Litchfield enquirer., 1879-10-02
llled money gchasta.

Two weeks trip or mine. answer me, uly wife-do you love me as I want to be loved? Cecil, you remember you told me six months ago-the day we were married that the first love of your heart was gone forever; and told you would be content with what was left, and you came to me, sweet one, to bebmys darling. But, Cecil, I am not content. I have tried so hard to win you, heart and soul love you so, Cecil! Am succeeding in making you one-half So blessed as you are making me F.
 Cecil dropped her famed face under her husbands passionate eyes. ....t,,,o.- t.... .,
 Should she tell him that in the presence of this noble, glorious second love, that
 other first passion was hourly fading into what soon would be only the memory of 8 shadow.
 Then she lifted up her sweet, honest eyes.
 "John am blessed above all other wo- men because am your wife. I never ex- pected such utter restful content as has come to me-such sweet unalioy of happi. i ness-my husband my love [" She laid her two hands on his breast as
 she spoke the words that thrilled him with such solemn delight; and then, with clinging kiss at parting, he went away with smiling happy eyes, whose only dimhoss
 was because of the transient farewell '''
 And Cecil, all unconscious of the fate the near future held, went on in her daily paths,
 one of which took her to Mrs Leonard's re- ception few days after Mir. Hutchinson's departure. tail sn3 d., ate-zy ..t-~.e1e And the very first person to whom she l spoke was Robert Campbell standing, with party of gsntlemen,l l1near the hostess, and
 aliuof them II swatchipg E. her grace and ele- gance and then, 4as she turned aside from. Mrs. Leonard, she was for the first time conscious of the immediate presence of the
 man who had tilted her so cruelly-who, the very last. time she had seen him, years agone had had her in his arms, and kissed her eager, responsive lips. .......t.... She had thought she had perfectly learn ed her lesson of forgetfulness. She had conscientiously spoken when she had told her husband he was the best, dearest on earth to her. But the one glance Robert Campbell gave at her eyes, that first flushed
 with the shock of delight, then with
 naughty pride, then darkened with the pain l of remembrance, told him that she had not so readily forgotten; while he-he had
 travelled thousands of miles to see again the
 one woman whom he had ever cared for During that evening he was devoted, aud
 although Cecil preserved the equable re- ! pose of manner that always characterized 1 his presonoo, the dear old charm of his l voice. the glances of his eyes, made her | more nervous and unstrung than she would
 have thought even Robert Campbell could
 have done While he drinking in her glo-
 rious beauty, the beauty that might have
 been his-her charming winsomeness. that
 enthralled every one with whom she came | in contact cursed the day and the hour when Virginie Vanlisle had tempted him
 with the money that had been no content to | him. -+''
 His brain was whirling when, near mid
 pulses throbbing, his head hot.
 Must this be good-by Mrs. Hutchinson?
 Or may I come again tomorrow. Tell me l may" gs.asF ' ..lr. / ftt -l His eyes startled her, and she shrank
 back among the cushions of her carriage, 1 as he stood holding the handle of the door,
 and looking so eagerly at her.
 Not tomorrow, but Thursday. MT. l Hutchinson is not at home."
 1 Without an instant's reflection, he yielded | to the mad impulse that seized him, and | sprang inside the carriage.
 Cecil Cecil! for Gods sake don't tele
 me that must not come because your hus-
 band is not here! My darling-you were always my darling!" .... ......, ...- | And Cecil, in whirl of fear and aston
 ishment, caught sight of her husbands | death white face at the carriage window just as Robert Campbell uttered his rash words, l and caught her hands in his-her husband, 1 unexpectedly returned, to find her thus,
 and he knowing all that had been in early l days. '~ ''
 A deathly sick alright made Cecil almost l faint as the horses dashed off. and she l sank back ill a mute. dazed way. hearing
 nor seeing nothing aid only consciou, i.r.t | fate was against her. and conscious how sue
 mated this man opposite her. .t.,,...t, st.... 1 And then she struggled out of the numb horror that was freezing her. when the oar
 riage stopped at her own door, and Robert
 Cam npbell was saying .somethinglto her, and touching her hands with his.
 'Do not dare! My husbands house shall never be desoorated by you" ... I And then, instead of alighting she fell
 fainting across the carriage seats; and
 while the coachman was coming from his | perch to assist his mistress down, Robert
 Campbell took i, himself away, cursing his
 own mad folly, cursing his own in-fortune. l ' %a- aA usS -s.% si87.s A +H h. Two, three days later, and Mrs. Garner was standing beside the couch where Cecil
 lay, prostrate and suffering from the terri
 ble nervous attack she had experienced l ''And Mr., Hutchinson has not come,
 May? Oh, May, 6 why don't somebody find
 him, and bring him, and tell him what terrible mistake it was ?"'i -'.4 '''i.I EI77 @i
 Mrs. Garner, caressed the hot, qufvering hand, lovingly. @''.'' -'''7 ?, '4,27 aft' .'s. ' "Neal shall M go if you wish it, dear. And
 he is to say you bid him come to you 2''' ''
 .',. :" Oh, yes, yes! And he must be assured
 that can satisfy him that it was all such an 1 awful mistake" u -1-,i j.: Ess.s:g3s5s si .. / g So they went for the stern, proud man,
 who had not, looked on Cecips face since he
 had seen Robert Campbelrs passionate
 eyes; and Cecil waited, and waited, until
 her fear took the place of patience-until,
 after Neal Garner had been several hours gone, fear. gave way to despair that was
 heart-breaking hopelessness, when the car
 rlase drove up to the door, and-Neal Gar.
 ner alighted alone. % 'A ",4 ',5 --" Cecil saw him from where she waiting by | the window ond all bo~ or,sl,o5