Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-11-02
LOST REVENGE.


her as blow. There could be NO
doubt of that She had never antici-
pated that he would die so soon. while
the rose bushes were all In flower
aud the nigh,ingales were awake In
the copplec. and the sun had the glow
and the shadows the cod reticence
peculiar 10 the earlier days OF the
summer. She had never anticipated
that be would die AT all while she
Was alive. IL seemed so unlikely. She
Was such delicate slip OF n snow
white maiden. with the yagueness OF
the undiscovered country ia her great
brown eyes. with the trouble OF a
tragic future Ia the curSing lips OF her
lf-inuions rosebud mouth, And he
had bern ~ strong 50 terribly strong
The iron of his great arms might have
held up world. she thought His
yOic. WAS the voice Of the ruler. In
his eyes threatening command
dweli always Aud now he was dead.
She had Just heard 80. aud scarcel!
anyone knew IT, His mighty frame
WAS stretched out 10 the room below
the garden room where she generally
sat al evening; the garden room, 10
which one sometimes came as evening
fell iiu, shs did not think Of that
Immediately That the world would
go ON Just ~ usual now. all WAS 50
changed for her. did not occUr 10 her,
The Inan below had bccn her husband.
and be WAS dead. She could only
think Of that at nrst.
Hos she ssad hated him
lie Tad isought her as the wife he
desired 30. sturdy, he must have
once loved hyr Hut lie had never
shown IL. she had feared him terri.
bly, that very FIRST day. when they
went away together from the church.
down the DAT, gray road by the aims.
houses. where the old women stood
lsai,blng in the rain. over the village
green haunted by wandering geese.
whoss feathers were blown the WRONG
way that stormy day Of their mar.
r!agc. lie must have once desired
her. How be had stared AT her In
III. shadow 81 the shut carriage. while
the iioofs ~ the horses spiashcd In
the puddics 81 the country road. His
cycs never lcfi her. They We're slight
IA hioodshoi and looked excited ~
they travelled over her face. and his
FUN lips moved under his black mus
sachc HUT b. said nothing.
How she had hated him.
The morning after their wedding
she had tried t. csrape from him she
slipped out Of the great Lord Warden
hotel at Dover In the gray dampness
az the dawn when he was sleeping
The snllrn sea. which they were Il
cnts% presently. reared In her ears
and tho sea gulls cried 10 her from the
folm. ficcked pebbles Of the stccply
curving baarh. The hull OF steamer
doomed on The ragged horizon. aud
the rain drove over the shining as
pha!t ways. Two or three sailors
hanging about. with peaked caps
| dra wn dow n above their wet faces and
hunrhcd shoulders. pccrcd NJ her as
she erep, from the hotel. grain OF
humanity swept by the whirlwind
How cold II was and how desolate
In the wind came TO her the strangled
| whistle Of an engine. aud then she
| knew she was too late. The train was
flashing away as she struggled on
| nrain@t tho tempest. She returned Il
| his embrace.
| How she had hated him.
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snow peaks OF Switzerland: the greer
| valleys. where the chaleis rested ni
| the steep slopes. ms II tired and pans
/ Ing but for moment; the blue lakes
/ az Italy: the old. sad cities, with theil
streets full 81 echoes OF dead voices
tho weary ruins. passiyely enduring
shriil calling tourists. the vineyards
/ where life was laughter and was
| song she had seen them all with MIN
| She hated them all Even the ma
/ reaches Of the venerable Nile ana ID,
/ rose gardens VI Damascus were loath
some to her. She had watched ih'
| flame blue line Of Arabs vino away
beneath the flame blue sky. she ha'
heard the fInkling bells OF caravans
| aud the wild chant Of the sailors
| sweep up from the pallid gray'greri
mlmosa bushes. and she had ehi,
slckenpd and longcd 10 die. AND no"
he was dead and she could hear IN,
nightingales beginning TO hu'e' fe
abe was glad ,,,
i They had come back 10 England
people envied her. Women nnrmuret
! his name as she passed ny. mur
INJURED II In admiration, whllr th'
blood famed In her cheeks at h'
thought that she was his. Inc gtra
worid took her for awhile. took hc'
and vaye 20 her only such profoun'
WEAKNESS. In the park, ns her we
/ TORN stood against the ratings IN ih'
ho, sun. and the murmur OF soeiei!
rinnied around her beneath the trees
and the queens Of society ana ~
eonrtesans who were the rccoHni.,. ~.
oweens--the sinner incognlta and th'
queen incognlta passed her by: s,'
s,ckened again and thought OF I'M
dame blue line of the Arabs; anu won
| dnrcd II the world could give 70 ~
ue.s r. bis shadow must he upoi
n',rv,binp like the shadow OF fht'
S,oaaing black over the pleasaunce o
,,fe She wondered in a malady .
dreaming. aud the voices under r.. tn
.rees said sc posed, because for
moment she ceased 70 think Ink, Of .,, insm
Then she drove home as the twi'ish