Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-09-25

that other woman. The horror was too
much for her and with wild scream she
rushed for the door falling headlong into
! the hall where abe was picked up q
moment later senseless.
/ As the housekeeper aud o s.out
chambsrmsid started to carry the faint.
| ing woman back to hsr room she started
| up into life and faint resistance, crying
itnot there, oh, not there /"
| "Poor thing, she can't bear to be re-
minded OF her husband, nov he's gone,"
ssid the good. natured housekeeper !;
stake her into ninety.fve and move her
things in after while."
And so when Margaret fully recovered
consciousness she found herself In q
strange room, and finally exhausted by
emotion, she sank into troubled sleep,
induced by the narcotic physician
called In had prescribed. She awoke
next morning weak, sick and miserable
and found that her property had been
moved In from her former room.
Amongst the things brought in was her
letter to her mother, which she had
given Grantley to mail, and which the
ohambermaid said had dropped out of the
pocket Of smoking jacket she had found
in the wardrobe. Margaret thanked her,
told her she might keep the smoking
jacket, and when the girl had gone she
took her letter to her mother and opening
II she read through her tears her declsra-
| tion Of her marriage and her loving
| eulogies on the man who had betrayed
| her and made her an outoast from her
fathers home. No use In all that now,
she thought, since she had become such
thing that her father would curse her,
and even her tender mother shrink from
her as one too impure to be fit associate
| for little Katie. In her morbid reflections
Margaret had come to look on herself as
degraded beyond hope; thing OF shame,
and it did not even Btartle or distress her
when she discovered that Grsntley, to
| whom she herself had handed II, had
carried off her marriage certificate. In
SORROW and despair she lived on day
after day until there came to her
suddenly the announcement that Captain
| Grantley, as he had now become, was
amongst those left dead Oh the battle
field at fredericksburg. For moment
the old love famed up In her heart ard
never afterwards was she able to think
so bitterly OF her betrayer as she had
done for the first few weeks alter her
discovery. Before long there came to her
another knowledge that filled her with
terror, and she determined to hide herself
in the rush OF the great city to conceal
| the evidence OF her betrayal. So she
bade goodbye to the people Of the hotel,
| who knew Of GrAntley's death and
sympathized with the natural grief of his
widow, to bury herself In the wilderness
OF briok aoross Esst var, aud drop the
name which some other woman, not she,
had the s0ls right to hear. TheIe
| Msrgaret's s0p was born ard ErAa
| maternal love osme to console her TO- hr,
grief aud shame, aud she droppsf
somewhat her self accusing habit A.
| she became able to look back more calmly
on the past she felt that her chief sin
had been sgainst the gentle mother aud
rough old father whose love she had
forgotten for that Of stranger who
had captivated her girlish fancy.
As she thought Of home now and then
her father's heavy form seemed actually
present and she sometimes thought that
no music she had ever heard had been
30 sweet as would be the sound Of one
Of his characteristic outbreaks, swearing
and all. At such times she would aeizs
young Tom, who bore an almost absurdly
faithfnl resemblance Of old Tom, and
hug him with fervoT that astcnished
the by. Her only explanation was,
"you look so much like father"
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