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Show A Story of the Parts Comnrane. Tlio commune was also sublime. A prisoner, a man, had loen taken with arms in his hands, imprisoned, and condemned con-demned to doath. llis wife made heroic efforts to save him, and succeeded in securing the sympathy of a man who had influence in those times. Her husband hus-band was saved from capital punishment anil was condemned to transportation. Left alono and abandoned, witliout resources, she had formed an intimacy with the man who had saved her husband. hus-band. After living for years with this lover, to whom she was deeply attached, she besought him to apply for a pardon for her husband. Although he felt he was destroying her happiness and his own, he did so. The husband returned full of love for the i wife who had saved him from execution j I and procured his liberation. On the way home, however, he learned the truth. He changed his name, disappeared, disap-peared, and lived in hiding for manj years. Then, when divorce became pos- ! sible in France, he wrote to his wife: "Apply for a divorce against me; I will do all I can to secure one for you. Marry him and be happy." Sublime. Mr. lie Blowitz, in Harper's, , |