Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-06

| the dark, beautiful face, a world of
passionate love and pain.
"Why do you think she is not crate
ful?" asked Violet, gently.
II know she is not; the dowager
told me about it. She, this young
wife, really Lady RIVERS, although
she seems never to have used the
name, was brought up in some ex-
traordinary fashion TO hate, without
rhyme and reason, all aristocrats;
and, when she found that she had
married one of the class she hates, all
her love seemed to die. Lady RIVERS
assured me that she believed honestly
that all the love was on his side.
Was that being grateful? l think
when she found what his marriage
had cost him she ought to have been
doubly grateful to him, she ought to
have loved him more than ever.
should in her place. Lady RIVERS
said he never looked quite happy.
Then, after all. she left him.
Left him?" repeated Violet,
mechanically.
She wondered if this other woman
could hear the quick beating of her
heart; to her it seemed to drown all
other sounds.
"Yes-left him"-there was a
passionate ring of scorn in the speak
er's voice-"left him; but must own
that she seems to have had great
| provocation. Lady RIVERS had
wanted me to be her sons wife; this
marriage was altogether distasteful
to her. The girl was very beautiful;
but she was high-spirited and wilful.
The dowager might have made mat
tiers much pleasanter, but she never
tried. The RIVERS are all proud
people. This girl was just as proud,
but in the very opposite direction.
She admired all that they disliked,
she condemned all that they most adj
mired; she did not abate one of her
prejudices; she gave back coldn nss
| for GOODNESS, pride for pride. Ah
me, would not have done so hid
been in her PLACED"
what would you have done?'
asked Violet, wistfully.
She did not like this portrait of her
self drawn by another hand.
Il, for nis dear sake, would have
done my best to conciliate them," she
replied; Il would have trampled all
my own miserable feelings under
| foot; l would have thought first of
him and his interests; l should have
studied him, not asserted myself, as
she did,"
Again the warm blood rushed over
| Violet's face, and a mist seemed to
hide the face of her husband from her
view.
"True, feeling makes all the differ
ence," said Miss MARI. 81 should
have done all this because l loved
him; she failed to do it because she
did not love him enough"
Did she not? Was it love, hate, or
jealousy that sent that burning thrill
through her heart, that made her long
almost to check the very words that
came from her rivals lips?
at was, or rather it is, sad story
altogether" continued the heiress. 81
really think that if the dowager had
seen that the girl loved her son, she
might in time have learned to like |
her; but she assured me that she did |
not love him. When she saw this, |
when she realized what fatal mis- |
take the marriage was, she, the |
dowager, took a desperate, and, |
think, most unjustifiable step. She |
tried to set the marriage aside. | do |
not know on what grounds or under |
what plea | condemn the action al |
together. Nor can understand it on |
the part of woman like Lady |
RIVERS, unless she were driven almost |
to despair; but she did it. She |
thought that, as her son was not of |
age, some flaw might be found in the |
marriage, and that it could be set |
aside"
Il call that wicked" cried Violet, |
with hurrying wicked and |
cruel!"
81 quite agree with you," said Miss
Mari. Nothing could justify such |
conduct 1t had fatal result, too.
Lady RIVERS wrote to London to con-
suit firm of lawyers about the |
validity of the marriage, and most I'M
fortunately, through the mistake of a
servant, the answer to this letter was
taken to the young wife. She read it,
and it drove her almost mad"
Faster and faster beat the heart of |
the listening girl. This was how her
conduct looked to others; this was
how others thought and spoke of her.
'She went to the dowager with the
open letter in her hand. There was a
terrible scene between them. She
was proud, indignant-the dowager
cool, contemptuous. She declared
that she would save them all trouble.
that she would annul her marriage
herself. She left them; and they
have neither seen nor heard of her
since. A strange story. it is not?
Most strange" replied Violet, with
quivering lips.
How many lives are spoiled by this
unfortunate marriage" said Miss
Mari. Mine, for shall never love