Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1878 — The Shadow of a Mystery. [ARTICLE]

The Shadow of a Mystery.

Twenty-five years ago Miss Margaret Solomon was a belle of Baltimore. She was highly accomplished, praised, toasted and courted, and was finally won, married and carried off in triumph by an attractive foreigner who made a great display of wealth. The fine foreigner had painted to her fancy a luxurious home in South America, and a troop of connections and friends near the Imperial throne. Gold and diamonds were to be her playthings, a grand mansion embowered in exotics her dwelling-place, and a countless retinue of slaves and servants were awaiting her command. She left Baltimore with a great display, and all the wealth and fashion of the city saw her off to her South American palace and wished her long life and happiness. In four or five weeks she returned to Baltimore very quietly and alone. She was weighed down with dumb woe and wanted to be hidden forever from the world. Her family received her without explanation. She spoke no word of her husband or the cause of her return. She craved a hiding-place. That was all. All that was twenty-five years ago. In the after years she never once spoke of her marriage'or mentioned her husband’s name. Her past was entombed in the pageant of her wedding ami departure as a bride. As time went on her friends found out that she had returned home and invaded the family secrecy, but her appearance forbade them to refer to the past. So she lived on in the solitude of her own heart and thoughts; What the blow that fell upon her young life and brilliant hopes was no one beside herself and that other one ever knew. It was a tragedy without utterance, and to her forever unutterable. Early the other morning a woman aged fifty was foupd by an officer wandering about the wharf in Baltimore. She looked as if she intended suicide, and was either unwilling or unable to answer any questions put to her. She simply gave her name as Margaret Solomon. Her home was soon found. She has lately become subject to a deeper melancholy, and shows symptoms of restlessness—which render it necessary that she should be watched. That morning she rose and wandered off before the family were awake. Shelias always retained the respect and sympathy of,her friends, and sits silent in the shadow of her mystery.—Missouri Republican. > _- Somk prejudiced observer says that young women utter those little screams not from fear, but to attract attention,