San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-28
The Daily Eight.
TUESDAY, JULY rs, 1891.

Oh IuuCu IlOTt merry anu SucESeIlC
temperament than | was, even when
reused. l hope it is unnecessary for me
TO say that | never listened to her ad-
vice.
Such a proceeding would have been
utterly foreign TO my nature; and though
inactiOn was weighing terribly upon me,
it was really for definite understanding
on the subject of my position that /
longed rather than for the active process
Of separation or reconcilement But |
subdued myself, and, at the end of three
or four weeks, knowing that people gen.
orally had ceased to talk about the mat
ter, l tool: rs digaiied stand as | could,
went to few places and showed myself
bravely, Strengthened my back and held
my head up, and only wore more
scornful smile and more defiant air
when that soulless old harridan, Mrs.
Potiphar, dared to cut me on Walnut
street.
But oh, what blow it was! All that
made life dear to me had been rudely
snatched away from me. | was worse
than undone. Could | see nothing be-
fore me but tiresome progress upward
toward a meager position among the
second rates? The thought was Sicken-
ing! Well, will not weary the reader
by dwelling upon the unhappy feelings
which beset lie. Lite would any SYM
pathizing soul care to hear of my sister,
who came from Lancaster with Il told
you so!'' written in letters of living fire
on a hypocritical forehead and mali
cious CLEAN in a subdued eye, and less,
1 hope, would anybody care to hear of
her admirable husband, who comforted
me by pointing out the opportunities
which would be offered to rue by the
laws of the commonwealth if Mr.. Char
ter prolonged lis stay in Europe for
specified period. 1t is sufficient to say
that my cross was hard to bear, and
months, what with my cares and the
strain On my system, and l am inclined
to think the improved methods of drain
age provided for US by the officials who
are the result of popular system of
government, | fell i'll Of typhoid and
became very low indeed.
1t was Middleton Hall who brought
my husband and myself together again
"a strange ironical decree of fate. l
deserved it of him less than anybody
else-far less than of Bran Boullter, for
Bran was scarcely clear of blame. Mr..
Hall and my husband met in Heidel-
berg, where the former had been for sew
eral years. What impulse prompted
Penny to confde to him | cannot say.
Penny's sudden resolution to go abroad
was comprehensive enough. He has
told me that his first idea was to turn
the city upside down, and that he was
only deferred from doing this by the re-
Election that certain editor of a Sun
day newspaper whom he had once caused
to be put off race course would then
have beautiful chance for revenge.
So it was natural, as say. that he should
conclude that the only safe way to keep
himself from making an awful explosion
was to be off.
But at the time when he met Mr.. Hall
he was beginning to feel quite free of
the whole affair, so | think | have to
thank Providence and Providence alone
for making him take counsel with a man
so fitted to advise and SO honorable of
judgment. The news Of my illness had
not yet reached him. and possibly he
might never have heard of it in time, for
no one knew his whereabouts; it was
ar. Halls grave and digrified advice
(warmed by the feelings which l am
afraid he still cherished toward ma) that
made Penny return home to find me IN
conscious, and, as every one thought
dying.
So il happened that when i returned
TO life for while | found HIM by my
side; and knowing then that bad all
that / feared | had lost determined to
get well-and did. BIT when | recoy-
cred | was 4 different woman. The long
days Of my coIvalescencc, the petlr.
sCins Of my husband. The cheerful p~e e.
ence Of LOTT (and her baby &,.I tn,
earnest words Of Olive and Miss Ma
burn had their effect upon me. d:l'l
uuJ,i to say that | became emotional
Tie leopard cunICf change his spots. nor
the Ethiop his skin. and have alwaJ-s
preserved great contempt for emotion
as q rule Of life.
Penny took me to our own house a.
soon Us possible, and there. leaning back
comfortably in al e1sy chGir il In. bay
winiow where | usually spent the morn
i1-. where tie sGn'' ms cord make
more rosy my paIc hands and CLINT
across the delicate blue folds of my
chamber gown. | unused over my life
wrought ont my repentance and planned
ny reform. Life" [ said to myself
lis a troubled SET, and the only com,
pass for the i.&rls TAT sui upon i is the
commas Of dirty rrhic cnrnr,,..,,.l ,uo. :;