Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-11-01
ALOVER'S HATE.


ruined Cyul ihorpr'> he, and made
hlm recNirS, wtuicrrr over the
face OF the eu n. searching yainly
for rest Years before be had
married Mirlan Gay. She was
eighteen, aud innocent As a CHILD.
The very day of her marriage, Just
when about to set on, on her hon'
eymoon, She hal disappeared.
The my> ery ot her departure
was cleared, when letter was dis.
covered n her room, forged in inl.
tation of his Handwriting. The
writer stated tina, his only object
in marrying Ter was from pity aud
not from love. Many OF er cruel
thiugs was iu his letter calculated
70 torture such "a sensitive mad as
Mirrah's, aud provoee her to iun
away in despair.
Cyril was hearl0rokeu at the
thought of his tender young wife
wandering helpIessly about the
country and took every possible
step 10 find out where she had
gone. Bur All his work was IN
vain.
One da, as he NaS passing
through a. erce1 country lane ne
saw Young woman pass by so
much like MirIah that he was
tempted 10 cry out;
"Mlrrah Ny wiie-my darling !
Don't leave me now-it Is l, don't
YOU know me? 1t Is Cyril-your
husband"
But she might have been spirit
from some other world for any no.
tice she took OF him, and almost
fearing that she was--that she
would disappear as suddenly as
she had come he followed slowly
after her.
But Mirrah did no; disappear.
She KEEP steadily Oh, never pausing
or turning around until she cane
to little cottage on the edge OF a
wood; and when She entered 10y
the open door Cyril eutered after
her. She Mas sitting Oy a small
table scitiug the yiOicts Sue had
taken from her bat, and she seemed
10 neiih,i sec nor bear him. An
el.erl. iauy Was sitting III "A wood
EN- caa... and g.. crn'ch that l"an-
riaeuu>l % ioid inat size WIS a
crppl,, tor >hc did nof Use :" rc'
tulu Gym, sao-dion, though
she badc bim pleasant good e'-
ening and pointed to another char
near that occupied by Mirrah
To his eager words, and tue
story OF his search for Mlrfah and
his relationship to her, the crippled
woman told a snort and simple
story in return.
"She came to us one evening
last tall. She wore just such a
dress as you describe. | have put
1t away safe, and you can see It,
She was very pale and tired-looking
and her shoes we're worn and
dusty, as il she had walked long
way perhaps for days; and her eyes
were wild and bright, as if she
hadn't slept for long time. She
didn't speak to us, and we have
never heard her voice but she
came right in and sat down, and
we we're joyful to have her. We
had buried our only child few
y eeks before, my old man and me,
and We wer, nearly crazy with
grlef; and 1t sc,mci as II Heaven
lad sent this gill TO take her place.
She has never noticed us or return
ID eur love the least bit, but we
ire grateful all the same, for she
iayed us from going mad with
sorrow for our Mary, and now we've
earned 10 bear our loss with
patience. We thought this poor
girl was dumb, and deaf, too, at
irst but after a while we noticed
hat she always looked up and
,miled when she heard the birds
singing; and sometimes she turned
lnd smiled on us when We called
ler name for We called her Mary,
and maybe it sounded like her own
name, sir; you c they're not so
iiferent, Mary and Mirrah. Well
We called her Mary and she was as
our own child 10 US; ald she wore
our daughters clothes, aud came
and went about the house as she
pleased. But we've always telt
that she was onEy sent for time,
and that by and by her OwD would
fnd her and claim her. We've
been prepared for that, and we're
willing. Why didn't we advertise
il, or see anythIn' about it in the
papers' Why, sir, we never see a
paper IN tlis lone place, not once
In a month; and it we did, perhaps
we'd have taken no notice. There's
nothln' So selfish as griei, and she
seemed sent to Us. But she's done
her work here, and you've found
her. We're glad, an we're willing
TO have her go.'
And Cyril took bis wife home
with hi and at first there seemed
little hope that she would eyer be
ANYTHING but the dumb, statue-lke
creature he had found her. But
gradually there came a change.
Mirrah spent nearly all her days
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