Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-10-25

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hand. tightly cixstsd hsaind his back Aud
he he had throsu coo arm aroand her WAIST
whi.e ais left band. hanging BY his ssaes
zraspesi xhits ruse. not yet f&aed
me count had fallen On bis kneeA In
aash- be had measured all the depth Of biz
,iishonor The years Of love and hAppsneA.
he ,aw tnssu suddenly nluu,sd in all their
startling reality. polluted by lying care.1
and ,ieceitfui Kiss
He ayuroaenst and leaned over. 10 yiev
the features u him who had caiisd tbs iAss
sigh, the last vow Of the psrlured wife, ous
he re.,o,.ed in disgust The hssa Of The man,
crushed. almost detached from tue body, waa
bat a olessiing MASS III q ssa Life had guarded
their secret, and nos sieash ssened still TO
favor tt,em. giving up 70 the dishonored huS
bard nothing but an unrecognixAbie and dis
figured body he looked again. searching
for seine trace, spuie marx which would naso
a nams ia, from the darknes-the name COW
etsi by his jealousy aud his rage' The whin
hands bore uD rings
The tsody, slender and elegant, appeared 70
b. tina, of a Young man II was an impene
trable corl,~e resolved to guard its secret.
The count Questioned the motiorless ups OF
his vile. which must have often let paA
the name Of Tn. beloyed-they remained mute.
In a frenzie.i prayer, broken by blaspheinies,
he called on God to deliver up to him. on the
instant. the abhorred name God answered
not DuIy, ON the wall overhead the turtle
dove coed 10 It's giided cage. All II the oiru
Of love could only speak.
Then after passing his hand acroes M
brow. the count, moving mechanically
STONED down and placei one knee on ha
wife's breast, and, holding her thus, endea-
yorei To separate her from this man y oody-
this body on which Love and Death bad cru
Gifted ner. 1t was long and diffcult TASK
As well try TO untwine serpents or to tear
away the ivy from the trunk Of the ancient
oak
AT last the rigid arms relaxed on either
side. and the outraged husband. putting an
end TO this odious embrace. repossessed him
self Of the body Of his wife, which the corpse
of the lover had still disputed with him
Then he sat down between them, like judge
and awaited the day
In the early dawn, with the aid OF soms
peasants. he buried his wife under the shadow
OF a little tig tree in garden close at hand
The remainder Of the day he walked the
island stopping the soldiers, the workmen,
every one whom he met, and led them up to
the corpse He showed every sign Of ths
most profound grief.
He believed. he said. that he had found the
body OF u dear friend, but he was not absO-
iutely sure. and he offered 1000 scudi to the
person VINO could tell him with certainty the
name Of the dead man. In spite Of the enor-
inou, sum- no one could identify the body.
-fhe count had it inferred separately. at his
own expense, in a corner OF the Casamicciola
cemetery
Since then no searches ceaselessly for this
nane-which he is condemned never to know
less jealous Of the man who, living. stole
from him his wifes heart, than Of the myste-
rious corpse which hsi 10 insolently duped
him. Translated for The Argonaut from the
French Of Henri Lavedan by Il. c. r