River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-06-16

i ger from her father as nffed her with
| grief and fear.
| Poor Bernard The end his heart
| had prophesied came soon enough. In
the presence of the dean there was a
cruel, formal parting; under the silent
stars, amid the thick shubbery of the
| garden, there was another parting.
Then two young hearts said the words
which doomed one to an empty life, and
the other to a splendid tomb.
Mary would have promised constan-
| CIV, but Bernard would not let her do IT,.
"You shall never have to reproach
yourself with broken promises for my
sake. daring" he SAID. what could
you, you poor timid little dove, do be-
| tween your father and that lordly earl?
But whatever they make you DO, re-
member, Mary, shall never blame you,
and will love you until my last con-
scious ~Brcatnsa- -
Then he kissed her pale face over
and OVER tenderly, cfingingly, as we
kiss the dead, and left her. And Mary,
almost heart-broken with grief, and
faint with terror lest she should be
discovered. could only wave her hands
in mute farewell. for she knew now
that love and she must walk apart for
ever.
Bernard went to Oxford and Mary
became Countess Grey, and went-wlrith-
ersoever it pleased her husband to
take her. She was naturally affection
ate, and would doubtless have become
loving and gentleswi if she had re-
ceived any encourag ement. But she
soon outlived the earls short liking.
and then he oIsy seemed to lind pleas
,ure in those petty cruelties which un-
1 loving husbands above all others under.
stand.
One of these was to affect the most
unboupded chagrin- at the sex of her
first child, TO sneer at all daughters, and
to send it from its mothers breast to
the care of strange nurse. Another
was to pretend she needed exercise
and change Of air, and remove her
I from London to the continent before
she was able to bear the fatigue. He
gave her no rest until she reached
Rome, and here she became so seriously
i'll that even her servants demonstrated
against the. cruelty of moving her
further
In Rome she remained six months,
/ nearly alone. The earl Travelled hither
and thither as his fancy led him, maxi
ing his wife only occasional short visits
of g cruelty ceremonious character His
life of extravagant dissipation was a
shameful con srast TO the loneliness and
l.absolute seclusion which her Italian
physician ordered, while her separa-
ton from all who loved or cared for
her and her longing for her native land
and home told fearfully upon her fail
ing health.
But one day far more cruel sorrow
faced her A letter without signature
was placed in her hands, not only accus-
ing her husband of the most fragrant
disregard for her, but also intimating
that her physician was in the employ
of her enemies, and not safe person
to be intrusted with her life.
She had long felt sure that she was
| dying, but the dread of dying away
from her child, her father and her home
overcame all other fears. This terror
made her prudent. She arranged for
an immediate return home. and took
advantage of her husbands first absence
| to commence IL.
For him she left a most noble and
pathetic letter, entreating him not to
follow her, forgiving all his positive and
negative cruelties, and asking only to
be permitted to die beside her father
and their child.
Her requests so completely agreed
with the earl's desires that for once he
| !. 4 a -
after this ill-starred marriage, Earl
Grey's travelling carriage again broke
the silence of the peaceful cathedral
court. The deans daughter had come
back to HIM wearing something higher
than countess coronet; she had re-
ceived the signet of immortality, and
been anointed for heavenly corona
ton.
After Mary's marriage, the dean had
gone to see his nephew, and easily in
duced him to come back with him; so
| it was Bern ara that lifted Mary from
her carriage and carried her in his
strong arms to the room she never left
again: and il was Bernard that rode
day and night, so hat he might bring a
few hours earlier the child which was
/ 10 war ing hoho
| 10 order TO excuse the step she had
taben, and procure her fathers promise
TO keep her little daughter she had
been compelled to divulge all the cruel
martyrdom of her married life. After
| this revelation it was not hard to un-
derstand the deans wretched look. and
his passionate. pleading prayers, and
the music which was an articulate
agony. / could understand, too, now
| the angry, longing look on Bernard's
| face, and his miserable restlessness;
| but neither of the men showed, in
Mary's presence, any feeling which
could mar the peace of her descent into
the grave.
| / went often to see her the next few
months. 1t was like lying with her at
''the Gate Beautiful" of Heaven.
used to wonder at her loneliness, and
rejoice an her certain hope, but never
| pities her. AS | said before. l kept
/ shat feeling for the hopeless grief of
the old man and the bitter sorrow of
| the young one.
just before Christmas / went over to
| the deans, after an absence of three
days. Despair and remorse were sit
| ting in the handsome chambers, and
slow but certain sorrow creeping mp
the marble stairs. The next day a mar
row coffin had separated father and
| daughter. mother and child, husband
and wife, lover and beloved, as effectual-
| ly and as widely as all the starry
| spaces.
No one can ,'tep in between two low
ing hearts without guilt; anu when
love is slain for gold or rank, it has
bitter avengers. -Am ia L. Barr, in n.
Y. Ledger.
STRANGE LAKES AND RIVERS.
Hungary Is Now Draining "A Large Lake
That Has No Ahiuents.