The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03

Gwendoline Roslyn, young, beauti- ful, and beloved, had vanished.
 In q little while lovely image of senseless human clay would be borne to the deep, dark sea, and the ever complaining river would have no voice to tell how and where she per ished
 They who had cared for her per haps would wonder in vain-search unavailingly. In little while she would pass iron their memories as she had passed from their lives
 In little while she would no long, CT be remembered, even by Vance Wolfarth, her betrothed husband, the tender young lover who had adored her.
 But" Isabel Carew muttered as she stood in the awful solitude Of the rivers black wall-"but he would have loved me had he never seen her. And he will love me now-now that he will never see her again"
 Miss Carew did not continue on the route to Fern court. Instead, she retraced the lonely mile to the little isolated railway station. And few minutes later she was euseonced in the sleeper stateroom of swift train steaming across the country home ward.
 And no one as yet had even sus- pected that she could have revealed aught concerning the lovely and be- loved young creature who had so mysteriously vanished from the sight and knowledge of men.
 Weeks afterward the discolored fragment of a slllen gown and a ruby set bracelet, wrenched apart at the clasp, were found at the river s steep bank And these were the only clews ever discovered to her melan- choly fate.
 And Isabel Carew at tlength had at talned her fondest ambition.
 Vance Noltarth had turned to her for comfort in lis grief.
 And as the weeks and months elaspsed he learned to care for her as dearly, perhaps, as he could ever care for any woman other than the lost darling of his stricken heart.
 As his plighted wife, Isabel Carew would have been quite happy, if only that tragedy by the river would have passed from her remembrance.
 If could only forget-oh, pity ing heaven! Ii only could forget, , was ever her moan.
 The scene was ever before her-the lowering black sky. the great, leaf loS. traao lna,oiprr l;l+, ,,inu+ ,,b,, toms through the gloom, the pale simmer of rushing waters far be- lowl
 Again and ever she could feel the touch oi the flying autumn leaves clammy, clinging things futtering against her face
 She could smell the damp mold, the rain crushed and fading flowers.
 She could see q beautiful white face turned accusingly toward her.
 She could hear tingling cry, a far-away splash of troubled waters.
 Must I go through life thus haunted?' she asked herself. Il can not bear it. It will kill me or drive me mad
 It was the morning of her appoint ed marriage day.
 Vance was in the drawing-rocm.
 He wished himself to place in her own hands the heirloom pearls which the brides of his family had worn for three generations.
 What exquisite things they are. But, Vance, thought pearls were the emblem of tears, she said.
 They signify purity also, he an swered
 A bitter sigh quivered through her lips.
 Could he behold that haunting vision of a black night beside lone ly river, would he hold her worthy to wear those priceless emblems ok purity.
 A sudden mad impulse beset her to throw herself ut his feet, to confess everything, and then to flee where no one who knew her would ever again look upon her lace.
 She flung the gems from her, and turned to him, wild-eyed and shak- ing in every limb
 Had she at that moment some prophetic sense of what was about to happen?
 "Nance, it is true, is 1t not, that you can never give me back love for love? You are fond of me somewhat, but you would never grieve to lose me as you have grieved for hero lsa- bel began.
 Why, lzzie. what has disturbed you? give you all have to give. That first best. closest love is buried with her, as you already know. Why i do you distress yourself now about what we settled long ago." he asked, gently.
 At that moment somebody ad- vauced from the open door behind them, and both turned to look upon the calm, sad, accusing face of Gwendoline Roslyn
 She had not perished, as they be- lieved. She had been saved mirac. ulously by falling into the tangled and elastic branches of the down ward-growing trees and he was only stunned when the waters closed over her.
 The icy water aroused her to con sciousness for the moment. and while vainly trying to swim from the swift current, sine had been rescued by passing yacht.
 Delirium and dangerous illness succeeded. And when she recovered she was among strangers ina foreign Ia, II I