The Slaithwaite Guardian and Colne Valley News. — 1901-02-01 (Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, England)

TRIM- • • The slow days waned and faded, and Nina 'tented fading Willi them, so pallid and hollow iirew her cheek, so large and dark her sweet, sed eyes. It was summer now, but little of ita bloom awl fragrance penetrated the gloomy AI het e he was immured. Miss Strangerao:e and faithful kitty h-id taken lodgings aeur the pi 'son and v kit teL t her every- elay. They would. h:t ye remained i U her all the :iine but this was not allowable.. Mist*, Wus Dearly crazed with grief And 1,1.2 ror over Nina's trouble. She would bare given It yeat cut of her life to have known where to MO TalbOtt Strangemore. Elie lowly that he ought to be there, that it was simply terrible for hint to be absent in this innur f Nitite.. supreme peril, ii iii.! she had, besides, int Moat e know ledge t hat in spite of tier cruel wrom_s the unhappy girl secretly tengtA for her hitsband's preeence. It seemed to atilt !loth that Talbot, knowing that she had mine to this an fel stink by his weakness and folly, w mild put forth a superhuman effort to save 1..1% Do. if the exiled husband had been dead and buried he eould wit have renutined more silent to all the efforts that were made to tin .I him. M iteLa uiillu wrote to the American Consuls at all the foreign countries. She advertised in the leading papers at home and abroad. She made evety possible effort to communicate with the wanderer, but ileaul silence rewarded her in every instance. And meantime a Puy had been ronvened, and the day of Nina's trial bad hew set. 011' that tin lid lay of fate ! The frail, weak, shudtletiug girl wondered how she shouhl live through it lien they led her into court to face ell those cold, cerioes faces. A low murmur ran from lip to lip. and the frightened creature believed t hat it was a whisper of execration. She #ank shivering into her seat " This is it hat her love for a II an has brought, her to, poor innoetent, suffering child I wish that. ell the men wete swept from the foot of the tli," twittered Miss Strangemore in bitter !Wrath. us 'die sat down beside her niece, and &tiered in impatie it anger at judge and jury. 4 Then the trial began. so stivh romantically tragic case had beer. 15Triale the public for years. The hestity, the smith, the great wealth, the high standing of the prisoner at the bar made a great sensation. The court-rown was packed adli interested people. Martmeleke Cvnerhn and his yachting friends greatly to their ehagrin lied been summoned as witnesses to the prosed'uting nit oriiey. Cameron, indeed, ells the 10604 :muoutz'uit i itneee, for it was he had taken down Mrs. St. Albans dying • -TIT 'WIWI idiot I had been a thomestel milee car that fatal night. It goes to my heart to tfeidy !,sgaitist that lovely forlorn yonng creature. Even i; she killed Mrs. St. Allem it WIP bileal,ai she w:ss striven mad by jealoney and dirappointed love," he whispered to Virgie Mason who was ballsed its Leers over Nina's fate. " but she did not do it, oh, no, no, no, I will ot ver believe I hat she dhl," sobbed the fair and gentle girl, "AO it almost breaks my heart to think that they he -e made Helen and tne come bets to repeet all the things she said that night when Sibyl had ski vee her mad by her berm-Iwo co,pietries with Mr. Strangemore. I , know Ale did is mean half that she said and it aeons tittle? for TIC to have to tell it for the purpose of condemning her." But they tad no elsoice in the matter. They were compelled to obey the stern mandate of the la sv. Nina's lawyer argtied user ease its best and most forcible style. Ile brought wittseesee to testify to the sweet met gentle nature of the aecesed. No one dust hnew her believes] that she oas gnilly. They knee that it was inspoe.ible for her to have el-monis led sods an act. Re admit ted th:st. she had had great, provocation to auger, anti that she had called down the xeogeolaie of heaven is pun I ter triumphant and inatilent rival. but he S:11,1 that the very feet that Abe had ralled upon heaN-en to avenge her us liege tsroved that she hail not at to t eke Ilse pu uishment of Ihe cruel coquette into her own using hands. Nay, else had gone away and made two attempts at suicide in order to free her unloving loteband that he might he happy with the woman he preferred hey.md her. Ile harangued the court for severel hoses, awl aft er a brilliant, but almost hopeless effort sat 'lns is to listen te the closing speech of the proseeet