Morning journal and courier., 1894-01-22
PHOTOGRAPHER IN HER osFFIs.
Woman's Desperate ArtI1ce &c
Bring Remorse TO Her Lover.

Bring Remorse TO Her Lover.
From the London Telegraph
Our Vienna correspondent writes: The
last act of a melancholy drama has just
been played with considerable eclat In Vi
emma before the prologue was well over,
and already novelists and lawyers are
busy discussing Its bearings on their pet
theories, and apportioning the praise and
blame among Its four drsmstis person re.
As psychological study it is we'll deterv-
ing of attention, while the side-light it
throws upon the faith and fibre of the
looming race" is as powerful as 1t is lurid.
The hero is young man of twenty-sev-
en-, of good family. intelligent, ipdustri-
ous and honorable, whose position as book
keeper In large firm In the city enabled
him to exc out a modest livelihood, and
contribute to the support of his widowed
mother and unmarried sister, who are In
receipt of . slender pension. The three
lived contentedly together In Q cheerful
little fat" situated on the outskirts of the
capital, be- ond the fretful stir and fever
Of the busy center, whittier chesp lodging,
or, as the Inhabitants put 1t, "falubrious
air, ," attracts the bulk of the lower middle
classes. Filial piety and parental love
were the bonds that united the members
of this model family. Mother and dsugh-
ter worked as industIiously as the son,
sewing, knitting, embroideripg, aud In
other ways contributing their mite to the
common fund, and for several years the
three thus travelled '.in cheerful godliness"
on life's common way.
A year ago the first note of dissonsuce
was heard in the midst of this touching
harmony, introducing the prologue of the
drama that Was about to begin Anthony
L. (this was the young mans nsme) went
out one evening to unbend his mind for an
hour or two in one of the brilliant music
halls which are SO numerous In Vienna,
and In the course of the dancing met with
q young siren, who not only charmed his
ear but bewitched his eye and led his soul
captive. She was young, pretty, seduc-
tive, innocence ipcsrnste, and with an eye
"Where feeling plays In ten thousand
dewy rays" so that sll his efforts to break
the tpell were unavsiling. he had left
home an enthusiastic bachelor, and he re-
turned q rsptHrous candidate for marriage.
His mother and sister noted with incress-
ing regret the change In bis manner. In
their society he found pleasure NO more,
and when he was unable to visit the lady
of his heart he corresponded with her.
They questioned him, bsntered him, eI-
hortsd him, but all to no purpose; and
then, bowing to fate. consented to make
the acquaintance of the enchsntress.
The frat impression was favorable, and
the more they saw of the lady the more
they "warmed" to her, and she finished
by weaving round mother and daughter as
potent q spell ~ she had esst over the son.
Thekls r. (such is the poetic name of the
chosen one), although only shop girl, was
formally recognized as the bride-elect, and
the wedding was fixed TO come of In the
near future. But there's many o alp
'twixt the cup and the lip, and many q
| mishsp 'twixt proposal and marriage.
Soon after the betrothsl, which in Austria,
a. In Germany, is usually published Ia the
daily papers, vague rumors, FOLLOWED by
circumstantisl stories, resched the ear of
the prospective mother-in law, represent
ing Thekla to be much less innocent than
she looked-in fact, depicting her as "a
| creature not too bright or good" and de-
scribing her former chryssiis stage of ex-
istsnce a. very different from her present
| butterfly condition of beauty and virtue.
At frst these calumpious whisperipgs
| were rejected with horror, then q hundred
tongues took up the tale, every tongue
| psrrstirg q different but conirmatory
| story. Anthony himself at first refused
/ to listen to these horrors, but proofs were
soon brought forward which removed eve-
| ~ doubt. Then he shut himself up in his
| room and brooded over his sorrow in Sc
cret. Thekla. mean while, wrote letter
upon letter pleading guilty to the charges
alleged, but begging her late bridegroom
/ TO overlook the past for the sake of the
rosy future that awaited them both would
1 he but say the word. But he remained In.
/ exorably silent. Her letters became lees
and less frequent and more and more mel.
ancholy In tone, aad at last they ceased
altogether.
A few days sgo the young man, who wa
stil plunged In . sea Of silent porrow, 70.
csived an unwonted visit from the post.
man, who handed him o registered letter
with deep black border. His heart beat
violently ct the sight. What could II
meant Who was Ii FRONT He snstched
the letter and looked st the address with q
terrible presentiment of the truth, The
handwriting Was not that of any OF his
| frisnds or acquaintance. Impatient to
know the worst, he cut open the envelope
and drew out-not missive, - be had ex'
peoted. but photogrsph-a picture fal
more eloquent than any letter. II was the
portrait of his lady love. sttired In all hel
bridal Anery and lying lifeless in her cof
An. ........
For q few moments the young mar
9azsd intsntly at the grewsome likeness
: and then, with piercing cry, threw him
: self on the floor, beating his breast and