Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-17

know the man you mean, him as SSas
killed in a duel at Monte Carlo; this is
his twin brother, Thomas
Thank heaven l am free, if your
words are correct. He passed himself
off as my husband"
We'll, ma am, it's a queer story alto
gether, l know these brothers to have
been two of the biggest of the rogues
that walk the earth and have heard
that, being twins, there was a remark
able likeness between them. But tell
me, ma'am how long is it since you
married Charles Gayford?'
Five years this spring.
We'll, / know this man We have ar
resetd to be Thomas Gaylord. for some
of the force have had their eyes on linn
since his release, and as he was sen
fenced to penal servitude seven years
ago, he can't be your husband"
81 had news that my husband was
killed, but / never had heart to inquire
into the particulars. I was too glad to
be free, so that when last autumn this
man presented himself as my husband,
saying that his death was wrongly re-
ported, was too easily duped, aud have
paid him large sums of money to leave
me alone"
Il see it all now Well, ma'am, rest
assured of thistle man we have ar
rested is no husband of yours. You are
free, but you shall have proofs of it all
in little while"
The next day Bertram Delmar, sitting
over his solitary breakfast, received a
telegram. My punishment is ended
come at Cnce to Mildred"
Whitemere was only an hour from
Kings Cross by express, yet how long
the time seemed, before he reached the
house in kensington, whence he had been
banished, as it had seemed, for ever.
And now she wired that her punishment
was ended. What did it meant Why,
what could it mean but that the last six
months, with all their hideous associa-
tons, could now be buried in oblivionf
By half-past IL he stood ia the pres
ence of the woman he loved One glance
! showed him that though the same, yet
she was changed. Yes! she looked older.
the color was gone from her cheeks, she
was thinner and more careworn, but she
was still his Mildred.
you have good news for met know
| it." was his greeting, and the great
| brown eyes filed with tears.
How kind of you to come co me.
Listen now, that man you saw was
never my busnand; only my husbands
brother, my brother in law.
! THANK heaven!" and then he asked
no further explanation, for Mildred was
taken in his arms, and she wept out the
| first tears that had come to relieve her
since the day she had tainted in the
library.
The proofs of Thomas Gayford's iden-
| tity and Charles Gayford's death were
| forthcoming; the former was sentenced
to fourteen years penal servitude, the
latter lies in an unhonored and nameless
grave far away under the cloudless skies
of the Riviera.
| 1t all came out that when Charles
Gaylord was dying he had given to one
Of his associates in crime packet of
papers to be sent to his brother on his
release.
This had been done, and a bright idea
| had struck the villain. He would trade
on his remarkable likeness to his
brother, and having papers to prove what
he said, would try and extort money
from Mildred, now that she was so rich,
on the pretense of being her husband.
He had argued that, even if she proved
too sharp for him and recognized the
deception, there would be no great harm
done, for he could make himself scarce
at once.
Fortune had favored the first part of
his plan, and he intended to keep mod
erately straight with the three thou
sand pounds; but once having spent all
his ready money, old habits had been
too strong, and he had forged a checque
to a small amount. So Mildred knew
that he was not her husband. and that
at length she might look for perfect
happiness.
Three weeks later there was a quiet
little wedding in which Bertram Delmar
took Mildred Gaylord to love, shield and
cherish so long as life should last.
Six weeks afterwards Percy Simonds
welcomed the bride and bridegroom to
their residence in Whitemere, and the
ladies of that place decided that they
must call on Mrs Delmar.
"She was always good STYLE. her
gowns and house were perfection" so.
! liloquized Lady Broadhurst as she but
toned her gloves and took up her card
case preparatory to calling on the bride.
But they never knew the blight that
had been on Mildred's life, for the two
are perfectly happy now.
II have been willful, but I have paid
for it," she said to her husband, as one
warm spring evening they wandered to-
gether under the trees. 81 think I mar
ried the first time to see what it was
like, and the second time not because I
had found l liked it, but because I had
met the man who win help me to happi-
ness, now that I have atOned and lived
through my punishment"
THE END.