Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-27

seen herr
We, n spite Of your subtarfuger
Il acs a bu1 for the best It was only
this norning l knew they were coming.
Some absurd report of my recent illness
had reached nv sister. Not having heard
from me for weeks ami weeks. she came to
learn the truth
Game from whereT'
From Nantes. She is the superior of
sisterhood there. She is my half sister.
Her mother was Fgenchwoman.
But Vola' Why Is Viola with herr
''She has been in her charge ever since
she left you 1t was to my sister l TOOK
her,"
A thought crossed me Surely" l said.
Viola, a married woman, can bind herself
by no vows. She is not one of the sister
hoodr'
THE sisterho is purely charitable
one. Persons can leave it at discretion.
Viola has been nv sisters guest, that's all
Grant / said. Il am now under the
same ROOF as my wife. She shall not leave
il until | know everything. From her lips
l will learn the meaning OF her conduct.
Go a nd send her to me
He said nothing. He left the room. and
in a few minutes returned. leading my wife.
She sank YEARLY upon a chair, with her fin
gers nervously moving one against the
other ! bad now time to no ice what
changes the two years had m de IN her.
Beautiful as she still was, it was not the
girlish beauty which had won nv heart; it
was the sad, sweet beauty or a young wo-
man VINO has SUFFERED Youth was stin
there hut the gayety AMI exuberance of
youth wer. mis- sing Vio.as cheek was
paler than of old; her figure looked sligh5er;
O hat stAA m a n \
fragil4 looking For while she kept her
eyes away from me; th,u. finding did not
SPEAK she looked at me. Her eyes were
full of tears
'Eustace tells me YOU want to speak TO
me- she said viii you noc spare me-
Julian! am very unhappy
Unhappy! Spare you. How have you
spared me! Think what my life has been
from the day J Gu Jeff me--tnnK ct 1t, and
pity me.
she pressed her hands to her brows, and
] heard her sobbilg could not bear TO
witness her grief. lkneeled at her side,
Viola, | whlspe-ei, tell me alt. Let
me know what black cloud lies between US.
Tell me why you left mes
Il cannot! | cannotl she wailel
Hee less Of Grant who was sti.! with US
| besou,ht her, implored her to en- lshten
me, OF Ut ltaSU 10 say slltI Sue loNei
still; that now we Lave met, we should
part no more. IN vain. Again and again
rer lips formed the sad Sc, firm refusal At
last she sail: ASK me no mora, Julian; IL
is Tor your sake that | am silent"
For my sake! Grants parrot cryl rose
in bitter anger and turned to Grant
Tell her" | said-"tel this woman, who
bears my name and who Is still my wife,
that nothing can max life more terribl, to
me than this concealmenJ. Tell her i'll
what frame of mind 1 met you. Bid her
speak You have power over her. She
will listen to you, if no. to me.
"V.olan said Grant, in a strangely
solemn voice she is right we are wrong.
He must know the truth.
Size raised her whioe face Never
never!' she moanei.
1t must be-" continued Grant HE is a
man: and II there is a burden to be borne.
he has right to bear it. He must know
ALL
She stretched out her arms imploringly.
"Eustace.' sle gaspei think of the
horrorl Let INN haze me, curse me, 70
away and forget me!
HE must he told, SAID Grant, firmly.
She preset her nanls to her ewes, ami
was sllen for som, minutes J sJeel,I my
heart. and neither spoke nor novel
although | saw the tea, tricKiIny through
Ter closed finger.
Presanl7 sne spo ie: Not until have
gone, Eustace; not until til snip ia sailed
'Salel! Nhat ship" ! exc ,aiuiei /, turn
ING to Grant.
Viola sails for America next wees. Some
friend; of he- mothers live III N9w YORK:
she gu,; 30 tnem.
w.4k a across to Viola "Why do you