Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-06-06

| luxury while l must get luxury by
| shame. She loved and was loved. anC
| the church hallowed that love. She
/ has lovely children, and they were
not born in sin and"
She threw UP her hands with q
sudden cry, and broke into a paroxysn
OF wild. uncontrolled Sobs, that sent q
thrill to tie mans heart, and made
him draw back a step with bent head
In all her sin and misery, was there
some spark Of the soul of Hyacinth's
beauty?
4 am so wretched-wretched-
wretched." the woman sobbed.
And who could tell how much OF
this despair and grief was the merest
hysterical emotion and outraged pas
sion at the desertion of her lover
how much one CLEAN of true sorrow?
How can one be good when one
is an outcast from love and happiness
She was taught and l was not! And
after all he has turned me- adrift: and
will not shelter him! No. not if |
have TO give up the lesser for the
greater. Look here!'
With a startling SuddenneSs the wo-
man rose to ner feet, and dashed away
her tears once more; the fierce. hard
creature, who had launched her in
dictment against her innocent victim.
''I'n give you what evidence you
like against that bastard Murray! I'll
confess the truth if they won't send
me to prison. I'll tell you where to
get hold of him and wiring the truth
from him; he's in Paris this moment.
I've got his address. You have it out
of him; he turned me off to shame Tor
all he cared!'
She tore from a pocket-book a leaf
and gave it to Gerald.
Now, what are you going to do?"
she said. I'm your wife's sister, if l
am Legitimate; are you going to hunt
me down."
His wife's sister, this fierce, desper-
ate creature, who had made his 1arl-
ing suffer for such a fruitless revenge,
Who, because she being innocent =
had suffered for her fathers sins
vowed to make yet another innocent
being suffer as she had suffered it.
And still she had the "kinship of
common DUST with Hyacinth; and,
as if in mockery, nature had given her
as much of the outward mould of Hy-
acinth's loneliness.
Was she quite lost, quite hopelessly
set beyond the pale Of possible resur-
rection?
Gerald Egerton. shaken to the soul,
covered his eyes with his hand.
All! this bitter wrong done to his
darling! This wanton, barren revenge!
Your mother" he said. almost fall
teringly. was she deceived? Did she
not know?'
"Oh. she knew" said the woamn,
with a half laugh. You wouldn't be-
lieve me if l made her out an in
jured innocent; all the same the mans
the bigger sinner, however you put
it. Well. now, I'm not going back
from what 1 said. I'll stop here till
that Murray's brought to trial. You
can have me watched if you like, may
be you'll do something for me after
wards. l don't care, l want revengew
said she through her teeth. The
games up with me, and I'd rather
he suffered than my Lady Hyacinth
now"
Gerald drew a long breath.
1t was a positive torture to be in
the same room with this woman, who
brought Hyacinth every minute to
him, and yet repealed him with the
distorted image of his worshipped
wife.
$50 be it, he said, and turned from
her: then pausing at the door, said
distinctly:
''See that you keep to your word;
you shall not suffer. But
your movements will be watched, SO
that if you would you cannot play me
false. Goodnight
She made no answer, only threw her.
self into a chair and turned away.
And Gerald Egerton went out from
her presence, half dizzy from the
strain and conflict of these last hours.
To Be Continued.