Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-03

as ever. L had left you for him, but
he was not pleased to see me. He had
written, pressing me to come. but the
very sight of my pale face seemed to
vex him. His first question was not
of my child or my journey, but what
| had done to lose all my beauty. Did
l think he should care to show such
a wretched, pining, miserable creature
as his wife?
Il answered him not a word. Hilda;
I the life-blood seemed leaving my
heart. 1t was for this l had left you
Yet even then, ungrateful, unkind, and
I unloving as he was, he was still my
hero and my king. 1t took many
years Of neglect to lessen my love.
/ Il need not trouble you. my darling,
with the history of those ten years.
To me they were one long martyrdom
Surely Heaven has kept count of all
l suffered
Hurst was once more a free man;
that is eight years since. He was
even then handsome, and full OF high
spirits.
! Maggie he said to me one day,
/ Maggie, you must try and work your
way back to England. | am going off
to the diggings. You cannot accom-
pany me-"
J Il implored him. to let me go. pro-
missed to work and help him, but all
| in vain.
h. han
man, "he said roughly. Go back to
England. My plans are made. I shall
make my fortune at the diggings, and
! then go home to spend It. If fail.
then | must die there. In either case
you would be equally in the way"
Then he babe me goodbye Hilda,
and left me alone in that strange land.
He took leave of me carelessly and
| lightly, as though he should return in
an hour.
Il remember his handsome face.
with its careless smile.
Goodbye, Maggie he said lightly;
we have not the best of luck. think
our marriage was mistake after all:
no good has come of it. Get back to
England as soon as you can, and make
yourself comfortable
"Hilda, in my passionate sorrow 1
prayed to die What had [ done that
such heavy woe should fall upon mer
had but few shillings. | was alone
/ In a strange land; you my child, were
lost to me, and my husband had de-
serted me. l did what other women
do. fell upon my face, and cried out
for death to release me from all sor-
row, and lay me to rest"
! Magdalen Hurst paused as though
the sorrow so wildly remembered
were fresh upon her, and for some few
minutes was unable to continue her
/ life's history
CHAPTER XVIII.
When Magdalen Hurst had suffici-
emily recovered from the painful re-
membranes of the past life she spoke
again.
L lived through it, Hilda, "she said:
ueath had no mercy for me. 1t took
the young, the loved, and nappy, but
passed me BY.
For nearly six years I worked and
saved so that | might once more re-
turn to England. Then came a letter
rom my husband,-a cruel letter: but
1t had no power to hurt me, for was
long past all pain. He told me his
fortune was made, that he had been
wonderfully successful in the diggings,
and now he was going home to spend
his money, and resume the position he
had forfeited in marrying me. He
said, If | applied to his solicitor in
London, | should receive a yearly an
nuity that would keep me from all
want or poverty. But would not
touch his money. Hilda,-I never ans
wered his letter.
paid for my journey home out of
my little store of savings. went
direct to London, thinking I might
gain some information as to LADY lint.
ton. There I heard of her death, and
your marriage. | could not rest until
had seen you; so l resolved to find
my way to Bayneham-to look once
Inore upon your face, and then I was
Indifferent as to wat might come.
There was some more sorrow IN
store for me. was walking down
one OF those grand wide streets in
London, where, they told me. the
mobiles of the land dwell. saw nv
husband, looking young, handsome,
and dressed as he used to be when
saw him first at Brynmar He was
talking and laughing with three or
four gentlemen. Hilda. my whole
heart went out to him. I forgot his
cruelty. his desertion.-he was nv
lover saw no longer the wide
streets of London.-I was in Brynmar
woods. and he, with love in his ewes
and on his lips, was by my side. Har
and on his lips. was by nv side
Hardly knowing what I did. l cried
stephen! do you not know me-
Il forgot that my face had lost its
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