The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-23

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IMAGINED She bad unite r~onousrej her
ieol0usv of me W0uId on bpIIeye
that she was only. watchjno me. and
that she was maxine Ofmymo inno-
cent courtes;ns Ir42AfuI wr0no2 7
rronosod to take her with me but
| This she w0,IId NOT accent She had
discovered hnr social f%auIts and was
too proud to attempt to correct them.
She had been good enourh 10 marry.'
she told me. and she was inst asgOHd
then MS when we were married.
"And this WAS true, Will: acknOwl-
edged that, though | was gettingtired.
Two years of constant bickeringsou,s
the truest love. left her to her own
WAYS. and went hither and thither as
| wished. Sometimes we had recon
citations, and a week or two's perfect
happiness, and hen some trifing in
cident would aros her anger and
jealousy, and for another week OrtWO
we were virtually separated.
Still L loved her, loved her pas
slonately and truly, and l never
wronged her even n a thought. | had
never then seen any woman half so
beautiful, and have never seen any
since to be compared with her. Even
her Wild, ungovernablena nature touched
mn as no gentler wOman's has ever
done, and though there were evil and
cross elementsin ourdestiny, nonethe
less Bernlce was my destlny-the only
woman on earth for me
at was In the fourth year OF our
marriage, and BernlCe had been tor
weeks III n OF her most trying tenn
pers. She pleaded sickness sometimes,
and in gentler moments hung round
me with a touching tenderness which
even yet makes my heart ache to re-
member. One night there was agrand
ball, and as it had some political sig.
nlticance, | felt compelled to attend it.
L begged Bernice to go; she begged me
not to go; neither ofus would give way,
and | went alone.
1.-The ball WAS in masouerade and
Bernice assumed some disguise andfol-
flowed me. When 7 returned home she
met me with a nassion 7 was in no
mood to bear patiently. for under ex-
element her want of education was
painfully apparent. and 7 had ms: left
the society of some of the most brill
liant and refined women in the world.
For the first time 7 allowed a sense of
my mistake to frame itself in words.
She listened to them and then left The
room without O. reply.
II rather congratulated myself on
the effect, and went TO my business as
usual the next day. When / came
home Bernice was gone, and gone in
such a way that it was impossible to
hide my misery. The servants had
taken her versiCr of our dispute, and.
/ was severely blamed. was in all
the daily papers, and / had serious
annoyance from her father and
friends.
Every effort was made to find her
Tor some weeks, and vas unavalling;
and / lived In constant anxiety. One
day, when various circumstances had
combined to make the affair almost
intolerable to me, I was requested by
two friends to go to the city prison
and identity q man who had obtained
money from them and me on various
false pretences. He was not the mar,
who had deceived me. but he was the
man who had married me. I made
inquiries about him, and discovered
that at the time of nv marriage he
was pe~rsonating a cIerayman. and 50
raising money for charitable objects
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