Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-12-21

like my love"
fallen upon her hand.
What am / doing?" she thought.
Il have hardly thought of him for
years. Can it be possible that | am
weeping for Paul?"
She flung the rose away, but she
could not dismiss those haunting
memories from her heart-Pauls love,
PauPs tenderness, Pauls devotion,
his incessant watchfuI care. How
proud he had been of her! How mad
ly he had worshipped her!
For the first time-so engrossed had
she been in her new life-she began to
wonder what had happened to him dur
ing those ten years.
He took my decision very quietly"
she said; "he never even tried to per-
suade me to alter it,
How useless all such persuasions
would have been no one knew better
then herself; but it began to strike her
as strange that he should have made
no effort to see her-to induce her to
return to him. OF the tempest Of
pride and passion, of love and despair
through which he had passed, she
knew nothing.
Paul, Paul! Why should she be
haunted now? she asked herself, i'm
patiently. Surely in ten years she
had time to forget; surely there could
be nothing so absurd as that she
should wish for him-long to see him
now.
Yet by day and by night there was
the lingering pain, the longing de-
sire. At times when she woke her pill
low was wet with tears; there were
times when she found herself moaning,
Paul, PAUL" almost unconsciously
to herself. And this was the vain.
faithless woman who had left her hus-
band because she valued luxury more
than love.
She began to long to see him.
Once she had compared him with the
polished gentleman she had met at
Bralyn, and the comparison, In som.
respects, had always been to his ad-
vantage; they were so refined; she
was so lonely. But now, as her
eyes wandered YEARLY over the
great crowd, she looked in vain for
a face like his.
So slowly, but surely. repentance
began its work. She had been so
eager for riches so eager to show her
great beauty, so eager for admiration
she had longed with such an inten-
sity of longing for the pleasures of
life, for its brilliant gaities-she hau
been eager as child; and now all
that she had longed for had been hers.
For ten long years she had been en-
crossed, heart and soul, in the worlds
delights. She had been like a man in
'toxicated with wine. Now the intox
ication was subsiding-her sober
senses were beginning to return: ana
with them came a yearning longing
desire for her husband-for the love
and kindness of other days. She had
been like one in delirium-now the
dellrium was wearing off, and the re-
atty frightened her. She had been SC
dazed, so bewildered with the prospec,
held out to her that she had never
thought of the wrong.
Perhaps years had steadied her. had
given to her better sense. clearer
Judgment, better thoughts. nobler
Ideas. One thing was quite certain
all that she had overlooked when she
made her fatal choice came clearly be-
fore her now-the wrong she haG
done to her husband, the enormitv of
the sin she had committed.
Il was so sorely tempted" she cried
10 herself-"I forgot all the wrong"
She tried hard to drown all these
thoughts. She went out more than
ever-tried to forget, to drown her sor-
row in gaities. 1t was not possible
by night and by day memory was here
to torture her
she grew thin and pale. People re-
marked to each other and to Lord
Carlswood how changed she was. and
he grew anxious about her
I'VE will leave London earlier than,
usual this year" he said. You must
go to the seaside. Ismay You are nor
looking so we'll my dear child. What
ails you?''
She could have told him that it was
an awakened conscience, troubled !
heart, an uneasy mind. a longing de- |
sire to see her husband again. a long |
ing wish if possible to undo her sin.
Was it SIM" The question came |
suddenly to her mind one day, and
startled her terribly A sin? She had
always been frightened at shit was |
not pleasant word. Was this a sin |
to have left the husband to whom |
she had plighted her troth, for no bet |
ter reason than the desire of being
rich?
Not all the sea-breezes that ever
swept the waves could bring health to |
the unhappy wife who had been so |
trail so weak of purpose, so easily |
tempted. No medicine. no tonic vet
discovered, had power to quiet the pain
OF her awakened conscience.
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