The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-09-13

/ The face Of the poor girl has
/ flushed and paled alternately durins
the delivery Of this address. Sud
denly springing to her feet, she inter
, rupte+l the official and exclaimed i'm q
loud tone and with flashing eve, but
with extreme dignity:
"And dare YOU say this to me
Have you lent yourself to this fraud
and to this outrage upon a poor. un
protected girl. You who profess to
have been 4 friend Of my father and
still profess friendship for myself and
my mother, Shame upon you, sir
shame upon your manhood. If these
things that you tell are true, then you
have pro<tituted the law and your
high office to the basest of frauds and
the oppression Of innocence. Il have
done thousand things more wild
than this, and if you have not ap-
proved them by your smile, you have
always given me, when you thought l
deserved it. gentle and loving
rebuke. But now, for what cause I
know not, you have used yrur author
ity to torture heart that has never
had for you but the purest feeling of
the most affectiOnate love. You have
proved yourself unworthy Of your
high position. Is that man-Mr.
lver>On--a confederate Of yours in
this infamyy If so. tell him for me
that he is unworthy Of his pure lin
cage, that he has degraded himself as
a gentleman, and that he has for.
feited the respect of all honorable
people. For shame upon you both !;
there is the door, sir, take it. 1t is
closed forever against you and him,
two such contemplate forms OF de-
graded manhood.
And before the astonished official
could say one word in justification or
arrest her departure. she had left the
room with all the contemptuOus dig
nifty of her majestic beauty.
CHAPTER III.
When Mrs. Barton returned home
and the friends Of the family had con-
suited about the matter, the serious
ness Of the situation was admitted,
and also that the Law, as declared by
Judge Buckner, was correctly stated.
His conduct was denounced rs utterly
inexplicable and infamous, but Carrie
was advised to make the best Il the
matter and that the match was one
not unworthy of her, but the proud
and deeply offended beauty was oblu.
rate. No rem0nstrance nor entreaties
could induce her to see Harry Iver-
son. or read his letters, and the poor
fellow. more madlv in love than ever,
and keenly alive to the sufferings and
hopes OF his singular situation, still
fingered around the home of his idol
lied wife. His cruel position kept
him alOof from society and his sole
employment was to write imprisoned
letters to his idol and to watch her
whenever she CHANGED to walk abroad
on some mission eff mercy. For, like
himself, Carrie had now no relish for
social pleasures. Her gayety was
gone, and she had no thought Of re-
entering a circle in which she would
meet with strange glances. and hear
unfeeling speeches. And yet she
would not permit her situation to in
terfere with her charities. Accom-
panied by a faithful domestic. she
would so out on each successive even
ing for the alienation of human mis-
cry that now seemed to have the only
claim upon her attention.
In the meantime Harry's mother,
who had been duly informed by her
son Of his condition, came ostensibly
on visit to her friends in Missouri,
aud vainly sought an interview with |
the offended wife. With Mrs. Barton
che had no trouble, and the Georgia
mother was exceedingly anxious to
bring the affair to q favorable issue,
not only because she heard nothing |
but praise Of the young girl, but also |
because her sons love had deepened |
into despair and had affected his |
health.
AT last Carrie consented to an in
terview with her husband, as she un-
derstOGd that he and his mother
would return to Georgia the next
She sent him word that
she would meet him alone as she re.
lurned from one of her suburban
charities, but that would be the last
time that they would ever meet.
At the hour set she met him as
oddly as if he was q stranger. He
to take her hand, but she
withheld it, saying:
'You can say to me, Mr.. Iverson,