Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-10-10

judge who calmly discusses the details q
crime and wrong doing She could not be
lieve that his mind was wandering Tn,
doctor had told her that fever and deliriup
were past. The patients extreme weak
ness was now the only peril, and tha
weakness made any emotion dangerous L
some dark cloud of suspicion had obscuret
her husbands mind, IL love had beer
changed into loathing she dared not cues
tiOn him, she dared not strive to set her
self right. She must wait and suffer In pa
tience.
Silently, prsyerfully, Clare Darnsl sa,
by her husbands sick-bed and listened {.
the ticking Of the clock to the falling o
the wood ashes from the old basket CRATE
she could pray for her beloved yes, thai
was all she could do in this hour of sever
ance-seyerance, albeit she was sitting by
his side She could pray and put her trust
In God. She could not believe that any
estrangement between herself and hel
husband could last Life had been made
very bitter 10 her in the days of her first
Marriage long period of pain and an
Nlety, growing from bad to worse, till il
eliminated in the tragedy at Mallow Bar
racks. And there had followed further
/ trouble about her son. And then, after
! she had done with hope, after she had told
] herself that Joy and pladness were not for
her, there had come the wakening of a
new love, the beginning of new life. days
of exceeding sweetness Was that bright
time all over now. she wondered, and was
she to go back into the darkness and pain
and desolationY
She sat with folded hands, meekly, quiet
as the figure Of a saint in a cathedral
niche, praying for him whose thoughts
had wronged her, praying for the restora-
ton of the confidence and the bliss of old.
when he and she had baan In ali tbin,S of
one mind. And so the moments stole
gently by till the hour was done, and as
the clock struck she rose to leave the
room.
Il must go now, Allan said she softly.
Mr.. Danvers only allowed me one hour
Can | get you anything, or do anything
for you before gos Ii would be such a
pleasure to me to do YOU some small ser
vice"
Thanks, you are very kind. No, there
is nothing"
He spoke courteously, but as celdly as il
he were addressing stranger
"Au reyoir, Allan. / may come again to
look at you in the evening. perhaps."
He did not forbid her TO return, He let
her depart in silence.
He looked after her with sad. reproach-
ful eyes till she was gone, and then turned
his head upon the pillow and groaned
aloud. Yes, he loved her still. She was
as dear IN him nc sba bo3 o,,ar boo,, sbo
whom he believed To he the foIsast and
vilest among women; she who had admit
ted a lover beneath her husbands roof AT |
midnight-a desperate who seeing his
mistress's good name at stake, had tried Ia |
murder the husband in order to save the |
wife
Yes, he recalled in this bitter hour. as he /
had recalled again. and again since the |
awakening from the long agony Of de-
lirium, he recalled once again the memory
Of that hideous night. He remembered
how in his sleep. the heavy sleep of
fatigue, he had vaguely heard the mur.
mur of two voices in the adjoining room.
his wifes voice and another; how. even in
sleep, he had wondered at those voices
that his wife should be talking:
how, struggling half-consciouslv to rouse
himself, he had at last awakened to hear
his wife speaking and mans voice reply-
ng Then came silence, and the sudden
of a door. He had arisen hur-
1edly, put on his dressing jacket
md opened the door of the morn
ng groom. On the very threshold he
topped, seeing a man standing by the
able-a man whose dark, handsome face
impressed itself upon him in that one in
fant.
He could recall those dark, flashing
yes, the hectic flush upon hollow cheeks,
he naughty carriage of the head; but he
ould remember no more. He could not
ave told the mans age or the clothes he
EOre. The figure stood before him for |
noment only, dark, tall, defiant; then
here was flash and all was dark.
The face had haunted him in his delir-
figure, with pistol pointed at |
i'm, had pursued him through the dark |
lazes of feyer-and now, as he lay weak
5 child, helpless, hopeless, broken
earted, the dark, evi; face was with him {
ill, a haunting presence.
And he believed that his wife was false
, him, an arch deceiver from the very be-
inning of their acquaintance He be-
eyed that she had put aside some dearer
we for the sake of the position he could
fer, and that all her subsequent life |
18th him had been one elaborate comedy,
, perfect in its discrimination that he had I
we'd in FOOLS paradise, deeming himself "
he happiest of men. Then came the prep
-ation for the Italian tour The lover
ad heard of this intended Journey, had :
rown desperate, perhaps at the idea of a
rolOnged separation, and had insisted on e
4 interview. Urged by an angry man. @
reyocably lost by her conduct in the b
ast, Glare Darnel had not stopped short J
this last infamy. She had admitted J
ar lover by midnight, beneath her hus- $
and's roof. And she came to him to-day 4
her calm, pale beauty, looking at him b
ith eyes softened by unshed tears; she
ssed him with her false lips she acted [
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