Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08

knowing that he was lost to her for
evermore.
Then the climax came when his wife
spoke of 'Lances little CHILD" If
those words drove her to her death
who shall wonde4
She saw the stars in the water and
thought she was going to them, and
perhaps, on the Great Day, that
| thought, that imagination may plead
for her
1t was a mad love, a cruel, mad love.
Some instinct came to Lord Chandos
when he read that letter that all was
not well. He started at once for
Rashleigh.
The morning sun was high in the
| heavens when he reached there. Co
| ing at once to the mill-stream, he had
seen the body of the woman he loved
floating there, her long hair tangled in
the water-li lilies, smile such as comes
from perfect peace on her face.
He did the wisest thing he could
have done-he brought Farmer Noel
to the spot, and told him the story,
while she lay with her face raised to
the morning skies-the story of a mad
| love.
| Farmer Noel uttered no reproaches
Il never thought she would live a
happy life or die happy DEATH he
said-'it was written so in her face. ,
The two kept the secret. In small
! place like Rashleigh such an occur
renee is a nine days wonder. Every
one believed that the hapless lady had
fallen into the stream as she was pass
ing to the woods Although the farm
told anyone that she was his niece, and
no one recognized her.
There was verdict of found
drowned, and everyone thought the
farmer was generous because he under
took the funeral expenses.
How Lord Chandos grieved, no
words could tell-it was as though the
light of his life had disappeared, he
never spoke of his sorrow; but it made
him old in his youth and killed the
best part of his life in him.
No one, even ever SO family, con-
nected the inquest at Rashleigh with
the disappearance of Madame Vanira.
The world went mad a. first with
anger and disappointment, then ru-
NOR was spread that madame had
gone to America, and had married a
millionaire there.
The world recovered it's good temper
and laughed. Then another grand
singer appeared on the scene, and Lee
one was forgotten. The only person
| to whom Lord Chandos ever told the
| truth was the Countess of Lanswell,
and it shocked her so greatly that she
gave up all society for few days, and
| then, as the world had done before,
| forgot it.
Lord Chandos never forgot; the
world was never the same to him.
His wife's words came true; he was
kindness itself to her, and she was
very happy. She never even heard of
Madame Vanira's untimely end, nor
did she ever know who Madame Va
Mira was. She always respected her,
because she had kept her word, and
had gone out of her husbands way AS
time passed on she, too--forgot.
Lord Chandos never forgot.
Fair daughters and stalwart sons
grew around him. He was kind, cheer
full, even gay, but in the depths of his
heart he mourned over her To please
him Lady Chandos gave to one of her
daughters the. name of Leone, and it
was pitiful to hear the pathos with
which he spoke it.
Of all his children he loves Leone
best. In his dreams he sees the golden
gates of heaven, and the other Leone
watching for him there.
While she sleeps in peace by the
mill-stream, and as the water runs by
it, it sings:
GA mad love--a mad love"
But "the mill will never grind again
with the waters that are past
The End.