Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1880-12-22

2 suddenly, then"
"Do you dare marry another wo
man, Mark Brainard, and am il
; the world. | am your wife befor,
God, and no other woman can evel
be. What have | not suffered il
reputation, in pangs of conscience
in bodily pain, even to the risk Of
my life, for you 2 Andnow will you
leave me, desert me for a younger,
fairer face. Oh, my Godw she
added, "see what have given for
what l deemed was all that was
good and great. Mark, are you
really going to marry her?"
"Of course l am; ! am sick of
all this trash and nonsense. have
intended TO marry her, if l could
set her, for year past. Don't
bother me. Let me pass"
And the coarse wretch attempt
ed to push past her.
But she laid hold of his arm,
saying: "Stand still, / am not
done with you yet" and stepping
close up TO him, SO that she could
look him in the eye, she said:
IL have q few words to say to
you. On the day that you marry
Susie Linden, God will forsake you,
for | curse you. curse you sleep
ing, curse you waking; l curse
you by night, curse you by day ;
l curse your houses, l curse your
lands; curse your wife, / curse
your children. May they be de-
void of sense as their unnatural
father is of principle. May dis
case, and sorrow, and damnation
forever follow you, and" (here
her voice was suddenly raised to a
scream) May | see the day when
shall look upon your face scanned
and broken as my heart is tonight,
and | will, too; 60" and giving
him a sudden fling from her, as he
away, she turned and
silently fled to her home, silently
went to bed, and for weeks did not
lgain lift her head from her pill
ow. a low nervous fever set in,
md when she again appeared,
wenty years were added to her
ace, and her brown hair was
treaked with silver.
Mark Brainard and Susie Lin
Ion were married, and after a bril-
lal trip, came homo and went to
housekeeping in the village.
/, myself, am not believer in S
he effect of a curse, but in the o
ong line of disaster which fell up I
n them, should attribute it more I
o a combination Of circumstances .
nd "unfavorable planets" and the
mans innate meanness, than other
wise. -
Their first child was an idiot.
lived till it was two years old fl
nd then died. Their second was
eformed, and lived but q short n
ime. Both were sons. =
Then within a period of three
ears, two daughters were born to %
hem, and Immediately after the
firth of the last, the mother died.
he last years of her life were sad
nough. The neighbors stunned
be house, except in few instan-
es, and when the face of the poor
life was seen, it was but the
hadow of that of the sweet, bright
usie of the past. y
Somehow the report had got "
urrent among them that Mark t,
ad sold his soul to the DEVIL h
ioney flowed in upon him, but p
nat was all. Feared and Stunned, A
{ course his poor wife had to share e
is ignominy, which was not lit ?
e enhanced by his desertion of i
DOR Sarah Shane.
But Susie died at last, and he e
'as left with two helpless, wailing ;
hildren on his hands. &
In the ordinary routine of story 2
cling Sarah should have come to n
he rescue and married him; but :,
his being written from facts, ] !,
hall have to tell it just as it hap a
Iened. {
Mark hired housekeeper, who
ook charge of his children. But I
ow he began to have bad luck in |
money matters as we'll as other
'ise. Some of his speculations
allied, and one day when engaged ,
u showing one of his men how to 4