Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-08-01

ciated with the Oh ect 81 his con- tenn pla-
/ ton and worship Needless To add
that The sweet Ill; little nook Of secular
soil had previously been consecrated
according TO the most solemn and
punctnal rites Of that h church to which
the aug ustt deceased had bel onged. Not
until after 81 interval Of 81 many years
was the MYSTERY cleared up, when the
abbey with all it's fail, broad land,
passed, BY yoluntar sale, into the pos
session of lay proprietors at the COM
mencement Of the Region Of Terror, A.
ID.
Then it was Tint amid q heap Of
supp posed rubbish and paper ass az, ac-
eidentally disco Yered ii 8 long sglected
lumber loset, 9 certain old Dry as dust,
| with tastes akin TO my own, ferreted
out . sere, hall. 1egible documents
bearing the signature Of the Rev Faith.
or Bernardin, who had succeeded to
the Lord Abbot, after acting as confes-
sor and confident Of his last moments.
The mystery Of the Abbot's grave
was at last solved thus : In the earlier
half Of the eighteenth century the
young, wealthy, and handsome Count
Robert Of Nice, wealy Of playing the
| Prodigal Sons part, and having lately
inherited fine ancestral estate, be-
1 thought him seriously Of taking him
self q wife and settling down into a
stald Benedict for the remainder Of his
three score years and ten. He there
fore made offer Of his hand and heart
TO a young lady Of a rank corresponding
to his own one Mademoiselle st Val
ier, likewise Of the county 8 of Nice,
whose parents, at first fayor,ng the al
lance, but subsequently yielding to
the suggestions Of unexplained caprice,
| withdrew their sanction at the eleventh
hour Of cor.rtship. The result of the
shock on the young lady's system was
alike unforeseen and alarming. Begin
ming with the temporary alteration OF
reason, it had well-nigh eliminated in a
fatal catastrophe. ;Ihete1 ritied and re-
| morseful parents were now induced to
retract their i'll tune and irrational
opposition, The lovers renewed their
intercourse. But the blow to Mile.
st Vallier's constitution was to radi-
| cal to admit of q speedy cure ~
Still. as no dangerous symptoms re-
| vealed themselves to the careful and
minute Investigation Of experienced
| physicians, it was agreed that the SLOW,
but, as was fondly hoped, certain pro
| cess Of recovery would best be seconded
by a speedy consunimation of the mar
riage tie, r II g.. u: 49, i.
"The nuptial day was fixed. ALI the
preliminaries and formalltles were duly
accomplished. The marriage feast was
provided. the guests were hidden,
and had joyfully answered the summons
Of the ever-welcome bridal bell The
metropolitan church Of Santa Reparata,
in the centre Of what, is now the old
town of Nizza la Bella, was the chosen
theatre wherein Monsignor the Bishop
himself--for to no less a dignitary could
so august a ceremonial Be entrusted
was to consecrate the union OF the love-
Lest and noblest bridal pair which had
ever received the Episcopal benediction
at the hymeneal altar and been
clasped in the church's indissolu.
BILE love- links. The April, sun shone
with d merry smile through the rose
tinted tears. In word, call went mer-
ry as a marriage bell" But the sullen
distant echoes Of that bell We're, per-
haps mercifully, yet inaudible to the
ear of youth and hope, though the
breath of inexorable fate was even now
shadowing the horizon. Never lad
bride smiled fairer or lovlier smile-nev-
er had gallent night uplifted prouder
brow. Nay--as If to crown the propi-
tious auspices with every favoring cir
cu1nstance of luck or providen ce-never
had fair lady's fond and now frankly
consenting parents worn happier or
/ more hopeful aspect. In word there
could hardly have been more inauspic-
ious moment for the inevitable prophet
I of evil to point his lean and mepacing
finger toward that sunny horizon, where
"a cloud no bigger than mans head
was slowly but surely struggling up
ward, like an electric storm cloud
against the bonny bIthesome breeze oi
this happy April morning. -.
| "But the festive hour was at hand.
The spacious choir of the ancient
! Church at St. Reparata was flooded
with beauty and chivalry,' fair women
and brave men, while the grand music
Of the monster organ burst forth in that
tvoluptuous SWELL whose vocal waves
float upward all that is least mortal II
the human soul. The wedding mass
had begun. Now, for the first time
was ii casually remarked by some Of
/ the bystanders that the brilliant car.
nation Of the brides habitually pale
cheeks, and the almost unnatural glow
in her normally placid and reticent eyes
were tell-tales Of a portentous degree
OF moral exaltation and harbingers d
q corresponding reaction. And that was
all! s$a&,#%s&S@ -
That impressive climax in the mar.
/ aiago service was now finally reached
when the venerable prelnte, Joining
{ their hands together in his own, pro
4 nounces the nnptial vow Of mutual and
lifelong fidelity, whichis repeated after
i him BY man and wife alternately. The
count had already fulfilled his part Of
the contract, and his spouse, with .
/ voice Of surprising decision and almost
L superhuman energy and resonance, was
in her turn articulating the solemn
Ipledge, when her strength seemed sud-
i denly to fail her, and as she vain1y
stroye to enunciate the final words
Until death do us part Repeating
the effort, second time did the words
die away in her throat, when with an
/ hysterical laugh and defiant air, ard
drawing a deep breath which struck on
the ear OF the bystanders like a passing
Isigh, she uttered with almost a shrek,
the fatefut words, g Until death-us