The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-10-22
A WOMAN'S ROMANCE.
A Wife in Name OnIy-She Had
No Love for the Man She
Married.

IN WIZ III 4NstiIlC Otly-SHC EIi't
No Love for the Man She
Married.
A rather odd divorce case came up
before Judge Hebbard few days ago.
1t was that of man and woman who
had beel married for twenty years,
and in all that time the wife clung
steadfastly to the memory of her first
love, and was, as her intimate friend
expressed it, ga wife in name only"
Whatever prompted her to leave
hes first love and marry the other
beau1
Spite. They had a lovers quarrel
one day, and before she came out
of her pet she had promised to marry
the other man, and she kept her pro-
mise.
For twenty years she lived like a
sister with her husband. Day and
night in all that time her thoughts
dwelt on her first and only love. Then
she could stand her position no Ion
ger, and she left the man she called
her husb and.
The two married in Pennsylvania
in 1872. At that time William Kriner
was 20 years Of age. He was black
smith by trade, but he had received a
very good education and stood high
in the mechanical art of his craft, and,
for mechanic, was able TO provide
his wife very superior home.
From the day of our marriage,
though, he said, my wife kept me at a
distance. At first | was more than
astonished, but the reason soon came
out. She loved her first beau alone
and has vowed always to remain faith
full to him.
ALI the while, though, she was
most excellent woman about the house.
She did the chores and looked after
my personal welfare in way that
made me love her more and more. |
loved her dearly and would have given
fortune, everything l possessed, to
have won her regard.
Were you ever fond of the society
of other ladies.
No, sir, was the reply. l never saw
the peer of my wife In my l;fe. She
was most beautiful girl and l loved
her too well to care for any
other woman. Some time before she
left me she kept harping on the
thoughts. How foolish a woman is
to live with man she does not care
Tor What life it is to live apart from
the man you love
Mrs. Lena Longenbaker, an init,
mate friend of the Kriners when they
all lived together in Slatington, told me
particularly how Mrs. Kriner regarded
her married life. In our confidential
chats, said the witness, Mrs. Kriner
often spoke about the peculiar posi-
ton IN which she had placed herself.
She frequently told me that she did
not love her husba2S -t4:st -tAes--co1rr -sne count
not love HIM m6ecause her heart was in
the possession of her first beau. She
complained bitterly of the weary days
and nights she had spent in iamentng
the hasty step she had taken in marry
ing another man. 1t was done in a
pet, a lovers quarrel.
A few days before she left VIII she
came to me and told me she was going
away, never to return. asked her
why. She said she could not stand
the life any longer. Will was good
ness itself, but the old love kept tugg
ing at her heart strings, and she could
resist no longer. Life was fast losing
all charms for her, she said, and she
would never be happy unless she was
with her old beau, the only man she
ever loved.
Very often she confessed to me that
if she had not met her first beau her
heart would have been won by the
kindness and solicltude of MIR. Kriner.
He did everything for her that man
in his position could do for woman,
and she often spoke of his goodness.
l tried to point out to her the foolish.
ness of what she was dong, but she
said nothing in the world could change
her resolve.
All this while she was corresponding
with her first beau, who was in a dis
tant portion of the country. She showed
me some of his letters and read me
portions of her own to him. | tried
to persuade her to drop all thoughts
of him. She became provoked and
told ME l had no idea what true love
was.
Some time after the wife left her
husband he came to this State and
located. By accident he learned that
his wife was residing in Allentown, Pa
He sent numbers of letters to her, with
money enclosures, begging her to come
to him. The letters were never an
swered. Not long ago several of his
friends made trip to Pennsylvania
aud he commissioned them 70 see his
Wiz personally and prevail on her to
come 70 him OF to give him some en-
couragement to 60 to her.
VIII he summons in the