The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-07

grew ghastly, but his clasp upon his
wifes form only frightened and he
stroked her hair softly. There was a
long silence. and then he spoke again.
''N&nette. from the hour 1 first saw you.
the one desire or my heart has been 20
make you happy. Do you know this TO
be srue2"
She bowed her head silently II stu
retain that desire" he continued. If
you have found tina. You love some one
else better than YOU love me, II some
one else IS more necessary TO your hap
piness than / am, surely l Will not be an
obstacle In your way. Only l want You
10 be very sure that you are not max
ing a mistake. We mortals are such
complicated creatures we cannot always
trust our own emotions. Would IL not be
well for you and Signor Giovanni 10 try
year Of separation TO test the dura-
biltty Of your sentiments? Sometimes
these attachments are wholly the result
OF physical magnetism. IL you can re-
main apart until the current which your
association set IN motion exhausts itself
the infatuation dies a natural death.
and you awake as from a fever dream.
Had you not better make the test?"
'tBut we did make II, and IL was no
use" cried Nanette. We loved each
other the moment We met last year and
when ] came away IL was like death 10
both Of us We meant never to meet
again: but he could not bear the separ-
ation-it was killing him. and so he fol-
lowed me. and now Il is worse than
ever Oh. Albert. / was but child when
! married you'll did not know my own
mind Now I am a woman. and /
know r feed the love of my life for this
man-6sod help him. God help him.
So absorbed was she in her own sor-
row that she never saw the CHASTITY PAL
n. - Fzfe-
the look of "A wounded animal that ca me
into his kind eyes II was only OF her
own suffering that she thought, and she
threw herself face downward on a Turk
tsh divan In "a paroXySm or tears. Be
fore Albert's vision as he stood gazing
Al her there rose the picture or that
May morning when he had seen her for
the first time. and he could recall with
amusing distinctness the droll little
match Of black on the face of the white
cat which he had caught and given 10
Nanette to assuage her grief and make
her happy. He recalled. too, wildly. the
reproviny giances 81 the old nurse, who
stood BY him in silence
We'll twenty-thrce years had gone
since that May morning-twenty-thr
years devoted I'm the main 10 the same
cffort-the effort 70 make Nanette
happy, and This was the end There was
hut one more sacrifice 20 make-the sac
rlflce OF his own hopes and happiness.
lie must pass out OF Nanette's life, and
give her the man whom she said she
sovei with the great passion OF her wo-
manhood Even that could he done
must be done, 20 secure her happiness.
Il was all understood between them
when she went abroad After a years
time had elapsed she was 20 make her
application FOR divorce. and II would be
quietly granted. Alherts influence with
itsdse and fury would arrange that Ma
notte accepted the sacriAce as she bad
accepted all others. rejoicing IN the
thought that sha VAS 20 have what she
vsntai-ana satisfying herself with the
thought that Albert's calm meant con-
tent.
Ten years later a man with snow white
hair ard n scanned and furrowed face.
sat IN his lonely room and opened with
.renlaainE hands a letter bearing for
sf-n poStmark There We're but a few
Nnez In the letter and they ran thus;
pear Albert an all aloue-deserted-
morrill, ana unhappy. VIII you come
ana AXE me home 20 die in your arms?
know YOU wgli-you were always 50
| roof-aaA thls IS the only happiness life
| has NOW 20 offer your poor Nanette
| rrhe man broke into Wild sohs-tbe first
| ~ a lifetime - repression. Thank
| God - he cried, "thank God she IS coming
| back 20 me"