The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-05

Iput TO MN.
(which door will she come in at ~ h
asked, suddenly. He had already seate,
himself upon one of the wooden seats txet
against the wall.
The younger jailer pointed to door on
the ott er side of the double iron caginG
which was fixed along the centre of thu
room.
The convict raised his head. He bcgar
to see that he had fallen into tra''
But if she comes i'll there" lie said,-
and his voice was already less calm-"how
can she reach me here"
But she viii not be on this side of the
grating" said the younger of the two jail
ers, injudiciously.
"Ha.-she will not be on this side of the
gratingR So, Pm soldn be screamed
"She was to have been near me. No iron
bars was to keep us apart. There wasn't a
word said about them. What, do you
think would have given myself up, if I'd
known how yOumeant to serve mel'
You will see your wife, and say what you
have to say to her through this iron graf
ing. To tell you the truth, she herself
bargaiEed that it should be so."
she did! Why"
81 suppose because she is afraid to como
near you"
'lf she's afraid of me, it's because she
knows she has wronged me-"
"Very likely; but chat is no reason why
she should wish to he killed"
What il promise not to harm hair of
her headp
You can't answer for yourself. A word
q look, is quito enough to put you in
boiling rage"
A quarter of an hour afterwards, Sun
nower,shown the way by one of the female
warders, entered the other side of the
visitors roomand, without glancing at her
husDand,she sat herself down on chair.as
fur away from Langley as possible, and
waited.
The female warder had left the apart-
ment, and the terrible pair were alone. face
to face.
AS Tor the convict, the moment his ewes
ielt upon her. he rushed to the iron grat-
ing, ana stretched his arms to their full
width towards her. For q moment his
appearance was terrible, thon his face
Sottened, and his eyes filled with tears.
That mysterious something which SIP
rounds and spreads from the woman or
child We love, produced its effect upon
Langley. His was but boast that he
would kin sunfower One kind look from
h--f, and his apEry. trembling hand ;,7,u;ht
have been arrested high in the air.
For some moments he said nothing. 1t
was enough that be could look upon her. As
for the woman, prepared for reproaches,
insults, she was simply amazed, stupefied,
by his silence. Her dominant thought be.
came tho fear that lie was m .ditatine her
some injury. She narrowly scanned the
iron grating to see that the bars were Sc
cure, when, as he leaned against them and
they showed no signs of yielding, sAo
smiled
"You amt afraid of me, are you, Sum-
fowcr!" lie asked,
II think it wouldn't be wonderful if I
was. There hasn't been day since ] was
your wife that you haven't ill-us1d me-"
Don't turn on me now I'm down." he
replied sadly. 81 know / was basLy and
jealous, but it was all because loved You
so much"
"Oh, / know all about your love-" she
said, in bitter voice. "Wben man
says, 4 love you, to woman, he fancics
that she ought to bear with any ill-usage.
The more you beat her, the more you crush
her, the better pleased sbe ought to be.
Love! it's not love which makes a woman
late the lie she is living"
Then were you never happy with me,
SuntlOwerg" lie asked, Speaking in a soft
ened tone.
Happy with you' tell you never had
a happy hour with you from the day |
came to be your wife to this very morning
and Fm not afraid to say il"
''You need not be afraid TO say anything,
Sunilower, for behind these ratings cant
hurt you.'
'All the better. This is about the first
time I've ever dared to speak the truth to
you without running the chance of losing
rly life.
Go on; say what you like, Sunnower.
Ill listen quiet enough"
She lad no heart. She said what she
liked, as he had told her to say. Sue open
ed before him all the old wounds: she cast |
into his face the memory of every cruelty |
to her of which he had been guilty. She |
paid him back in twenty minutes all the |
Insults and ill-usage she had suffered |
through three long years. She was I'M
placable, mcrcilcss, without even the
shadow of pity in her heart.
He heard what she had to say, never ut
tering word. At last, when she stopped,
he said, Then YOU never cared for NE at
QllY'
Never" she said. ''If said lsved you,
it was because stood in dagger of my life
il told the truth"
nls head 1cIi, and it was only after long
silence that be said, 'If break Jail again,
viii you take me back-wiIl you give me
onc more chanceS"
"NeveTw she replied. bitterly. Every
hing between US is at an end. III live no
more as have lived. I'll tremble no more
or my life. and will be free in new
and and with new name"
Every word ground upon his heart, but
lie only said, Il had good deal to say to
'ou, but don't know where to fiud the
7ords." ff
"Words" she said; "if you wanted to
elp me to blows, you would not be much
ronbled to find them"
"But can suffer myself. tell you, Sun
lower"
His habltuaI dark complexion was now