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adelaide Linusley; —OoR— THE “MARRIAGE IN HASTE.” BY MRS. JULIA C- K. DORR. brought her. ‘tindeed I wouid not be his wite if we were both free; I gave him the love of a light .nd careless girl; [ give you tiat which 1s far stronger and d cper, that of « full-grown—a_ wo- man’s heart. Do not doubt me, Wilhs—do not!’ she whispered, and in hes abandonment, her long, rich tresses, escaping from the fillet that confined them, fell heavily upon the floor. She trembled violently, and Wil- lis raised her and placed her upon the sofa. Ashe did so she threw her arms about him, but he quickly removed them, saying ironically as he did so: *-You are excellent actress, Adelaide, you might make your for- tune on the stage. As I look at you, weeping and trembling and clinging inagine that an to me, I ceuld almost you are in earnest.’’ “Tam, lam!O, Wilhs, could only read my heart!” ‘+L have been trying fer years, and failed entirely; I shall not be fool eneugh to make the attempt again— you can decieve me no lenger.”” It was toe much. Adelaide’s young heart could endure no more, and her husband sprang forward just in time to prevent her frem falling senseless on the carpet. Mr. Fletcher bore her up stairs, laid her upon her bed and rang tor her maid. He remained by her sid: until he saw that she was recovering, and then left the chamber, telling the girl that her mistress needed rest, and bidding hertake care that shc was not disturbed. Did he have no relentings as he gazed upon that pale, death-lik. face? No, not one! He thought1 was all a part of the play; one scenc in the tragedy; or, if her serrow wa real, that it was sorrow for ber detection—shame and martificatio: that her treachery was discovered. Willis Fletcher had given te his wits a love amounting to adolatry Left an orphan ata very early age and with neither brother nor sister t cling to, he had lavished upon her the whole wealth of a heart that hac nothing else to love. Perhaps if his own affections had net been so ex- clusively confined to one channel— that which flowed toward her their child—he might have judge: her less harshly perbaps might have seen how possible it wa that her confiding, womanly hea: should ciing to him even the more clusely because it had been rudely torn trom its first restingplace; how his deep and abiding tendernes- should be even the more highly prized when contrasted with the jeal- ousy and injustice of anether. But, as it was, there was nothing to soften the bitterness of the though that he had been decieved. **Why did she marry did she marry me?”? had he aske himself over and over again, whil listening to $ Adelaid’s confession. “She could not have leved me: wh then did she marry me?’’ His eye glanced around the iarg. and elegant room—upon the costh books—the rare paimings—the stat uary—all the luxury and splendo: that surreunded him; and there, a- ma vision, Mr. Lindsley’s compara tively humble home arose befor him ; was it strange that he though: he had found the solution of the enigma? if yeu anc now ; ne me? wh CHAPTER Vit. The varied and extreme excite- ment of that night and merniag had been more than Adelaide’s slender frame could endure. Her fainting fit was but the precurser of a long and tedious, though net very violent iliness. It was many weeks befere she was able to leave her room, and nothing but the thought of her child kept her trom wishing that she might never leave it until she was carried out a Passive, senseless thing, incapable of teeling grief or pain. Her husband visited her dntip | i i serer might have thi | nothing | {him gown .o het was ich day ma ty Ute w ys kindand gentle in his demean ortoward her. An indifferent o+ ought there was ra © but wanting, mune | had been ill betore, and she felt the | difference. Otten she longed te retain the hand he extended to her, to draw bedside. that she might place her arms about his nec, press her lips to his, and read in his is love. ten done, the assurance ot fut something alwaysrestrained her: that he meant her to un- she knew derstand that the relations between them were not what they had ence been, and that knowledge did much to retard her recovery. One morning, about a week atter she first left her room, Mr. Fletcher sent a servant to request her ence in the library. Her heart leap ed to her threat. She had not her husband alone once during hei illness, and it was some minutes be fore she could gather strength to obey the summons. When she did so, she found Mr. Fletcher walk- ing up and dewn the room, with his hands clasped behind him. His face was very pale, and there were hnes abeut the mouth and eyes that spoke ot internal suffering; yet he loeked calm and resolute, like one who had had a fearful struggle with his own heart, but had gained the victory. He drew forth an easy chair her as she entered—-it was well tha he did—ter the turned dark, and it seemed that she could never nave reached it herselt; but he dic not speak tor several minutes. pres- for room ‘Itis quite time that we under stand fully’’—-be said at last— ‘the Adelaide | deep, earnest eyes, as she had so ot-j existing | j rose feebly trom her chair. seen | | say to me, Mr. Fletcher?’ | A cold bow was exchanged be- before sound issued It shail be as y Her husband bewed his head. u say.”” In} sarts he had hoped tor ! | his heart ot a different Tt was strong hope and he was hardly con- cious that he chenshed it but it was THE not af wer. just strong enough to make him feel Boss Liver man Has opened a | disappointed that she yielded to his this as an j | | | wishes, and he regarded | additional proot that she had never loved him. | **You will oblige me by drawing | | upon Barrett & Co.. you | whenever N E WwW = ee 4 j need mor and as freely ever. iN They will receieve orders trom me to furnish you with whatever funds you | eee ae i « ; may require. ; One bicck wesicot He ceased, } for a half hour | they sat in silence scarcely concious of the laps of time. At length Adelaide telt that she | OPERA HOUSE, further tc ‘Have vou anything are New **Nothing more,”’ was the answer. tween them, and thus the husband Mise HicamesGreshiand (Spitea and and wife parted. “It is all over O my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?’ cried Ad- cri elaide. as she reached her own c hisch arges are reasonable. CALL AND SEE HIM. am- her and fell almost fainting upon the bed. ‘Kate, Kate, you warned-- counseled me—but I would not heed FIFTY CENTS THE WEEALY ST. LOUIS POST -DSPATE The brightest spiciest and best tamily paper in the West is offered tor 1883 at the tollowing extraordinary low rates. you. In my headstrong folly I would not listen to your entreaties, and now it is too late, and you are not here to comfort me! Would I were at rest beside you, Kate—that poor heart might break at once and forever!”’ “Oh, mamma, mamma,” warbled a sweet childish voice, pitty fowers Katy find in the garden!’’ and the little creature climed up on my “*sce STABLE, | C. B. oe | 8 I Adelaide drew the little one to her heart, and wept more calmly than before, She had semething to live for, Months rolled slowly by. Fletcher and Adelaide seldom save in the sucial circle and at the tabe, and there they were tlone. Day by day their alienation: »ecame more and more perfect; day »y day their hearts furthei tpart, and the cloud that hung over hem became more dense and dark. They were very wretched, beth ot bem: but neither party read arigh ae teelings ot the other. Mr. Fletch- ‘yr did not realize how impossible i vas for Adelaide to make dvance toward vhile was He paused, as if for a reply, bu rone came. Adelaide neitherspoke nor moved. Her heart was over flowing with tenderness toward her husband, and fer his evident suffer ing she grieved more than fer her ewn. Why thea did she not pow torth the whole story of her love and sorrow ; beg him to have mercy up- on her as well as himself, and take ier to his heart again? Because she knew that she had deceived him once intentionally—what mght had she to suppose that he would beheve her now? and she felt that a seconc repulse would kill her. Mr. met neve: grew “I presume you would not desire a pubclic separation—a divorce ?’’M1 Fletcher asked the question hesitat mgly, and as if he dreaded the an- swer. Adelaide started: she never thought ot the thing, and sh sheok her head and tried to say s: out her words were almost inaudibic **For the sake of our child,’” he co tinued, in a voice that trembled 1 spite of every effort to render it firn —‘for the sake of our child,’’ an also to avoid the gossip and scands vbich would otherwise be occasion the leas reconciliation. that vords she could utter would be a she conscious ne suf en hac é icient to outweigh the evidence he past—those years that her hus- sand thought were years of hypoc isy and deceit. **You married me because I wa- rich; you sold yourself for my cursed gold?’ those words were constantly inging in her ears. Sue knew that hey had not been spoken carelessly ‘nd unmeaningly; they had been breathed i: tones that expressed the deepest conyiction, and she could aot wonder that the charge had been orought against her: but what could he do? Galling, humiliating the thought that he who had sur- rounded her with so much luxury, re- ed.J should wish that our outer lite —that which the world must see and now —might be the same as here to I should wish that eet our friends in the socia! ind even when we are in the pres *nce of the servants, our demeano: ore. when w circle bins Was night be such as not to occasion re | arded it now as the price ot her — and that enly m private migh ruth. She could not exonerate her ve be strangers. elf: she conld say nothing in her Strangers! had it then te After another long pause, du he evidently speak, r. come own defense. hat? Then, gradualiy, as day after day rer husband contmued, as at first, old, formal and distantly polite, the conviction torced itself upon her nind that he had lost all love tor her —that their estrangement had ceased o be a matter of the least concern tohim. And so she avoided him nere studiously than ever. She held rerselt still more coldly aloof, think- ng that he loathed her ence sing which Adelaide to vent on. expecter Fletcher “The term I have used sounds perhaps umneccessarily harsh, bu: with my views ef the marriage rela tion—views that yeu have heard me explain a hundred times—I can adopt no other that will express my meaning. There can be ne sanctity in marriage save where it 1s hallow- ed by a mutual love. We cannot meet merely as triends—we must be more or nothing. It is better, there- fore that there should be no inter- course between us save in the pres- ence of ethers."’ Still Adelaide replied not. “L would hke, Mrs. Fletcher to | they were as ettectually seperated as heve yeu deai frankly with me. is new very neccessary that we | tween them. heuld understand each ether fully.” | So ste fled and d:eanness of her Adelaide gasped for breath, and| own chamber, and mingled mere her lips meved ter a minute er two. very pres- Her home was desolate. .In_ the long evenings, after litthke Katy was tast asleep, it was torture to sit alone in her room; to hear her husband’s step in the library; to know that he | was so near her in her loneliness and +. <ossnsipoweonanansomntneneonee ses--ovnsn seen esses essen cS: Continued. | bitterness of spirit, and yet feel that | * if the waters ofan ecean rolled be- | ‘erms upon which we are henceforti : Ten copies to one office 1 yaar, $ 6 00 hee I@E Coun the thee case chair, and thence to the bed, and Twenty & 164 “ ae EE mot Bedoous as the past har strove te remove the hands that coy- | Single Copy, One Year, 1 00 > been.’”’ ered her mother’s face. 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