Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-02-08
A Real Romance.

heard MS | came from ''Partners" the
other night. About forty years ago
a Mrs. Monroe, a childless widow
With large fortune, took a house
in Curzan street for the season, and
wanting a companion, bethought
her of her niece, Jessie, the eldest
daughter of a clergyman in Scotland,
young lady only just out. The
girl was written for, came and
proved great success, for she was
an excellent dancer, exceedingly pref
ty and blessed with a good diges-
ton and consequently with a good
temper. 1t was after the May draw
ingroom, at which she had beer pre-
sented, and ut the ball at S. House,
that captain-shall We call him
Nemo?-meeting her for the first time,
fell desperately in love before the end
of the evening. A few rides in the
early morning by the Serpentine, Il
few "drums" in the Arlington street
or park lane, the opera twice, the
theater once, endless dinners, routs
and balls, and then, just at the end
of the season, he proposed and was
accepted. The lover, having little
money, Mrs. Monroe generously
agreed to give her niece an allowance,
and insisted ON the marriage taking
place in town, instead of upsetting
the quiet little mause close to the loch
on the west coast. So st. James,
Piccadilly' was filed with the elite TO
view the ceremony one early
autumn morning, and Miss Jes-
sic in orange blossoms and
Brussels lace, sat in the old barbaric
fashion through the long wedding
breakfast, afterward in tlounced
gown round-curtained bonnet, going
with her bridegroom for their honey
moon to the Italian lakes. Captain
Memo was a sailor, and soon had to
start with his ship for cruise Of fif.
teen months. / think there was a
talk of his wife joining him, but the
station selected was an unhealthy
one, so, after all, she remained in
England with her aunt to look after
her. Letters were to be very regular.
and the time would soon pass. When
the letters were all written and re-
ceived, and the very last OF the fifteen
months had dragged itself away, the
day arrived on which Jessie was to
meet her husband at the railway sta
ton. No one was on the platform
but Mrs. Monroe, looking white and
strange, who gave him notice to
read, and then took him to his pref
ty little empty house, from which the
inmate had flown only that morning
to Paris. The poor lady wept, asked
that her carelessness might be for
giveE; she had been duped, deceived
and would never see the wretched girl
again Captain Memo was quite gen.
tie. Yes, he would try to dine with
her that night, and they would talk
over what was best to be done. Then
he went into the morning room,
where Jessie's miniature stillhung on
the wall, ard an hour afterward. when
they went to call him, he was found
dead with bullet through his heart
clasptng her portrait and her cruel
letter in his cold fingers. There being
no World or Truth in those DAYS.
the scandal was quietly hushed ~.
After a time Mrs. Memo appeared
again in London, but none OF her old
friends noticed her, and her own PEG.
pie sternly cast her OIL. Mrs.
Monroe answered no appeal and for.
mally refused any communication
and finally when she died left not 4
penny Of her fortune to the erring
niece who had so grossly deceived
her. 80 year after year came and
went, and matters grew from bad TO
worse. A woman educated SO long
ago was not so likely to be able t1
help herself as is the Girton trained
girl OF the day, with her practical
common sense, and ii became more
for her to keep her head
above water Within the past ten
years she has found occupation. how.
ever, and if you like to come with mo
some afternoon lean show you where
q small spare woman in neat bonnet
and shawl, with fine China-bIue owes
and lint-white hair, diligently sweeps
q crossing in the very heart Of her
old neighborhood, which small
woman is Mrs. Monroe's niece, the
girl who was presented to the queen
who danced at 5, house, who was
married at st. James, PiccadiIly
and had an Italian honeymoon,
She refuses all help now from any
one.