The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-08-23

Was days 0n0r weeks Before the CHASTITY
frightened look left MS face. months be-
fore ceased to fear that he would die
OF sorrow. and stayed With the chill
dren. And SO another year went By
Then it was spring time. remember.
and all the orchards were full Of bios
SONS. pink and white. Frank came to
me as / sat at work in the shadow of the
two or three trees In our little village
garden and sat down at my feet.
Faithful little woman" he said Il
wonder If you know how dear you are
to meSr
Itrembled, and my heart throbbed so
could scarcely breathe.
you are rich and am not, !" he said;
shut know you win not think that |
am a fortune hunter am q sort Of
wreck of what was. | think some
thing went ont of me when my poor
Evangeline was Iost-that is, youths
essence. feel it--and look how gray
am growing But | long for dear
fIiend-for woman's tenderness a
wife who will be what you can be TO me.
viii you have me, such as am, with
my children and my saddened spirit,
and all my hnperfections on my heady'
/ Would II | dared not speak; but
put my hand in his. knew he did not
| give me the love he had given poor
Gladys but should have a right to live
near him--to receive his caresses-to be
all to him that felt could be-
He shall love me yet as passionately
as man ever loved woman | said to
myself, when, no more depressed, no
more afraid Of loving him too well, am
once his wife"
was happy as the angels are for
little space.
We were to be married very soon, but
as yet had told no one had my we'd
! ding dress sent down from the city, vii
lage gossips knew nothing of it, and one
evening went to my room to try it on.
1t became me wei. 1t was a pale
pearl silk with a pretty white bonnet,
and in that / was to walk up the church
aisle on the next morning. We were to
have little journey and return.
Il am pretty again." | thought to
myself 1.-THE looks lost long ago
have come back to me in my joy" and
went up the glass and kissed my own
reflection
i As my lips touched the mirror heard
sound below--a wild cry. a scream of
fear, shout of JOY. What had hap
/ pened2
| rushed to the head of the stairs.
They were dark. The hall below was
fully lighted. Under the blaze of the
swinging lamp | saw Frank Barron
holding his wife Gladys in his arms. She
wore travelling dress. His sudden
clasp had caused her cap to fall to the
! ground and all her colder hair to escape
from its comb Living and lovely she
stood there embraced by him.
rushed back to my room. tore off my
dress. hid it. locked it safe from sight
donned the gown that came first to
hand, cried ..God help mel" and went
down the stairs. By this time he had
her in the parlor, and was looking at her
through his tear wet eyes.
'.As beautiful as ever" he cried-"as
beautiful as everi''
''Thank God, Gladysi" | cried. And
surely thanked God that she had come
when she did. She kissed me. but not
warmly.
/ Fancy me all this time on a desert
island. said she. Il had to go back TO
London for clothes and money. and
thought it best not to cable"
/ Her tones were fippant her looks de-
faint
'.I'ired of taking care of the babies?"
she asked. How do they look? They
won't know me.
Later she came to my room.
II heard you were going to marry
Frank, she said. Hadn't you better
confess? On the whole. suppose you'd
like to leave us?''
Il have packed my trunk" | said.
GLADYS. you must have suffered; tell
me about your life on the island How
could you keep so well. so fresh, so
bloomingf"
81 can't bear to talk of it." said she,
"It was horrid of course. How old and
| ugly Frank has grown"
with grief for you,p said L
| She laughed and left me.
was gone next morning without
| adieus.
A little later met an English friend.
She took my hands.
II thought you would give Mrs, Bar
ron up she said "Her husband has
taken her back after all
cit is no crime to be cast on a desert
island" said |.
desert islandl' she laughed. did
she tell him that story? She lost the
steamer and went back to her own
/ house. She found it hard to leave some
one she had come to know, and when
the boat was lost she made capital of it
in America. We knew she spent good
many months and good deal of money
in the Isle Of Wight, and her temper
was too much even for Lord -. So
she came from desert standard he
believes it. How funnyf"
| never saw either of them again.
a Joker Taken Down.
In his desire to be thought wit. Nash
was sometimes brutal in his jokes, and
on one occasion received smart repri-
mand. He was walking in the grove
when he met two ladies, one of whom
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