The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-01
ANOTHER MANS WIFE.


In years ego 1 ran away with Trafford's
wiz. That 10 the plaInest way Of putting it
I 1T Il down here Just as II were not writ
ing Of myself, just as II, God help me, 1T was
not possible / could have been ct any time OF
nv career % weak, 90 desperate, and 30 des-
picabls villain. Aa
So veak-because the woman was pretty
and romantic, and thought she loved me IN
III u was too late to love any body ellie. So
dsspersts-bscause mine was q name looked
up 70; vas one in whom people believed,
and was clever enough in my way to have
made my mark, to be talked Of, to be fiat
tered. What Was does not matter to The
purport Of this confession-what came to
doe. and In it, proper place will be related
hare. So despicable the woman,
husband wss good man, and hardened
him 10 stone; happy, trustful man, and
wrscksd his happiness and trust; father
and took away the mother of his children
That b Why l said just now, God heip me
hayo said Of late days, God forgive me,
too; only Of late days this 10, and for a fes
son - be presently explained, and say II
with al the heart and soul and strength felt
In me.
could preach OF "extenuAting circum
stances" II was sure OF . sympathetic audi
ence, bat should shrek at my own excuses
aftsyWard. shrisk with . mooking horror az
the 0onds shriek. was sentiment alist aud
fool; If have one excuse that 10 worth re-
cordins. il e that / loved the womau-tbat i
believed her life would be brighter with me
than with him, and that resolved all my
life 70 try and make IL 90. There was no
thought Of heeting passion, OF Q setting her
aside, OF . lower depth tor her, the old story
Of the street; II was the sacrifice OF my life
and honor to her life and shame; and In It's
early days 10 Was set down to romance. to the
''afnnities." to . something which two mis-
guided souls, proceeding rashly their own
way, could afford to call their fate.
All . delusion, oil very commonplace and
miserable and cruel, and, my God the wax
ing - the fact that IL was not soi-the stern
truth that name and fame and good mems
and We were, even In our hearts. accursed
II could have bsen--if she could have
boon--oo cali~us ~ are some folk; N We could
have forgotten the past wherein people
thought % we'll Of us; II the present could
hsvs besn everything without . thought
a. Of The horror and Disgrace 10 grow upon
a. vhsn the glamour OF the Sin bal van
tshod. and We were simply every day sinners,
without single excused To me the life has
BEEN ever unbearable. and yet have borne
T. 10 her II has been . reproach which she
has been unable 10 hide from ma. . sting
which has struck into her heart aud poisoned
~ lilecurrsnt, and turned her brain AZ
tlmoA And Ne each disguised from the other
~ while what . mockery our lives TO-.
eothoP we're, what an ordeal OF mental On.
Gul1h, what . damnabls and awful failure
n che had been heartlsss, n she could have
beeoms - BY desrees;if the days and months
and yoaso passing By With us could have rsn.
Ne could have born life with greater pc.
tlonos, end almost lighter heart But this
n not the story Of our lives together, or why
] 1ot We daylight In upon I, now,
There vas no romance left between us. We
he'd ohooeo our lot, but we despised H. We
yess verify ashamed, bat there va. no 70.
nut and We aid no, pray for them 10 open
and let n back % our old lives. our old
homeo. our old selfrespeet, and the ievss of
0kooo whom Ne stil lovsd and dare not 'ay O.
Vos1 cososrnins. We we're silent tortares
We hsi sasslaesd our lives, but there was
- eonAdenes In The nsw ss'atei on the con.
ogogy, there We complsie restraint The
cum q strong Imagination Vas always up.
- ~ aud made us worse We did not be.
1lovo In eoAh other. Ne wondered ~ each
eohsF's thoughts. and whs, regrets, repln.
tnO> romoene. we're oomins'ed with them.
o6moolmes iound her In Tears. In "a utter
DooDe5o1iou a. sriss and she would not tell
- VIZ che wspt end why II was beyond
~ poVeF 70 eonsois ner. have been al.
V<vN lol 10 wonder what II was that would
1n11only crush and ahass her. and yet %
&noN )fnl II Ne TrAiIprd che was thinking
90 90 ~ Isocosd's ohildrsn--not hers. for /
~ ~ obsndoned them who ross M like
n1nlQ onGela In ths sunlight And looked 10.
~ ~. end even talked OF her as dear
5000 Vho Ne desd." and whom she could
DoVo1 o0nln loks 10 her heart
- y 49, sspsnssd Ions ego Ny life
- GO oufo Of helplessnsss There YES =
- 0nnoo q duty In this victim, q feeling
80 ooone tor vrehlns her life by
~ - moho Il ondurabe 10 her, and The ,
- 6@noolooonem that vas NOT succeed
~ { 0oold uot rsndes n anything but
w 111oo osIee Of approaches, which
mokoo ~ me, but which every ,
II - oVorY look betrayed. Il
~ jupfoach<d her he'd had the
= - "a H. but "a ell our life 70 Z
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