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Show MARRIED UMDER GENTLE A dose of scandal g,sip has ag;.in been provided for ihn ehos.'u lew in the second ciisti'.et, nod eui of the ordinary routiim of so eh .vents the story deals witli a spirited dramatic ellect Tjhih closed the first chapter ot this eventful hi-i.o.v. A vouth particularly par-ticularly well know,,, huf !or a long time paid earnest and alleetionato atlentionj to a yUIUig lady, and, happily enough, their progress through tho mazes of love's young dream seemed attended by a more than ordinary decree of smoothness and satisfaction. In lime, however, the youth grew lax in his Uc n to bis lady lve, t.mitd but seldom at tho gulden gate, and by degrees withdrew with-drew himself Irom the lady's companionship compan-ionship until ho e.mie no mere a. all. Tne young lady had parents ami she had brothers, o: which latter thert were two, aud big brothers at that. Tuese, ever solicitous for her welfare, failed not to note how tho Lav lovei camo not, nor failed they to note how their sister began to show', in her presence and daily li'e, traces of mournlul depression, and absence of the cheerful spirit which until than had been a conspicuous element in her oxisleuce. In response to anxious inquiry and grave concern, she ut firs; prosloited that there was nothing amiss; that although her lover was cold, he would return again and all would he hanpy. But the penetrative cye.i of fraternal affection saw that trouble dei-p.;r than that was wearing upon the life of the flower of their household, and so, ns they saw her droop day by day, the brothers again pressed her, against denial, for the secret of her woe." Then, alas, tho bitter truth came out. It was the old familiar story womau's confiding tru;t and love, man's unholy deceit and falsehood a woman's s icritiee of her honor, and her subsequent abandonment by her destroyer. . She told her story amid a ruin ol tears, and besought her brothers to let her hide her disgrace in her sutlerings rather than blazon it to the world by an act ot retribution, but they were, however, not minded to thus tamely submit to a sister's wrongs. They didn't charge around wildly as is the fashon ot outraged brothers, nor did they cry for the blood of their sister's betrayer, but they quickly and quietly determined to make that young man marry the girl. To this end they sought the aal ot a friend, aud causing the young" man to be invited to a party at tho house of that friend on the following night, the young lady and her brothers repaired to the house on the appointed occasion occa-sion and there awaited tho advent of the gay deceiver. Tiie gay deceiver came with promptness prompt-ness and briskness, bedecked in gorgeous gor-geous apparel, and prep nvJ to cull the wet test flowers in tiie garden ol social revelry, but Jo, instead of culling flowers he found hiuiselt, upon his entrance cohartd by two stalwart youths, who bore two fero- cicus looking pistols winch they held i J to the devotid head ol the gay de-; de-; ceivcr, and thereupon called upon him to ir.ii ke the only available reparation re-paration for his sin, to wit, marry tin girl then and there. The gay deceiver took in lie situation situa-tion in a fiith. lla knew he had been trapped, and ho luewUe knew that the brothers meant business. It was nurry or die j.it then, and ot course he married. Tne prieat already provided, and in le;s tuan five minutes tbecercmony was. preformed, and moreover the youth, true lo go, was, ordered to leave, hut not with hia bride. He tarnt .1 not alter that, for he liked not the place, i:cr did he j cm ii io carry ms urine a.ay. in fact, ho lied from thecci-ne as il from a plague spot, and on the following day was teen bri&lky skirmishing abo.i'. town in search of a lawyer who would teh him that the marriage wan a fraud, and puwerltri to hind him. Frum latent advice it appears thai he has failed to find such a lawyer, and that he is preparing for a sudden (light to, ami a permanent sojourn in, another and a healthier clime. New Orleans |