Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-05-02
Thorns and Orange Blossoms.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
ROMANCE OF A YOUNG GIRL.


this fair landscape and without whom
it was dark as night? What a miser.
able end it was to his love and his
marriage, he who had thought to Sc.
cure greater happiness than had ever
been granted to man before!
He went back to London with Miss
Athertons violent denunciations lin.
gering In his ears. He felt altogether
! humbled; yet, in spite of his bitter
sorrow he did smile once when be
thought OF what would happen If hia
mother and Miss Anterior were to
meet He tried to engross himself in
his work. once or twice he thought
OF employing private detective to
| trace Violet, but then he replied to HE
own thoughts, in despair, II she wers
found. what would it matter?' Moth.
! ing mattered but that she should CON,
| to him Of her own accord And for
that the young lord, to whom had been
given the artists genius and the poets
soul waited day after day with pa
| tience, never ashamed to pray tnat the
safe Heaven which had once given
/ his wife to him would restore her now
that she was lost.
Upon what varied scenes did the
| SIM now shine At Ryversdale on a
proud, naughty woman. whose pride
grew deeper and whose heart grew
colder every day; on bright loving
! girl who was losing health, strength
and youth, pining for her lover; at
Draynham, whore the Earl of Lester
ragged against his mother-in-law as the
most proud and the most cruel of wo.
men and whore the beautiful Countess
| listened with calm smile to all the
fulminations of her lord over the
young husband spent his solitary
days.
A strange event had happened. Vio
| let had left RYversdale, her heart on
| fire with indignation, full OF anger
against her husband, She was not
lust to him All that had happened
seemed to be his fault-seemed to
| have sprung from che one source, his
deception. The shame seemed to her
greater than she could bear, that any
one should dare call the validity of
her marriage into question.
III had been an earl's daughter or
great heiress, Lady RIVERS would
| have been anxious TO make my mar
riaGe secure"
| What angry scorn, what bitter con-
! tempt filed her heart! All. well
might the masses hate the aristocrats,
Wen might they rise in the olden days
and STAY them, What right had they
to assume such superiority? In what
had these two women--the Countess
of Lester and Lady Ryvers--a superb
GRITTY over her? 1t was the first time
that she had been brought into con.
tact with those whom she had been
trained to hate, and she did full just
ice to her training.
Bitter. angry thoughts filled her
mind She did not think much of her.
self, of whittier she was going, of what
she would do; she was too angry.
Never again. she vowed to herself
would she look upon the faces of thosc
she had left She would annul her
marriage by going far away. Never
would she submit again to the inso-
lent pride of Lady RIVERS; never again
would she look into the face of the
man who mad brought all thes,
troubles upon her.
She had left behind her all the rich
paraphernalia. of dress, jewels, and
ornaments that her husband had Law.
l5hcd upon her; not one of them
would she touch. She dressed her
self plainly, and she left the grand old
mansion on foot, needless enough as
70 whittier she was going.
If it had occurred to her that the
money in her purse was her hus
bands, she would have left that be
hind her also; but she forgot all about
e She had sume vague idea of goin.
back to st Byno's, Miss Atherton's
wrath would be hard to bear, but it
would not be so hard as Lady RIVERS
insolenCe or all that she was giving
up she never Thought; the luxury and
maEniieence had grown hateful to
her. because they were accompanied
boy iDsolence and unkindness. Per.
hans had she met with kindness and
afH ton instead ef.grNelty she might
have enjoyed the splendor Of RIVERS
dale: rs It was. she never gave il a
Thought she was hurrying from all
tsat Sue hated angry aad indignant,
scornrul and contemptuous.
When she reached the station. the
London train was just starting She
had no object in going to London: to
get away quickly, TO leave Ryversdale
with all rs associations. was her pre-.
yaiiing idea.
She took a ticket for London Her
heart had not ceased its angry beat.
.ac, every pulse was thrilling with the
memory OF the insult she had received
The train stopped at London Bridge
The accidental taking OF that ticket
was 20 DC the very turning-point Of her
life, She owned afterward that it was
strange II the train lad happened TO