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Show TJkL BIRD'S BRIDE. Mr A Puomance That Begins to Weave Itself 4.mid the Stern Confines of Prison Life. (j THE CRUEL COMPACT DISSOLVED. Pretty Mary Bennett Restored to Her Mai len Name and Awarded the Cus-I Cus-I dy of the Child The Convict Con-vict Deserted Her. Mary Ann Treseder, a tall, lissome brunette, bru-nette, with a pretty baby girl just learning to lisp her mamma's name, mounted the wtuess stand before Judge Zaue this morn-(Bg, morn-(Bg, and recited the story of her desertion ffy Francis M. Trcsscder, to whom she was married in the fall of 'SS. Listening to her story, which was corroborated by a venerable vener-able mother, the court awarded -the decree of divorce, which restores her to her maiden name, and gives her the custody of the brown-eyed baby. Thus was another grass witlow graduated. There is a romance in her married life. When the wretch who wooed and betrayed her first saw her, he was keeping time to the ' pgue's march out in the confines of the pen-j pen-j tentiary. He had been convicted of horse stealing, and was serving his term. It was visitors' day, and among others who come out to study the romances of real prison life was Mary Bennett of Bountiful, Bounti-ful, with her sunbrowned cheeks and laugh -Bug eyes peering down upon the lawless io-ts, some in ball and chain, others enjoying enjoy-ing all the liberties of an empire that was Pfmmcd in by stone walls and all the striped jhson garb. "I'm going to marry that girl," stammered stam-mered Frank Treseder, riveting his eyes upon Mary Bennett, who stood gazing from the wall above like some pitying Magdalen who had for the first time in her life been brought face to face with the misertrt of prison confinement. She went away that day and carried, all unconsciously, a felon'3 heart at her girdle. Time, with its dull and sluggish step, moved on, and, having served his time, the horseth':ef was released. His heart was still in Mary's hands time and the drum of prison life bad but served to strengthen hi Yufatuatiou, and once beyond re-jaiVit re-jaiVit he started out to find her. He Kc fc-e4 valleys, mounted hills and peered faxJvtry girlish face that passed. One day his search was rewarded. He made her acquaintance. His handsome face was the key to her heart, the passport to her home He obtained employment and locking lock-ing hi guilty past within narrow margins of his own degraded heart he pressed his suit. He furnished tho parents with an abstract of title when they demanded it. The document was a fraud one measure in his life was missing. But a jump of time, however. It required no expert hand to fill it in, and with the counterfeit scroll before them the unwary parents yielded. In 1SS8 Mary And Frank were married. Herhaopiness was already c rumbling beneath be-neath the foot of time ere yet the honeymoon honey-moon had passed. Six months, and she was a widew. The jail-bird had tired of its mate and vringed its way elsewhere. The last heard of him he was in Dakota, following the tumult of tides that were Oiling the new born t$rins of state with driftwood of every C'C aaA character. He wrote her once, not to jjKbinesty for his guilt,, self, but to ask alio.Biiuil bird's brood an only child. I,, 'meantime the deception by which an iJBkient, unsophisticated jrirl was won - had ' unmasked, aud today she tripped j from'i court room a free woman. |