The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-17
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Jealou Causes husband and Wife Five
Years of Sadness.

Jealousy Causes "a Husband and Wife Five
Years of Sadness.
An interesting story. forming romance
In real life. has lately come to the surface
if Findlay, ..
Several years ago. In an interior town
OF New York, Charles Reemlin and Lbble
Harriet were married and together lived
happily for year or more, when the tus-
band began to receive anonymous letters
stating that his wifa Was not true to him.
He had no reason for suspicion. and paid
no attention to the cowsrdly COM
munications. 1t was not long. how
ever, after these letters commenced
coming before he was unexpectedly
detained from his homo until about
o'clock In the morning. As he neared his
house on that night he was surprised to
soc his wife standing In the doorway talk
Ing with q young man. The couple con-
versed for . few minutes, and then the
gentleman took his leave. first bidding
Mrs. Reemlin an affectionate good-by, the
husband In the mean time watching them
from a shadowsd point some distance
away. The sight before his eyes was but
q realization of the warnings he had re-
ceived In the anonymous letters, and he
was forced 70 believe that his wife was,
indeed, false. He was driven to despera-
ton, for he loved the woman, and previous
to this she had conducted herself toward
him In such manner as to make 1t impos-
sbIs to find ground for the least suspicion
OF disloyalty.
While rejecting on his wrstched discov-
cry, an early morning train whistled for
the local station. and. without q second OF
thought, he went to the depot and boarded
the cars. He had no particular destina-
ton in view. his only desire being to get
away as far as possible from his faithless
wife. He rode on and on until many miles
lay between him and his once happy
home. Finally he went into the oil fields
of Pennsylvania. and became a spsculator.
Fortune, however, was tickle, and when he
came to Findlay he had nothing. and was
forced to work In the oil regions north OF
the city as common laborer for board
and lodgings.
1t was five years ago when he suddenly
left his home, under the circumstances
related and, in the mean time, neither
Reemlins wife nor snyof his people knew
anything OF his whereabouts. They could
never account for his unceremonious
departure. and. after a long time without
hearing from him, concluded he was dead.
Strangely enough, however. a short
time ago, while on the street. Mr. Reem-
lin came face TO face with an old uncle.
The two recognized each other. and In the
course OF the long conversation that fol-
lowed the cause OF Reemlin's abrupt lesv-
ing OF homo five years before was men-
toned. Reemlin made q clean breast Of
the matter to his relative, and at It's con-
clusion was surprised TO hear that al
these years he had been laboring under
cruel misapprehenslon. He was delighted
to learn that his wife was not. and never
had been untrue, and that she still re-
NAMED loyal to him. hoping against hope
that he would one day return to her. The
man whom the husband had seen talking
TO his wife on the doorstep on the night
he left homo was none other than her
brother whom he had never seen. and who
had unexpectedly made them visit. Not
being able to stay all night and wishing
to see his sisters husband, he had re-
mained until that hour. waiting for him
to come home. II was impossible to walt
longer, as the train on which he was TO
leave was then almost due, and it was
whom parting from his sister that the
husband saw them. and the same train
that bore Reemlin away from his SEEM
ingly disRraced home carried the inno-
cent author Of the trouble to the far West.
WIcIc ho sthi AiVVe, uhCoHScioho VI viz
part he played In the melodrsma OF his
sisters life. 1t has since been discovered
that the anonymous letters were written
by a girl to whom. Reemlin had at one
time been engaged and who had hoped to
regain his affections.
The revelations to Mr.. Reemlin by his
uncle made the man more desperate than
on the night he abandoned his wife: and
the thought OF the anguish he had caused
her and the wrong he had done her was
aim ost more than he could bear. He lost
no time, however, In communicating with
the woman who had always been true to
him, and in q short while received an an
swer. In which she pleaded for his imme-
diate return. His friends made up sum
OF money for him, and on the first Of the
week he started on his homeward jour
ney. his heart beating high with the JOY
GUS thought Of a speedy reunion with the
wife he had not seen for five long years.