Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-04-01
TRUE TO HER LOVE.


,all an affair that happened down south
teforo tho war and which furnished tho
plantations gossip for year"
LOT us have IT, colonel, We cried In
shorus
"Well, don't mind" be replied light
ing his Pipe and assuming tho attitude
that is always an index Of his being In
reminiscent mood.
Miss Cynthia Pillow was tho toast Of
our county, not only for her beauty,
which was OF a splendid brunette type
that would have caused even Carnelito
monk TO forswear his vows Of celibacy, but
for her wit and many accomplishments.
Among her numerous suitors was u Mr..
Martin, a man Of wealth and culture. He
was fonder of musty old book than Of
hunting and racing, the favorite pastimes
of every southern gentleman, and there
fore every ono marvclod that he should ad
miro Miss Pillow, who was an enthusiast
about these sports. But admire her
nay, worship her-he did, and though sho
had often said no to his wooing he refused
to relinquish hopo as long as she remain
cd unwedded. At length, wearying doubt
less of queening 1t over county courtiers,
sho visited Memphis, and there her beauty
and intellect evoked tho accustomed hom-
age. Gads!' and the colonel raped his
Pipe with a vehemence that almost shat
tered IL against the marble mantel. 'What
do you eastern bellies know Of the auto
cratic power southern girl wields over
tho hearts of her admirers, and what do
you cold blooded Yankees know OF per-
forming deeds Of chivalrous devotion for
womanS We'll, In tho Bluff City her proud
heart found its conqucror. He was law
.I A t.il.f fada in
looks and character, with the dash and
insouciancc that prevail so with women,
good and bad, even IL they suspect or
know that vice goes hand In hand with
them. Despite the warnings OF her friends
about his fondness for the wine cup, his
penchant for gambling, ere sbo returned
once more to the doting father his betroth-
al ring glittcred upon her hand. The fet-
ters her loveliness had fastened upon his
selfish heart were riyeted there by the
wealth that she had inherited from her
mother. One can only imagine the an
guish that Martin endured at this time,
for be spoke to no one Of 1t, but contin-
ued to worship daily at the shrine Of his
idol.
Tho wedding was to take place on the
6th of June, but when Oh that day Mo
Lean, wearing an air Of victory and an
ultra fashionable suit, drove up to the doors
Of Beechcroft In his now coach, from
which white ribbons fluttered and where
on sat grinning coachman and lackey,
each adorned with an immense bridal IA
vor, he learned that Miss Pillow, yielding
to the pleadings of her friends or prompt
cd by some womanish caprice, had the
day before welded the faithful Martin.
They said that it was a very funeral
looking vehicle that dashed through the
gates few minutes later, and that the
Cuffies OH top were almost as white as the
rosettes they had been ordered to doff, for
they we& knew their masters fendish
wrath would be wrcaked on their kinky
heads. A few days after he married a
damsel who had long sighed for him.
II believe that Mrs. Martin strove ear
nestly to repay her husbands devotion,
| but in the effort her vivacity departed, the
| bloom faded from her chicks, the luster
| from her eye, and he, poor man, sought
| with every art of which affection and
wealth were master to insure her happi-
ness. At the end of year certain means
of doing SO presented itself. Mclean S
wife died. OF course you'l II say that Mar
tin was foal but he himself suggested a
| divorce to tie woman he adored in order
that she might marry the man who pos
sessed her heart. Then another man, after
lavishing so much love upon woman and
getting nothing in return, would have
| learned to hate her and revenged himself
by keeping her apart from his rival 9th
or men would have been content with the
metaphysical possession of such magnifi-
cent woman, but Martin was not that sort
of man.
"He loved her so truly that her happi-
ness was more to him than his own, and
as he saw that her union with Mclean
alone could secure it he resolved to bring
about that union.
Now, don't want you to think that
he was namby pamby, but he had such
exalted ideas about love- and he was sim
ply executing them.
well, to be BRIEF the divorce was OBJ
tained, the grounds being incompatibility
of temper, although judge and jury knew
the real reason and did not want to thwart
tho happiness Of three people.
IA year later Cynthia and Mclean were
married, and then Mrs. Grundy said Mar
tin was avenged, for Mclean abandoned
his profession, squandered his wifes mon
ey, neglected her and even did her bodily
injury when under the influence of liquor
Soon after the war began he one
night In drunken orgie walked out a
second story window and broke his worth
less neck, and Cynthia was left poor, SHAT
tered in health and spirits, with an infant
daughter. For two years she waged most
bittor battle with want. Those from whom
her pride would permit her to accept help
were themselves too poor to offer it, for
you know how the war desolated and i'm
poverished the south.
"Then Martin came home on furlough
from Virginia. where he had been fight
ing gallantly, and hearing of her destitu-
ton craved the privilege of assisting her,
for, strange TO say, the Yankees never Wis
tied his plantation, and the negroes there
went on with tho planting and harvesting
as though no cruel monster OF war was
devastating the country.
But she told him that after what had
passed between them 10 would humiliate