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Manawatu Herald, Volume VII, Issue 268, 21 May 1889, Page 4

*-3»— — 1^ mm * mmm^^^^ l l: upon the stage, and as I^Bto- longeir * cared to he depended „ n kindness of strangers|ctookjliß a«t vice, and, through h|p|Qti?ottuotion, made my first appeai|^Bi%*btOn© of ; the minor theatres innßw *9|J|Lsi£L soon found that I ha€r& naturat^|r } for acting, and myjjftrfMff* < j < r j this also ; that is "B^^aPfe^; that I should marry |Mffi§Sis§iyi| was capable of QBxm^SHSM§9^i^ able sums of moD jß^^P^^|' \ youQg t to read ■^mg|; regarding him ■^^BiyC^-^ft^v factor, I consent«^^^ hex^me'l his wile. I found bJ^klJe, , unprin'.! oipled, and intemper|^^~and .. "before two years had passedr^herhad -commenced to treat me withj&a utmost cruelty. At length I res^tr^tkfuk away from him, and I came to xmgland and changed my name, is Dale to the one you know| mi.* Tiring of the stage andits pefpet iftT strain an est'temen^ .^obtained, a ppst as governess in a wealthy family, j and upon the teitt}ijQat|p#jof v nty en- ' gagement I came to Wildjiaqor. • 1 -Little did I think^t T. r shpuld 'jjsj& j there the man from wnom I fled five years ago. You remember how I star ed when we passed a stranger in the wood one night. That ,was my husband, and he bad asked me to* meet him there. Later on the nightf I kept the promise I had made. He had sent me a note- .bagging me to come, and saying that he longed to ask my forgiveness; -and^ that he was ill and wretched. I took compassion upon # him.; but I soon discovered that his contrition was assumed. His aim was to persuade me to live with him again, in order that he might profit by myi earnings on the stages, r j^en^jde} murred he lost his temper and cursed me, lifting his fist as if to strike me, which he would have done had. not Jonas Lynch, jumped ou^ ,iro^a'*^©;' hind a bush where he had been playing the spy uponj u.s. ,, }£j ;. hustaiyl. vowed that he would never caase to dog me and defame me unless I consen ed to return to him. (JCqowjng • his cunning and his cruelty, I passed the night in misery, brooding over m# ruined life, until I thought I should go out of my mind. Thenjptfcpfijjht of your kindness and ti& -honour you had done me in asking me to be your wife. Your see nowf torhy I was forced to refuse you— you will understand my coolness. Harassed and perplexed T detennine4 to -ja;o, to France, where I hoped. 1 to' escape from my persecutor. I walked .to Aylesbury in the storm, 4nd from there I went to London, and^a next day to Paris. You wjtjfjthinfc that my flight wns rash, and that T am wanting in gratitude to Wsp Savill for her lnndness£^o)|j[O me when I tell you that my minay has been almost infringed during the past few weeks. When %JL^ohed Paris, judge of my surprise IPwri f| read of the robbery in an Eaglisf| paper. I did i'ot sus< ee Q^, band at first, but since, itijas struck me that possibly he mjght have had some share in the wori, Aa- he tofd me he was living by fit's wits, and that he had left the stage. Then it flashed upon me that people would regard me as the thief- because of my strange and hasty oepiftnre.' The ' next day my fears proved correct, and I was arrested. I so'emuly protest that when I left Wildmoorl was innocent of my husband's designs. When it is knowi^^a^Lam^r^oF'* wife every one gjiU^VJHKjM* Ti aided him in the tneff. * Will you" shield my name fron) slander? £ know that I can trust you. Pray for me in my trial, and God^ b^es? you, my dear friend — Maud Dale." * I read and re-r^adJ^a^ttep.with, mingled sorrow and_jiehgnij..[ ff,lj s knew that she was innocent, 7 I cried, and I hurried to the bamsterl Jbad employed for Maud's deisi&fli Lf)Bi r 8 all as plain as a pikestaff," he said, when he had xjtiijthctofei&in'/; r"& will see the authorifte^ r She must, be instantly re 1 eased. She is a witness, not a prisoner." That night I returned to Wildmooir/iifith Maiid Dale, the happiest man in England. Miss Saville welpomad.lieil hack: with the utmost kindreds*: p*Vt soon,, thp news spread lik»WsKlfir«itha^Mfipu4 : was innocent. But still, after the first flush of joy, there hung over me a dark cloudNflt&«K«X rem^mb^ed •. that the woman I loved so deeply could not be mine. It was terrible to think of her tied teMPPWajdly; wretch and a criminal such as Tr* vor. Some days yemictotimmjfoPi concerning the thieves reached Wildmoor-, but one morning the newspapers had this paragraph : — rj The New York police arreaHid John Smithers last night. Trevor n reported to have escaped] iMbsfc of ' the stolen property has. been jecovered. jQI'IXStQ. And a few days after tne following ap|wared :— lifcmJ, '■■ i'-V .- >*"<>•; TSyamas Trqyur," alias Gower, alias '^.t^aTirp^on, is reported to have shot • himself, at -~4j^ :fc ..x t/ How/cjpuldlhelpeactttt!ng? Maud ■wasfreeT^ , V; Bmithers was tried, and sentenced i to fifteen years penal sprvitude. At \ his'trial he stated proudly that during* his life be had been concerned in twelve large and successful ■b^jp-.] laries. 7en years have elapße4*Biilo^ '^hW strange occurrences I have .Htlflffl narrated, and Miss H ester Saville is dead. Her nephew has su«wdejd[ to the estate^ and Maud ana I live at the ' Home ifr<m. . •