Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-06-06
the dark, beautiful face. a.world Of
passionate love and pain.
why do you think she Is not CRATE.

| why do you think she is not CRATE.
ful?" asked Violet, gently.
Il 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 come ex-
traordinary fashion to nate, 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? 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
sad 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
! Itdll, W iltt ~ bGSDlCd W VI OWli an
other sounds.
"Yes--left him there was
passionate RUG 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 GOODNESS
for coldness, pride for pride. All
me, would not have done SO had |
been in her place."
What would you have done?"
asked Violet, wistfully.
She did not like this portrait OF her
self drawn by another hand
II, for lis dear sake, would have
done my best to conciliate them" she
replied; Il would have trampled all
my own miserable feelings under
foot: would have thought first OF
him and his interests; | should have
studied him, not asserted myself, as
she did,
A eroiy tho blood bod
Violets face, and mist seemed to
hide the face of her husband from her
view.
True feeling makes all the differ
ence," said Miss Mari. Il should
have done all this because | 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?
1T was, or rather it is, sad story
altogether" continued the heiress. Il
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 unjustifable step. She
tried to set the marriage aside. | do
NJ N,rho cr,pnpIc t,ninr
what plea. | condemn the action al
together Nor can | understand it on
the part of a 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 quito agree with YOU said Miss
Mari Nothing could justify such
conduct. 1t had a fatal result, too.
Lady RIVERS wrote to London to con.
suit a firm of lawyers about the
validity of the marriage, and most UNI
fortunately, through the mistake of
servant the answer to this letter was
taken TO the young wife. She read 1t.
and Il 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. eoutemptuous. 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 hedrd Of her
since. \ strange story II is not
Most strange. replied Violet, with
quiyering lips,