Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-06-16

was ashamed or my unKInuness, even as spoke. but believing her just then to be a designing woman, the calm com posture of her manner angered me until neither spoke nor acted like myself.
 Very well. she said, and my heart smoto me at the deathly pallor of her face as she turned to leave the room.
 At that instant servant handed nc letter from Ralph, and l tore it open and read it where I stood. Such a letterl- explaining why he had gone away. and declaring that Miss Grandson. whom he pronounced as the best and noblest of women, was not to blame for his folly. lie ended bv beCrin0 me to Ina kind tn her. and not allow her to leave our home so long as she needed such position.
 Half penitently. placed the letter in her hand, remarking that Ralph's wishes were law to me. and that I hoped she would forget my words and do what was best for her happiness.
 She hesitated a minute or so, with the open letter in her hand. and knew that a great struggle was going on beneath that calm, beautiful exterior.
 Tt is humihating," she said at length, with a little. quivering smile, ito remain here under the circumstances; but an poor. Miss Percival. and must not think too much of my dignity. Besides, was sure. if you had known the truth, you would not have been so unjust"
 And so she stayed.
 Months after. when had grown to love and esteem her for the "best and noblest of women" as Ralph had called her. she told me her story.
 Briefly, she had a large fortune willed to her by an uncle of her husband, whose other heirs, through jealousy and greed, had blasted her life by cruel islanders. In the bitterness of their hatred they had estranged her husband from her, and he had deserted her, believing her to be false.
 Her enemies had been successful in all their plots against her, and she had borne prosecutions and insults which, as list ened to their pathetical recital, made mo wonder that woman like her could have endured them and lived Abandoned by the husband whom she still loved better than her own life, and thrown, friendless. upon the world, she had kept her history to herself. simply dropping her married title for the sake of being less exposed to curious question ing
 When winter came round again we were expecting Ralph. who wrote that ho was heart whole once moro. and intended to bring friend to help him enjoy his welcome home.
 How handsome Ralph looked as he walked, smiling aud happy, into the midst of our family circle, and what a splendid looking man was the stranger who walked close behind him
 As Miss Grandison's dark. beautiful eyes glanced up at them, shriek that 1 shall never forget rang through the room and she fell fainting into the strangers arms.
 What need to say more. Ralph had constituted himself Don Quixote. and had secretly pledged himself to right the wrong of the woman who had refused him
 He had found Paul Grandson, had told him where his wife was. and what c true, pure woman she had proven herself.
 And Paul had come with him to knee at Flora's feet (as he afterward told me and crave her pardon
 think Ralph was almost as happy when Flora turned those beautiful browr eyes upon him and murnured: God bless you, my noble friend" as he would have been could his own dream of winning hel have been fulflled.-The Honesdale Citi