Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-06-07
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A REAL ROMANCE.

49, ~ @NA- sVA S3AANAGAaN
heard a. / came from Partners the
other night. Abont forty years ago
Mrs. Monroe. childless widow with
large fortune. took house in Cur
zAn street for the season, and wanting
companion. bethought her of her
niece Jessie. the eldest daughter Of
clergyman in Scotland. young lady
only Just out The girl was written
for, came and proved great success.
for she was an excellent dancer, ex-
ceedingly pretty aud blessed with
good digestion and consequently with
good temper. II was after the May
drawing room, at which she had been
presented, and at the ball at s. House
that Captain-shall We call him Ne
mo meeting her for the first time,
fell desperately in love before the end
Of the evening A few rides in the
early morning by the Serpentine,
few drums" in Arlington street or
Park Lane, the Opera twice. the thea
ire once, endless dinners ronts and
halls, and then, just at the end of the
season, he proposed and was accepted.
The lover. having little money. Mrs.
Monroe generously agreed to give her
niece an allowance, and insisted on
the marriage taking place in town,
instead Of upsetting the quiet little
manse close TO the lock on the west
coast SO ST. James. Piccadilly, was
filled with the elite TO view the ceze-
mony one early Autumn morning,
and Miss Jessie, IN orange blossoms
and Brussels lace, sat in the old bar
barrie fashion through the long we'd
ding breakfast, afterward in tiounced
gown and rouud-curtained bonnet, go
ing with her bridegroom for their
honeymoon 10 the Italian lakes. Cap
tain Memo was sailor. aud soon had
to start with his ship on for cruise
OF fifteen months ! think there was
a talk Of h!- wife rolning him, but the
station sele ted was an unhealthy one
so after AZ, she remained in England
with her amt 10 look after her. Let.
tiers were to be very regular, and the
time would soon pass When the let
tiers We're all written and received,
and the very last OF the fifteen months
had dragged itself away, the day ar
rived on which Jessie was to meet her
husband at the railway station. No
one WAS on the platform but Mrs.
Monroe, looking white and strange,
who gave him note to read, and
then took him to his pretty little emp
ty house, from which the inmate had !
flown only that morning to Paris. /
The poor lady we2t, asked that her
carelessness might be forgiven she
had been duped, deceived and would |
never see the wretched girl again. |
Captain Memo was quite gentle. Yes,
he would try to dine with her that
night, and they would talk over what
was best to be done. Then he went
INTO the morning room, where Jessie's
still hung on the wall, and
an hour afterward. when they went
To call him, he was found dead with
a bullet through his heart, clasping
her portrait and her cruel letter in
in his cold fingers. There being no
World or TruM in those days, the
scandal was quietly hushed up. After
a time Mrs. Memo appeared again in
London, but none OF her old friends
noticed her. her own people sternly
cast her OFT. Mrs. Monroe answered
no appeal and formally refused any
communication, and finally when she
died lett not penny OF her fortune
to the errinG niece who had SO grossly I
deceived her. So year after year came .
and went and matters grew from bad
to worse. \ woman educated 30 long
ago WAS No: 80 likely 70 be able 10
help herself - the Girton. trained glrl /
OF the tay, with her practical COM
mon sense, and It became more diih- .
cult FOR her To keep her head above
water. Within the past ten years she
has found occupation, however, and If
you like TO come with me some after
noon All show you where small .
spare woman II neat bonnet and shawl, (
with Inc Ch.na-blue eyes and lint
white hair, diligently sweeps cross
Ing III the Very heart OF her old neigh. /
horhood, which small woman is Mrs.
Monroe niece, the girl who was pre-
'ented To the Queen, who danced at
;. House, who Was married at St.
James PIccadilly. aud had an Italian
She refuses all help now
from anyone - Tarr,to Week.