“I have been a jealous brute!” cried Leonard, frankly; “my lesson shall last me as long as I live. Violet shall have no cause hereafter to dread my jealous wrath.”
And he kept his word.
Leonard and Violet were quietly married, and live at Yorke Towers with Mrs. Yorke, quite sweet and amiable now.
Jack Danton and Rosamond Arleigh are husband and wife, and live at The Oaks, where Dunbar and his good wife and golden-haired child are always welcome. Captain Venners and his wife reside in New Orleans, where Will has a good Government position, and talks no more of going to Texas to do the cow-boy act.
Hilda Rutledge married a rich old man, a merchant in the Crescent City, and, with her mother, leads fashionable society, and makes her elderly husband frantic with her numberless flirtations.
And Gilbert Warrington? He was sentenced to a long term in the state penitentiary, but at the last moment some one succeeded in smuggling poison into his cell, and in the morning when the officers entered to lead him forth for his journey to the penitentiary, he was dead and cold. The poison had been conveyed to him by Betty Harwood, whom Leonard, in the softness of his heart, had allowed to go free. She proved to be Gilbert Warrington’s wife, and for his sake she had sinned. She still lives in New Orleans, a wicked, soured old woman.
This is a true tale, made up of the incidents which really occurred. And if there is a lesson to be learned by its perusal, it is this: If a man loves a woman, he should tell her so plainly and frankly. Also, to beware of jealousy, that fiend which can turn heaven into hell, and which is “strong as death and as cruel as the grave!”
THE END.
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