The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-04-07
WRECKED.
BY RECLLCRA.

BY REULLURA.
"Grimes,' said Mr.. Lemar, "see
that everything is in readiness for our
departure within an hour"
Thus Diminishing his faithful servant
who had been his playfellow in youth,
and who, in later years had proved
himself fast friend to his young
master, Russell Lemar paced modify
up and down the room for some time,
as if in deep thought, then stopping,
he exclaimed:
Il must. 1t is the only alterna.
tive!'
He threw himself down by an open
window, while troubled, defiant
frOwn darkened his handsome features.
An acquaintance of a few weeks since
would scarcely recognize, in the hag-
gard countenance Of the man before
him, the gay, manly Russell Lemar.
His lips parted, and tender smile
softened his visage as he breathed the
name
"Beulah!''
AS if in answer to his call the door
opened, and a tall, beautiful woman
stood before him.
"Jane tells me you intend leaving
in few moments. What has called
you away 50 suddenly 2"
At the sound Of his Wife's voice, an
inward struggle was reflected upon
the mans cOuntenance-a struggle
between innocence and guilt. At last
he replied
81 have been unexpectedly sum-
moned to Leland, and my business
will probably detain me for several
weeks"
AS "coming events cast their
shadows BEFORE" Beulah saw, with
prophetic eye, that these weeks would
pass into months before their reunion,
and unconsciously a sigh escaped her.
A spasm of pain seemed for moment
to contract his features, and rising,
he placed his arm around her in his
old, lover-like way, and was whisper
ing words of hope he dared not feel,
when Grimes interrupted them with -
"HOsses waitin'. Mister!'
A moment more, and Beulah stood
alone on the balcony, straining her
eyes to catch one more glimpse of the
commanding figure of her husband,
who was soon lost to her view among
the tall NAPLES on either side of the
winding avenue.
Let us now, gentle reader, revert to
the time when Beulah Monroe and
Russell Lemar were as yet unmarried.
Wiser than the majority of young per-
sons, they resolved to wait until the
golden wheel of fortune should unroll
for them. a competence which would
justify their union. By application
ant' dauntless enegry, Russell gained
the position of head clerk in the es-
Enlistment of Holt g. Co, 1t was Il
great trial to Beulah to give up the
luxury of her own home to encounter
she knew not what from stern poverty.
Yet she was too true to her own hear,
to resist its pleadings; and though
leaving, perhaps forever, the at1luence
to which she had ever been accus-
toned, she did not falter when she
looked into the determined cOntenance
OF Il t|a-ell Lemar.
They were married, and, being of
conytnial natures, their honeymoon
did not wane in the time generally
allotted loit, but presented a rare phe-
nomenon in the matrimonial heavens
by increasing in hrilliancy with age.
Their lives had moved thus pleasantly
until the opening of our story.
OF late Beulah had noticed cloud
often gather upon her husband s brow,
the cause of which she was unable to
surmise. TO others he was frequently
sullen and mOrOse, but to her he was
always the same tender lover he had
ever be n.
On the evening previous to his de-
parture he had not returned home
until very late; at breakfast Beulah
noticed that his face wore an express
sion SO haggard and wretched that it
must have been the offspring of great
mental agony.
The first few days CT her husband s
absence had passed; days heightened
into weeks and weeks into months,
and yet time brought no tidings of
him.
One day she stood YEARLY watching
the rays OF the sun playing hide and
seek with the shadows among the
naples. Hrr eyes rested upon their
foliage, but her thoughts were far
away. So riveted were both that she
did not observe anyone approach until
her name was spoken. Turning, she
saw IL man standing near, holding to-
ward her a telegram. Springing for
ward she seized it, and read as fol-
lows:
MADAM:-Your husband died at