The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-28

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thas remained on my part ever since
Whom NC separated she said that
we might never meet again, and she
!. told NE to write to her. Told her that
! had never written letters except TO
my relatives at home, but since It was
! ner wish should Try 10 write, and at
least let her know thai / had not for
I gotten her, which indeed the circum-
stances OF our meeting and her UNI
bounded devotion to her lover made
! Impossible. told her II i ever met
her lover should let her. know. And
~ wrote In ms memorandum hook, an
address, and gave her.
shall make my visit" she said,
to my friend In Weston, then / shall
go home to Missouri to stay until /
die or my friend comes to see me. /
VIII write to you at your home Office
where you expect I'd be in fcw
weeks .
Here gave her my hand and we
parted, never expecting to meet ag lin
in this worli, and we never did.
I The next morning LEFT for .iome.
Miss b went to Weston where she
TELL III and had a severe spell Of sick
ness. she believed in. consequence OF
her excitement at Clarksburg. This
she informed me OF by letter. She
said she was better. expected to start
for home in a week and would write
from there. Later she wrote again,
saying she wanted to keep our cor
respondence a secret from her father
and mother as they knew nothing OF
her secret, and II her lover never re-
turned, they never should, as It would
only cause them pain. So lady friend
was to receive and carry her my. let
+ters. which were always to have a
small cross on the right hand. And
this little ruse worked charmingly,
for Miss B. received and answered
every one OF my letters for the next
Y five or six years, thirty or forty in all
-and the most interesting and affect
Ing letters possible.
Unfortunately, when ] moved to
Iowa. lost these letters which / have
always regretted, as they would have
been the most interesting part OF the
! story.
] cs¬ quote her language, but i
remember the subject Of her letters,
, 1t was always the same! She had not
seen her absent lover yet; but she be-
lieved in him Just the same.
The last letter received before his
return said that while all the known
circumstances OF the case seemed to
prove either that he was dead or that
|! he had willingly forsaken her, yet,
| said she. "in the face of all this, the
impression still remains that he will
come back to me and his absence will
be explained without any discredit or
dishonor to him!"
Sure enough, a few weeks after this
letter was written, he did come back
to Cape Gira-deau, married her and
took her away in.hopes that change
OF climate might improve her health.
They settled in small town on the
Yazoo. river in Mississippi where her
father owned property, and from
there she wrote and told me the solu-
ton of the mystery.
1t seems that when her lover arrived
/ IN Europe, he wrote at once, as he had
promised, giving her directions where
and how to direct to tiIi. But he .:ot
! no answer. Again he wrote. No an
swer. Again a third time, with the
same, silence for response. Then he
received an anonymous letter, dated
and mailed at Nj. (the residence of
Miss b purporting to be written
by friend who thought It was his
duty TO let him know how Miss B
4 was t..eating him. showing parts Of
/, his letters to associates and speaking
OF Them derisively. The writer, had
! been shown his last letter and told
aby Miss B. that she had never am
swered any Of them and never should.
I The letter said Miss B. was now
keeping company with another young
! man whom twas thought she would
/. soon marry. ~
The letter nearl, crazed young
I R. He could not believe the wo-
man he loved could be SO Incredibly
4 heartless. and yet here was the proof,
for no one else in N. could possibly
know that The had written to her!
No one had ;.ccess to the letters ex
cept the postmaster, for there were
no, clerks IN the small Office. And
what motive could that gray haired
old man have tor opening his letter
| and risking the penitentiary, he, too,
a man OF unblernished character?
r. could not think Of any expla-
nation, except .that 3hts sweetheart
was false. He felt like never return
Ing to his native country; but his
father aud mother were there: and at
/ last he came back. He was deter
mined to never utter Miss B-,s
name to anc one. He tried to forget
her; but her image haunted him, and
at last he did what he should have
done at hrst, he made up his mind to
investigate the whole affair. He
went to NJ. and found that DR.. b
had sold his property some eighteen
months after his departure for Europe
and removed to Missouri, and that his
daughter, only q year ago. had been
back to her friends on a8visit. That
che was still single. That she had
lost her health and viyacity and was
greatly changed The news astounded
him Could he be the canse he won
dered? Was that anonymous letter q
lie? mad dts letters been intercept
ed, could she be still true? He was
In state Of distraction over such
thoughts and determined to 60 to
Cape Girardeau, and e he found her
single ask her tie don Of her
| silence First he went back to Pfiiia-
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