Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-10

money-enders, and withsab mentioning
names had endeagorad 20 nerotnts = ~
= upon such security as Beatrfeh fortune
offered. Some OF the Insurers laughed n Ma
face, but be soon found one uhoas basina~
i was never e refuse TO lend money 90 4
forged bAl Or g false declaration provided the
friends Of the forgor q the perju@. were of
the stamp who would pay money to avoid
criminal proceedings.
lido not quite understand said Beatrice
She would not understand.
SITS q mere matter Of form. nv dear girl
it can do 40 harm. II IS only to swear VI,
ere t~wenty-one- I'm sure no one would doubt
itn
Beatrice covered her face with her hands
and the tears trickled through her fingers
Hervey attempted to cares her. Sadly bnt
firmly she pushed bis arm away.
~ cannot do it, she said
His brow grew black. Damn i'll YOU
mustF' he said.
She rose. II win not she said in accents
which told him she meant what she said. j
win do this much: / have some jewelry; il
shall be placed in your hands. The only
favor / ask Is that money may be raised on i
In such . way that same day l can get II
back. Part Of 1t was my motherRn
Hervey knew that her jewelry would not
help him. So he pressed her to make the
false declaration. First, be commanded.
secondly he reasoned, thirdly he besou1ht IN
an abject way. And with his groveling en-
treaties for money, every atom Of love far
him went out Of the girls heart. Love NAV
survive nl-usage, faithlessness and wicked
ness-meanness kills 1t. She turned and left
him before he could stop her.
She did as she had promised. That even
ing Mrs Miller brought him the packet Of
jewelry. There were some valuable articles
In Il, as Sir Maingay, who had great faith
IN his daughters discretion, and who Der.
haps had feared that II not given at once.
they would never be given, had intrusted her
with some diamonds which had belonged To
her late mother. So it was that Hervey was
able to raise some two hundred pounds on
the trinkets. To his credit be it said that be
sent certain mysterious tickets to Beatrice
which, upon inquiry, she found would enable
her to redeem the things of which she had
deprived herself.
Three days after this Sarah made a dis
covery, or rather completed her inquiry into
Herveys real nature. BY peEtinacity in
tracking and watching; by questions asked
In certain houses IN a neighborhood to which
she had followed him, she found the mai
had for some space Of Gtne, and was even
now, pursuing a low intrigue with a girl.
With flashing eyes Mrs. Miller went 70
Beatrice and told her this.
Beatrice heard her in silence. Then she
spoke colby and gravely. Events were fast
making a woman Of her. Sarah she
said, Il will see Mr.. Hervey, and If needful
you win see him. Bear In mind that If your
charges against him are false, you leave me
at once.n
She took Sarah with her, told her to wait
in the street and then entered her husbands
room. She told him coldly and without ap-
parent emotion what she had learned. she
gave the name Of a street, and the number
Of q house.
Hervey of course denied it. Beatrice then
said she would fetch his nbeler, who should
be properly dealt with. Hervey wavered,
s~tamInered, and then once for all dropped
the mask. He brutally told his young wife
to lot him manage his own affairs Of that sort
~ ho " way NJ Ot1fIhC0 KNEW uAI
Sarah had spoken the truth. And with this
knowledge the love for this man which had
already been driven out was replaced by q
feeling OF absolute bate and contempt.
Once more and only once abe saw him.
A few days later he wrote, babe her come ia
him, and threatened in case of refusal to
come to her. She went. She scorned him
too much to fear him.
He renewed his request that she would sign
the false declaration of age.
II will MOI" she said.
"WM you telegraph to your father and
say you must have a thousand p~0unds-ten
him 1t means life OF death
II will not; nor would he send it If l did,
Hervey, who by now was getting to know
something Of his wifes character, felt that
nothing would make her bend to his win.
With an oath be raised his hand and struck
her. His true brutal nature leapt forth. He
covered her with reproaches; lie reviled her,
he told her he had never cared for her, told
her he had but married her to stave OFF ruin,
thinking the small sum he needed would Be
easily raised upon her prospects, He vowed
to be revenged for her ohstinacy. He would
make her life a bell He would drag her