The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-30
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foolish kinswoman had been unable t.
dissimulate her contentment.

foolish kinswoman had been unable to
dissimulate her contentment.
Poor creature, thought, no man ever
wanted her, and now my misfortune is
to give her a family. Oh! life gives
to one, and takes from the otheri
1--WE were leaving on the following day
Paul knew it, and had not stayed our
preparations-he would let us go. He
knew it, and, although 1 had not had
one last interview with him Gas my
friend Jean Debut, and Lebrazier, the
lawyer had advised my having), L had
not the moral courage to tell him, to say
to him: You know, PAUL am going to
leave you-that you may obtain a di-
vorce and marry the woman you love-.
And I had refused to proceed with any
negotiations. MOI no! the part 1 had
chosen was one of silence. My trunks
had been packed, carriage would car
ry me to the station, the train would
be taken; and thus our life together
1 should write nothing. Paul preferred
to ignore my movements. However, he
was cognizant of them. Ny aunt s
presence in the house should have SUI
feed to have put him IN the watch.
Then, the servants had talked, and the
conversation that had passed between
my husband and his valet had been re-
tailed to me through my maid.
paul knew that his wife and daugh-
ter were about to quit his house on the
following day. never to return.
what were his thoughts at that mo-
ment, l unused, there in his den for
had heard him come in at 1880, and from
seeing her perhaps1. Three unoccupied
apartments separated him from my
room-the large reception room, the
smaller one and the dining room. Did
he ever try to listen for sound of my
movements? How many times since we
had lived as strangers under the same
roof had I not waited for his football in
the silence of the night! 1t had re-
sounded in my heart; 1t seemed to me
that it was all that remained to me of
hin-the noise of his steps in the same
house in which I lived. Tomorrow that
also. would be taken from me.
did he think of me? And, if so, was
it to rejoice at the thought Of his speedy
deliverance from me? Was 1t content
ment or chagrin with which he was i'm
bued? I thought the former. Paul's
heart had undergone a change, and the
theories of my imaginative sister-tn-laW
upon the power of magical charms had
here found an unlocked for Justification
The sorceress with the auburn hair and
white shoulders had lured him from me.
The man whose heavy tread / could hear
the -QlSIdIIcSa Was 1lOI lIte III IlOyttu-
mont whom I adored, and who cher
ished me. I attributed his present course
to the potent influence Of that other
woman. 1t was the latter who had said:
Compel your wife to leave you, cost what
it WILL And she had also added: I am
unwilling for you to give her the right
to obtain the divorce. She it is who must
assume every wrong, and the complement
Of suffering. AS for myself, the one who
has been SO much to you, alone have a
right to the wealth of your possessions.
And he had obeyed; for she had intoxi-
Gated him with the charms of her unholy
witchery.
'sThe slow irregular steps were still
audible traversing the narrow confines of
the den, with unaccustomed persistence
rs it possible that Paul, too, is suffering?'
asked myself Can a heart so changed
as his remember the fact of its being my
last night In this house! Perhaps the
! memories of cur past which beset me had
also permeated his thought in these SUI
preme hours. The little ignorant, IN
nocent Jeanne, who had been SO
much in love with himi The
Jeanne of their betrothaI. of those
first nights. of the honeymoon in
| Deyonshire. And then the Jeanne In