The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-28
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Certainly"
She sat at her husbands desk. dipped
her pen In the ink. and waited,
THE woman you love" 1 began, "is
attempting
Madame looked up. her lips parted, her
whole face turned an ashen gray.
is attempting your life. Be
warned
! could SO no further
with fear expressed In every line of
her face. she rushed at me. seized both
my arms in a cohyuslye grasp, and
throwing herself on the sofa, her face
buried In the cushions, broke into peals
OF uncomfortable laughter IL was fear
ful,
After while she grew calmer.
Madame" l said, will you--'
AT the sound OF my voice she Jumped
up and stood In front of me
NO.. she screamed in a paroxysm Of
exel5ement tIand mt. don't speak don't utter a
wrote that letter. You guessed the whole
truth. l can read II in your face You
nave nave come come to avenge Armand: But you
snail listen 70 me You shall know what
ess. NJ Goron. have you ever heard OF
woman killing man because she loved
him? Dom look at me surprised. ] am
not mad. l am quite sane. Had I been
bereft OF reason l should have suffered
less.
Il love Armand as no woman ever bs-
fore loved man He is kind, generous.
and would give my life for him any hour
tof the day. loved him from the moment
first saw him. and, when we married,
wanted him to know all he was to me.
But curse seemed to rest on me Nv
stony features and my harsh voice re-
PEELED him; and when I tried TO tell him
how | worshiped him and that I was
pinlng, for his affection, my tongue
M 7, I
then ! knew he was lost 10 me. and
! had to see him spend half his days in
the company Of that flighty doll his
| cousin. / resolved 10 kill myself, but I
knew that he would marry that woman;
should dIe!'
She paused n. moment and In a gentler
IN Goron have told you that what
few women tell men. I do not ask for
pity. desire none Have you come to
arrest me2"
And the look of the frightened animal
once came over her face.
l longed to have this painful interview
over, and said.
you, because Armand made me promise
that IL the crime should be brought home
TO you. you should not be harmed. SO
as the me fa,~rd laW s }n In order
on. your obeying my injunctions"
she bowed her head, and 1t was de-
cided that before the end OF the week
she should leave France. She at once
proposed TO go to the cholera stricken
district IN Tonquin, where she could
be. useful, and I promised to see her
safely on board the next outgoing
steamer. She also signed a declaration
10 the effect that she was leaving her
husband and her home. which would
enable Armand TO obtain a divorce with
out any trouble. AS I rose to go. she
stopped me,
ALLOW me to make last request
Don't tell Armand anything about my
confession to you. He need not know
what I have suffered. Will you promise
| 1t me2''
81 promise IT,
"I thank you. Goodby, NJ. Goron; 1
shall not forget your kindness"
In less than A week she left for Ton
auin. where she toiled night and day
| In the hospital. She died six months
after her arrival from over -exertion.
| Armand, ] believe. married Marceine.
| 7 say II believe" because that lady wrot q
me an indignant letter. wherein she said
| she would never forgive my suspicious
| OF her. And she must have made Ar
nand share her Indignation. for / have
neither seen him nor heard from him
since.