St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-26
ONE TEAR.

through the Vaccinations of a jealous
woman. who, failing to inspire love
in the husband, had set herself to work
to make the couple unhappy. The
meeting was strictly business one that
brought them together. Some legal pa
pers assuring separation had to be dis
cussed and signed by both parties.
There was a wild, implOring glance i'll
the mans eyes when they fell on the
Wife's face, but she did not seem to no
tice it. She seemed nervous and dis
spirited, and the white hands trembled
visibly, and she did not dare to raise
her eyes for some time.
She was richly dressed in plain black
velvet, that set off her superb figure.
She was much his junior, but woman
i'm the prime of beauty'S summer.
He thought of his lost happiness with
many pang and of this woman he
could never call by the sacred name of
wife again. A harsh decree OF law had
snatched her from his side forever.
This stately, beautiful lady was ''Mrs.
Jernyngham" now, for him as for all
others. He had no right to take her
hand or clasp her in his arms. He must
still the beating of his aching, agOniZ-
ing heart and address her as he might
dluIcSS tilC GtllcSU StIdIlStI VI utI SSN.
1t was terrible effort. He made it
bravely and succeeded better than he
had hoped.
She looked up with start of sur
prise, as his cold and measured tones
fell on her ear. She turned deathly
pale as she met his eyes, and then the
color rushed back to her face in an over
wheiming tide of crimson. She took
the chair he brought her without a
word and leaned her head upon her
hand.
Presently she looked up. Her eyes
avoided his. But her manner was per-
fectly quiet now, and her face was calm,
though pale.
eve will go on now with eur bust
ness, if you please, SIr," she SAID, in a
voice as measured as his own had been.
He bowed low and drew a chair near
the table where she was seated. Spread
ing two formidable-looking documents
on the table before her. he began eX-
planning their nature and contents as
calmly as if he had been some smoke
dried lawyer and she his client.
She listened in silence.
''You fully understand the nature of
this deed-Mrs.-ma he said,
when he had concluded.
"I do"
care you satisfied with the provisions
herein made for your future? Can any
thing more be done? Can | be-
His voice faltered little and broke.
Her hand, hand lying on the edge of the
legal document, trembldd slightly.
II am perfectly satisged, sir,'; she
answered at last.
.'Then you will have the goodness to
sign your name within that blank"
A pretty, fanciful inkStand of mala-
chite and ormOlu stood on marble
slab at the further end Of the room.
He rose to bring it. Her dark gray
eyes followed him-was it with look
of yearning love? If so he knew it not.
Returning, he placed the open parch-
ment sheet before her and pointed to
the blank.
She took up the pen.
voice, and again that crimson tide
brow.
"Your-yOur own. madame!" he an
swered, coloring painfully in his turn.
'AleXia Jernyngham."
She wrote it calmly. and in full free,
flowing hand. And he looked on the
while, thinking of other days when In
their own home, he had often watched
her proudly and fondly, as she signed
another name.
Throwing down the pen as the last
letter was formed, she rose to her feet.
He rose also.
FareWell-madamr he said in
broken voice. And again the dark blue
eyes were bent upon the downcast face
with passionate, despairing look.
Her breast heaved convulsively once
or twice. She put her white hand sud-
denly up to her throat as If something
had stopped her breath. Her hand met
the golden chain.
from her neck, revealing beautifully
executed miniature, set closely in bor-
der of fOrget-me-nOts, formed with rare
skill from clusters of precious gems.
His quick eye fell upon the portrait
his own face! And she had worn it
next her heart through these two lonely
years in spite of all.
The chain flashed brightly in the air;
the precious stones blaZed in the sum
light; the diamond-guarded wedding
ring shone like circle of living fire. as
she tore it hastily from her hand and
dashed it, with the picture, at his feet.
stake them!" she cried, wildly.
''Them away from my sight forever!
Oh, wish could tear every thought of
you from my breaking heart"
And as she spoke, something brighter
than the diam0nds-of infinitely greater
value than gems, or gold, of the finest
skill-f1aShed also in the sunlight and
fell upon her cheek.
1t was tear.
He saw it and his heart beat high.
Yet even in that moment pride must
come between them
He stopped for the treasure at his
feet.
"Alexia," he said, gravely, eff l take
these it must only be to give them
back to you again. Shall it be SO, my
darling2"
The once familiar pet name fell
slowly and hesitatingly from his lips.
But still she heard it. She came step
nearer. The tears fell faster now, and
the white hand she held out to him
trembled like a leaf.
my husbandD
ooh, my wife! my wife,
And holding her her to his lOng-wid-
owed heart the strong and stately man
laid his proud head upon the WOman'S
shoulder and wept.
The next day saw their second bridal.
No enemy can ever come between them
more. They are bound too firmly to
each other now ever to be separated eX-
cept by the cruel hand of death.
Ringlets to Be Worn Again.
81 feel almost afraid to tell" said
New York hair-dealer, ''of fashions
lot RI ny1c mi