The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-08-14
A WIFE'S FIDELITY.
A Reunion After. a Separation or Twenty
Five Years.


There is now living in this city lady
whose life 30 far has been filled with
| more real romance than are the most del
icately wrought characters of fiction.
twenty-five years ago she was married
to man who like herself was in humble
though respectable life. Their court
ship had been pleasant, and for aught
the lady knows, harmonious and mntu-
ally agreeable. On the day following
the wedding, however, tho husband left
homo without any apparent reason or
any warning whatever. The wife merely
suppt jed at the time that business had
called him hence and that lie would
coon return. Days, weeks, months, years
passed before she wa" ware that she was
o deserted and wrohged woman. She
heard nothing from him, but could not
entertain the idea that he was dead, and
instinctively believed that she would
again see him. And just as she became
convinced that che was deserted her mar
tyrdom began. She was thrown entirely
upon her own resources for subsistence.
and they were simply honest toll, a liy.
ing faith in tho reward of duty-doing.
and great sclf.sacrilicing spirit. Thus
she toiled OH never hearing n word from
her husband for many years, but still
clinging to the strict and sclf-imposed
duty of silent forbearance. One day
after eight years she accidental met
him but he failed to recognize her. She
did not speak TO him, but learned from
others that since his departure he had
led rowing life, aud had been in every
State in the Union. Now that she knew
he lived and yet did nothing togaid her in
her battle of life her action toward him,
herself and the world remained unchang.
ed. And just here she exhibited to q
great degree her almost sanity charac-
ter, for instead of accepting any of the
numerous advantageous offers of mar
riage which she might have done, she 81
lently did her everyday work, bearing his
name and chcIishing the same affection
for him that induced her to become his
wife.
There WAS another long time that she
neither saw nor heard from him. But
fate seemed to favor her, and again she
met him by accident. He acted pleased
to see her, told her what he had been
doing, that he was still her husband, but
never referred to his strange departure,
nor offered her any means of support.
Their conversation was brief one, and
they parted without enmity. Neither
had an idea of the plans of tho other.
nor asked to know. The next that the
wife knew of her husband was learned
from newspaper. There she saw that
he had been arrested for leading the Fe-
nian riots in Canada, and was sentenced
to be hung. A subsequent report in
formed her that his sentence was COM
muted to six years imprisonment. Du-
ring those six years she retained her love
for him and clung to the faith that her
constancy would eventually be rccog-
nized and appreciated. After tho man
was let out from the prison cell he again
became an advcnturer and again acci-
dentally met his wife. He said to her.
"What did you think when you saw me
sentenced to be hung2" She replied. II
supposed you would be hung" A short
interview, in which neither learned the
plans OF the other, was the result of tho
meeting. And again he was of. After
several more years they'again met recog-
nized, but passed by in silence.
Strange as has been the first net of this
comedy of curious actions, the SEQUEL is
still stranger. Last February the wife
received letter from her erratic hus-
band, in which he begged for forgivness,
and asked her to go to Washington and
live with him. He is in the govern
ment employ, and she has consented, and
will start for her new home In Septem-
Der.
twenty-five years elasped between the
day of the wedding and the receipt of
the letter. During that time she never
caasnh tn lnva him and ha l,od na,o.
commenced to love her. Neither ever
tried to obtain divorce. The lady IL
the picture of health. The man was a
fine-looking fellow when he was married.
and had jet black hair. To-day he is
much thinner and his hair is almost
white.
As dream-like Ind unnatural as all this
may seem, it is asserted to be- true by
responsible and highly esteemed young
lady, whose relations with the wife gave
her the means of knowing the particu.
lars of the extraordinary romance.-Mk.
,caukie Wisconsin.