you, but bitterly re- gret it. Suppose should be better husband to you-would you forgive me and try to love me? will give up my follies and dissipations; ! will deny you nothing; will be kind to you. and make you happy fl can. I think, Theo, that our welded life might be quite as pleasant as that of other married people, if this missra- ble affair could be forgotten" | She looked at him as he stood before her 50 strangely humble, and something like pity for l him struggled with her pain and anger. That she was his wife 1t was impossible to forget. Perhaps, if ho really were earnest in his prom ises of amendment she might learn to be con tent, oven though happiness were denied her.
 II will try to remember only that you are my husband" she said gently.
 "And shall try to deserve such wifely for bearance," he responded, with great earness- 1 ness.
 But in month or little more tho unhappy wife was assured that this was but sort of paroxysmal contriton. The old habits were strong, and the man was ptifuly weak-so weak that the familiar besetting sins conquer. cd him anew, and dragged him into deepey dissipation than ever before
 A more dreary sadness settled upon Theors pale young face, and q heavier and more hope less melancholy upon her heart.
 Finally, when she had been less than tvs years his wife, Rufus Aldrich disappeared.
 It was known that while intoxicated he had sold his fine house for half its value, had drawn the money, and had left the place. But those were the sole facts that could be asccrtained, and for five years his fate was hidden in in. pcnetrable mystery.
 In fbn rnno lima bo6 S4,. sale of her jewelry and other co.tly articles that were neither useful to her nor precious as souvenirs, a sum sufficiently large to purchase small cottage that had belonged to the hand some estate. and here she lived in peaceful se- clusion.
 Since that night on the sea sands she had never seen Waldemar Beresford He had gone to Europe few days after, and since then the beautiful house with the brogR gables loom. ing among the noble trees had been deserted.
 But at the end of those five years he eaMe back, and although still unmarried. proceeded to occupy the fine old place.
 He proved to be as incorrigiblea rccluse as even the pale woman whom he did not meet until months after his return.
 They met in commonplace way; they looked upon each other with Ausmiling eyes and spoke to each other with unsmilng lips
 "If he had never loved me could be no less to him." thought the woman.
 "shc cares less for me than for stranger,s g thought theman.
 And so they lived their separate solitary lives meeting infrequently, and never when 1t was possible to avoid such an event, until several more years had passed.
 One indictment night, when tho snow lay in great melting masses on the ground and the [ thick .heets of binding rain made the dart night tdarkrr still there came m imperious rap ping at TheO's door , When she opened ii she saw standing on tho threshold Waldemar Beresford supporting q limp, drenched form. which was scantily cloth l e,l in the unsightly habiliments of vagabond tramp.
 "l beg your parlon." he said. "for bringing this poor wretch to your door. He Is dead or } dying, and found him lying just inside youi gate. ryou can give him shelter for few mo ments. l will go for some person who will talk him tu place provided for suIi as he" Thco consented somewhat reluctantly, for shc , had positive horror of these wandering lazza, ronL
 , Do not be alarmed" said Beresf0rd. reas. , suringly. "the poor fellow Is too far gone to . [ hlrn yon, ,And shall return immediately fConffn,ied- on. fouyfh pare1