Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-01-11

Victoria nForisini Explains Ha4 Arncgt
cspsssred Her A16ctzon1.
Notwithstanding The fact that volumes
bava heen written aud published ab0us the
| famors Morosini elopemenf case and various
-exnIanations made as to how the lady be-
came infatuated with her fathers eoachman.
fhe real facts we're never brought to hight
uptfi they were obtained BY q reporter here
from Mrs. Schilling herself. says a Boston
telegram to the New York World Inc
story Is q remarkable one. Mrs Schllllng,
In reply to questions on the subject. SAID:
From childhood up it has been my plea
sure to roam at viii through the fores.
which surrounded my home. Riding, too,
was a great enjoyment to me, not because
Ernest drove, for then / had no interest In
him. One day | went to ride on the road
that winds along the banks Of the beautiful
Hudson river. From one point on that
road the ruins Of an old stone mansion are
visible. II stands on the top Of q hill at a
considerable distance from the road to the
right / had often wished to go nearer
TO its moss grown walls, but had
always been deferred BY some
member of the family being with me,
Or else the sign marked Danger.
ousr' which was nailed to a tree in front
il. But this day | was alone and deter
mined. Ernest drove, and Notwithstanding
his entreaty l sprang out of the carriage
and was soon peering into the the great en-
trance Of the old ruin. Aiming myself with
a stick ! pushed aside the vines and creep,
ers that oyerhung the open door, and stood
within the great hallway, which was filled
with poisonous underground. The interior
presented such o wild and gloomy aspect
that | was almost on the point OF RAINING
avav. Had done so, Victoria Moroslnl
would never have married Ernest Schilllng.
Being that dsy imbued with a spirit OF
adventure. ! mounted to the top of a flight
of stone steps. There ! found a mar
row hallway leading into a large room at
the back. | started to traverse that hall,
but On taking three or four steps forward
there was a crash. ] felt myself falling
fafirg-and then ] became unconscious.
When | regained my senses, some days
later, | was lying in bed at my fathers
house, surrounded by anxious friends and
relatives, and Ernest (who had rescued me,
crushed and bleeding, from beneath the
wrecked foor) stood over me with a white
face. They were awaiting the doctors de.
etsion as TO my chances for life. | had
fingered for days, wasting slowly at is q
serious wound" said the physician she
has suffered great loss of blood, and |
PREDICT her death within an hour unless
one chance alone remains for her; it is
blood TRANSMISSION" All this / heard him
:ay without being able to open my eyelids or
sneak a word. Then there was another
pause. Then Ernest Schilliug stepped for
ward, and without a moments hesitation he
barred his strong right arm and said calmly,
vet oh, so de~terminedly: Take from my
veins the last drop Of blood if it will save
her iifr." The blood was transfused from
frr,s,'s Srm 10 mine. He saved my lie,
,cr grew strong almost immediate.
Is. then there arose an i~ntuitiye at
icci II ent between us. How could ] resist
itv;rg the man 10 whom | owed my i!ean1
who rIta6ed for that love-,he being whose
life liCCd courses through my veins, warm
nc ne back 10 life? 1t was a great debt |
owed him, snd one which ] have cheerfallY
psit--if, indeed. the poor recompensc o! my
al Erg hand could pay it. He says it has.
Our VOWS at least arc indissoluble. 1t is a
bord CT love between us that is fixed, unal-
tered, unalterable. Had / q thousand
years of life I'd live it all with him. And
now you know why Victoria Morosini we'd
ded wilh Ernest Schilling,