Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-09-27
driven out was replaced by feeling of

driven out was replaced by feeling or
absolute hate and contempt
nee moro and only once she saw him.
A few day later he wrote, babe her come
10 him, aud threatened in case of refusal
TO come to her. She went. She scorned
him to- much to fear him.
He renewed h re uest that she would
sign the false declaration.
al will not, she salt.
'Will you telegraph to your father, and
say you must have tn usand pounds
tell him 1t means life or deaf"
II will not: nor woul he send IL ~ l
did" Hervey, who by now was &c ting to
know something OF his wife's character,
felt that moth ng would make her bend to
his will. With an oath he raised his hand
struck her. His true brutal ma ere leaped
forth. He covered her with reproa hes;
he reviled her, he told her he had never
cared for her, told he had but married her
to stave off ruin thinking the small sum
he needed would be easily raised upon her
prospects. He vowed TO be revenged for
her obstinacy. He weuld make her life q
hell. He would drag her name through
the dirt She should rue until her death
the day on which she refused to DO his
bi ding
When Beatrice got away from this storm
OF words, she walked back home with a
bu zing in her head.
Three days afterward she read hat
Maurice Hervey had been brought before
the magistrates on charge of forgery. and
committed for trial. she found means o
send him message, asking IL he had
money to pay for his defense. He sent
back word that he should plead guilty.
| He really did so, and as the forgery was a
Hotr "A
judge very properly sent him to penal
| servi ude for five years. His wife as she
read the sentence ga a groan OF relief.
Now the weakes part of her nature a
part no doub inherited from Sir Malngay
showed itself. She let hings drift To
girl ust past eigh cen five years seems
as inc haus ible as five hundred soverelgns
would seem O school boy. The remem-
brance of her secre marriage haunted her
like the rennan of a CHASTITY dream. Five
years. Five long years Surely some
thing must happen before they were
spent Something did happen
| What were her feelings when the truth
| first came home to her. When she knew
she cou cheat herself no longer? When
no imaginary ailment would account for
her condition? When in plain words the
| fact that she was to bear the burden CON-
mon to womanhood was forced upon her?
Then Beatrice prayed tina. she might die!
The child was born, and none save the
mother and maic knew the tru h. The
elder woman arranged all. She left her
IN stress as a servant leaves; she prepared
place, and when the time came Beatrice
found her grief llghtened by all a low
ing woman can do for another in such
plight. OF course there was deceit-de-
ceit seemed to have forced itself into the
| girl life There was long visit to pay
some where, visit from which Beatrice
returned q shadow of her former self.
But none knew, none even guessed the
| cause.
| The child was born. the tiny head nest
led on the mothers breast, and strange
new feeling awoke within her-the over
powering instinct OF maternal love. Her
thoughts which had once been, in case
the child lived, to hate IL for her fathers
sake, turned to pure, sweet affection for
the innocent, helpless little being. So
far from wishing 1t dead she would not
now have wished it unborn. When she
returned to her home she LETT 10 with
many tears In Sarah charge.
| tor years she saw at by stealth, saw II
grow more and more the picture of perfect
childhood; loved 1t and worshipped II
| more each time she saw it. and at last
when she returned to her fathers house,
and felt that her visits to her treasure
would now perforce be less and less fire.
quent, wild craving TO have it with her
always, to see 1t every day, every hour,
awoke in her passionate heart.
Then came the second quarrel, and the
new home. And even as she settled to
60 down to her uncle's the Nucleus OF
the daring scheme of regaining her boy
framed itself in her brain, and was event
ually shaped into form and acted upon
with perfect success.
But the five years were passing, pass
ing. At the end of them stood what
Beatrice shrunk from picturing, convict
who would come and claim his wife.
Beatrice had, indeed expected that when
first ARE ,ted he wo I'D find some way OF
proclaiming his marriage, IL only in full
| fillment of his threat of dragging her
name into the dirt
Yet Ike made no sign. He was crafty
and calculating. The term of his SEN
tence was not to him an eternity. When
it ended he knew. that by keeping the
secret he should be in a more advantage
Gus position to turn matters TO his own
benefit. Beatrice would be well past
twenty-one, and in command of large
income. He meant to be thoroughly re-
venged for the obstinacy she had display.
ed in refusing to prejure herself, and SO
find him means to buy up the forged bills,
but he meant to have money also.
This is the story Of the life of the last
five years VI on which Beatrice looked
back that afternoon. These are the pic
lures of the man and the woman-the
husband and wife, who were to meet on
the morrow like foes In deadly duel.