Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-15

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A Philadslphia special says: There
VAS 4 touchingly pathetic scene in .
chamber on the third floor of the Colo
made Hotel on Wednesday night.
Charles Camblos, Q young stock broker,
who within the past few years has,
through domestic troubles and Ill
health, been reduced to physi-
cal wreck, lay apparently at the
point Of death and without friends to
sootho his last moments. A few
months ago he separated from his wife,
Lillian Conway, the actress, and since
that time he has lived alone. The sep
aration was brought about by her re-
peatedly expressed desire to return to
the stage, move which Mr.. Camblos
declared he would not permit. From
the time they parted the husband has
been melancholy and morose, and his
health, which was impaired before, he
never having entirely recovered from
the prostration induced by severe at
tack Of typhoid-fever last fall, grew
worse and worse.
For some time he has been living in
New York, but he returned here about
two weeks ago, when his wife was an
nounced to appear at the Temple The.
atre.
Until last Saturday he was able to
60 about. and almost every evening he
was found at the Theatre, where the
fair and buxiom Lillian was singing in
the role Of Miss Hurricane in the L" Lit
tie Tycoon" The sight Of her behind
the footlights wildly recalled the time
when he first saw her-that was in
l876,'and she was playing at the Chest
nut-Street Theatre in ii. j. Byron's
comedy Of "0ur Boys" The old love
came back with the recollection. He
yearned once more to call her wife, and
endeavored repeatedly, but unavsil-
ingly, to secure an interview with her.
Then he was stricken down, and for
several days he bore his sufIerngs and
fought back the desire to send for the
one woman in all the world he really
cared for. His physicians told him on
Wednesday that it was quite possible
death might speedily come to his re-
lease, and then he determined to make
another effort to see his wife once more
before he died. lie dictated a
note to her, and messenger hurried
with it to the theatre. 1t was given to
Miss Conway when she left the stage at
the close of the first act, and though
she sang and acted with all the requi-
site dash and spirit in the following
scenes there was a longing in her heart
to fly to the man for whom years ago
she had forsaken the footlights' glare.
All past enmities were forgotten, and
the curtain had scarcely fallen on the
last act before she had donned her
street-clothes and was hurrying to his
bedside.
The meeting was very affecting one.
For a moment husband and wife were
locked in a fond embrace. A smile
came back to Mr.. Camblos's emaciated
features and the light of contentment
once more beamed from his dark eyes.
1t is understood that Mrs. Camblos
will hereafter reside at the hotel
and do all in her power to re-
store her husband to health and
strength. Should she succeed she will
probably once more renounce the stage
at the close Of her present engagement,
if not before. Mr.. Camblos was at one
time the most popular and certainly one
OF the handsomest men on the floor Of
the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
Lillian Conway is sister of Minnie
Conway, the actress and singer, who
was divorced from Levy, the cornetist,
and who afterwards married Osmond
Pearle.