The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-26

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"Bcst not" said WIN; 'she has borne
enough already"
TO be made despicable, grotesque, to be
placed in this attitude, in that, cat on |
all fours one moment, drunkard the |
next, or a devotional idiot He caused |
pictures to be taken Of meme, his
child, and brought strange men to look
at me in my degradation. He inflicted
on me every agony and shame that a
woman can suffer, and for what? For
science, the science that killed my
mother, that would have killed me but
that / would ,ot die. would not, and
as he had killed her inch by inch l re-
solved that some day would STAY him,
but more meroifully, and | did.
She drew deep breath, then went on:
81 was rapidly becoming what he
had made my mother when you came,
Antoine, to Chudleigh Salterton, and
| Mortified at the change in me, though
You knew all I had suffered in Paris
and elsewhere, quarreled with him ON
my behalf, but he met you with Jeers,
and maddened, you rushed away. l,
TOO. was mad atthat moment, for two
lovers. whom / met constantly in my
walks, had opened my eyes to the posi-
/ bilities of life and when you left and l
saw no help from God or man anywhere
I stole in from the kitchen and seized
him as he sat in his chair, and he choked
and died before / realized that my wish
had become accomplished fact. "
She paused again, and Lady Lirrlper
remarked in an aside to her soul that II
she had been in Hagar's position she
would have done exactly the same thlng
as Hagar did, only sooner.
81 fled from my work, and by some
extraordinary chance-partly because 1t
was their dinner hour-the neighbors
did not see me leave the house. went
into the wood, thence to the shore, ana
sat down, waiting to ne arrested.
heard Lord Straubenzee's valet BRING
the news and that you were suspectea.
/ had simply to hold my tongue, ana
could. not; the damned up life Ill me
rushed forth. and l shrieked aloud my
10Y Mt being free. They were KIND &c
me, these rich Samaritans; they tooR
me to their home; but one man ms,
! trusted, disliked me- She turned ano
faced Will. "You. y
"And had reason" he said lacon'
ically.
Hapar shrank visibly beneath his lool
) and words. and for the first time STUN
BLEED in her narrative.
: .T-where was I? They had sheltered
I me. but l knew that If they became
: aware how intimately acquainted wa
e with all the arts of hypnotism, ana I'M
mower I was thus able to get over mos
/ neople who approached me, they woui'
y sbun me. they would see the harm, no
1 the good. of such knowledge, and pas
mo nv. And yet this tabooed held
t nbvsical science will yield revelation
. as rich in vital truth as any OF the DIS
t coveries that have marked the past cen
!. turv. and that, too, without MAXIM
|, tools of wretched women like me.
IS was above all things anxious that IN
y character of my fathers pursuits snoui
e not become known to Lord Strauoenzet
d and l exacted promise IRON the GA
terton doctor that he would not betra
q me. then contrived in the dead OF nigh
J. IN DESTROY all the books, chemicals an
If napers belonging to my father an
10 though the doctor suspected he neve
> denounced me, and was saved. AT oio
j. month later l met you, Antoine WI
IT had only just returned to the ne,ghpol
r hood. there TO hear of my fathers mul
ID der. being indeed on yonr way to me
1t learn the truth. In the Knowle garden
ID Won taxed me with the murder, and al
- CT a terrible scene, in which impiore
N You not TO cut me or from my la
~ chance of salvation, ybu consented
:, depart without unmasking me, and q
~ "And how have you used my Glen
n ency. Hagar?" cried Antoine sadl.
n "You have tried to destroy two huna
- souls. YOU have separated husband al
I" wife. Where would your deviltry hay
=, ended had not Lord Trelawny suspec,'
no You and advertised for informationf
nj az could have done no more sa
NJ Hagar in broken tones, and turning
80 will. "You were proof against ever
A. thing. / could gain no real ihnuen
Cd over you, and drunkard, poisoner' u
LIP faithful wife as You believed her 20
to she was too deep in your heart 10
er rooted out was pressed Tor 'iine' v'
on, -~~-,a t..,o .lr.yced her through emile