The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-15

riage might as we'll be proclaimed she We
hemently protested against such a course
until he could afford 60 give her a home,
which he confessed he was not then able
to do.
AT this stage of the drama the husband,
in name only, began to grow Jealous Of the
attentions paid to his wife by board Of
trade man, some years his senior, whose
reputation as a Lothario wae well known
about town. The girl appeared infatuated
by the fellow and accepted his gallantries
with eagerness. She avoided her husband
constantly, treated him with marked cold
ness when be did manage TO see her, and Ia
hundred ways showed that she no longer
loved him.
lone night he saw her at the theater
with her new lover and something prompted
him to watch their movements. He fol-
lowed them after the play TO gay resort,
where private wine rooms were provided
for its patrons. He managed TO secure an
adjoining room. he searched until be
found a peephole and through that aperture
saw the wine disappear, and with set
teeth noted the various stages OF drunken
ness ensue. While both were almost maud
lin he heard the man who had supplanted
him loculaTly propose to his companion
that she prove her affection by permitting
him to brand her with his bronze intaglio
seal. She at once consented, and with
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gas jet and suddenly applied it TO her gar
TALLY exposed knee.
HOW A THREAT WAS MADE GOOD.
THE girl shrieked as the hot METH scared
her tender flesh aud the pain nearly sobered
her. She insisted upon being taken at once
to a doctors Office for treatment, and hur-
rIedly led the way downstairs. l was then
unmarried and slspt as my office on State
street. Chance directed them 20 me. Al
though it was long after midnight l sat
reading by my student lamp When the
outer bell rang and the now sobered pair
walked into my reception room. The young
woman was suffering considerable paiu
from the scared wound, which fastened TO
alleviate by the use OF such ointments as
we're at hand. also wrote a prescription
for soothing lotion to be applied when she
reached home.
Her husband never saw her but once
after that until she lay on the dissecting
table. His love burned itself out with the
branding of her shame. In an interview
with her next day he accused her OF her
heartless perfdy and criminality, to which
she responded by jeeringly alluding to his
blighted affections. Ltvid with rage, he
cursed her for a deoeItful jade and, as he
left her, exclaimed: II shall live TO see the
day madam, when | will epurn your mis-
cradle carcass under footW
HE tried to forget his troubles by giving
unremitting attention to his profession, and
in course OF time succeeded 80 we'll that he
built up a lucrative practice. But he never
lost sight of his wife. from whom, however,
be was lawfully and secretly released soon
after the discovery OF her faithlsssness. He
saw her deserted by her lover after she left
her home; from afRr be noted her rapid de-
scent in the social scale until the vilest
haunts only would receive her, aud then
came day when his secret service man
brought the news that the hospital had re-
ceived her emaciated figure ana that her
case was hopeless.
lone would have thought that by this
time the mau's better feelings would pre-
vail and in her extremity some kind I'M
pulse might stir him to soothe her last hours.
But no! He secretly exulted in her degra-
dalton, and when he learned that she was
dead he planned for bis final act OF revenge
Had | known then Of the terrible vindict-
iveneSS OF his nature the letter that l gave
bin to my shoemaker would never have
been written. AS demonstration of clinics
at the hospital had no trouble 70 secure
the particular section Of skin he wanted
from the body of the friendless woman, and
when he assured me that he wanted to get
IL tanned as a souvenir Of a once~loved past
| helped him all In my power, although l
deprecated his morbid fancy.
"Well, you can guess the rest. The scar
on the skin noticed by Mr. Gee was made
that nightin the manner have described.
Her former tender flesh Is now turned into
a pair of shoes, which her once loving hus-
band will wear this summer on tho street,
of Chicago, and no one looking down upon
his jeunty tan footwear will for a moment
dream what q ghastly story thay represent.
Is the man insauel Yes. on that subject |
think he is, at least, that is the only chart
table construction can put upon his acs
tons"