Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-05-01
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to sleep-her heart beat, every pulse
thrilled, This was to be the last night
in her old home-the last of her girlish
life; tomorrow she would be Lady
Chandos-wife of the young lover
whom she loved with all her heart and
soul.
The birds woke her with their song;
it was their wedding-day. She would
not see Robert Noel again; he took his
breakfast before six and went off TO
the fields again. She had but to dress
herself and go to the station. Oheton
was some three miles from the station,
but on a summers morning that was
a trifie.
They were all three there at last
Sir Frank looking decidedly vexed and
cross, Lord Chandos happy as the day
was long, and Leone beautiful as a
picture.
Look" said the young lordling to
his friend, have I no excuse?"
Sir Frank looked long and earnestly
at the beautiful southern face.
EYES," he replied, $50 far as beauty
and grace can form an excuse, you
have one; but, Lance, if I loved that
girl thousand times better than my
life, I should not marry her."
"Why?" asked Lord Chandos, with
a laugh.
Because she has tragedy in her
life. She could not be happy. She
will neither have a happy life nor a
happy DEATH
"My dear Frank, do not prophesy
such evil on our wedding day."
81 do not mean to prophesy; I say
what I think; it is beautiful face,
full of poetry and passion, but it is
also full of power and unrest"
''You shall not look at her again if
you say such things" cried Lord Chan
dos.
And then the good vicar, still dis
tressed at being aroused SO early, came
to the church. Had it been less pitiful
and pathetic, it would have been most
comical, the number of times the old
vicar dropped his book, forgot the
names, the appalling mistakes he
made, the nervous hesitation of his
manner. Sometimes Lord ChandOs
felt inclined to say hard, hot words:
again, he could not repress a smile.
But at length, after trembling and hes
itating the vicar gave the final benedic-
ton, and pronounced them man and
wife
In the vestry, when the names were
signed, some ray of light seemed TO
dawn on the old vicar.
''Chandos,' he said ''that is not a
common name about here"
''Is it not?" said the young lord; est
seems common enough to me-"
"Chandos," repeated the minister,
where have I heard that name?"
ST have heard it SO often that I am
tired of it," said the young husband.
And then it was all over.
"Thank God to be out in the sun
light" he cried, as he stood, with his
beautiful wife, in the churchyard.
"Thank God it is all over, and [ can
call my love my wife. I thought that
service would never end. Frank,
have you no good wishes for my wife,"
Sir Frank went to Leone.
81 wish you JOY" he said; II wish
you all happiness but"
And then he played nervously with
the hat he held in his hand.
"But," she said with a bright smile,
"you do not think I shall get it?'
Sir Frank made no answer; he did
not think she would be happy, but she
had chosen her own way; he had said
all he could. Perhaps his eyes were
clearer than others, for he could read
a tragedy in her face. Then Sir Frank
left them, having performed his part
with very i'll grace.
FLeone, have you said goodbye to
your uncle?" asked Lord Chandos.
''I left a little note to be given him
when he returns home this evening.
How he will miss me-
"And how fortunate I am to have
you, my darling; there is no one in
the wide world so happy. We will
drive over to Rashleigh Station. I do
not care who sees me now, no one can
part us. DR.. Hervey thinks I went
home to London this morning, but
won a wife before starting, did I not,
Leone, my beautiful love? You are
Lady Chandos now. What are you
thinking of, my darling?"
''I was wondering, Lance, if there
was anything in our marriage that
could possibly invalidate it and make
it illegal?"
"No," he replied, ''I have been too
careful of you, Leone, for that You
are my wife before God and man.
Nothing shall take you from me but
DEATH"
"But DEATH" she repeated slowly.
And in after years they both remem-
bered the words.