Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-04-25

be bound IN honor to do so. In an evil
hour we were made man and wife.
Two weeks had not passed before I
knew I had married the worst of wo-
men.
Her friends visited us. What ahey
let fall revealed much of the untruth
she had told me-. She had again and
again told me she was my W age.
She looked older, but 1 had believed
her. In reality, she was eight years
my senior. At times she would rate
me like a madwoman, when I mildly
protested against the character of her
associates.
AT last 1 left her and began a suit
for a divorce. l settled upon her all I
was worth, and prepared to begin life
over again. But l failed in my suit, for
the reason that a certain witness died
before it was called up. l was then
plunged into ~callous despair. lived
by myself in embittered solitude.
"For three years l had lived with her;
the next three years we were apart.
Then a friend of mine, who was inter-
ested in nc, suggested other proofs
which might aid me in my
Again l undertook to free myself.
My lawyer, an old man, when mid
way in the case, also died. 1t seemed
as though tho evil power the woman
exerted ever followed me to wrest my
weapons from my hands. Agar pass
ed. and, my Rosa-we met. Iresolved
to make one more effort to separate
myself legally from my wife. This
done meant RI toll vor oil
~ had taken steps for that purpose.
when the incident occurred which di-
vided us. Until all is yer, l dare not
sec you. She will surely make an at
tempt upon your life. But soon, soon,
! hope, my Rosa (you will forgive me,
dear one. for still calling you mineP)
soon hope, all will be over. Then, if
you a forgive the deception, which
was maintained for your sake, love, for
l would fain not have sullicd your ears
with this tale until l could ask you to
become my wife--then, if, when all is
over, you will-'
"Allan" The word, the shrek of
warning, came too late.
At the feet of the frcnzicd girl Law
her lover, bleeding, dumb, while before
her, v~ituperating and menacing, stood
the creature whose terrible face had but
once before met her own.
She had seen the swift-Striding figure
the uplifted arm, too late to save the
man she most loved on earth the blow
which fclled him.
But his start of horror at Rosa's
glance had made him partly turn, so
that the knife aimed to strike the heart
had penetrated the shoulder. The dag
ger had fallen to the earth.
Rosa, with a power born of the emer-
gency, snatched ii, and lifting her arm
high above her head, advanced upon
the woman as though to plunge the
weapon in her breast.
Death-like was her face; her eyes
cleaned with q fire savage rs that ere
ated by loves defence must be.
You have killed him, him whom l
love! Fear now for your own life.'
But the woman, in abjcct terror. had
fallen upon her knees. This posture,
and the sudden thought that the assas-
sin must surely be n maniac, stayed her
hand.
"Fly!' she almost screamed, in her
o~verwrought voice. "Flv,if you would
save your own life!"
But they had been heard, and some
men appearing upon the scene, Rosa
briefly explained, and the murderess
was taken into safe charge.
The bloody Weapon fell from Rosa's
grasp as she bent ovcr thai beloved
form, whose white face lay turned to-
wards her in dumb appeal.
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for ever-as she bent low there, Sob
bling and moaning.
But the wound was not a fatal one;
the slight movement which Rosa's cry
had caused had saved his life.
1t was weeks, however, before Allan
had recovered his former strength,
which much loss of blood had so re-
duced.
Visits from his brave Rosa kept hope
alive, and when at last he had fully re-
covered, he received from his lawyer
the papers which made him n free man.
The attempt upon his life brought
down Il sentence of many years. i'm
prisonment for the perpetrators; but, by
reason of Allan's intercession, she was
pardoned, upon condition that she
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country, whore indeed she might live
very comfortably upon the property
her husband had formerly settled upon
her.
At last, then. Allan Faulkner was
able to begin his life anew.
Dear had been the price he had paid
for the gcnerou, impulse of his youth.
Ten of the best years in Il mans life
had been passed in deep misery or iso-
lated solitude.
But he felt at last he had his reward
in the gentle lady by his side. In his
mind she held q place doubly exalted
because of his previous sad experience.
"Why do You love me so, AllanP'
was Rosa's oft-repeated question.
Because. darling, you are confiding
and true. Because with your beauty
you link %frankncss and a soul That will
ever remain young, because it is pure.
For this l trust You and love you"
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