Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-05-02

who had been as the bright sunlight to
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 beforel
He went back to London with Miss
Atherton's violent denuneiations lin.
gering in his ears. He felt altogether
humbled; yet, in spite of his bitter
sorrow, he did smile once when he
thought of what would happen if hiy
mother and Miss Anterior were to
meet. He tried to engross himself in
his work. Once or twice he thought
Of employing a private detective to
trace Violet; but then he replied to his
own thoughts, in despair, IF she wers
found, what would it matter?" Moth.
Ing mattered but that she should como
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 that the
sar' Heaven which had once given
his wife to him would restore her now
that she was lost
Upon what varied scenes did the
sun now shine! At Ryversdale on a
proud, naughty woman, whose pride
grew deeper and whose heart grew
colder every day; on a bright loving
girl who was losing health, strength
and youth, pining for her lover; at
Draynham, where the Earl of Lester
ragged against his mother-in-law as the
most proud and the most cruel of wo.
men, and where the beautiful Countess
listened with calm smile to all the
Nominations of her lord; over the
great house in London, where the
young husband spent his solitary
days.
A strange event had happened. Vic.
let had left Ryversdale, her heart on
fire with indignation, full of anger
against her husband. She was not
just to him. All that had happened
seemed to be his fault-seemed to
have sprung from the 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.
IF | had been an earl's daughter or
a 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, vel,
might the masses hate the aristocrats!
Well 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 those
she had left. She would annu her
marriage by going far away. Never
would she submit again to the iaso.
lent pride of Lady RIVERS; never again
would she look into the fac, of tn,
man who had 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.
ished 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 az
to whittier she was going.
II 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 forget all about
it. She had some vague idea of coins
back 20 ST. Byno's. Miss Atherton's
wrath would DE hard to bear. but it
would not be so hard as Lady RIVERS
insolence. or all that she was giving
mp she never thought: the luxury and
magniicence had grown hateful to
her because they were accompanied
~ A"SpANANt anu uuhiuuuSSS. Hef.
haps. had she met with kindness and
affection instead of cruelty. she might
have enjoyed the splendor of RIVERS.
dale; as IL was, she never gave IL
thought; she was hurrying from all
that she hated, angry and indignant,
scornful and contemptuous.
When she reached the station. the
London train was just starting. She
had no object in going to London: To
set awoy quickly, to leave Ryversdale
with all its associations, was her pre-.
vailing idea.
She took ticket for London. Her
heart had not ceased its angry beat.
ing, 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 TO be the very turning point OF her
life. She owned afterward that il was
strange. If the train had happened TO
be going to Liverpool or Glasgow, she
would have taken a ticket quite az
readily TO either.
The train stopped at London Bridge,