The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1899-11-18

| ried the man whom she believed to be
hero and reaped her reward.
There was some little surprise and con-
sternation in Harbury when it was
known that Doris Hatton had married
the young demagogue whose appearance
had created a social whirlwind.
| Few understood the attraction that
such a man would have for a romantic,
sentimental girl. Doris thought no lot
in the world one-half SO brilliant as hers.
Amos Hatton was a broken-hearted
man. He had but two children, and he
loved them with the deepest possible love.
His son Arthur. handsome, spirited
| boy, eight years older than his sister, has
chosen the army for a profession; and
quite early in his career he had received
| an excellent military appointment in In
dia, where he was rapidly accommodating
fame and fortune. Doris, his fair daugh-
ter, was the very pride Of his heart. For
| her the old lawyer had worked and toiled
| only to see himself forsaken for a man
whom he hated and despised. His heart
was bitter and his wrath was great. He
wrote to his son in India, telling him
what had happened, and bidding him to
drive all memory Of his sister from him
forever. Then Amos Hatton made an
other will, in which he left al his prop
erty to his son; and when he spoke of
Doris it was as Of one dead. Everything
that had ever belonged to her-piano,
books, pictures, clothes, ornaments-was
sent after her. In the lawyers pleasant,
old-fashioned house in Harbury not a
trace was left of the daughter once so
beloved.
The three years that followed his mar
rage We're perhaps the most brilliant of
Martin Rays life. The worship and
alteration Of his young wife stimulated
him. He positively began to believe him
self what she imagined him to be. One
morning when Amos Hatton opened his
newspaper he saw 4 long account of a
grand political meeting in London, and
the event of the day was the speech of
Martin Ray. He read it. Bitterness,
anger and regret filled his heart; he suf-
fered terribly. His emotion brought on
a fit; and when his clerk went into the
office he found him with his head on the
table The doctor who was hastily sum
moned said that he had been dead for an
hour.
The news of his decease was sent to In
dia where his son Arthur grieved heart
lily for him. According to his will, every
thing that he possessed-house, furniture,
pictures, plate, business, railway shares,
mining shares-was sold, and the money
was sent to his son.
Arthur took it, and doubled 1t in a few
years He thought of his little sister
Doris with something like remorse, but
made up his mind that when he returned
to England he would seek her out, and
at least share the money with her.
SO Amos Hatton was buried, and in
due time forgotten. Doris mourned long
and deeply for him. She still believed in
her husband as a great hero and an cx-
cellent man. None of her illusions had
been dispelled, and her happiness had
been crowned by the birth of two little
aughters-beautiful children, the eldest
of whom she had named Leah, and the
second Hettie. She was wonderfully
happy, this sweet Doris, who thought no
husband and no children equal to her
own. Cut off from all her former asso-
Citations and friends. thrown entirely On
her husband for society, no wonder that
her life narrowed and her world became
conferred in him.
Il did not take her many years to find
out that her idol was q clay, TO discover
that he was no prophet, no martyr, that
ne careu lltlt lOf lUe consequences OF
his seditious language and the fire ne put
into the hearts of the people, provided
only that he made money and lived in
comfort, that his eloquence was great
natural gift which he would just as
cheerfully have turned to any other pur-
pose, that, stripped Of all the ideal quail
tiles she had ascribed to him, he was
simply shrewd man of powerful intel
lect, rather more egotistical and more
selfish than most of his fellows
Some wives live and die without either
seeing their husbands faults or discern
ing their weaknesses. 1t was not so with
Doris. The time came when she stood
appalled, at what she had done-when the
clap-trap sentiments that she had once
thought so heroic and grand appeared to
her in their true light. The knowledge
brought on a severe illness, and she died
leaving her two little daughters. Leah
and Hette. But before she died she
! wrote a letter to her far-Of brother own
ing to him that her marriage had been a
fatal mistake and praying him to take
charge of her children-to save them, 10
rescue them, If he could, from fatal
and unwholesome atmosphere and do the
best he could for them.
He was Colonel Hatton when he receiv-
ed the letter. He placed it with his pa
pers, intending to do what she asked, and
in the whirl of his busy life forgot all
about it.