Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-02

from him and added to the torture Of
his life. A length be told her that the
| thought of her fate was worse than the
reality Of ms own; that he wanted her
10 Obtain the divorce The law gave her;
she was yet Young and pretty. and, freed
from him. she could win the love of
some good man and so secure for her
| self nin his child tho home and com
| forts he could no longer give SHE per-
sisted long and sirenuously. Hut he
| urged II upon her. TINT he was dead to
her and the world, aud hy doing this
sue could remove the grief. that her life
| o. ton and priyntlon gave him, and give
! him the only comfort in her power to
| bestow. At length she yielded; they
hGd their last meeting-to wife and
| child he bid farewell. She procured the
| divorce, returned to her old home. and
IN time, married nrlin. The information
| was conveyed to him, but he made no
! reply. In year lie received letter
from her. 1t was heart-breillting to
roAd-a very wall of deathlcss. hopeless
love--ot disnair She wrote that her
NE was q living mistake; that each day
added TO her longing to see his fHce,
10 the love she bore him: that she did
not love her husband, tender and kind
as he was; that her every thought by
day and ~ night was with him in his
convict cell
He replied briefly; Never to write to
him againg that for her he was dead,
did not exist. to live, If not for husband
then for her child but not for onv
thought Of him"
What II cost him to write her thus
could be seen in the letter he wrote Mrs
johnson enclosing the letter 10 he for
warled TO his wife, to whom alone the
sprrpt of his nvistn,,na ,.,s Lrn,,,t Fvarv
line bura pvilnncn tbpt 10 hin thern haJ
brep many ni,hts ~ G.tIsar,ara o'n;,
came letter tbat lie cIiiJ had Iied
and then nunthnr thnt bis ot,aJ tuoti,er
had passed owoy And lie retnains n
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UNI ne WE t2rue "oN9 MN nllS'FS anu
u.ugr 'GHe"htSS' unu tll"t slS ieL SO
sorry Ipr hlil' 50 sure ne heeueu syn
pathy ana hrlp that she came. Inc
mat, dropped ms Tools ana laElng ms
mead on ms bench burst out rryirg Ike
Il rhud' AZ length when ne coulu con-
troll his voice, he said; 'Madnm' have
heru mere years ana my ne VIII end
here, and You are the first human being
that has spoken a word OF Kindness, or
shown me a feeling OF sympathy. After
u few more words Mrs. johnson asked |
him r. he would read what she would !
send him. He promised he wonld. Soon
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