The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-31
THIS TAKES TIE Oaks.

No Other Tale Like it is Found in All
the Roundelsys of Fiction or Ro-
nance.
The San Antonio correspondent Of the
Globe Democrat sends the following yarn
to that paper:
There recently passed through this city
en- route to the City of Mexico the princi-
pals in a romance stranger than was ever
woven into a drama or story. Nearly
twenty years ago George Duuhaven, a pros
porous young English tradesman, became
involved in a difficulty with neignbor and
killed him. The act was done in self-de-
Tense but the only witness was an enemy Of
Dunhaven, aud he perjured himself for the
sake OF revenge. Dunhaven was held to
answer the charge OF murder. and, seeing
cape aud fed to this country under an as
sumed name. For year he
punched cattle in West Texas,
| then went down into Mexico and
devoted his attention to mining. He pros
| pered, aud in a couple Of years was worth
great deal OF money. In Mexico he met q
| handsome American girl, who was travel.
ing with her father and invalid mother.
An attachment sprang up and they became
engaged, but the father objected. Before
the young lady left Mexico she was secretly
married to Dunhaven. he promising that he
would dispose of his Mexican property and
follow her TO the states There another
| attempt was to be made to overcome the
objections OF the father, and failing, Dun
haven was to claim mis- bride. shortly
after the departure Of the Americans the
| young husband received word from rela-
| tive in England that the witness had made
confession completely exoneratIng him,
and he decided to return to his
native land, clear up bis record
| and vic ri
before claiming bis bride. He wrote TO her
explaining matters. but the letter mscar-
ried. When he returned to America ne
| found his wife's parents both dead and that
she had gone no one knew whittier. He
searched for her during an entire year, then,
concluding that she had abandoned him,
! returned 10 England. There he entered the
British army and was sent abroad. Three
| years ago he left the service and purchased
q handsome home near Manchester and de-
| voted his time to the education of his
widowed sisters children. The governess
| OF the latter was handsome, accomplished
| woman, aud Dunhaven fell desperately in
love with her. Not knowing whether his
first wife was living or dead he did not feel
| at liberty TO declare his passion. He came
| to America and made another exhaustive
but futile search for the missing bride and
returned to England fully satisfied that he
was free man. He laid siege to the heart
VI bIlb bbbLSty kOVGTIbEB anu WAS hCC6DLBu.
| She told him that she mad been once mar
ried but was deserted by her husband, from
whom she subsequently secured q
divorce. By her first marriage
she had one child, a daughter,
who was at school in America. And so
they were welded. Dunhaven's happiness
was soon disturbed, however, by whispers
that his wife had deceived him. A meddle-
some friend suggested that no one had ever
seen a record Of Mrs. Dunhaven's first mar
riage. The wrat1ful husband soundly
cRned the doubtsr OF his wife's honor, but
that only set hundred tongues to waggng
whore one bad wagged before. Like
Othello, Dunhaven began to grow suspicious.
| Like most good husbands he stood little
in awe Of his wife and hesitated to ask her
| for proofs of her first marriage. When he
did so he became so suspicious tt at with
true American spirit his wife told him
| plainly that if he could not depend upon
her unsupported word he was at liberty to
| leave her. Leave her he did but was soon
| back, suing for forgiveness. She graciously
forgave him and then babe him secure
| passage on the next steamer for America.
| Your doubts will return :" she said. 81
must set them at rest forever
She took him directly g the City of Mex
leo, and there showed him the record of
her marriage and introduced him TO the
! priest who performed the ceremony and
who fully identified her. That marriage
register more than set his doubts at rest !;
| it astounded him. 1t proved that in 1875
the woman at his side was not only mar
ried, but married to himself. The wife
was much as,onished as the husband, and
it took them fully an hour to fully under
stand just how it all happened 1t seems
that the young wife, weary Of waiting for
her husband, returned TO Mexico. She
there learned that he had gone to England.
| She followed him, and was search
| ing for him there while he was
searching for her In America. In England
her babe was born, and feeling that she was
deserted by the man she loved she discarded
his name aud took that OF her mother She
| devoted herself 30 teaching and finally re-
\ turned to America Here she secured a
| divorce and placed her daughter In school,
She had not ceased to love the man who had
won her youthful heart, aud made frequent
pilgrimages TO England, hoping, yet dread
ing to see him. During her last visit there
she was wooed and won by the man who
had married her in Mexico 80 many years
before. The daughter was telegraphed for.
| and met her mother and long-lost sire in
this city on their return from Mexico, and
together they proceeded TO England. 1t is
a strange drama in lilo. and one without q
heavy william"