Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-12-05

He IN a far-of pew and almost the
only spectator.
ceremony. DOUBTLESS, when Viola and I
left the church, nan and wife, Eustaca
Grant walked into the ve,try, and, a. 10
had expressed his intention Of doing, saw
with his own eyes that l hal married Viola
in my true name.
We drove straight from the church to tho
railway station When alone in the car
riage almost the first words my wife said
were: Julian, Eus,ace was in church.
Did you sea him"
YES. l saw him.
"Why did be not come and wish me good
byes 1t was not like him. I mus have
Offended him. l will write and ask bun
how
Ihated tho idea Of Eussaca Gran. being.
IN such a moment as this, upp,rmost in my
wife thoughts, Never min /, dearest" I
said; what is Eustaco Grant to usf'
"Oh, much, very much to me- Juliani He
was my mother, frienl. he has be,n my
one friend ever since I can remember"
Il do not like him." said.
but you will like him; YOU must lik,
him. He is so good, 20 noble. so clever.
Promise me. Julian, you will like him for
my saka."
Although l would not credit him with ths
" first quallfcations-eooine ss am mo-
bility-1 was willing to belier, that Eustace
Grant was clever-perhaps too clover. The
dlsad van eage at VIII Oh he had held me UPON
that night when l was for the time, in his
ewes, an imposter, ranked In nv mind
Bat today l coull affori 10 be geperouA I
drew Viola close to me.
Dearest, ] said, Il will try and ee. rid
Of my prejudlc.. will try and forget that
this man Lowell you, and would nave mads
you his wife. l will try to cease from
"onderin, WHY. when be is 20 good, nobls
and clever. you should have chosen ma"
Viola laid her soft che.sl against mine
Julian. nv husband" she Whispered.
more love you
of Eustac, Grant ~ded-never, I hoped, to
return With Viola's arms round ma. her
kisses on my lips I could afford to raty my
unsuccessful rival. When We were in.
stalled III the compartment Of tn, train
which was. bv a venal arran cement Of the
guards, reserved to ourselves, / fell to
considering bow l should hest make
known to Viola that the name by which
she had hitherto known M was assumed,
l was beginning, or fanciel I was begin.
ming, to know something Of my wif,'s true
nature: n told myself that the task b.
fore me was not 80 easy az / had ones i'm.
aeine1 it would BE- Nv confession was
hurried on by u question she herself
asked NE:
"Julian, what name was II you dgnel in
the book at church,
l had hoped that in the agitatior natural
to a bride who signs her maiden mans for
the last time she hid not noticed nv auto,
graph. But shs must fave done 80, al,
though she had said nothing about il until
now.
So made the plunce and told her all
Told her my true name; told her Of tbs
beautiful tcuse in the west which wculi b.
ours: told her Of the life. free from care and
anxiety - to the future, which stretched
before us Then l besought her forgiveness
for keeping her in ignorance Of thes, things.
! bad, be it said. given her to understand
that l was a nat with an income iust
enough to live upon in comfort.
Grant was right. he knew Viola wbsn
be told m, that, b. revealing my d>caption
be might destroy the fairic Of NV heppi.
ness. Shs said little. but her look told mo
she was hurt AMI wounded. I verify b.
Geve her first thoughts were tina she would
rather l had been wha1 l represented
myself to ba,. than to have the power OF
staring such q home and so much wealth
with her. How little man understand
! Continued neat Week.)