Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-12


/, his wife, stand here, stranger, with
no power to cross the threshold.
I tremble with intense anxiety. Oh,
II some servant would but open the
door. ] might inquire what is the mat
ter. In the dusk they would not rec
ognize 1ne. @.
quick step comes up the gravel
path. I turn hastily. It is the doctor.
Unheeding his astonishment, spring
ing forward, / grasped his arm.
Tell me what is amiss!" gasp. "He
is not seriously ill?"
DIR. Taylor looks down gravely into
my agitated face rs he answers, I'll I'M
to death; there is only CLEAN of hope. !"
I shed no tears; they seem frozen.
The words ring again and again through
my brain I'LL unto DEATH"
II must see him" is all say.
The doctor shakes his head.
ss'You must let me go to Bertrand"
CRY. "Oh! have some pity, and keep
nae not from my dying husband! Twill
not agitate him. [ assure you'll"
The very sight of your face would
do that. Mrs. Treuraine, do you know,
during the time he was unconscious
your name was on his lips day and
night?" ,e
Yet you are cruel enough to keep
us apart Y is nsy passionate response.
A moments silence, while see his
stern face soften, aud then he says,
"You shall b. admitted on one condi-
tien. It is thu YOU remain behind the
bed. He will not perceive your pres
ence, and voE must promise to speak
no word; the fame of light is So weak
that any agitation may extinguish it al
once" a.l
"Ipronise," is my quick response.
We enter the house. Five minutes
later sta:ad on the threshold OF my
husbands room. My heart beats nigh
TO suffoea$ion. How shall / bear the
sight which is before me? Oh, Heaven
how shan I look upon him, perchance
for the lest time, and makerzo sign?
! The door. opens. 'Ehe nurse at =.
! word from Dr.. Taylor leaves the cham
Der. lie motions to me with his hand
and l glide into my appointed place.
" t1ChS z l. osu1i1I Ill SLIkUC", 81 lI16G
am hidden; bnt I see the outline OF
PROSTATE figure; Of a face so white, S,
haggard, that it clnlls me with agony
"Ok, my darling!" I cry, humbly,-
"my darling always, though so false t.
me-! Is it thus we meet at last?"
"IAector,". family SAYS my husband
voice, lit is nearly all over. This i
surely death coming? Tell me-"
"Ycu are very weak" replies tn
medical man, eyasively.
"Ehat means you feag to answer m.
question. You need mot. Life la
been too bitter for me to regret 1t i
! tieeting. But before Idle there is some
thing wish to say, that you may re
pest it some day to nsy wife,
l start violently in snv hiding place
but DR.. Taylor casts s. warning glane
in NV direc ton and Tam silent Is tn
secret of his falschoed to be reveale,
here and nov?
| The low voice continues. This is tn
story:
't9&Years ago, before 4 met Lenore, m.
vita, I fell in love with girl nance
| Constance Fielding. She was YER
beautiful, and she dia'not disguise tina
she returned my passion. made he
an offer which she accepted. On tn
very day I had held her in my arms
on the very day her Fps had sworn love
! vows to me, learnt she had been to
two years the a1iianeed Of another.
" as nearly mad ia that hour. Rushiny
into her presence, poured forth in bit
tel words my rage at her deception.
:::She threw herse]fstat my feet, iua
plaring me to listen
At" Not one woraT I cried. You
falsehood has crushed ont all the love
gaws you. Had you been my wife be
fore this truth became known to me,
would have cast yossotf as I do now?
From that mora cut she faded out Q
my heart. I had deemed her all purity
all ruth; I found shat plighted to ON
man, she yet allowed another to pres
her his heart wisk tender kisses o.
her perjured lips. I'his knowledg
made her as dead IL, TAG as Though I ha<
Seem The sods piled asver her grave.
@'Ihree years passed, when l met LIE
more. She was all 7 isad dreamed m,
first apve to be-a ;pelEs~ hearted, LOVING
woman, and she hecalpe my wife.
1.-TWO months I nad of brief, entranc
ingjoy, with my darlaneeyggirl-two month
Of golden love. Then in one hour life'
bliss faded utterly I was left in blanl
administrations.
sfYer:< know Oakwooa, which lies OF
nv grounds? walked through there
one .Sssy and encountered the worl
sl,a6EoM,of woman once had known
This Ss1 ast from my PAST was Constance
In laerraSttenuated face the large blue
eyes enttered feverislily; the cheeks
were ,Eu;sht with the fatal hectic Of con-
sumption.
"She Fbhrst into b5tter' tears as We
met; then poured forth muth incoheren'
words asstery Of wild, wasted affection
and aaatlssellv,
az married the rnaa ITO whom you
left uaa, she cried; but Beltran, I new
er loved .any one but YOU.
'Hash,l T said, why wrong you,
womanhoon by telling ths5sso me? You
are a wife, I am married. Be sure
did not wed another With any love fol
you stiaa lingering in nay heart. You
were as though dead to mewhen left
YOU that dsy, Your fals4hood had
killed ny iloxs. But my wife is the
one Joy af :nay heart! o priceless treas
ure I can g,eyeg cease to value H.
Having thus spoken, + sternly
turned away. HUT she followed me.
'''Bertraln, she cried, wildly don't
torture me- with such wares. Tt is
the very thnsught that I ara issething
to you, whea [ aight have been all,
that she, tha5 Other woman LES in your
arms. and las ss4sght to your ccarasses,
which is killing nae. Despairing, in
tnrsr q, Logo for 1rnu has dra Yw1. m Ifa.n m