The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-13

stoEy is this:
When l was writing from Paris here
and incidentally doing occasional bits for
Inc Figaro had flieud. a young mar
gus, who, since then, has made a great
name for himself in Journalism in the
capital. He was married, BUTT had been
marriage of ambition, and unfortun-
ately for both persons concerned, very
unhappy one.
1nere was woman living in Paris
she Is still here-a French woman but
one who had married against her parents
wishes, young Polish count, who was
ouslly occupied, when first met him. in
galloping through his fortune and her
own, too, in al kinds of fastness and dew
lltry + or dissipation his name was
known all over Paris, and that means
good deal here. She was immensely
proud and bore it for a long while. 1t
was cen said that he illtreated her in
other ways than by his notorious neglect
and his open Haisons.
1hls had been going on for some time.
when my young friend the marquis. fell
In love with her. He urged her to separ-
ate from her husband, on the ground that
her living with him would be looked upon
as condoning his faults, and was preiudic-
ing her IN the eyes of her friends For a
While she refused, but at length. after
she had come to love the marquis with a
passion which the count. her husband
had never aroused. she accepted his coun-
sci, left her husband, gave up her fine
hotel, took her one daughter, and went
into apartments.
Here, every day for six years. she saw
the marquis. Each loved the other with
a true and strong affection, and finally
Jne state OF affairs came to be tacitly rec
ognlzed by their friends, while both re-
tanned their place in Partisan society.
1t must be remem bered that it is only
within the past few years that the French
divorce law has been in existence. This
was IN the old days when there was no
such thing possible in France as d.
Vorce. The new measure was then hang
ing hre, and 1t was generally unders TODD
that as soon as it became a law both
would apply for divorce and thereafter
marry.
THE marquis was accustomed to 20 to
her apartment late in the afternoon, re-
main to dinner, and spend a part of the
evening. His custom was so regular and
his practice so habitual that when, on
one occasion, ne made his excuses and
left Immediately after dinner, she was
greatly surprised She said nothing,
however
Again the same thing happened, and
again, and then she made up her mind to
ind out the reason. She procured a
cloak and thick veil, and the next time
the same programme occurred she babe
nm goodbye in the salon, donued the dis
gulse quickly and followed him down
stairs He took a tiacre, and she another,
telling the coacher to keep his vehicle in
sight
We'll, in this way she followed him till
she saw his tiacre halt before the house of
Roumanian princess an intimate friend
OF her own-saw him alight and enter.
All through the night, till daylight the
next morning, she sat in her fiacre and
waited. Then she went home and went
from one hysterical fit into another. until
her doctor finally succeeded in quieting
her
The next day she was able to receive
the Marquis, and when he came before
her there was a terrible scene. She told
him what she had done, and she also
showed him probably the murder he had
made of his heart. He went down on his
knees before her and swore that he had
never really loved another beside her
''that the affair of the princess was only
pour passer lie temps. He promised to
break OF his intimacy with her then and
there-never to see her again. This was
possibly the first time he had ever
realized how much the love of the Coun-
tess meant to him. She would not hear
a word, sent him away and gave orders
to the servants not to admit him.
From that moment his punishment
began. He broke 0 + with the princess at
once, and every day. morning and after
noon, he came to the house of the Coun-
tess to meet with the same refusal day
after day.
Time went on. The divorce law was
passed, and the marquis, his wife secured
a divorce from him. He wrote to the
countess, whose husband had. meanwhile,
shot himself in a drunken debauch. beg
ging her to marry him, and she sent back
his letter. He used his influence in bring
ing about marriage between her daugh-
ter-nOw grown-and a French Vicomte
of the finest family. In return for this,
she makes his life a constant torture.
The last time | saw him-two years ago
] said to him: Well, how is the countess
1 shall never forget the agonized express
sion in his eyes as be looked at me and
said, Mon dieu, mon ami-it is always
the same!"
Every week they meet, like chance ac-
quaintanees, at the home of mutual
friends. Every day he leaves his card at
the door of the only woman he ever truly
loved, and who now has become more
than ever the ruling passion of his life.
And from that time to this he has never
touched her hand
And that, my friends" said the
speaker, lis true story