Show of real alifi detroit free press A and peculiarly interesting te romance came to my notice a few days ago remarked a central division detective yesterday thirteen years ago a very attractive young maiden of 17 was a favorite member of a troupe of singers and bell ringers which was composed almost entirely of members of the family to which the young woman belonged the troupe travelled the country from ocean to ocean meeting with the roost flattering success wherever they offered an entertainment our seventeen year old heroine by her beauty her grace of er her amiability and her accomplishments as a musician won the admiration mi ration of many among her most devoted and persistent admirers was a fine appearing cultured man of 45 who laid siege to the maidens heart with such ardor and unremitting perseverance that finally she capitulated ire was a man of ample fortune had one child a young son and told bis fiancee that be had been a widower some five years or more at his earnest entreaty the young woman resigned her position and married him things moved on pleasantly and for six years when her husband was Et ricken with par alisis and to the care and comfort of her stricken spouse this good woman consecrated the rest of her life she was constantly by the sick mans side carino for him as she would a babe finally word came to her cars of the wonderful healing powers ot the mt clemens roi oeral waters straightway she journeyed to that refuge of the lame and halt filled with the hope that the heal ing powers ot the famed waters would relieve him if they bid not restore him to perfect health arrived at mt she might be seen day after day month after month wheeling the paralyzed and form of her invalid husband from their boarding house to the bathhouse and back again asvery one commented on the eity of this beautiful woman to her helpless charge one afternoon the chanced to be looking over a stack of old letters and while thug engaged found one addressed to her stepson and signed your affectionate mother filled with wonder and amazement ahe went to the youth and asked him what it meant he hen bated stammered and blushed then faltered out the explanation that his mother was alive when his father married the second time but died six months later not satisfied with this she went to her husband and demanded to know of him whether hia farst wife waa dead the paralytic par was forced under a rigid questioning to admit that no 1 was alive and residing in syracuse N Y from her be had never been legally separated never had even quarrelled quarrel led with her but being taken captive by the charms ot the heroine of this tale had forgotten his wife and his allegiance legi ance to her and had wooed and won her who had so tenderly watched over him through years of helplessness and pain the deceived and horror strick en woman who found herself to be no wife at all made no scene but calmly accepted the situation resolved to make the best of a bad matter wrote to syracuse ascertained the address of the genuine wife whose place she had innocent usurped informed her just how matters stood in sited that she come for her long lost husband and what is more succeeded in bringing about a reconciliation between the parties she made it clear to them both that they owed it to their son as well as to themselves to spend the remainder of their lives together and so not long ago she set out with them for their eastern home them as far as where there was a most affecting goodby good by acene enacted at the depot the broken and miserable man sobbing and crying as if bis heart would bunt os ho gazed for the last time on earth into the ayee of the one woman he had loved back to michigan and detroit came this deeply wronged woman and with courage that nothing could daunt began life anew re dying on her own unaided efforts to secure a livelihood A a dressmaker she has supported herself comfortably and never at any time 19 ebe heard to or cry out at the cruelly of fate A week ago she left this city for nova fi cotia where I 1 understand she has been assured an excellent position if lovely and at 17 she now at 34 is regally and perhaps the soft tauge of melancholy that but the suspicion of a shadow on her fair face helps to render more striking a beauty that even age cannot wither |