The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-12

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voice that made me think more OF him
than ever I had thought before, Did
the little fellow feel the cold?'
81 tried not to let him. she answered,
looking up for moment. i was always
afraid to leave him behind, my baby
son. am afraid he.' looking fearfully
at the door, might come and steal MIN
away from me. My own my own
"She bent and absolutely gloated over
the little pale sleeper, until queer KIND
Of dead pain came into my heart. i,
"There is no fear OF his doing that,
said LaDgtoD. 1t is the child's money
he wants, and not the boy himself. :,
"She rose to go. Langton conducted
her to the door as though he were the
first gentleman in England, she the
finest woman in London, the first lady
in the land. Good day, said he. Good
day. said she, and she was gone.
"Langton came back and stood look
ing gloomily into the fire. fire, - What anaan 2
scoundrell what an unapproachaDle
scoundrelr He drove his heel into the
coal, and repeated the words.
"'Tell me about 1t, said [.
"'Easily enough he answered. lie
was a clerk in stock brokers' office
two years ago, and she earned just
enough to live on in some umbrella
mandatory. Her people had been
comfortable once, but lost all they had
at her fathers death; and two years
ago. as far AS she knew, she was the
only survivor of her family. She was
then about nine and twenty years OF
age, and very plain looking, SO that 1
dare say she had no hope OF ever
marrying, She lodged in some place
| off Stanford street, Biackfriar's Bridge,
and her nearest friend was her land
lady, to whom she paid three and six
pence week for her attic. Two years
| ago this Ryland carae to lodge In the
same house. He was "the gentleman"
the first floor; dingy and dismal as the
| street was, the rooms were large. and,
owing to the locality, cheap. From
| the very first he begsn paying atten-
| tions to this woman, and in the end he
made downright love tcther.'
"'You may fancy how this poor crea-
| ture, no longer young, who mad never
been anything but ugly felt Battered
by the honorable approaches OF 1.-The
gentleman on the first floor" Well, to
| cut IL short, In few months they were
married she, in the full belief that he
| loved her for some subtle charm OF
mind which he told her he had dis
| covered-he was too consummate liar
| to say he loved her for her looks and
| he In the full consciousness that she
had been left, year before, about five
Thousand pounds by great vnole who
| died after coming home from Jamaica.
and. 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 advertised.
Thus he got scent OF it and hunted her
down.
"Sharp as he was, he counted without
the law. He thought that things were
still, with regard to married women's
property, as they had been long ago,
! when the husband could say to the
wife, What's yours is mine; what's
mine isomy own" he! He showed BIS Us hand hand
OF her. This nearly broke her heart.
In month he told her about the legacy,
and steps were taken to realize. Seeing
how the thing was now, the landlady
penetrated the whole design. The good
woman's husband brought Mrs. Ryland
privately to me. When he found this
out he turned from Indifference to
threats, and from threats to the most
atrocioWs and iAhuman cruelty. 10 SUN
up, we proved the will, got the money,
and invested it In stock. By this time
found out that he owed large sums Of
money, he had been specializing through
another, and bad got heavily let In. He
continued his bad treatment OF her, and
at last, Just when her baby was about to
be born. we gave him E250O to take him
self off and leave her In peace. ALA /
could do would not induce her to have
legal separation. She seemed to think
that such a step might In some way.
goodness knew how, irjure the future
status OF her unborn child. I may tell
you that for whole month resisted
giving him the money unless /. OBJ
tanned from him something more biNd-
ing than a written undertaking not to
20 near her or modest her In any way.
/ did not consent until I say that to
hold ont any longer would be to i'm
peril her life. Or course, the under
taking given by him has no more legal
value than the ashes In that CRATE.
seems centred In that child. When she
had made up her mind that no man
would ever WOO her he came. he was
above her station at the time; hand
some, as you saw accomplished, as
know; and fascinating, aS you may
have guessed. He became her sweet
heart, and she knelt down and wor-
SHIPPED him. He became her husband,
and spurned her as she knelt. Hs, told
her he thought less OF herthan Of the
lowest Of her sex, and she drew back,
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abuse and violence; one only dream Of
life gone forever into the world. a wild
waste Of dead hopes that feste1ed in o.
siokly sun. She would have worked for
him. given him her hearts blood;. but.
he. told her he did not want her pres
enoe, and that he loathed the very
street she lived in. He derided her folly
for ever suppOsing that any man such
as he could dream Of enduring the
presence Of such a srightful. carioa-
ture Of nature as she. He heaped every
insult and contumely upon her, but
he did not break her down for, Baird,
she knew she was soon to be a mother.
ne 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- go away, but the
baby had come instead, and lay In her
arms all day and all night, sweet for