St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-03

should be done! However. go on. go
on; the husband revenged himself"
by one of those crimes which re-
main always unknown-'
Then how did you know it?''
The doctor talked of it-yes, the cul-
prit himself, yielding to that irresistible,
that fatal need of confidence which ex-
lists in all men. and which makes of the
confessional of the Catholics one of the
institutions-''
10 facts, Maurice, to facts, to-
"See here, Pereira." cried the attache
Indignantly, ''if you stop me again you
can tell the thing yourself, for Iwon't!"
IN o otfenSe! no otfenseE" replied the
insolent Pereira; II was only saving
you the trouble of finishing your SEN
tences-your style is good-all dialogue,
with suspended pOintS-see Scribe and
Sardou-impOsSible to teach it to young
authors-thOugh pieces have failed on
account of an adjective. One knows
not the mischief that can be done by
metaphor"
"When you have finished, Pereira,"
said the master of the house, banter
lngly regarding him through his glasses.
Pardon me, pardon me. You were
saying, Maurice
That the husband imagined
A TERRIBLE VENGEANCE,
and one only possible to man of his
profession. Macha was not, as people
supposed, completely cured, and he
knew it well, this specialist of heart
troubles, who had cared for her for two
years past with so much zeal and tend
erneSS. This knowledge he would now
use against her!
Restraining his anger he limited him
self 70 watching over his wife
with the attitude of husband unquiet
and suspicious, arousing thus in the
soul of the adulteress the most tortur-
ing fear and anguish. Satisfied from
the letters he had surprised of the mad,
the SenSeless passion that swayed the
two lovers, he was certain they were
always seeking to see, to meet each
other, even in the midst of dangers,
this domestic Machiavel profted by the
situation, and from that on a mysterious
power began to place all sorts of petty
obstacles between Macha and Mon. de
BlazewitZ, without, however, separat-
ing them entirely. 1t forced them to
break their rendezvous. to interrupt
their correspondence, and troubled and
embittered their love.
I'm this life full of keen and sorrow
full emotions, the health of Nine. Arnold
failed anew-the doctor was killing his
Wle Wlun lne same certainty ana pre-
ciSiOn as he had formerly cured her. To
the hour of mad terror which gave to the
circulation of a morbid and dangerous
activity, this skilled physician, this
implacable husband, made to succeed
long days of sadness and waiting which
congested the heart, retarded the blood,
and slowly sti1ed her. Then again, as
suddenly feigning to be no longer jeal-
Gus, he showed himself touched almost
to tears by the sufferings of his wife.
"'All that thou art enduring, my
poor Macha,' he would say to her, my
diagnosis fails to grasp it; thou hast the
air of one who is dying with chagrin-
thou dost not seem happy with me!'
"All the while observing with a dev-
ilish, vOluptuous malignity the progress
of her malady, he crucified his victim
with desparing hypocrisies. At the
end of six months the swoons were
more frequent, the palpitations more
rapid; the disquieting symptoms of the
aneuriSm had reappeared. All, ha.
Pereira, you do not interrupt me nowv'
''Ma fol, no! What of it?*' This but
the second act; the denouement-the
denOuement-give us that!''
''The denOuement demanded!" Maui
rice answered, with the accent of a gar
con de restaurant, who serves you