AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 102, 13 September 1879, Page 3

AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.

A ■peculiarly interesting romance reaches us from tli«- far West, says the Boston Courier. Jn Dubuque n very wealthy gentleman and his wiio lived togetherifor twenty years in all the happiness that metunl jeve and luxury of riches could afford. A few weeks ago the husband sittin" with his wife in til,.

1 parlour, suddenly Hurprised her Ay ex- ' claiming abruptly, " I will tell you a «ueret you have never dreamed of." His wife was naturally startled l»v the strange abruptness of liia remark, linden ■ elderly inuiden relative who was present rawed h;i aai-s in Imp] . anaiipatisn ::f news. •■ i'ou will besurprised that 1 had • another wife before I married you. 0 «va« married in Philadelphia very vouii" veins, years ago ; just four ycawbefore I met you. 1 was absent friiiii the city for a brief time, and was sunrmoned home by the terrible tiding** that mv wifo had died in childbirth. Both wife and child we,v dead. I could nol hear (ho haunting associations of the city and came-wrst Six years ago] received a letter, from the .nurse who was with my wife when she died. The old Woman was on her death-bed, and wrote to confess that she had lied ; my wife died, but the child lived. Underpressure of a large bribe from my wife's father, the nurse kept the secret from me. IJe was verv rich hut.ehildlc.ss, and seemed possessed by a mania tn have his daughter's child as his own. tie was apprised of .the disclosure to me from the muse, and immediately came west and begged me to keep it a secret. .My sou was wjallhy and prosperous in the east. I had never known him : J aei|iiiesced. But today I thought it had gone on long enough, and begun by giving you my secret, to -end by asking \mi to lake a trip east and see my boy, m.v .first wife!* son.' When the husband paused, .the wife, half swooning with excitement at the strange storv, murmured. "Since vou kept it from me so l,,ng I wish y un * had never told inc. The startling news was too much for her nervous condition, and two daw after she was dead.