The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 14, 1883, Page 6

seein rc nines oars MY LOVE STORY. *Are there no underwriters human hopes? for the most precious of interests 1s there no insurance ?’’ 1 been tempted all day, tempt- » and the devil. AIL sum- mer long I had been trying to clasp hands for a life jour I did not love; a man noble of soul | and born to the purple, who set up high lineage against my poor gifts of | beauty and song. He threw some love into the scales, too, but I, help me, had none to give in return. | I had bartered erewhile my posses- sions for a few glances of a dark, dark eye, and my note had gone to protest. Could I, could 17 ing me about with feteful cy, for to-night I wasto give my an- swer to my high-born lover. I tried to look thingsin the face, to count the cost. Money was a good thing: it in- sulted ene warmth in winter and de- hcious coolness in summer, and pret- tiness and daintiness, and the en- trance into good society. Yes, money wesa good thing, and _ posi- tion and power, and houses and lands. So tar, good; but my soul hungered and thirsted for e love conimensurate with my own, which this man, who offered me purple and gold, hed it not in his power to give, or, let me qualify thet, had it not in his natere to give. The stars came out golden and soft, and the fragrant summer dusk crept around me where I sat inhal- roses. Ambi- It kept follow- persisten- ing the scent of the tion and love tore mv heart by turn, and weariness, too, put in a poor pititul plea, tor Twas so tired, so tired Tt was a brilliant future that Reg- inald Dacre offered me, wherein toil and weariness could never come. [ thought ot the purple and fine linen; the luxurious rest: the emoluments! Then my daily hfe passed in review before me—that‘of companion to a haughty, fine lady, and a singer in a fashioseble church, among tashion- able saints and sinners. I began to croon over the old satire: “In acharch which is garnished with naullien end gable, With eltareud reredos, with gargoyle ané greia. ‘The pestinents’ dresses are sealskin and sable, The oder of sanctity’s can de cologne But surely st Lucifer flying from Hades, Cou d gaze st this crowd, with its paniers and paints, Ile would say, looking round at the lords and the ladies, “O where is All Sinners, if thisis All Saints?” Thad entered upon this hfe trom home, a tardy | unloved and unloving »me doled out tome by the justice of a grand-uncle who had robbed me of my inheritance. I thought at first 1 might find the san- greal somewhere in this new country which seemed so tair, but alas! I had net even heard ithe swish of wings. I thought of it all—the tever and the fret: the petty jars, the misure derstand:gs ; 3 This craartiag> ; this or marsiaye. It scomed writs ¢a plecerd ca earth and sky. It szemed bound like ~ eyupsca the brows of the people ac they passed to and cro: Wor. mamage lost all toc me, as words Co (i wt hen a5 blics or woe? es €od-ap- vidid not love this man to evoke one thrill But then love is only | one rsasen why one should marry a might be love and plenty of money, hungry all one’s life. such things. Thad tried to make my life straight and fair. Ehadtned to keep clean hands and a pure heart; tried—God who knows the secrets of all hearts, knows this—to fight despair. brea cS ee: Long, green days, Worn bare of grass and sunshine; long calm nizhts From which the silken sleeps were ted out— Be witness for me.” t power T have known man | God | and yet ore go} We see iitgaeh shadows all our}to an Earl’s handsome daughter,” We come into this world | | Mrs. Granger read aloud from an | | life long. our advent and go out ot it in same manner. | We have not been consulted as to birth or death. prayer of Epictetus to go; Ij even | ersoever I am appointed | will follow without wave ring: though I turn coward and_ shrink, J | shall have to follow all the same. Should I marry Mr. Dacre ? Was he good parti? as the world said. | Too good for me, as my lady ele- gantly phrased it. I had been born into the world ami] fierce throes of mental anguish. My mother’s heart was rent with the great pain of my father’s- sudden death—drowned off the Cornish coast, forI was born at sea. She lived until I was ten years old a hfe of sorrow, and poverty, and renun- ciation. Then she died, leaving me to the care of a compassionate world and my uncle. Of him I have al- ready spoken. My lite dragged on with clogged wheels. I was always at war with my surroundings. Though too proud to express it, I had never re- alized my ideal of womanhood, or in any way grown up to my aspirations and dreams. If I had grown at all it had been through pain and repres- sion—a fatal thing always for a | warm-hearted, earnest woman. My uncle, Edward Earle, had procured me the friendship (?) of the lady in whose house I had _ pass ed a twelve-month—Mrs. Lucien Granger, a distant cousin of his own. 1was an unsalaried governess or companion, our remote cousinship being always made available by my uncle. It was during my residence with that lady that my fate came to A young nephew of Mrs. nger’s came to the hall. He was an artist, young and handsome, and tresh from a four years sojourn jin Rome. Ineed not weary you with the pro- logue or the ep:logue of our love, for words are so poor to express the heart’s utterance. O golden days! O tender, passionate nights! O princely heart, come back to me! Alan Leighton was the last son of a hizh-born family, and because of the blue blood—the united blood of all the Howards—flowing in his veins, Mrs. Granger interposed her fiat against our loye, dreading, doubtless, the plebeian admixture of mine. It is a pity that blood does not al- It was an inglorious tri- ways tell. umph to me—yet still a triumph—to e arms to the shoulder bare my w during out gala mghts—to which my voice was always iavited—contrast- ing their satiny smoothness and per- tect contour with the lean, brown ap- pendages Mrs. Granger folded over her aristocrance heart. Buta crept into the sky, and _ its fell across our path. cloud shadow Allen was called suddenly by tele- gram to England, where his grand old father lay dying. We had but a moment for our farewells, for Alan’s heart was rent with sorrow, and I helped to expedite his departure. But one letter ever reached me. His father was dead, and he was Sir Alan now. “My precious Heleg: My tather whom I loved and respected above all men, died yesterday. I need not tell you how desolate we teel, and how the light seems to have died out of every nook and corner. My dear mother is prostrated with the blow which has taken away the lover of her youth, and I shall not be able to | return to you for some weeks. An- nounce our betrothal, dearest, to my aunt and uncle, which, you know, my intention the very mght I was called away. Be true to me my love. I Ssoon a my atured our plans Good-night, | you, “Good- night, | shall write at length mother and I have r tor her lonely futu {good-night. Mav : and may the good F: ! you His everla Your iri and lover, LAN LEIGHTON.”* Two years had dragged their slow length and I Alan, though craving his presence as the prisoner craves thesunshine, I had written him once, and I had regreted that. ‘‘He was soon tobe weddea mg since that letter ad never heard trom tor , without or being given a choiceas to | | open letter in her had; ‘in fact, the | | was an oid affair, prior to his visit to | t More and more the ; haunts me. | “Lead me, Zeus and Destiny, whith | darling Helen, asI shall be true to | i moon so rudely guide you, | rtold about } came, , it the hall,’’ etc., etc. to be continued.) A GHASTLY WITNESS. The H-ed ef a Murdered Man Ex- hibite@ in Open Cour Joliet, (Ill.) Special. In the case of Moony, on trial tor the butchery of Anderson, a fellow | convict, the prosecution this morn- ing called as witnesses Drs. Heise and Dougal. The detense, having tried to throw a cloud over the Tes- timony which was given by the med- ical experts, the remains of the dead conyict were exhumed on Friday night, the head cut from the body ard taken to the office of Dr. M. B. Campbell, where it was dissected on Saturday. It was then placed in a box, and when court opened this morning a mysterious looking box was placed upon a table in trent of the jury. It had been reported by a witness for the defense that they were going to prove that the wound described or having penetrated the ear, knocking out several of the teeth, was an impossible one and could not be made. . The box was opened, and a decided sensation occurred in the court room when the ghastly head of the mur- dered convict was exposed to view. The body had been buried five months. The face was well pre- served, the skin being drawn and wrinkled. One side of the face had been dissected from the ear to the lower jaw, showing the course of the knite through the ear. The side of the jow was broken and sev- The knife all a must mans eral teeth missing. have been struck with strenght to pierce the jaw bone, the direction of the blow showing it to have been utterly impossible tor An- derson to have done it himself. This completely upset, the theory ‘of suicide. The jury all had an oppor- tunity of inspecting the head before it was removed. Mooney, the accused, sat within ten feet of this terrible deaths head but never allowed his eyes to glance in that direction. Dr.J. F. Oakes was the first witness called for the defense. He attempted to demon- strate that the wounds on Andersons head and body could have been self- inflicted. An Alabama Romance Euteula Special. Areunion with Special teatures of coun- years ago Jobn id wed Miss Jane Atter a couple its 9 has taken place in this tv. Thirty five Bantwell wooc Campbeil, near Elamyille. tew months’ wedded hfe the parted, owing to the wifes jealousy of her husband. Mr Bantwel took up his residence in Dale county, where he married became the father of a large tamily, and accumulated a Competency. Mrs. Bantwell re- mained in her old home, and after a tew years became the wife of a man named Johnson. Al! this took place without the preleminary of divorce. Recently the second Mrs. Bantwel! died, as did Mr. Johnson, thus leav- ing the original parties single once’ more. Bantwell becams greatly embarrased an@ was in danger of losing all his property through claims of his creditors. In this emergency he went to his first wite, represented bis situation and urged her to con- sume their relations, which had nev- er been legally broken off, and thus, by taking advantage of the laws pro- tecting the wife in the homestead, he could keep out of ruin. The lady proposition and the couple are now finishing the honey interrupte d agreed to the thirty- five years ago. Never Give tp. 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