The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-01-19
Under Three Names.
on JUSTICE At LAST


hot little hands and whispering
words Of passionate love and plead
ing into her unconscious ears. The
first gray sfroak Of The breaking
dawn CLEANS 10 the horizon. For
hours be has Wept, carressed and
called 70 her, bui in vaini she hears
not his voice. Il looks as though
he is doomed t. witness the depart
ure five spirits in . single night.
From the bedside OF the wretch
ed woman who had ruined his life
and imbittered his soul, he had
rushed in wild tear and excitement
to the one whose life he had wreck
ed, to find that life balancing on
the verge of eternity.
Mrs. Singleton who had taken
-kila's place as watcher, and the
nurse had been startled almost out
Of their senses by his sudden ap-
pearance in the sick room in the
lone hours of the night. No mad
man fresh from Bedlam could have
shocked or bewildered them more
than he had done when be rushed
in without the slightest warning
dropped upon his knees beside
poor Viola who lay in a stupor,
sometimes muttering brokenly,
and again only moaning in her
troubled sleep.
There with his face halt buried
in her masses of golden hair, he
had called her his precious jewel,
his little Belle, his lost darling.
He implored her in anguish to live
to forgive him if no longer.
1t is no wonder that such con-
duct made both women half doubt
his sanity.
Finally, in answer to Mrs. Sin
gleton's astonished questioning, he
had thrown the marriage license
toward her and cried:
at is her. Viola Isabel Rou-
selle she was, but is now by the
hand of God Viola Isabel st
George, my wife"
Words can scarcely be found suf-
fcfeht to express Mrs. SingletOn's
utter astonishment. There can be
no doubt in her mind as to the
truthfulness of his words when she
holds the proof in her own hands,
but it all seems a strange dream
and she feels that soon she must
wake and find it all unreal. 1t is
almost beyond her comprehension,
this strange new revelation, and
has held her in dumb wonder. She
has scarcely dared speak to the ag-
itated man who has seemed ever
since he entered the room obliv-
ious of every thing save the wo-
man at whose side he kneels. And
now as he still calls to bis Town
little Belle to open her eyes and
speak to him. she remembers with
a start that if such were 10 happen,
it would very likely be death to
poor Viola. Does she knew that
he is her husbandy Was it for him
she was calIingl Why bad she
never heard ofthis MARRIAGE And
how does it happen that she, his
wife, should be acting in the eapao.
ity of governess and wearing an
other namel And above all, why
have they so long been separated
Thus Mrs. Singleton's mind
questions within itself, until il
seems 8 mass of chaos. But nov
she has sufficiently recovered from
her own shock to realize how dan.
gerous like one would prove tC
Viola. She steps lightly to s.
Georges side and whispers:
"Cecll, come away, You must no
excite her. Suppose she should
become conscious and see you
here?"
She pulls him gently by the arm
but he draws away from her.
@No, no, ] cannot leave the los
wife I've just found, and from
whom I have been separated al
these long, long years No, she h
mine, nine" be cries taking III
two burning little hands is bis an,