The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-05-17

my profound hopelessness spread, and
in ten minutes all were skating swiftly,
silently toward whatever awaited us.
When but a sharp headland lay between
us and the spot had seen in my vision
I halted.
"He is lying just beyond there. If the
ice is broken We shall know"
We rounded the point in line. The
ice was broken and thrown up in pieces,
and the water still bubbling.
have not much to tell. It was after
ward discovered that he had struck one
of the shallow springs on sandy bottom
which never freeze solidly. The water
would not have covered him standing,
but the numbing influence of the in.
tense cold and the frailness of the sur
rounding ice had prevented his saving
himself. J offer no explanation of what
I have said that saw aud heard, but
six men can testify that, when miles
away from him saw the dying face and
heard the dying words of my friend
Fitzgerald, and that led them to the
spot where they found him.
vste room. He said that he was going
to take legal advice and find the quickest
means of rendering void the marriage
ceremony had witnessed. He asked
me to look after his traps, and assured
me that as soon as he felt equal to taking
up old associations he would let me
know. As 1 read his letter I cried like q
girl.
In his pockethook 1 found his mar.
risge certificate aud the last letter she
had written him. carefully dried both
and as carefully read tile latter. What
weak. miserable, cringing effusion.
characteristic of the writer! Pages of
alternate whining and bullying, ending
with this paragraph:
eff you force any claim, my church
will set it aside. That would make q
scandal, and have never been talked
about, and I should be very nervous
under disagreeable talk. 1t would be
very unmanly and underbred in you to
give me so much trouble, and at least I
haYe always considered you gentle
man."
I swore that she should cause to be
nervous. I knew that such a woman
could not be wounded mentally and
spiritually, and that the blow must be
struck ut material comforts.
left the station Immediately. From
the first telegraph station 1 reached 1
sent q message to Miss Emily Gordon to
her Roman address: "Fear nothing. l
will arrange as you DESIRE" signed
Fitxgerald's name.
A month afterward I was in Venice, in
the hotel with the Count and Countess
Mondella.
On the night of my arrival I made q
package of letters beginning "My hus-
band" with variety OF tender qualiti.
cations, and signed Emily Fitzgerald"
With these placed the marriage certi-
ficate and the last letter. addressed
the package to the Count Mondella, in
tending that the next morning it should
be put in his hands.
1 went to bed feeling comparatively
cheerful. My sleep was but repetition
of the sleep in which saw Fitzgerald
die. When came to my senses knew
that must spare her. 1 did not doubt
then, and have never doubted since, that
the repetition of the vision was the work
of an excited brain; but the impression
was 80 vivid that I felt myself bound by
an oath to the dead to spare her. I re-
addressed the package to the Countess
Mopdella, and ordered my messenger to
deliver it into no other hands but her
own. So with my own hands deprived
myself of the means of avenging my
friends death, in obedience to his gener-
Gus and noble spirit, in contradiction to
my own Insignificant rrge and vindictive
desire.
saw her once in the corridor, leaning
on the arm of her husband. beautiful
and triumphant, with her false eyes
pickering still. / wondered then why
uch o woman should have showered on
her the gifts that the world holds best.
and why y man who, by the mere fact of
living in it. made the world better,
should be lying dead in . wilderness,
hear. broken and murdered by her.
One OF the most youthful couples that
were ever married in Kenton comfy,
KY, were joined in wedlock recently.
The groom is George F. Kyle, aged IL
years, son of George F. Kyle, aud Lizzie
May Hollingshesd. aged IL years. They
were married at the residence OF the
grooms parents. near South Covington,
in the presence of few of their most
intimate friends. The bride is an orphan
and in order to obtain license to wed,
the groom's father qualified As her
guardian, and he then gave his assent to
the issuing of the license and gave his
assent to the marriage. The combined
ages Of the twain is only few years
more than the lawful matrimonial age in
the grand old commonwealth. The bride
is not Q voluptuous- looking girl, and in