The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08
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the questioners with the simple answer
confidingIy uttered:
81 will"
And then Violet Allyn was betrothed
TO Carol Danton, just n day after the
cruel stroke that had left her fatherless,
She was but sixteen, and love as she
was to know it in later years, was q
sealed page to her as yet; but her whole
respect and esteem had been long since
won by the noble man whom her father
had loved during the last years of his
life as a son.
Carol Danton was twice her age and
had seen much of the world, but surely
never in any cline could his eyes have
rested upon a loneliness more perfect
than that of his betrothed.
In her deep mourning garb, her sweet
face, surrounded with its aureole of pale
gold, seemed to him as fair as ali
angels.
They were married, and a brief happy
year fitted by. Though outwardly the
same, Violet was a child no longer.
With her now life and duties new
thoughts and capabilities had sprung
into immediate peing, and an emotion,
overmastering and absorbing, had taken
its dominion within her heart.
Her love for her husband in it's inten-
sity almost frightened herself, and it
served to render her shy of expressing
herself through actions or words, lest
she should appear ridiculous; and thus,
though he recognized the affection that
was so thoughtful for his every comfort,
Carol little dreamed of the real depth
of the tenderness that filed his young
wife's heart for him.
Although it occupied a large portion of
his time to attend to the extensive estate
which his wife had brought him, Car
rolls own business interests, which he
had retained, notwithstanding his
wealthy marriage, compelled his occas-
ional absences from home.
At such times, at his desire, his
cousin Maria Danton, about his own age,
and therefore much older than Violet,
Installed herself at Allyn Hall as COM
panion for his young wife.
Could Carol have looked into the
future, he would as soon have placed a
viper amid the bouquet of fragrant
flowers which was his daily offering to
his wife, as to have introduced into his
happy home one who came there with
the intention fully formed of working,
If it came within her power, no good,
but deadliest harm.
All her life, despite entire lack of
encouragement, Maria Danton had
loved her cousin. She was very plain.
and keenly sensitive to the fact, and
aroused a demon of jealous hatred with
In her breart. But she had managed to
conceal so well her real feelings under a
garb of cousinly affection and interest
that Violet, as Carol, had been de-
ceived.
She had been at the Hall three
weeks, during which Carol had been
away from home. His return was
expected at the expiration Of another
week, but, unexpectedly, he came sew
eral days o
Late evening, full of eagerness
~ see once more the dear little wife
from whom he had been separated so
much longer than aver before, and to
enjoy her surprise, he entered the
drawing room unannounced, to find
Maria there alone.
An hour passed. Satan had placed
at last the coveted opportunity within
Maria Dant0n's reach, and she used 1t
SO ~skiIlfully, vailing her malice under
an aspect OF grave and sorrowful con-
Germ, that when Violet entered the
room, her fair hair clinging, wet with
dew, about her forehead, and q shawl
enveloped her slender form, it was tc
shrink back in startled surprise at the
expression upon the two faces that met
her eyes.
Her train laid, with an evil smile
Maria made her exit from the room.
Time passed, and ne sound of alter
cation penetrated the closed doors.
But the traitor without smiled still
D ev1lly as, a half hour later, she
heard the hall door close with q re-
sounding clang, and o few moments af-
Dor d light football go falteringly, with
many pauses, up the stairs.
TO her husbands natural query as
TO where she had been thus alone at
such a late hour, Violet had replied
that she was unable to give him an an
swer.
When she realized the suspicious
&I.t xrara Bl1in0 hfu mind {orr0r had