The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1910-07-22
The Strange
Case Of a
New Love
An Unsel6sh Woman and the
Sacrifice She Made.
BY CUTEiBERT BAKER.
Copyright. 1910. by American PresH'
Association.

BY CUrIIBERT BAKER.
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association.
The married life bet wrru Clarence
Hooper and Edna Worth WINS very
happy. When they were un;rd chr.
rncc WINS twenty ono aud Edna nine.
teen. Ten years micr the husband
was Obliged to make II business trip
to Russin. His wife being IN delicate
health ut the time. It was not deemed
best that she should accompany him,
From Russia Clarence wrote often to
his wife. at times mentioning In glow
Ing terms certain prlma donna. Welt.
volsky, n Russian Pole. Ho was not
aware that there was anything snld
In these letters to lead his wife to be'
lIcvn that his feeling for tho singer
was anything more than friendship,
She did not write him that sho was
Jealous OF his new found friend. In
deed. she never mentioned the singer
In any OF her letters. When his and
tho singers paths diverged no ceased
10 mention her in his letters.
Ono day no received cablegran
from his wife's bosom friend, Sarah
Ingalls,. that Mrs. Hooper had been
caught IN ono of those terrible railroad
accidents which kill and main 40 many
people and had been crushed TO death
lie had seen an account of tho acct
dent the dry before cabied to an Eng
lIsh paper. but did not dream Of bis
wife hnvIng been on the trnin.
A icnth OF one very dear to us In
the events OF which we do not par
tlcipnte personally Is very different
from one where We nre present. Clar'
enco Hooper could not realize that his
wife was dend. II was only when he
returned to his desolate ,homo that his
bereavement appeared TO him as a
reality. and then It rushed upon him
WIN iS iu'' iorce' MO- ch''ureh "hu
come To them TO ,mphft'lifo or cheer'
fulness TO tho compnnionless man.
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