The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-04-18


were to go and blow out my brains
over Fer stair-oatpet, bnt then reflect.
Ee1 that every ono would know that Henri.
4 e4ta--come to think Of it her name was
" Henrietta had infatuated me and turned
my head. aNo," said to myself, "no
Y scandal, no publicity! Let mo initiate the
wounded stag. which, seeking to hide it's
fatal hurt, betAkes itself to the most secret
thickets, there TO perish from all human
eyes"
In this elegiac disposition I took the $40
train for Melun, which set me down just at
dust within few steps Of the Golden Lion,
/; o very well kept inn, with clean beds and
capital table.
"What will Monsieur have for supper"
said . charming little mistress.
Nothing-supper would be mcckery.
Show me to my tomb-to my room, I
mean"
Iretired to my coach but not to sleep. In
my feyered dream beheld Victoria-I am
confident It was Victorin after passing,
leaning upon the arm of my hated rival. 1
clutched madly at his throat and seized
the iron railing of the bedstead, or the mar
Die slab Of the little table by my bedstead,
rose unrefreshed, but what of that was
about to aie-ha! ha! to die.
Having dressed myself went in search
OF Q rope. You may think when o person
wants to hang himself nothingis easier than
to find rope, but had to hunt the hotel
high and low before could find one.
Whit ON earth doyou want with rope,
Monsieur2" said the pretty mistress when
she found me one.
With the precious bit Of hemp in my
pocket took my way toward the thicket
not far from the hotel in little wood whose
paths were familiar to me. There was one
lonely and gloomy copse there where well
knew my lifeless body would swing for
weeks ere it was discovered.
Upon the road I thought of Bertha-I
was wrong before; eome'to think of it it
was Bertha land cursed her with all the
bitterness OF which my soul WAS capable.
I then tested my cord. 1t was not such an
agent of destruction as would have chos-
en- had an assortment from which to make
selection. It seemed to me both short
and not up to my weight. was annoyed.
You cannot tell how trias like that will
effect a PERSONS temper Mt such moment.
A further disappointment was in store
Tor me. On arriving at the spot I had Sc
lected in advance, I was disagreeably sur
prised to find some one else there. An in
dividual, whose back only could see, was
occupied in fastening O rope to the most
eligible branch of tho tree.
Hello! What are you doing there?" I
cried.
He turned around. 'sWhat business is
il Of yours, anyway" he said.
Bah; don't you think know what YOU
intended to do?"
We'll, and supposing wanted to han q
myself-it's my own funeral-suicide /
mean"
= regarded him narrowly: He was a
handsome and manly young fellow of about
my own age, with a frank and winning
countenance. He was deadly pale.
This young man." said I. lifting nv
hsnds to heaven, .'was going to take his
fms-his own precious ife-all for the
sake Of a worthless jilt."
sSir?" he cried.
Poor. silly fool" went on, commun-
ming with myself aloud. "He would un-
sdertske himself to defend her. All lovers
me the same. Will you," continued take
my advtce-the advice of we'll wisher?
yJust leave that cord there lit was a stouter
rope than mine. had observe6 and 60
quietly home like o good fellow. When you
( are yourself you will thank me for having
4 given You such good advice"
b He shooA his head gloomily. ST de.
4 sire to die, he muttered.
Don't let yourself be goaded into taking
step that If you were alive you would re:
Rret to morrow" went on. with benevo.
lent persistence, (yousee that the fellow hai
q pre-. empted the only really eligible bougt
IN tine woody
When yeu IRE dead it will be too late
% change your mind
You speak to me without knowing what
misfortune has happened to me-
y can guess it. :.
No, yop cannot guess it. Sir. a woman
tkat loved; q woman whom"
And he went on to tell me his story.
which. singularly enough, was precisely
like mine. This coincidence made me
panee q moment to collect my thoughts,
= zee, said Charles, Che told me in the
course ct his painful story that his name
na:
ssetve that 1t would not have been dignified
Tor me 70 abandon Mt once my former posi-
Z tlon On the subject of suicide.) s'There is
nothing whatever in all that you have told
s me 70 Justify You in taking your life. Come
] my friend, said j, becoming really interest.
led In the case, come, let us reason the
natter out. Why should you complain be-
i; cause You have been unfortunate in loyei
Don't you know what the poet says2
The lot Of girls was to deceive
Since winter first was snowy.
q Women have been false to their lovers from
III time; women will. be false to their towers
I TO III time
Sa But mo- woman hns ever been SO false to
her lover as this woman was to me-"
sots Of sem have.a
No; none could be-"
n But / tell you thousands Of 'em have. I
Il know one whose conduct towards-towards
B m intimate friend Of mine WAS. WHY
should you; kill yourself because one pretty
4 3yornan has played you false? Seek anothe,
{ ono 3 prettier one"
u In vain, In vain, he groaned, she was
the only woman in the world that cared
\ tor: the handsomest woman in oil Paris
%. sbosh. I know of hundred hand.
3 somerand more tender than she ever could
! be. You may think in the first moments Of
& ssoreness that there IRE no other women
sin the world, but in month from now
you'll be prepared to admit how silly it was
ssto entertain such a thought"
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viii only flatter her. It lisa big advertise
4 ment for woman to have a man kill him
Self ON her account. What will the public
say the boys2 They'll say, Charles was
m ass. Yes. Charles, everybody will say
( ron are silly ass, and everybody will be
4 right in saying.so."
I waxed eloquent, in roint OF fact, for
& s0me moments it had occurred to me that
5t was arguing my own case, pleading for
my own life. I heaped fact upon fact. add
I'd argument to argument, with such earn.
A1tneaH and clnsAsass of raasonin, fhaf N, "