Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-12-22


He had loved the young mother with
keen, intense passion; he hated the
child with swift, keen hatred.
Take il from my sight" he said
to the weeping women. Let me never
see it. II has cost its mother her
life" And they carried 1t away
weeping womanly tears OF compass
sion.
He could not forgive the child be-
cause of its mothers death-he cou'l
not look at ii. The nurses said t.
babe had its mothers eyes: and 81.
thought to himself that to see Giulia
eyes in another's face would kill him.
He was more than half distraught
when he babe Giulias chief attendant
to write to Assunta TO tell her of
her sisters death. She came at
once. Perhaps the sight of the
beautiful home he had prepared for
his lost wife touched her heart, for,
though she sternly refused to see Jas
per, she declared her intention OF
adopting The child She would nor
exchange one word with him. All
business was transacted through the
kind friend who had stood at Glulia's
death-bed
Assunta promised to adopt the
child il Jasper would renounee all
claim to her, II he would allow her
to bring her mp after her own fashion,
In perfect ignorance of him and all
belonging to him, believing that her
parents we're dead; moreover, he must
promise never 20 claim her,
He was kneeling by his dead wife's
side when the conditions were brought
not open TO say, love her because
she was mine" the cold hands could
to him, and the dumb white lips could
not be elasped in suppllcation to him
the mothers heart could not speak IL
the closed eyes. The only human
being who could have saved the lit
tie one lay there, "stone-dead ana
STILL" and, as he looked at the
beautiful face, so calm in the majesty
of death, he turned to the bearer .
the message and said:
Tell Assunta di cynthia that i,
proportion as l loved my wife | dis
like the child, and that give her en-
tirely to her, never wishing to see her
or hear of her again"
AT the same time he was just, II,
offered to settle a certain sun
money on the little one, more than
sufficient to educate and dover her
Assunta's pale face flushed crimson
when she heard 1t.
Il touch the accused English golu
she cried Il would see all Venice
perish first!"
Without another word, she took the
child in her arms and left the house
Even in death she refused to look on
the face of her sister again.
Then came for Jasper a long BLANK
He remembered in after-years that he
stood by the grave of his wife; he
remembered falling upon it with a
loud, bitter cry; then came a blank.
The roses and passion-flowers were
in full bloom when that happened,
when he recovered his senses the
roses had withered, the passion-how-
ers were dead, and winter was coming.
He was lying, not in his own house,
wise doctors had forbidden that
but in one of the large hotels in
Venice, fighting for his life. He hveC
but the world was never the same Il
him again. His youth, his hopes, his
heart, all lay in the grave of his young
wife. He was never the same. When
hn crtrp
returned home, and his parents were
almost beside themselves with grie
at his changed face.
"a fever caught in Italy" explained
it all. Lady Brandon sighed mourn
fully over it. "Ah! If he had but been
content to stay at home"
Then he realized what he had done,
what he had suffered what he had
lost. He was not ashamed of his
marriage, but he shut up the sweet,
sad love-story In his heart. guarding
1t as a miser guards his gold--not to
have saved his life could he have
spoken Giulia's name. II seemed
impossible to him that any one could
understand that sweet, mad love OF
his. How should they? And he could
not tell them. He shut up the sweet.
sad story in his heart and lived on it.
People called him proud and cold
reserved and silent; they never
dreamed of the burning love beneath
the ice; there was no one who. ever
suspected him of wild, passionate
love and sorrow that would be has
until he died. Time passed on; he
grew stronger; the full tide of health
and strength returned to him, and
with it came longing to take his
share in the full. active life arounS
him.
He plunged into the hottest fray u.
political life; his speeches rang
through all England Men named hin
with the deepest admiration; he was
power in the state; he spent his day.
in work. his nights in study, Did he
forget?
AT times, when the busy members
around him were dsputing vehem-
emily, he found himself standing on
the Rialto ait Venice, gazing at sweet
gtrl-face He found himself under