Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-10-03
The Coming Novel.

Preface-The American people are
busy and hollow-chested. leople who
are in a hurry have no time to waste
over q two-volume romance, ana most
everybody is in q hurry nowadays.
This is what novel literature IS coming
to:
PAUL1NE-A DRAMATIC REALISM.
Prologue in the year 1S65-Pauline
Warrington is a wealthy hclress Tapped
in luxury. There is apparently moth
ing in the way of her union with Clau.
dian. But y, the hollow mockery OF
Appearances! Under the rosebush is a
serpent, invisible, watching! The ser-
pent is a man. His name is M. Tray
zeno. That he is a william 1T is hardly
necessary to remark. He had watched
Pauline at first with the greedy eye OF
love, and then with the venom of jeal-
Gus hate, the acerbity of gall unlimited:
1t Is simply this: Pauline has rejected
him for Claudian. Aha! 1t remains
only to wait under the rosebush ana
plot.
NJ. Trayzeno plots deeply One
night Claudian is found with a dagger
in his heart. Boo-oo-oo:
Act 1.-Pauline is the bride OF M.
Trayzeno. She never suspects and she
has permitted herself to love HIM, He
will help her discover the assassin OF
Claudian. All, ha!
Act 2.-Flub.
Act 3. More fub.
Act At is night. The wife awakes
out of a deep s!umbcr. What is this
vision? Nightmarep No; a somnamhu-
list. 'Tis nj. Tray emo walking in his
sleep. What is this he is doing? He
seems to lie STOPPING over an imagi-
nary something. What glistens in his
hand9 A dagger? Yes. All, horrible!
He strikes; and them Those words!
Unsay those words! Unsay them! But,
DO; he repeats them! The dreadful Sc.
cret of years is out. All, she is upon
HIM now! Forgive her; she is beside
herself. She knows not what she does.
Her hands close about his throat With
superhuman strength she drags aim to
the window. She lifts him upon tho
sill. He wakes! HIS eyes roll Pack in
his head. One moment, one serrible
moment! He falls! He throws his arms
about him like a drowning man, aa(
she she, too-lights out. G--(e-R--E--!
Gore. The end.
FROM swILMoNGER's MAGAZINE.
Agnes loves Bullethead, BulletheaN
loves Agnes. Bliss. The stern parent
objects t o their union. Gloom. They
try to elope. Good. They are caught.
Bad. They try the DR.. Tanner bust
ness, to see if the stern parent won't
relent. Awful suspense. Will she
| starve to DEATH: No; and the stern
parent does not relent. Obstinate
man. At last the lovers are alone to-
gether on q rock, very high up. 1t is
for the last time. Their lips meet in
the last, long, %qulverinE kiss. Is It
accident or is it design: No one will
ever be able to tell. Tha stern parent
approaches in the DISTANCE re. They ars
treading horribly near tae fatal preci-
pice. They grow dizz,. Their arms
gone! Don't look, reader, for PHYS
sake don't look! TheJ will fall down
'stecn stories and bus. The end.
HI lie, I BRIDE.
A young man had just married q
beautiful girl, and a party of friends in
the old manor We're assisting at a
''house-warmlng." One queer old ge-
Mus, whose name was Flubdub, made
a bet that he could hide himself where
nobody could find him. The bet was
taken and the old man finally conclud-
ed that he lad ratherhide somebody else,
and hid the bride. He hid her and
stood around in great glee daring their
%unavailing search. All of q sudden he
was taken with commissions and ex-
PRED. The girl could never be found.
Mystery.
TO BE AID FOR.
There was a hollow in two rocks next
the sea-shore. Two men stood there
alone. They were invisible from the
land. There was only a vessel sailing
off upon the blue ocean. Suddenly one
man detaches a large bowlder from its
place and holds it over his companions
head. Will he crunch him? If he kills
him he will die. The continuation Of
this thrilling romance will be found in
company with the remains of the au.
thor in tomb No, 2l1 of the New York
Cemetery.]
ONE-ACT TRAGEDY.
"Clarinda, will you be mine?:" The
speaker was a young man, and the one
he addressed was a beautiful girl. She
burst into tears and he collected the
water in a bucket The end.
IT IS l. ERE
They met, loved, quarleled, made il
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