Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-08-23

Selling her ut hazard by the slou-
ders, he began tolift her toward nim'
Three times he raised her, ana three
times was he forced to let her lail
hack. She seemed terrible heavy, as
If some enormous weight were sus'
pended from her feet, At last, gain
ering up all his strength, he succeed
ed and dragged forth something
which he did not mt first dare TO loon
Mt, and placed it near him on the
stones.
But he had scarcely cast his eyes
on it when no uttered piercing cry
IA cry OF rage and horror.
His wife dead, with hair loosely
flowing, an ecstatic smile on her ups
held in her arms-a man! On. now
she strained him to her, with hands
tightly clasped behind his back! And
he-he had thrown one arm around
her waist, while his left hand, hang
ing by his side, grasped a white rose
not vet faded.
The count had fallen on his knees,
In flash he had measured all the
depth OF his dishonor, Years Of love
and happiness, he saw them sudden
ly illumed in all their startling real.
ity, polluted by lying caresses ana
deceitiul kisses.
He approached and leaned over, to
view the features OF him who had
culled the last sigh, the last vow 81
the perjured wife, but he recoiled ~
disgust. The head of tine man, crush
ed, almost detached from the body,
was but II bleeding mass OF flesh.
| life had guarded their secret. and
now death seemed still 10 favor
them, giving up TO the dishonored
husband nothing but an unrecog'
nizable and distigured body lie
\ looked again, searching for some
4 trace, some mark which would flash
a name ont from the darkuess-the
name coveted by his jealousy and
/ his rage. The white hands bore no
rings.
The body, slender and elegant ap-
peared TO be that oil young man
/ 1t was an impenetrable corpse, re-
solved to guide its secret. IhecOuni
questioned the motionless lips Of hi.
wife, which must have so often III
pass the name OF the beloyed-thc
remained mute. Ina frenzied prayer
broken by blusphemies, he called 81
God 20 deliver mp 10 HIM. on the IN
slant. the ubhorred name. God an
swered not Only, on the wall over
head, the turtle dove cooed in it,
gilded cage. All! if the bird Of loy,
could only speak
Then, after passing his hand aero 3
his brow, the count, moving mechan
ically, stopped down and placed on
knee on his wiie's breast. and hold
ing her thus, endenvored TO separat
her from this mans body-this bod,
on which Love and Death had cru
Gifted her. 1t was a long and Difficult
task. As welltry to untwiue serpent
or to tear away the ivy from th
trunk OF the ancient oak.
At last the rigid arms relaxed o
. either side, and the outraged hu,
band, putting an end TO this udiou
, embrace, repossessed himself oil III
body OF his wife, which the corpse Z
the lover had still disputed with him
Then he sat down between them, ILL
a judge, and awaited the day.
In the early dawn, with the aid {
some peasants, he buried his wife vi
, der the shadow Of n little fig tree,
u garden close ut hand. The remain
! der OF the day he walked tile islant
stopping the soldiers, the workmel
! every one whom helmet, and led thel
! up to the corpse. lie showed ever
| sign of the most profound grief.
He believed, he said, that lie ha
: found the body Of a dear friend, bt
, lie was not absolutely sure, and
I offered 10000 scudi to the perso
who could tell him with certnint
, the name of the dead man. In spi
Of the enormous sum, no one rou
! identify the body. The count had
/ inferred separately, at his own 9
pense, in a corner of the Casamiccio
( cemetery.
i Since then he searches cnnsplpss
for this name-which he iscondemn,
a never to know less Jealous OF Ii
man who, living, stole from him Il
wife's heart, than Of the mysterio
? corpse which had so insolently dun
: him. -Translatud for The Arnona
: from the French Of Henri Layed.