Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-26

Sc don't see much that Is brOtnerlys
Mildred. You must know that there
should be no concealments from wife,
Mildred, and 1 wouldn't stand it if l
were YOU"
She hid her sorrows in her own
bosom, but there was a chill creeping
between the welded pair, for the sacred
ness of married life had been invaded.
No pleasant chat now at the breakfast
table, for the two were unconsclously
drifting apart. 1t is SO easy to disturb
the peace of welded life; and yet Mil
dred thought that she was performing
the duties of a wife, by a most punctll-
ious attention to her husbands comforts,
| but with such a cold, averted face.
| Lucy received frequent letters, and
whenever that was the case the two
cousins were closeted together in the
| library.
Then there was an icy GOODNESS in the
| parlor, and Mildred would retire early
to her room.
And yet the sight of Lucy's pale and
often fearful face touched Mildred's
| heart, for she was sure that there was
some heart-rending trouble crushing
that delicate frame.
| Once she came suddenly upon the
young lady in the library, where she had
just read letter, and was pressing to
her lips likeness of gentleman, but
Mildred could not see the features.
But Lucy raised her eyes to Mildred's
| face, and said:
"Just wait little while, dear friend,
and you shall know all my terrible story {;
but can't tell you now"
Imprudently Mildred told the tale to
her bosom friend, who asked:
IS Did you see the picture2''
"Not plainly, Ida; but Lucy was
greatly distressed"
elbow do you know that it was not
your husbands picture?''
can not be-you must not say such
dreadful things to me any more"
In few days after this letter ar
rived which Frustrated poor Lucy, and
all that she could say was:
ssSend for Clarence; 1 must 60 i'm
mediately.''
"Go where?" Mildred asked.
"Clarence will tell you; but it will
kill met will kill me.''
Sending for her cousin, he hurried to
the side of the sufferer, and after read
ing the letter, he said:
"Poor, dear child! has it come to
this?'
After they had seen her quietly in bed,
Clarence called his wife to the library,
and throwing his arm around her, he
told Lucy's sad story.
| She had formed an unfortunate at
tachment to Horace Dunbar, much dis
approved of by her friends; but she
married him privately, and he had
| To ho a IF Y1ffortU uorf hIQSc
character, and having committed a
forgery, was hiding from the law-hence
the concealment; but the last letter
brought the intelligence that he had been
arrested, and was now in prison, await
ing his trial.
5sIn her troubles, Mildred, I have
tried to be a BROTHER" he said; 'and
now you must see how unjust and fool
ish were your suspicious, for Lucy has
always been to me just like beloved
sister,
"Forgive me, Clarence she said !;
show could L ever harbor single doubt
of one so good and true? But Ida"
] ayes, Mildred, bosom friend has
made all our trouble"
81 am not worthy of you, Clarence"
she sobbed out, s'for how could l listen
for one moment to such false friend:
But it is all done-I have learned ter
rible lesson; but it has taught me wis.
DOM
Folding her in his arms, he said:
"And now, love, we are truly one !;
for no Ida Bryant can ever come be.
tween us again, and we will be happy
once more in our quiet world of love. !"
&" No other bosom friend but my no.
BILE husband" she said. elbow could
ever be guilty of such a great fault? But
let me tell you all, Clarence-bow was
led away by my own weakness"
81 would rather, not, love-" he an
swered; sit would only cause you
pain.''
"But must, Clarence, make full
confession, and then the subject will be
| dropped forever
Then, with all the frankness of child,
and the penitent love of true woman,
Mildred poured out her whole heart, and
at the close Clarence pressed her
to his heart, and, with fond kisses on her
| fearful cheek, said:
"We have renewed our marriage
VOWS, dear, and now our souls will grow
together, and we shall be truly one.'
| Lucy insisted on going to her hus-
manned faithful because all others had
forsaken him.
Next morning Clarence accompanied
the heart-broken wife to the prison to
see her husband in felon's cell, where
there was heartrending interview; for
with all his faults, Horace Dunbar loved
his gentle wife.
Bringing her home again, Mildred re-
ceived the poor crushed wife to her
warm young heart, and in the shelter OF
that loving home, the sufferer found
refuge from the storms of life, where
out of sight of the noisy world she bore
her sorrow in solitude, with God only
for her comforter.
The rupture between the married pair
might have been much more disastrous
in the hands of different man; but
Clarence understood his young wife, and
was very sure he had always sat upon
the throne of her heart, and left it to the
low ~S hao hn