The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-08-31
hail an hour, Alice.

40, she anSNefei E',LlShlN. 1ou
can stay, and seold, 100 II you
like; that seems to be sveryore's mission
to me-"
I saw that she wac il one OF "lose sul-
len reckless moods - selfshucss nat
occur only where n supreme sense OF
some fancied or real wrong has oJiit---
ated for the time all conventional guards
But before l could reply Mr. Ven Solsen
came in.
L amazed me TO see how tim.t ana
nervous this man had become. Alice
ruled him absolutely. Nc slave ever
trembled before a Iyrant ~ dii this
proud man before the colo SCOTT al beauty
he called his wife.
Punishment is lame, hut Il comes.
The measure he had mated out 10 his
first wife was meted back 70 him by his
second. As he had sligLtcd he love,
and received with cold Indifference al
her efforts to win and please hirl so now
Alice sighted him. and took with polite
apathy his most tender attentions and
magnificent presents.
He wanted to know her plans for the
day. She " did not have any. CoUi'
he get her anything she desired in town.
" No; she had mOre than she wanted"
What arrangements should he make fo-
their summer trip? All places were
alike to her He wandered from win
dow to window, made little Jokes which
she suffered to fall 10 The ground without
| any pretense of listening 10 them. Fin
ally, under cover Of my presence, ho
assumed bravery he WIS very la FROM
feeling, and said:
- You are not well, daTli :, this
| morning; take good care OF yourself.
| FOR must leave you for few hours; SO
| kiss me goodbye"
She looked at him with contamptucusi ia
| difference and simply answered:
" am quite well. and you l1aow Il.
Then she offered hin i'rs With IN
air that would have da''Tted any man but
! one who knew that he lad a right TO t2A >
| it.
| Ny visit was very unpIeesaa- on.
although Alice relented and apc,cT ID
| somewhat before l left.
great pity filled my heart FOR this
wife so loved and pctted; and ineEptic-
able as it may seem, ] could not think
nor speak OF her but IS =" Poor Aiicer
I found out from Maud The clu-c o OF
the special ill-teInper L had Witnessed.
Jack Eldridge had made himseii famous
by some act OF daring couroEe and al
lantry, and the papers were full OF Ll4
| praises.
Alice, quite unused to sc1l-contr5l, hau
spoken words regarding him when Maud
considered Mrs. Van Sol-cn ought not
to have spoken, and, while they were
upon the subject OF cOnjugaI dutics,
| Maud had also remonstratcd with
| sister on her unnecessary scOru CE e.
| husband so kind TO her.
1 did not call on Alice for some tune
| again, and then Circumstance took rae
! out of England. At first I co-Tesp poI-deG
regularly with Mrs. Traveen; hut il the
voyage of life, friendships drift apart,
and as my absence heightened my cor
respOndence died out.
Judge, therefore, of my surprtec
! on my return five years after Alices
marriage, TO find her q widow with ore
child.
She was now exquisitely beautirql,
! and her great Pensive eyes seemed Won
| derfully in keeping with tho trailing
sombre garments OF her early TidoH-
| hood.
! The disagreeable events OF our last
! Interview We're all forgotten, and / was
| quite restored TO my o4d place in he,
| favor.
There was at this time great CAIN
| and gravi-- in all her WAYS b it 7 =oo.s
| found ON -lat one name and one presencs
| had a -lerful power over her, for
London, and they very often met IN
| society.
The first of these meetings which 7
witnessed narrowly watched, but in il
saw no hope for Alice.
| studied politeness was all she re-
ceived. Yet she continued TO do vha,-
/ ever woman may do 20 atone .0r "A
| great wrong, and win bacl. an .ieuate1
| love; but the old warIn-hccE1sI Jacs-
| EldrldSe had disappeared as completely
| a the old merry impulsivc tIice
Travoen, and the two new ch;,ga .tCrs diC
not comprehend each other.
Yet she had this hope ler: TIC rr--
erul, though now both rich AID r.ifs.r-
| tiai. sought no other woIa..-f- 4--9r
| us far s, could Joe discovered AID '-.t..
hoped that her memory was sliiI y we
eTful enough 70 prevent her has iug Z.
rival.
This dream was suddenly and -rucllv
broken 1t was reported that G-lar-I
Eldridge had gone North % atie14 10
some large landed interests ne nI2
there, and whom he returned a. lhs c..G
| of the month, he brought with him fi,s
| loveliesJ OF brides.
The shock 10 Alice was terrible 40
worse, perhaps, than nor r. rr,1s, had
| been 10 Jack; but he bad % .-T1.it and
constant outlet Tor his gric- III miliu,a.
duties and hard work. Aics hla no sul4,
medicine for her heart and her Gts OF
dependency were scarcely more dis
| trcssIng than the recklessness with whica
| she now entered into every species OF
| fashionable dissipation =.
| Thesummer feSt!yitic- at several ,lif-
fcrcnt neutrality-suspicious. tole-f,ar-g,ifi OF,
O constitution cncrVatcu bY i4du!-sencs 9
and excitement, and without tie tom,
which healthy exercise imparts The
winter season saw herstili mere lcck less,
and her physician prophesied an e.riy
and rapid decay, IL sorlc rest were 10.
| given both TO her healJ ana BODY. s.ro
In the season she took 4 violent cold
which terminated In pneUmouia, and ~,
her exceedingly near death.
Then, when it WAS too late Il recs.
the glorious years of her youth. r Ii al
the mighty blessings which Lac c-a..-i,,,
them, she estimated her giTts at ,lieir
real value. Then she remembered "a,
claims of her child, the love of he
parents, the good she might have done.
Within the cold shadow of death sh,
mede noble resolutions, which have n,
doubt she would have kept II she Ia,
lived long enough. But 81 never tuil,
4 recovered. Warm climates ana rq.5i
cinal waters were all IN vain. "a
gradually sank into the sleep that know
no waking.
j She died after two years Of rest les
s weary life. And now. g. life ) fitful feyr
. over she sleeps we'll"
Yes, she sleeps we'll; for there is y
. piecing broken love 4 mistake
{ marriage is 10 a woman irrgvoca. --,r.
the shipvr5cked heart never G:Gs 80.
peaceful ncvcn I'll il reaches the.sii,' :,
of the Eternal,
q he Knew Natural History.