Year: 1866

| Katie could say nothing, do nothing


to make her friend look happy, the


sad and mournful manner, which Gena


moved about, packing her things, dis


tressed Katie, who really loved Gena,


and would not for worlds have


given her one moment of sorrow


Gena was so completely stupifed by


the story Katie had told her that she


could not even think for herself What


Mr. Master had said to her gave her


pain, but nothing to this vile piece of


scandal, he had said, that her scanda-
lous stories about Mademoseille Marie,


was the cause of his no longer needing


her services, but he would not tell her


who was his author, hence she could


seek no redress.


Mr. Master was one Of those money


making men, taking little notice of


anything which did not yield to him
dollars and cents he dearly loved
Mademoseille Marie, not because she
| was his wife, but for her worth to his
| pocket, she yearly earned for him three
thousand dollars, costing him nothing
| to take care of her; hence her word
was lar, she had been made to believe
that Josephine had slandered her, this
with the other stories, caused Mr. Mas
ter to send Josephine from the compa-
ny, but when he saw her sad, but beau
tiful face, and gazed into her dreamy,
truthful eyes, his heart failed him, he
could not tell her the vile stories
which be had heard, in fact, he did not
really believe them, his career had
been sufficiently long enough among
the theatrical people to make him
understand their great tiealOusytowards
each other, but his wife ruled him, he
feared to cross her, he knew if he did
not humor her in all she said that she
would leave him, he then would loose
over three thousand dollars every
year.


Now that Gena was told the names
Of those who had so basely wronged
her, she still felt powerless She
knew that the low and vulgar would
soon soon silence her. She blushed
when she thought of her position, and
almost loathed the whole world, still
she felt that superiority and elevated
purity of character which she knew
could not be contaminated even though
fate should place her among the lowest
of mankind


Gena could not comprehend why
Ida FOOte was against her, but she in
stantly knew the reason why Mr. Fow-
Ter has SO abused her character. Some
two months after she had Joined the
company, he watched his opportunity
and made to her a base proposition, |
and when she sharply rebulled him,
and haughtily forbade him ever speak |
ing to her again. From that moment she |
had made of him hitter enemy, one
who would seek every petty means to !
revenge himself on her.


Mr.. Fowler was fair specimen of |
that class of men who are capable of |
of loving at first sight with all the ar
dor of strong vehement passion, but /
whose love is easily changed into the |
channel of hatred if the object of their
base love resents and repulses their
cowardly affections. The dispositions |
of such are egOtistical, never rejecting |
upon their own dement's, but fancy |
themselves beloved by every woman,
considering their great attractions
can influence the object of their choice |
to wholly give themselves into their
power; their idea of love is n gross |
libel on the divinest passion of our
nature. A sublime and pure love is a |
sentiment tending to elevate and exalt |
all our faculties.


But to such groveling nature as
Mr.. FOwlers, when defeated in his de |
sires, his love WAS also gone. and q |!
low, mean revenge, filled the place of |
the less meaner passion, which he
termed love. Nothing pure and lofty
did he know. He was fit subject to
join the evil plots of his jealous friend,
Ida, and Ida's keen insight into hu-
man nature, at once saw that her lover !
no longer favorably regarded Jo-
sephine; she knew not the cause of his |
estrangement, but was glad that !
it was so, and when her spiteful re
marks against Josephine met with a |
similar response from Edward Fowler, |
her joy was complete; she was now
convinced that this man whom she |
really loved did not love her rival, and |
was still her own lover Edwards |
low cunning nature assimilated with
her own. His taste for the rude and
vulgar hilarious suited her, thus the
two were not uncongenial both now
worked together to blast the character
of Gena; the reader already knows
how admirably their plans succeeded.


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