St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-05-25
FvE'S TEMPTATION.

oVe',l lave that at home. And so ne
anu ~ She took it from the hall and
l e tr i', it into her boudoir.
ca nar name was Eve Wilton, and she
ID ~ been married five years and
nl,aau u in all that time
l hed one unhappy moment. Mr.
,,al had been very attentive, very
s M"' very generous and had never
klnd ds her Jealous. She often said
aaat she was the happiest woman
r lna, Now as she looked at the
n n,;ne and compared the silk with
' ",h;cb she was about to replace the
m v"rn norton she was thinking these
. .Soaqhts. They had never had any
.hTdTen, but when people are all in
e e each other, that is no very
great or grief. All her care was for him
oall his for her.
"And he is just the dearest, best,
,ruest fellow in the world" said Eve
70 herself I'm not half good
enough an for him. l wonder what
this IS in his pocket; it bulges it all
out of shape"
s. She put her hand into the breast
oocket as she spoke and drew out a
little package wrapped in paper and
tied with blue ribbon.
something he has bought for me,
expect," said Eve. II wonder
what it is? | think that l won't
omen it until he comes home.
She laid the silk across the hole,
cut it out and basted it down.
81 wonder what it 81" said she.
tom did mean to get me an opera
GLASS know; but that is not the
Shape of the parcel. 1t doesn't look
like book. 1t might be lace wound
on a card-real lace"
She looked at the package again.
81 do wonder what it is % said she
and then hemmed the patch down
There wasn't much to mend, after
all. thought the tear much longer
He caught 1t on nail in the Office
Now do wonder what is in that
package?'
Eve put the coat over chair and
took up the parcel.
Tom won't mind" she said. 81
will just take peep. I'm sure it:
for mt"
Then she undid the ribbon, untold
I'd the paper and saw letters.
Dear Tom He keeps my letters
next his heart and he has never tolc
me-"
But the writing was not hers; sh'
saw that at glance
His mothers letters" she said
He loved his mother So
Then she began to tremble {
ittle for the letters did not begir
with "My dear SON." nor with any
thing like it. She cast her eyes owe
them. They were love letters.
tom had loved some other wo
man before he met me- she said, be
ginning to cry. "Oh, what shall
dO?" Then she cried out, "Oh
&OlisI creature that am Ofcourse
Aedled, and he only loves me now
TWAS all over before we met, so w,
musnot mind"
But here she paused, gave scream
and then threw the letter from he
as though serpent had bitten her
1t was dated in the previous week
1t was not four days old.
oh. oh OH" cried Eve. ."Oh
what shall | do? Oh where shall
go!"
At every cry a thought pierced he
breast like stab.
Tom, my Tom What shall l do
Tom! Tom He be false-Tom Oh
| have gone mad No! There the,
I areI They are really there-thos'
etters Why do l not die? Do peopl
1--we through such things as those?'
Then she knelt down on the foo
and gathered up the letters ant
steadily read them through. Their
were ten OF them. Such love letters
NO other Interpretation could be up
on them. They were absurd low
tlters-such as are always produced
IN court in case of a breach O
Promise And they called him Pop
~ Wopsy," Darling Pairing,
u Lovey Dovey," "Old Sweetness
and Angel of my Soul" and the
were all signed, Your Own Nellie.
II is all true" said poor Ev'
wrInglng her hands. "And it il
worse than anything that | hav
heard Of | trusted him so, | be
'tv eve IN him SO. My Tom-mine.
Then she wiped her eyes, gathered
n up the letters, wrapped the silve
ABOUT them, tied the blue ribbon an,
put them back in that awful breas
II POCKET OF that dreadful coat again
-, Tom shall never know" she said
not reproach him. | will neve
Tc nm again. When he come
a'me shall be dead. | will not liv
mhear this"
q 9he sat down to think over tn
"'S' means of suicide. She coull
Lung herself to the chandelier will
Ie wlndow-blind cord; but thel
Iv would be black in the face an,
mucous She would drown herself
"u' lhen her. body would go foatin.
G9~h the river into the sea, ant
, %bowhed people looked even wors,