The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-08-08

h4Q $ome warning or tnS SSutn ot NtStn about to burst over your guilty head. Meetings number one, two, three, etc, were small editions of Paradise com pared to the one no~ held by the scan daliEed ladies of No. 0.
 Were respectable women ever so grossly insultedl A vir,uous household so shamefully outraged, and in such bold, de6ant manner, as that terribly unprin- cipled woman was now doing byher con- duct?
 Mrs Wyllys, in her indignation was for calling in a policeman and having the
 guilty pair arrested immediately. but poor, anxious Mls. Farnham pleaded,
 Dear Nrginias prospects, it would in-
 iure her SO much to have tho aaAir made public in that maunsT."
 l Miss Emmett would inform Nj IS. Hen-
 derson and have her turned bag and
 baggage into the street that instant.
 For her part she though, they lad done
 wrong in not having done so before. If
 she could have had her way they never
 would have harbored such hussy for an
 hour" But Miss Anderson strongly ob- iected to her plan, "lt might not sult
 poor, dear Captain Lacy and AS he was
 the party most injured she thought he
 ought to be sent for, and lett to settle it
 to suit himself She would write at once
 only il would look indel,cate lR a
 young woman like her. (She was just
 thirty.six last hirthday). bu, she though,
 Mrs. Wylys ought 10 have her husband
 write that very night"
 But Mrs, Wyllys was one of your
 suong-minded women who never asked
 anything of her husband, except where
 money was concerned, and that was
 little oftener ,hAn he fancied, but 1t was
 just as we'll tha, she did no, want his aid
 in this matter, for she could not have had
 it, for MT. Wyliys was where, she rather
 irrevcrently expressed 1t, "the Lord only knew, she was sure she didn't" She
 would write the letter herself And write 1t she dld. Elch one oi the worthy quar-
 tel assisting as far as lay in her power.
 until before mtd4iShta letter was finished
 which certa:niy dld redit to the heads
 and hearts whlca produced Il, and stripped poor llttle Ruth Lacy ot every particle of virtue and honesty of which she was possessed. So intent had the
 party been in thcu labor of love, that when in the mlds, of 1t the church bells , commenced ringing, and men's voices were heard hlling the ar with glad sh outs, and everything which could toot, clash or cang was swelling the chorus, the pen was only suspended for an instant, while
 one of the party thrust her head out of the window to learn the occasion of the un. earthly dln.
 "Only Lees army surrendered. Well. , close the window and shat oul the noise Who cares for war newsY don't see , what they want to make such remen- 6 dous oise O ger it tor.'
 { And Mrs. Wyilys resumed her writing , with redoubied energy. The tail of the . Southern Coriederacy was of not half so 5 much consequence as Ruth Lacys fall - from virtue.
 2 And in the morning this letter was to . be sent on its friendly mission, and the vigilance committee wcre to endeavof io 1 wait with patience for the arrival of tn c \ injured husband, and then what scene !. Mrs Wyllys could imagine II ali-th ( l husband proudly indignant in hts out , ragged honor; the false wife covering in = shame m her detected gullt, and the 1 lieutenan,-well, Of eourse, the captain Q would shoot him on the spot, or there . would be a duel, and nobody kaew ~h al . the result would be, bat she had done hei f duty, no matter fl all were killed.
 Miss Anderson hoped that whateve C might happen, poor, dear C4ptaln Lacy s wouldn't get hurt;' wnlle Miss l. nmett C wished the lieuten ant would go away, l = was too bad after al % have him sho, z He deserved II, of course, but prooa oll C she was a great deal moro to bl4m c [, How could 1t be otherwise WAsn , sh, !. a married woman!
 j. But for once their arrangements wer'
 forestalled. The midnight express iron $ New York brought CAptAIn LIcy, anc {; the next morning the vigilance commitse : was TO, a little surprised 10 sec hIm val! z into the brcAkfasi-room with MfS. Lac < leaning upon hIs arm as smiling anc 7 happy as if she had not besn gah;y O :. such terrible crimes. As Lieuienan . Beuham vas already there, they wer, F sull further surprised to sec moR cor 7. dial greeting between the wronger aac