The National tribune., 1897-11-04

gave gained some friends"
Doctor" | said, this is not fair. You
promised -
"Sop, my dear fellow. l learned your
secret months ago"
"How?n
ado you remember a little book Devens
! wrote about Midsummer holiday"
"Of course"
WELL had your reading i'll tho library
| watched, and every book you opened re-
ported to me. You not only read this more
than once and seemed much affected by IL,
| but you corrected an error which none put
| the author would have noted single Woro
| that changed the whole tenor OF sentence.
| This was enough - remembered you at
once. l hope you will not think hard OF
me. OF course, you will think no more OF
the only delusion you have ever had-that
yon must not resume your place In Inc
world 2"
Doctor-do you not sse-will you not
sec-ihat-I cannot go back-cannot take
up HE old life!"
Hold on, my coed friend. Do not he
rash We are near the station. The Pres-
dents car is waiting for us. / asked him to
let me have it tonight. We will 60 aboard
and talk the matter over"
But you-you will go with us, Doctor ?"
Where"
"To the city. can decide nothing-think
of nothing now"
"Just as you wish. Hold on to yourself.
old fellow"
He took my hand in q grip which was
like steel, despite the soltness of his own.
Il will )" answered, "do not fear; only
give me time"
We boarded the cara luxurious affair.
They laid me on n couch, and | fell asleep
almost at once When i woke soft hand
was clasping mine, and the dawn showed
a face radiant with love bending over NE.
We went to the old hotel. / insisted on
registering under my new name-it was, in
fact part Of the old one, my mothers name
which had dropped when boy. | asked
f my little room under the caves, and
begged to be left alone until i should call.
All day paced the narrow room.
The struggle is over Love has con-
quered-not me, but her. l shall not go
back to the old life, but she will enter obliv-
ion with me. Tomorrow this notice will he
in all the papers. The Doctor has just read
it 10 me. He has been the wise, true friend
who has brought possible peace ont Of woe
impo, sible to be endured.
"A romantic incident occurred ut one OF
our best known hotels last night. Mrs.
| Dsvens, the widow of Mai. Philip Devens,
whose sudden and mysterious disappear
apce some years ago brought grief 10 so
many friends, was united in marriage to Mr..
Arthur Quitman. A curious thing about
the marriage is that the bridegroom was not
only Il warm friend of the former husband,
but is understood to have been a sutton for
e Al ~
age. Only few friends were present at the
ceremony, a pleasant feature of which was
that the brides daughter insisted on giving
The bride away. The bride, groom, and
daughter sail on the Britannia to-day. The
groom is a wealthy cattleman of Texas, who
only recently came to this city, and Incl
IDENTIFY learned that his old sweel heart was
alive, a widow, and not remarked. A rumor
Of her engagement to another had reached
his ears and prevented him from making
himself known years ago. 1t is understood
that they will remain abroad for some years,
and wide circle of friends will wish them
the happiness they so well deserve"
The good Doctor knows as well how to
concoct prescriptions for the credulous pub
lie as for an individual patient. If what he
has written is not all true it is what every one
who reads will wish 10 be true, and it makes
easy the transition to the new life, while
putting an impervious seal upon The tomb
in which the old is inurned. / go from
my little room in which the new began to
the Spacious chamber Devens and his yOung
wife occupied upon their wedding journey
1--WE and twenty years ago.
If the life is q new one, the love is old.
/ am eager for the months to pass by, that
we may return and pick up some of the
lost threads of friendship. And our daugh-
ter-already l am her slave, and feel that in
her life my own will be renewed.
(The cud)