The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-07-07
STORY OF TWO WOMEN.
How Bread Cast Upon tie NAteIs
Came Back

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will not be pleased with it because
1t confounds two Of their most favor,
lite contentious, 10 wit: that women
do not consider other women. aud
that they do not understand the
meaning of the word gratitude
One Of the women was an out
lander If she had no. been there
would have been 10 romance, and
eventually no story. She was a
Portuguese, dark almost 10 swartb1
ness, but with the charm Of the
south Ia her warm colored face.
She was loving, Ignorant, a devotee,
first to her husband, and after him
to her church Her people were
well to do and lived Ia a coast town.
That is how she became acquainted
with the man who won her heart, q
United States naval officer. mem
mer Of an old and proud southern
family.
So long as duty kept him abroad
all went well By and ~ lie was
ordered home, and came, bringing
with him his foreign wife. He had
said nothing Of her 10 his people.
They utterly refused TO receive ber,
or III any way to c0untenance her.
That mattered very little to her I'M
til her husband fell i'll, and died.
1t was bitterer than death TO find
herself put away from lin then
not even permitted to claim her
place ss chief INQUIRER behind his
coffin, nor to promise herself that in |
the end she might sleep beside him.
1t did not grieve her that be had
left her no money. She had her
pictures-pictures almost priceless
They we're heirlooms, ravished by
some marauding revolutionary an
,estor from the walls of convent and
castle in the turbulent times She
would sell them and live at ease,
asking nothing of those who disown
ID her But pretty soon she found
hat the selling was not so easy.
Even in Chicago, in Worlds Fair
lmee, purchasers of old masters
we're less plentiful than blackber-
les
She came dejectedly back to her
husbands home city, Nashville,
ardly knowing what to do. A good !
ate threw her under the roof OF 7
mother woman, who happened to be
lso a gentlewoman, and tender
earted, withal observant. Pretty {
Don she came to know that her
orelgn lodger was in straits for
honey. The strange woman never }
aid SO, but the other Colld not be 4
eceived- SO she fell into a way of
lmost forcing trifipg loans upon '
er-loans in name only she meant |
lem to be, as she had no thought
ever receiving back q cent. {
Presently there came 8 crisis. The {
range woman was wild For the
rst time she broke through her !,
lell of silence, weeping, wringing n
Ell hands, and sobbing out that she
ust go at once to S.. Louisiana y
le had not cent to pay for going y
.ere. The other woman had not :
10 much money, but she had
lend in authority over a railway. f,
him she went, begging for Oh
'ss. 1t was given at once. She
ent back in triumph to her Iodger,
ID sent her rejoicing away.
There, she thought the matter =
lded She was mistaken. Six B.
=eks after came letter enclosing
cry cent due hsr from tbs foreign
oman; also money for the boarding
use keeper, who had fed the exile
thout pay. II have sold a pic
re, wrote madame-they had all an
len into the way CT calling her On
ldame-''it gives ma pleasure to 20
Y the money 1 owe. Only the he
ar God can repay the kindness. vi
That was a surprise, but nothing En- FL
compare with what came later. "a
came in lawyers letter. Mad 81
lie was dead, it said; dead with l
snty of money for her last needs 80,
e had chosen her burial place t tRs