Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1885-01-10

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Mr.. Wcldon's face, bu5 he crossed
the room TO where she SIT III her
pride.
''Lelia," lie sald, tenderly, ga boy
brought ii telegram to my Office to
day that said that"Lily was dead"
Leila knit her slender hands con.
vuIsively together, AMI repeated the
words slowly, rs though scarcely
comprellenling their meaning.
Lily was LeIiil,s older sister, and
Mr.. Weldonrememberel the grave,
pallid girl who was introduced to
him ut their wedding as "Sster
Lily
And lie wondered how anyone,
and especially Lelia's sister, could
grow so spiritless.
Her husband was Il grave, reti-
cent man that Weldon had. nd
IN red lc" his ':langeless dignity;
but lie could not help contrasting
ti!e impntnouS tigcr-lly AMI the
white wi!tGil lily, as he called the
two sisters.
Nov Lily was dead.
SHE hal died at her mothers
home, where she had been f)r q
month or two, with o mother to
care for her.
The first fears that Leila shed for
her sister Lily wis when she saw
her lying in the hlSlltd room, with
its soft perfume ol'llowers, its white
aud black drapery, and its awful
stiffness.
Not the man who had been called
her stay and support in life llnelt
beside her llower-cmbalned caSllet,
but the one who had cared for the
child and guarded the girhood Of
tie sleeper, watched alone by Ill
that was mortal OF poor, paIlid
Lily.
While Mr.. Weldon stood silently
by, he waS shocked ut the growing
likeness between the face Of dead
Lily and that Of his Leila.
There was Il grand funeral next
dry.
Lly's husband was there, care
fuill dresScdin thccyceSS otmonrn-
ing: his tears did not moisten the
marble face Of the sleeper, yet he
gricved inwartlly for the bird that
had flown from him forever.
But he WIS one ct those inlivid.
u:,ls who consider an outside eX-
preston of any emotion as an cyi-
tlcnce of weakness, so he never be-
trayed What lie really felt.
When the last clods had tell on
all that WAS rortalof poor Lily the
mnurners dispersed.
The bereave1 husband went
mcthotlically back to hisol'l duties,
began life sin, ANA he only
thonghtrilat it WAS diSpensation
of Providence.
Mr.. Weldon was kind-heartc'l
and sympathetic, and IL strange
Thought came to hun.
What il his Leila WAS dead?
And then Il great wave OF pity
moistcncd his eyes and made his
heart ache for Lily'S husband.
His wife and mother were with
him, and he sid:
ada you ncG feel sorry for poor
Arthur
\ hard, bitter light came into
the Borrowing mothers eyes It's she
answered him.
':Feel sorry for him-hcr murder
cr? DO you think L could feel grief
for the man TO whom gave my
first-born to love and cherish, gave
her TO him, believing that he would
make her happy. But instead, he
brought her back to me in five
short years to die. And she
waS murdered, my beautiful Lilly,
not by any crime that the law c.,n
puniSh-tIlat would have been
quicker and more mercilnl-but by
tile slow torture that killed hcr,our
queen Lily, as we called her, in five
years"
Weldon WAS shocked.
lie had never heard of such a
thing; and Mrs. Everett continued:
Ills drop by drop of little ills
that wear AWAY the most invinci-
bic barrier, and our Lily was once
Just like Leila, though only those
that knew her then would believe
it. But if you had known under
What constant suppression our
queen Lily WIS kept, you would not
have wondered at the change
When she had only been the bride
of half Il year she suffered keenly
that worst of pains-the heartache
and she grew to realize fully that
mans love is of mans life a part,
but woman's whole existence 1t
was IL slow but sure way that Ar
thur Warden took to tame his
bride, but she could not be curbed.
She and Leila were alike in that
respect. When he took away all
the joyousness he took away her
gay spirits, and that is death IN the
end to all natures like our Lily's.-
There was never a time when Ar
thur failed to make cynicaIremarkS;
in truth, he kept my lo1 e.cheriSlled
child under a continual cloud Of
disapprobation. Ii she laughed she
was silly; if she enjoyed society, she
WAS frivolous; it she wanted any
thing pretty. she was just like all
the nomenclature care for any
thing but dress; if noted person
spoke to her and she mentioned
the fact, she was vain because
those above her noticed her; and if
she SOOEo 70 anyone uutipr the ban