Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-11-06

Il can't imagine what"
You love and would possess for your
very own Eugene Cleveland"
Flora smiled bitterly, but made no,
reply; o,,... -. :.
life"
Revenge On himf~
mo. IloEs Flora Cleveland, his wife.
She must be mine"
Il still fail to understand what interest
We have in common"
must separate the two, and that in q way
that will leave no lingering trace of affec-
ton between them"
I'm becoming interested, smiled the
siren, as she threw herself languidly
upon a sofa, and waved her caller to
char.
Then, in hurried tones, SIyme related
how Flora believed her husband guilty Of
her intended murder.
"A bold move now, said he. in con-
clusiOn, and the thing will be accom-
plished."
Il will join you In the enterprise"
Oscar Slyme noted the changed express
sion upon the beautiful woman's face,
and inscribed it to the inward promptings
of her insane and guilty love.
With all his shrewdness, he was wrong;
indeed he could not have been farther
from the truth
Love for Eugene Cleveland had forever
departed from the heart of Cora Elliston,
or rather it had turned to hate, and that
of the kind which the poet placed de-
gree below that engendered in the in
fernal regions, when he wrote: He'll
hath no fury Ike a woman scorned."
This change of sentiment on her part
was favorable to Eugene Cleveland, for
the Love of such woman is more blight
ing and destroying than her bitterest most
implacable hate.
1t was full hour before Slyme with
drew, and when he did SO plan had
been agreed upon.
But let us return to Roxbury, toward
which all indications point as the scene
Of a coming tragedy.
dreadful night. he never fully realized.
The wickedness Of his past life rose be-
fore him like q Veritable phantom.
He realized now that what he had
thought to be love for Cora had been
passion only. Even in his despair and
black remorse. he could not comprehend
how he had been SO long enslaved, and
had been led into such guilty courses.
AS he thought of his loving, trusting
wife and innocent child, full sense OF
what he had lost, or rather cast aside,
dawned upon him, and he burst into bit
ter tears.
I never loved another" moaned he.
Then, with feeling akin to guilt, he
| thought of his lost Mildred.
@She was pure and good, said he. and
had she lived we might have been happy
! together, and this frightfuI nightmare,
from which have just awakened, been
| avoided; but now know that never en-
| tertained for her the love do for Flora.
| I havo trifed away my life, my earthly
happiness, and my hope of heaven"
Thus tortured by bitter reflections, he
had wandered away from the rocky chasm
| nj he oh he
| house.
The night had long since passed, and
the sun was mounting high into the
| heavens.
With a start he raised his eyes and
realized his position.
A second shock ran through his nerves
as he saw two persons approaching the
| house.
One he recognized as Warran Leland.
His compan ion, O closely yelled lady
Eugene did not recognize. though he
thought he detected something familiar
Another moment and they had ente red
| the mansion.
With the privilege of q story tell or, lei
us follow them.
As the reader has no doubt surmised,
the yelled lady was Mildred the wife, the
lawful wife of Eugene Cleveland.
The scene which ensued was too pain
full one to describe in detail.
Flora had been crushed before. She
was overwhelmed now.
To be widowed without having been
ever legally a wife, was a thought toe
terrible for her to hear, and for time hel
reason seemed likely to be overthrown.
AS for Mrs. Leland, Warren, and Mil
dred, their condition was but little better
Il have regained my memory, came
back to my old life, only to encounter
misery" mo ned Mildred. Il loved Eu-
gene once, but that is now a thing of tn,
past; am bound to him by the law
while my heart is bestowed upon an
other"
At this juncture the door-bell rang
and to clap the climax, to add, if posi-
BILE, to the anguish that possessed tn
quartette, Oscar Slyme and Cora Ellis
ton were ushered into the parlor.