STRANGE TALE

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 66, 16 February 1884, Page 2

STRANGE TALE

Tr^gfedyiiLliea^^L,ife. | ,- 0 . • \"i .**'•*•< ".',■■' • - • '^Vi?s i idi 1 Two- brfttfiew, spna^blnK prominent Kuß3hiß-f*^i|^wefe^itdWitß at the best, college in St.T^ceraburg, and on gradiTa^' 'tibnj b^|tnij9 ;o^rce?s : 'inf jtbe; .ianiejrprW€k 'regihientv - The ydurig' mfeH*i /differli greatly m their mode of life from their comrade^, and only -seldom^ joined m iths* 1 ouatomacy revelries of thjs^mioeaae doree 1 . Three years, after ih'e regiment the elder brother , married a younjf and beautiful girl of excellent family. Gradu ! al'iyi however, • the* wedded pAfr ; bdcamb' ieArantdtt in' alTeolfiob, so • much- so'i thj^t l after threa'yeararof married JtfeitWy ,op* cupi§d separat^iooms. |, Iv the maaatim^^ the;,! younger ,;,-. brother;] fell jnrvjffve 1 wi.th , ' his „ , .^ister-in-la.w, " y ' .', JVt ' first, the young w ife t surrounded* by j i host} of, admirers, . nolj aware; ofpassion she nfad kindled inner broiherih»!kw'B heart 1 , 1 'but sQdn'^lie, iftf tfirV c.X" perienced towards ne¥**d6rer- r a"love so ; passionate tbst she wa'smriable to«fi!u^g¥e' J • against it. :■ They.aung;'htt>bß(n(l*a,jeßloußy wa?v fHghtjnlly arpused. ( jßc£aeg ensued, foilpwed by mut«al recri«r»iqatioD, j. *. -challenge, ari(T finally a dj^el between the brothers.' The,' jilder— the 1 outraged bau,^— -.was wouqded m the . side j the younger, who bad wr6n'ged ; bis brother,! 'remainW -'Untouched, iythfcistterJi bql^ let. The laßt act of thiß mVAurtfama, begun so tragically, was, that of a farce. ?d.u,eU; tije maij : was j abroad, where ; tge" 'combined; *oare of; bis" 1 wife and bVdther^n^tched him frointhtT jaws of death. Out of gratitude for this Ihe allowed his wife to secure'; a .divorce.. from him, taking all the,; blajpe^^ni jus shoulders. This she did, and then. married her lover. !