Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-08-06

| tWo before You first saw her. | assure
| YOU l knew nothing of your love affair
1r proposed marriage. If had known
n time, | should certainly have con
'idered Il my duty to warn YOU Of the
awful biund n YOU were making. When
| went abroad with my regiment. it
seems she chose tOgo down and wriggle
herself into my family. What her mo-
| i've was, can't imagine. She Is a
/ most artful, dangerous person, that is
| lear. She saw my return TO England
n the papers yesterday, and sent me a
note inviting me to come and see her
/ It this address, which | did. | give
YOU my word of honor | had not been
leie ten minutes when you made your
/ appea ance. She had just told me she
was married, and this was your house (:
upon which i got up and wished her
| goOd-day.'
by this time | had found myself
lnable to stand, and was sitting on
| he sofa with my head between nv
lands. When Captain Ringwoad left
of speaking, l looked up, meaning to
say something, but forgot what it was,
and only stared at kim silently.
lie was a fair, slight young man,
about thirty, with handsome, thin fea-
tunes, and large, light brown whiskers.
He stood there looking at me with the
same gOod-natured concern in his face
that he had expressed in words, in his
fashionable, affected way.
AT last l recollected what l had
been going TO say, and told him | wished
to be left alone. He silently took out
his card, laid it ON the chlmney-piece,
and went out.
Il don't know how many hours / re-
manned lying on the sofa, with my eyes
shut, in that strange torpor but it was
night when l opent d them, and found
my wife standing by me. She had
lighted the candles on the chimney
piece, and was STOPPING down over me.
She started upright as my eyes opened
| out she did not avoid them. She colI-
frOnted me, archihg back her nymph-
like figure, and leaning one hand on
table behind her. felt no emotion at
sight of her, but looked at her as If she
mad been picture. Her beauty was
splendid. All her fair golden hair was
turned off her white face in sort of
glittering aureOla. Her great turquoise.
blue eyes tlared under slightly con-
tracted brow5 the nOStTils of her deli
cate, straight nose, and ner infantine
mouth expressed rage and pain.
~ am glad you are awake said
she Il want you TO hear me say hate
youp
~ don't care said 1, wearily. Go
away
Her face famed out with the fury
that was burning her heart.
"'Bdt you do care y she cried you
shall carel tell you always laughed
at you and despiSed you. l only mar
ried you from pique-because he left
me. got into his family, and toaiied
them, and made myself their servant,
| only 10 hear of INN, and to feel nearer
him, and be where he had been-1 lore
him so ! llove no one else in the world
i never did. l would kill you, and a
dozen like you, to save him from fin
gerdche. l would rather a thousand
| times have blow from hlra than kiss
| from you-a hundred million times
When | think of hin, and that you are
| between us, l hate you'll abhor you
How dare you smile at me2 I'll kill
you p
u was quite unconscious of smiling;
but she darted at me, and struck at my
throat. l caught her hand this time
she had penknife in it, and L felt that
she had pIicked me. That instructive
act of self-defence reused me, and
probably saved my wits as wellas my life.
When L had mastered her, and thrown
the knife away, held her hands i'll
aline till she put down her face and bit
| them savagely. L tied her wrists with
my pockethandkerchief, and she sank
painting on a chair. All of sudden
| the unhappy creature burst out crying
As if her heart. was Droken-as IL well
might be. Probably Ringwood's cool
treatment of her throughout the inter-
view recently passed, was at the bottom
Of that frenzy of vituperation, that
desperate behavior toward me. She did
not hate me, but was SIMPLY mad with
uain. and Taved and struck out in her
ielirium. | think she really liked Inc
when she married me, Notwithstanding
her assertion to the contrary, and meant
and wis ed to lead new life /; but the
sight of Ri .gwood's name i'll the pa
pers, ana the knowledge of his near
| ness. in my absence, revived her passion
| for him. in which her good resolutions
burnt like straw. / released her hands,
and brought water and put it to her
| lips and when she was quiet through
| exhaustion, / advised her to lie down,
| and hoped she would go to sleep. As L
was leaving the room. she called me
back, in low, broken voice, and when
[ stood beside the sofa on which she
| Law, she Joined her hands, and asked
me, with streaming eyes to forgive her.
did so, freely. Of course, Rlngwood
was right. L had no one but myself to
thank. My infatuation had been so
monstrous, that could no more COM
plain of the consequences than man,
sober, can complain Of the consequences
| of some drunken folly.
s'In the morning l took Fanny away
to a farmhouse in Kent, place she
knew of, and chose herself for a re-
treat. She was quiet and humble, and
apparently broken-splrited. But she
did not remain there a month nor do
NOW whittier she went, or where she
~ been ever since. Before she left
She wrote me long letter expressing
| IltT ItluDISc dl IlCl DCildfiOl " " oiu hAS'
bad as am ended she, Il will never
trouble you more. 1 do implore you TO
be sure of that, and to forget me, or to
think of me as dead
II am afraid to think of her at all.
[ made every possible effort to trace
her, quite in vain; and l hardly know
where would be the good if L succeeded.
'sThat's all added Urquehart, after
moments pause "and there's the
history of your friend and the wife of
his bosom and if you still wonder how
or when my devil got into me, l don't.
believe you love me enough to think
be is not SO black a devil as he is
painted. | am not the kind Of man in
whose heart such a cash could be made,
and heal, and leave no mark For
long while this world seemed, and often
does seem, really an Inferno nothing
but plunging and breaking ones heart
in a swamp of suffering. with intervals
of quiet from mere exhaustion and de-
SPAR. o Charley how l wished your
mother had been alivel wanted some
kind woman, that was honest and pure,
aho,lt me we men all do in our dark