San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-06

seceived a visit nom the mans wnie. TnIs
honest woman began TO depict, in forcible
colors, the necessity for keeping up the con-
cealment
81 will intercede with my husband,
ma'am,n she said. "He's true man, If
rightly managed, and III beg him TO con-
slider your position. It's a very nice house
you've got here" she added, glancing round,
sand well worth little sacrifice to keep ii. D"
The unlucky Baptista STAYED off the dan
ger on this third occasion as she had done on
the previous two. But she formed a resolve
that, if the attack were once more to be re-
heated, she would face a revelation-worse
though that must now be than before she had
attempted to purchase silence by brides. Her
tormentors, never believing her capable of
acting upon such an inte4tion came again
but she shut the door in their faces. They
retreated, muttering something, but she went
to the back of the house, where David He'd
degan was.
She looked at him, unconscious Of all.
The case was serious; she knew that well;
and all the more serious in that she liked
him better now than she had done at first.
Yet, as she herself began to see, the secret
was one that was sure to disclose itself, Her
name and Charles stood indelibly written in
the registers, and though only month had
passed as yet it was wonder that his clan
destine union with her had not already been
discovered by his friends. Thus squirting
herself to the inevitable, she spoke to He'd
degan:
david, come in doors. have something
to tell you"
He hardly regarded her at first She had
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he had seemed preoccup!ed, as if some pri-
vate business harassed him. She repeated
her request. He replied with sigh, YES,
certainly, me dear"
When they had reached the sitting room
and shut the door she repeated family:
David, have something TO tell you. l
have something to confess. You will hate
me for having so far deceived you; but per-
haps my telling you voluntarily will make
you think a little better OF me than you
would do otherwise"
"Confessionl" he said, awakening to inter
est "Much confession you can have TO make,
NEE deer, that have been in the world so
short time"
She saw that he suspected nothing, and it
made her task the harder. But on she went
steadily. 1T is about something that hap
pened before we were married, she said.
Indeed"
'Not very long time before: a short time
And it is about lover" she faltered.
81 don't much mind that" he said mildly.
"In short, was in hopes twas more"
In AoPes@ - - - -
well, yes"
This screwed her up to the necessary effort.
81 met my old sweetheart. He scorned me,
child me, dared me, and went and married
him. We were coming straight here to tell
YOU all what we had done; but he was
drowned, and thought wonld say nothing
about him, and married you, David, for
the sake of peace and quetness. I've tried
to keep it from you, but have found out
cannot. There; that's the substance of it,
and you can never, never forgive me, an
sure.n So
D SSaae spoke desperately. But the old man,
instead of turning black or blue, or Staying
her in his indignation, jumped up from his
chair and began to caper around the room
in an ecstatic emotion.
:. "Oh happy thing! How we'll it turns
Quit" he exclaimed, swapping his fingers over
his HEAD, =. "Ha hal the Epot is cut; see my
way out of my trouble-ha hal"
She looked fizedly at him without uttering
a sound, till, as he still continued smiling
joyfully, she said; sob, what do you mean'
Is it done to torment me1'
"Oh, moi Oh, NEE deer, your story helps
me out of the most heart aching quandary
a poor man ever found himself ini You see,
it is this: I've got secret, too; and unless
you had one to TEL, Il could never have seen
my way TO tell mine!" jGr~- ~
''Whst is yours-what is itT' she asked,
with altogether a new view Of things.
"WeIl, it's a houncer mine is bouncer!'
said he, looking on the ground and wiping
his eyes,
mot worse than mineF"
"Well, that depends upon bow You look at
it. Yours had 70 DO with the past alone, and
don't mind it. You see, we've been mar
ried month, and it don't jar upon me as
much as it would if we'd only been married a
day or two. Now, mine refers to past, present
and future, so that
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