Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-06-06

misery and shame. She lives loved
and honored. and | live despised and
desired for my beauty; but loved"
"Oh.' tie wretched woman cried out,
aud covered her face; you ask why
hate her. Because my mother bore me
10 her father IN sin and he deserted
the wretched girl he had made an out
east: and, mark you, he lived honored
and loved to his dying day, Your Hy-
acinth's mother thought her husband
saint; my mother wrung the means
70 live, 10 bring me up in decency
from him by threats only. And she
bade me hate that child that was born
but little later than the child Of
his sin. She babe me Wait and watch
till the time came and the time did
come. seized the opportunity did
NJ make H. When | heard that Muir
rays wife had fastened Oh your wife
as guilty, | said Now is the time
1T was bade Murray swear that ii
was your wife he met-the rest could
90 merely by my keeping silence. /
haven't always been as bad a. | am
now: and | am glad-gIad she knows
what shame means"
"Silence. Gerald said through his
teeth, and laid a grasp Of iron ON
her wrist; you XIII all pity, all com
passion, by the shameless brutality OF
your cowardly vengeance on an inno-
cent girl Was she answerable for
her fathers sin? She knew nothing
Of your existence. even. What harm
had She done youf'
The woman drew her breath in, and
stood for a moment silent.
Il ten you she said, then sullenly,
she harmed me by just having every
thing denied me- She was Tapped iii
luxury while | must get luxury by
shame. She loved and was loved. and
the church hallowed that love. She
has lovely children, and they were
not born in sin and"
She threw up her hands with a
sudden cry. and broke into paroxysm
of wild, uncontrolled sobs, that sent o
thrill to the mans heart, and made
him draw back step with bent head.
In all her sin and misery, was there
some spark Of the soul Of Hyacinth's
beauty?
II am so wfetched 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 he good when one
is an outeaSt from love and happiness =!
She was taught and ! was not. And
after all he has turned me adrift: and
| will not shelter hiia, 30. not ii
have to give up tile lesser for the
greater. Look here
With a startling suddenness the Wo-
man rose to her feet. and dashed away
her tears once more: the fierce, hard
creature who had launched her in
dictment against her innocent victim.
"I'll give you what evidence you
like against that bastard Murray, I'll
confess the truth IT they won't send
me to prison. III tell you where to
get hold of lim and wiring the truth
from him; hes in Paris this moment,
I've got his address You have it out
of him; lie turned me or to shame for
all he cared"
She tore from a pocket book a leaf
and gave it to Gerald,
Now, what are you going to doY'
she said. I'm your wife's sister, if |
am illegitimate; are YOU going to hunt
me down."
His wife's sister. this fierce, desper-
ate creature, who had made his darl.
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 ms she had suffered Ii,
And still she had the 'kinship of
common dust" with Hyaclnth; and,
as If in mockery, nature had given her
as much Of the outward mould Of Hy-
acinth's loyeliness.
Was she quite lost, quite hopelessly
set beyond the pale Of possible resur-
rcctionY
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 fal-
tcrlngly was she deceived? Did she
not know"
"oh, She knew" said the woamn,
with Il half laugh. you wouldn't be
ieve me il | made her out AZ in
iurcd innocent an the same the mans
The bigger sinner, however you put
I'll. Well. now. I'm not going back
from what ] said. I'll stop here till
that Murray's brought to trial. You
can have me watched II You like, may
hc youth do something fer me after
wards. don't care, l want revenge"
said she through her teeth. The
games up with me, and ia rather
he suffered than my Lady Hyaclnth
now
Gerald drew a long breath.
Ii was a positive torture 10 be IN
the same room with this woman, who
brought Hyaeinth every minute 10
t5,,, opJ ,at rnngllAd him yfth tha