Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-09-24
THE OLD LOVE AND THE NEW.

married in a week. but before the time
came She lost her faith, locked up the
beautiful wedding garmeots, fashioned
with such care and taste, and waited
for Lionel Hope To speak.
She did not have long to wait He
came with II clear, golden ocean sunset.
and found her standing by the wide
open window, overlooking tire sen. just
is he remembered seeing her the day
She promised TO be his wife, and gave
with the promise as he well knew, her
whole heart.
Il hardly know how To tell you.
Marion. he began in low, heSitating
tone If voice, but everything seems
changed inthc last few weeks. | have
lost the dear old love in Il dearer new. y
And YOU camc this evening To ask
Inc to give you back Your freedom?
>he raid very calmly
YES but do not dcspisc me Marion, :"
he inplured, though have richly
earned for myself both Your contempt
and displeasure.
"DespiSc you2" No, only pity YOU,
and YOU are free from any past vows
You have made to meas i Tins ocean
breeze. Loving YOU once | shall love
YOU always | would not be Marion
Everett if did not; nor do | shame to
say il, for the right j. still mine To con
fcSs 50 much AZ least and 10 urge YOU
III the same time tu he careful-Ncry
careful how von trust your namc and
happiness To Naleria Srym0ur's keep
ing know something of the lightncsS
of her nature, the mSncerity of her
smile and the utter indifference with
which she wins and throws away hearts.
30 | warn YOU, Lionel to consider the
question well before making her your
wife Lionel Hope was strangely mov-
ed, for he felt rs if he We're parting
with his better angel, and might never
again gct within the shadow of it, pro
tecting wings.
You must not believe that do not
care for YOU Marion, he SAID Il can
not tell what this now love chat fills
my heart i like, for cannot explain
ii even e. myself, hut YOU are and ever
Will be the one woman whom
Hush She quickly interrupted THE
dream is over, and faith. and hope, and
haa,inoss $40 diiuSS that were, but
are not amy longer And now 60. /
beg of YOU, IN ! would rather hc
alone
Size turned with a stately grace pc
ca iarly her OWN, and quietly motion
cd Inn from the room.
He obcycd her, feeling somehow as
ifhe wrrc madly, hlindly and irroyoca-
bly, throwing away all that there Ma in
life worth living for.
She wa, not Il beautiful woman. \
noble, determined, heroic face wa, all
that could he said Of Marion ENcrctts
and every one knows that noblcncss
determination and hcroism are seldom
the companions ofbeauty,
Nalrria Seymour, the belle of three
Newport seasons. had supplanted her
IN Lionel Hopes affections, and in a
month they We're married, leaving
Marion "a watch the months and the
years 10 glide away till her seth birth
day came and went, and the beautiful
wedding garments up strirs were yellow
with age.
Eleven summers ago since She part
ed with Lionel. and during the last She
had buried her father, and was now
quite alone in the isolated cottage by
the sea-
But Marion, secure in her >ea-girt
home, little dreamed Of the woe and
misery cncomrassing Lionel Hope iii
the distaSt city where lie had resided
since his ill-stdrred marriage
Extravaganza and follics OF All kind,
had exhausted his once fine. fortune,
and rum stared him in the face, but
greater evil than the mere los ofwcalth
was lowering near. and III 4 moment
Of furious passion and uncomfortable
hate murder WAS done.
The world knew nothing Of the deep
CIR crime for which The william, Linton
Ainslcy was hlotted from tho face of
the earth The world only knew that
Lionel Hope had quameed with and
killed Il man who passed for gentle
man and for the deed he had been
arrested tried, convicted and sentenced
20 death
Tie cause which lcd 70 the commit
though there was those who suspected
the truth, and did rot hesitate to say
that to his wife Lionel Hope owed his
utter and irrcparablc downfall
However indifierontly Nalaria might
vicw the awful peril in which her un-
principled conduct had placed her hus-
bands life. there vas one woman who
read the -ickcning details Of the trial
With wide terrified eyes, and 4 heart so
fun AZ anguish that i seemed II If II
must break
The dreadful inquest, the verdict Of
the jury. the Judge, sentence that Ii
onel Hope be hanged by the neck UNI
til dead Marion Everett looked up
from tho paper that told her this. out
q the white. waye-washcd shore.
OH. no. no, 1t could not he She was
dreaming. insane perhaps Lionel was
waiting for her on the beach beyond
tic rocky hcadland, and Hid Mould ~
and meet him, Just ~ -hc used ~ ~
~ their happy Younger days
BIT who was this Lionel Hope they
We're going to hang Marion -hndder-
"a from head g foot. and for the first
time III ALI l."r life faced sorrow that
she could not conquer