The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-12-30

lage. 1t was just before dusk, and
showing heavily at the time. The road
led along the banks of river. Passing
out OF the station masters sight into
the storm, they were seen no more.--
The inquiries never got beyond that.
Those who had been at work upon the
case settled down to the belief that the
woman had left her home during ut
of temporary insanity that the storm
che encountered on leaving the cars in
creased the confusion of her mind, and
that she had either thrown herself and
children in the river, or had had wan
dered out of the road and had fallen in
with them.
One evening after this conclusion had
heen reached, an officer who had worked
on the case was asked by young lady
who was visiting at his house to tell her
an interesting case. He told her the
story of the deserted husband.
The young woman afterward married
aud went to live In Western city,
Some years passed, when, on meeting
the officer again, she reminded him of
the story he had told her, and asked if
anything had been heard of the wife
and children. He said the case remain
ed as profound mystery as ever.
Now" she said, " will go on with
the story where you ended. The wo-
man got off the train at B for the
purpose of misleading those who might
search for
"She had through tickets to Port
land after going some distance toward
the village, as testified by the station
master, she retraced her steps.
C Eluding observation at the railway
station, she got on a way train that
came along presently, and proceeded to
Portland. There she was met by man
who took her to the Grand Trunk Rail
way, and the next train bore them to
city in the Far West, where they found
home which had been carefully pre-
pared for them. She appeared as the
wife of the man who accompanied her,
and who had recently established the
home to which, as he told the neigh
bors, he was going to bring his wife and
two children from the East. The chill
dren were too young to know what it
all meant, and were soon taught to be-
lieve that they had always known their
new father.
"In Western communities they are
not so curious about ones antecedents as
they are in New England, and the hew
family was accepted as valuable ac-
QUESTION to the neighborhood. How
did learn all that? Well, soon after
settled in --, formed pleasant ac-
quaintance with the lady who lived
next door-a quiet, attractive woman,
who seemed to be uncommonly happy
in her married life.
Zone day, when her husband was alb
sent, she was taken ill. / was sent for
and, while under the fear of death, she
told me her story. When she was
school girl she became engaged to the
man she now lived with. He went
away to seek his fortune, and not long
after she heard he had married. Then,
in her despair, she married a man old
/ enough to be her father. After she had
p been married some three years she heard
that her early love had been true to her.
She wrote imploring him to forgive her.
A correspondence had followed, and by
and-by she was wrought up to the point
of leaving her husband. All the details
of the elopement had been arranged by
letter and, when she Joined her lover
in Portland, she saw him for the first
time after separation of ten years.