St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-09
RELEASE COMES TOO LATE.
The Hope of Years Blighted at
the Hour of Its Blossoming.

Belgravia.
! The London season was at its height,
and Hyde Park was crowded, when one
afternoon carriages parted in alright to
make from for a pair Of runaway
horses.
For awhile down the long. bare ave-
nue., fringed upon either side with We
hicIes hustled together. whose oceu-
pr N cast startled Chances to right and
to left, the frenzied animals rushed
headIong, dragging after them dainty
little victoria, liz which sat a woman.
The men servants upon the box kept
their seats well. and seemed likely to
regain power over the excited beasts
they strove so assiduously to control
The lady, too, exhibited wondrous
nerve; she did not attempt to escape
from her carriage, but quietly slipping
from her rather elevated seat to the
floor of the vehicle, crouched there as
still as mouse.
just as the issue of this reckless drive
appeared disposed to turn favorably,
just as the painting horses began to an
swer to the reins, an untoward episode
happened.
From a side road y-looking, IN
Obtrusive barOuche, one of those hired
shandrydans in which SUBURBAN resi-
dents love occasionally to drive to Lon
don las great treat" and to mix with
the fashionable at Hyde Park, advanced
straight across the path of the runa-
WAYS.
Instantly they swerved sharp to the
right, catching with one wheel as they
II &c %nr e-ta ~. VaN
this check seemed to serve only as
spur to their movements; not second
did they tarry, but with one wheel en-
tireiy taken off, went bump, bump,
humping on, leaving the footman. who
had been thrown heavily to the ground.
lying senseless in the road.
THE FATAL RUNAWAY.
The number of words that go to de-
scribe this scene represent the number
of minutes occupied in its occurrence
over and over again. Policemen and
bystapders, rushing forward in a vain
attempt to stop the horses. shouted to
the silent woman on the floor of the
carriage not to move for Gods sake.
Nor did she. Not as much as an inch
did she stir, not finger did she raise.
Her white face was perfectly calm, her
darkly-fringed eyelidS We're closed. and
nesting there in the midst of the lovely
white and black silk and lace of the
dainty dress she wore, she looked as If
asleep.
But the dreadful drive was to end.
Suddenly the cOachman tainted and
dropped from his box, the horses dashed
against lamp post. the carriage over
turned. and when they extricated the
unfortunate lady from the debris they
Thought that she was dead.
They took her and the two other
sufferers to st. Georges hospital. hard
by, where it was discovered that though
the men were only shaken. the lady
sustained internal injuries, recovery
from which was extremely problemat-
ical Her relatives, said the surgeon
who attended her, should be COMMUNE
Gated with at once. The men, aues-
toned, made reply that. so far as they
knew. their mistress had no relatives
in London. She had arrived only the
day before from New York, and was
residing in house in Park lane, with
retinue of perfectly new domestics, SO
that there was nothing to be done but
wait.
At O'Clock in the morning following
Right Hon. Cecil CarIyon sat in his lux
iurious study in GrosvenOr place. alone.
There had been hot debate in the
house that night on the subject of the
marriage laws, and Cecil CarlyOn had
taken part in it with even more than his
ordinary enthusiasm.
THINKING OF THE PAST.
SIT Is long ago." he murmured to him.
self, pushing away from his forehead
the heavy dark hair, in which gray was
beginning to mingle, and speaking
aloud i'm the way that one does so often
after silent meditation; ''long ago, and
vet it comes back to me tonight with all
the freshness it ever had. What else
could / expect, though, after such de-
bate?'
He once more gave himself up to
thoughts of the past.
OF fair woman whom, travelling, he
had met in the days when he was a
young man, full of the immense faith IN
the future, of the joyOusness and buoy
ancy of youth, characteristic of men
who are some day TO make their mark in
the world. OF the love they had had
for one another, the love they neither
could have hidden had they striven ever
so much. for before they had even
spoken each one had known that love
was there, and forever.
Of his finding that she was the wife of /
q man who at that time was suffering
the punishment of penal seryitude of |
long duration for forgery and embezzIe-