Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-29

intending to carry out his beloved wife $
| advice, went to his club, unfortunately,
and while concealed behind q newspa-
per heard the following conversation
II am sure hat she is unconscious,
but some day she will wake to the fact
that he is better looking than her nus
band"
And more afectionate,' said another
Sneering voice.
'.The Napoleons are all lady Killers
added the first voice, with laugh.
Furious. Duke Marine sprang to his
feet to find himself face to face With
THE Marquis Roccagioyane, whom he
| seized bv the arm. drew into a corner
and, in the heat of the moment. forget
ting the wise councils of the duchess,
told him plainly what was being limited,
| SAYING that the young man had compro
missed his wife and forbidding him to
again enter the Colonna palace.
NEWS OF THE SUICIDE.
The next morning both the Duke and
| Duchess Marine WOKE in Il tranquil
! frame of mind, and were discussing
the journey of the latter when a friend
| burst into the room, crying:
Have you heard the news? Napo-
! leone has committed suicfdc''
Duke Marine became deadly pale,
while his wife. after staring wildly at
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right. When, she anne to herself her
husband, was not in the house. and she
passed the day in the most fearful men
tai condition, feeling instinctively that
her husband was not entirely blame
less, and that lie must. therefore, have
been suspicious of her. When he ap-
| peared before her she at once cried: IL
if your fault! | feel it, | know II,
What passed between YOU?
T. IT, tia I,ot- in a Jaw sE wards ana.
| thinking it better she should know the
whole truth and from his lips, added
that young Roccagiovane had for q mo-
ment lost his head at the thought that
he had even slightly smirched the pur-
ity of his divinity, and had been seized
with the mad idea that his death would
| leanse her. During the night he had
blown out his brains after putting ny
affairs in order, requesting that his
favorite jewel. a diamond butterfly
pierced through the heart by a ruby
headed pin, would he given to the
Duchess Marine as a memento of his
hopeless love. That pin her husband
had many times thereafter cause to
curse. 1t seemed to exercise y peculiar
influence on her almost like a living
thing.
After having the details of the tray
edy explained. during the recital Of
which she did not speak. she move
without a word toward her bedroom
door, when tho Duke exclaimed:
BELIEVED HIM A MURDERER.
'.Dearest. why do you look 50 strange!
Surely you cannot blame me-; / did it
for your sake! Speak, and say at least
that you forgive me..'
She looked at him a moment, and
then said in q low voice: ITO me you
are a murderer" and vanished through
the door, never again for % years 70
speak voluntarily to him.
Her mother was sent for, her children
We're brought to her, her husband im-
plored her upon his knees, her confessor
admonished her, the doctors made every
effort to break down her obstinate sill
ence and resentment toward her hus-
band, but ali in vain. and at last her
friends We're obliged Ito confess that
she was mad. That delicate and some
what weak spirit had given way before
the tragedy. hertmania taking the fornl.
of hatred for the man whom she had
loved the most. Strange phenomenon,
when all are agreed that she absolutely
was Indifferent to the dead man.
She took possession of the jeweled
throat, and touching it CONSTANTS.
When her fingers were 0 it she would
break nto bitter words against herhus-
band. and il he,tcasuessuddeuiy into
her presence. up her hand would go. to
stop there until he left, 50 that the poor
man at times even believed that 1t was
possessed of a malfgns spirit.
The hopslessnesa Of effecting a recon-