Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-04-16

luCI LUItAH o [Ateao- t-~S I1t-E --+>-~-
followed his fiancee, meeting her secret
Iy and enjoying many stolen interviews
with her at that delightful resort. One
morning Florence told her mother she
was going to q picnic with some young
friends, TO be gone all day, and IL she
did not return until after supper not TO
be worried. Instead OF doing as she
said. she met her lover and together
they boarded train and went to Ra-
cine, where they were married before 8
Justice of the peace. Whether the mar
rage was consummated do not know.
The young wife arrived home that night
in good season and her escapade remain
ed secret.
"a few months after this foolish az
fair the girls father failed In business.
The law student meantime had been ad-
mitted to the bar and had gone to Min
peapolis with view OF entering prac-
tice there. Aftera six months absence,
during which he had correspondent very
regularly with his wife, through the
connivancs of a mutual friend, he re-
turned TO Chicago 10 find the young
woman no longer prospective heiress,
although the family was still in fairly
good circumstances.
DISCOVERY OF A wIFE's PERFIDY.
Maurice was received cordially by
her parents, but the reception accorded
him by his wife both puzzled and dis
pleased him. She appeared annoyed at
his presence and several times treated
him so cavalierly that he left the house
In high dudgeon. When he once sug-
gested that the fact of their marriage
might as well be proclaimed she vehe
mently protested against such a course
until he conld afford TO give her home,
which he confessed he was not then able
to do.
cat this stage of the drama the hus-
trnd in name only began to grow jeal-
Gus OF the attentions paid to his wife by
q board OF trade man, some years his
senior, whose reputation as Lothario
was well known about town. The girl
appeared infatuated by the fellow and
accepted MS gallantries with an eager
ness that marked her for an easy prey
to his insidious snares. She treated
him with marked GOODNESS when he did
manage to see her, and In hundred
WAYS showed him that she no longer
| loved him.
Zone night he saw her at the theater
with her new lover and something
prompted him to watch their move
ments. He followed them to gay re-
sort, where private winerooms were
provided for its patrons. He managed
| to secure an adjoining room and, ap-
plying his ear to the wooden partition.
overheard enough to convince him that
! his wife was untrue to her vows. He
searched until he found peep
hole and through that aper-
ture saw his wife lavish endless
kisses upon her Board OF Trade
friend. He watched the wine disappear
and with set teeth noted the various
stages OF drunkenness ensue. While
both were almost maudlin he heard the
man who had supplanted him jocularly
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 drunken
gravity he heated the seal at the gas
Jet and suddenly applied it to her par.
TALLY exposed knee.
HOW A THREAT WAS MADE GOOD.
1.-THE girl shrieked as the hot metal
scared her tender flesh and the pain
nearly sobered her. She insisted upon
being taken at once to a doctors office
for treatment, and hurrledly led the
way down stairs. / was then unmar-
ried and slept at my Office on State
street. Chance directed them to mo.
Although 1t was long after midnight
sat reading by my student lamp when
the outer bell rang and the now sober
ed pair walked into my reception room.
The young woman was suffering con-
siderable pain from the scared wound,
which I fastened to alleviate by the use
| of such ointments as were at hand. i
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 dis
secting 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 abiding to his blighted affec'
lions. Livd with rage, he cursed her
for deceitful jade and, as he left her,
exclaimed: 4 shall live to see the day,
madam, when will spnrn your misera
BILE carcass under foot!
''He tried 10 forget his troubles by
giving unremitting attention to his pro-
fession, and In course of time succeeded
so we'll that he built up lucrative
practice. But be never lost sight OF his
wife, from whom, however, be was law.
fully and secretly released soon after
the discovery OF her faithlessness. dc
saw her deserted by her lover after she
left her home to become his mistress
from afar ne noted her rapid descent In
the social scale until the vile haunts
only would receive her, and then came
day when his secret service man
brought the news that the hospital had
received her emaciated figure and thai
| her case was hopeless.
zone would have thought that by this
time that the mans better feeling would
preyall and Ia her extremity some kind
| impulse might stir him TO sooth her last
hours. But mol He secretly exulted In
her degradation, and when he learned
that she was dead he planned for hi:
final act OF revenge. Had known Their
OF the terrible vindictIyeness Of his ma
ture the letter that / gave him to ny
shoemaker would not have been
written. As demonstration OF
clinics at the hospital l had
no trouble to secure the particular sec
ton OF skin he wanted from the body Of
the frfendless woman, and when he as
sured me that he wanted to get 10 tan
ned as q souvenir OF q once loved past ]
helped him ali in Ey power, although
deprecated his morbid fancy.
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