New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-05
FORGIVEN.

IONUl Y Elm.
One morning my cousin Hilda came
Ito me and said:
eve are going to be married
Richard and l.
Richard Gale? You are to marry
Richard Gale?' I asked.
'SWe love each other" she answer
ed.
Now, had introduced those two,
and Richard had called Hilda a
statue, and spoke of her as cold" I
never dreamt he would come to be
her lover, and [ confess I was not
glad to hear it. l could not say Ire
joiced, but [ kissed her and, as time
went on, I began to fancy that all
would be we'll and they happy.
was sewing on some white muslin
one day not long before that of the
wedding, when Richard came up the
steps of the veranda and sat down
near me, lingering my work:
''Do you think Hilda is really fond
of me, Georgette?" he said after "a
space Of silence.
laughed.
"Women always laugh said he.
"She is so calm; she has no passion
in her eyes. [ have tried to make
her Jealous, and cannot do it."
Il won't laugh this time" said L;
;'but I'll tell you one thing; you might
enjoy having jealous sweetheart,
but you will be very glad that your
wife has confidence in you"
II have my doubts" said Richard.
"Oh, I'm an idiot, I know! Hilda is
perfection-only l like a spice Of evil
in a woman now and then. Do you
know Stella Rivers?''
II have met Mrs. Rivers" said /
IAN ugly woman with a temper
mo man ever called Stella ugly, !"
said he. She makes more conquests
in a day than other women make in
a year. She always puts me in mind
of a humming- bird-she fairly quiz
7rs. And such chic dresses as she
wears"
''How French we are!' said I.
Il cannot help it when l talk CT
Stel1a," said he. She is Parisienne
at heart; she lived there for years,
you know. There is very little of
the frozen Puritan about Stell.''
''Stell?" said I.
"Well, old Rivers calls her Steu, !"
said he.
Her husband" asked /.
''You have sarcastic tone to your
voice tonight" said Richard, land
- it does not improve you, Miss Georg-
eta. Her husband. Yes and her
greatest admirer."
"Well, SO long as he is pleased mo
.one need find any fault, said L
'That stupid Mr.. Alsopp asked her
after her papa the other evening
Stella didn't mind" said Richard:
she thinks it a great joke.
And lust then Hilda came down the
stairs, and we said no more of Mrs
Rivers. She was woman detested
She had married an old man whose
wife had not been dead year on
their wedding-day, and people said
she was engaged to him before the
Did lady died. He had settled most
of his money, on her, and she hirted
terribly, stilllher wealth kept her in
society. Oh,iT did not like her, nor
this talk of Richards about her.
D. | liked it less when one evening,
having accepted aninyatation to the
theatre saw Richard sitting with
Mrs. Rivers.
He had told HAda that he was OBJ
.Iiged to attend toisome business that
evening
This was business ola curious sort,
truly Still, next day, while / was
wondering whether Ut was my duty
TO make mischief, / received a little
note from him-
Miss GsoRGETTg.-Ars. Rivers asked me
TO be her escort h5 said. Rivers had lit
tie touch of gouu.and the tickets were bought
and would have been wasted. 1t was quite
tmpromptu. / had not thought what was
doing, and was on my way to Kilda. saw
you were Mortified, so explain.
RICHARD
1t struck me that a woman whose
husband was i'll should have stayed
ssgith him, and I only half believed the
Story. Still, / should only trouble
Hilda by mentioning what [ had
seen.