The Newtown bee., 1880-08-25

| nave never known whether the
 other man drowned himself intention
 ally, or, exhausted by the previous
 efforts, he found himself unable to cope
 With the undertow that must have l caught him in ita embrace soon after
 compelled him to loosen his hold upon
 the lady's arm. At any rate, he was
 certainly drowned, and his body was never recovered.
 l The last saw of his ugly head was
 far to windward, when his dark face
 was turned glaringly toward us for a
 single instant, only to sink into deep
 water-trough, and to be seen no more. Well, that is pretty much the end of my
 adventure, sir. The lady and gentle
 man reached the shore, but little the
 worse for their ducking, and shortly
 afterward left the hotel together, ac-
 companied by the little girl Hello!
 wasn't that some one crying outp' l But stop! What about the sequeI-- 1 the explanationPn I cried, as he was
 moving away.
 Just then, however, an unmistakable l cry of fright came from somewhere l among the bathers in the surf, and my narrator, the beach patrolman, with his l faithful dog at his heels, sprang away to the rescue.
 It proved to be false alarm, how ever, from some over-timorous lady, and l he was presently once more at my side, dripping and smiling.
 "Oh, forgot about the sequel" said he, shaking himself in imitation of Zip. who was, moreover, enjoying roll upon the dry sand. "And that. as it has since become known to certain inquiring folks about the hotel here, though not to you newspaper people, constituted about all the romance there was in the adventure, after all.
 The reunited couple were from some Connecticut city, where, after married life of three years, they had been di- vorced two summers before, by reason l of ofincompatability of temper, which con- stitutes sufficient grounds for severance
 of the marriage tie in that State. I un- derstand. It seems, however, that they had all along truly loved each other, and might have lived happily together, but for their temperam ental differences having been secretly and constantly famed into flames of bitterness by a false friend ot the husband. This man the same as was drowned, as you will readily conceive-was also enamored of the wife, whom he hoped to marry after the divorce, which was ultimately se- erred through his villainous machI- nations.
 LII UuiSs UllOuSAI, IC w d5 aSSbluGo u deserved disappointment. She went with her little girl to wealthy rela- tive's house in Philadelphia, where she steadfastly refused to listen to his suit. But, not possessing a great deal of force of character, she feared him quite as much as she loathed him; and, unfor- tunately, the fellow received the coun- tenance and urgent support of the rela- tives with whom her necessities com pelled her to make home.
 s'She was goaded and almost forced to accompany him everywhere, and, though openly expressing her dislike. to listen to his persistent aauapans and his al4a,...at "a th.,essts and appeals. Such WIS the state of affairs upon the day that witnessed the episode of the surf I have narrated.
 Her encounter with her divorced husband in the breakers was purely acci- dental on both sides-a happy chance. Their long-hidden but unsmothered love burst out afresh at the first sight of each other, and, naturally enough, they rushed into each others arms.
 No sympathy has been expressed for the dro Wned villain, and 1t is said that the divorced couple, so romantically thrown together by fate, have lost no time in marrying over again, in another State ,,