Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1874 — Romance at a Railway Depot. [ARTICLE]

Romance at a Railway Depot.

Ten years ago all Germany held no happier persons than Katherine D—and Carl . He, in the strength of his young manhood, had sworn to love and protect the fair-haired belle of the Rhenish village. They had grown from babyhood to youth and from youth to mature years in the same town, and Carl’s idea of womanly grace was per sonified in the young woman whom he had that day married. The simple manners and quiet life of a village home seemed to fill their hearts with content, and when a son blessed the union their ' cop of happiness was full. The young couple were possessed of a fair shi re of this world’s goods, and their standi ig in the society of their native town was ugh, both families being able to trace their genealogy into the remote pas .

But, alas! the serpent entered Eden, An adventuress came into the simple German village and the same old drama that had so often been enacted was there repeated. An acquaintance wis effected by the woman with Carl, v hich ripened on his part to wild infatuation. At last, after weeks of beguilemeut on her part, the unprincipled woman induced Carl to elope with her. The deserted wife, faithful to her love, endeavored by every means in her power *° tn 9 e S? hußb “ d ’ bnt » u her efforts were fruitless, pie guilty pair came to America and settled in Chicago. Here for several years they lived ss man and wife, mitil the faithless Woman became

possessed of a large sum of money by menus of fraudulent checks which Carl had deposited in the bank, when she suddenly left him, leaving behind her a note, telling him that she had. started for Germanv. ■ .W-j The faithful wife with her hoy, now grown to a lad, had, in the meantime, come to America, and through a friend had learned that her husband was in Chicago. Starting .for that city, she reached here Saturday on the mail, and stopping for dinner was, through accident, which seems almost fate, left. The eastward-bound mail reaches here some time before the westward-bound express departs. The husband started East in pursuit of the woman who had been the cause of so much misery, and left the train while it was stopping here for dinner. In the waiting-room the poor, injured woman and the man she loved met face ts face. The scene that ensued we cannot describe. From a German lady who had been drawn in sympathy to the lone woman while she sat waiting, and who had learned her history, we obtained the facta here so briefly related. The husband's confession supplied the missing links in the story. The westward-bound train bore the reunited husband and wife to Chicago, where, let us hope, the experience of the past will teach him to value the love he was led, through listening to the tempter, to betray. —Marshall (.Midi.) Statetman.