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BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. 211 gether they fled to New York, there to be united in wedlock. He, in his too exuberant joy, forgot his manhood, and when they should have been ready to stand up before the minister was too intoxicated to stand. , Crushed and indignant, she waited until he was sober enough to realize what he had done, and then she told him to go forth and never, never to return until his manhood was redeemed, and he could stand a free man before his God, sworn and proven true in the full fruits of temperance. He went. She would not go back to the home she had left, but at once sought employment in the humblest line. There, dear reader, we found her. You have had the story. It is a strange one, but toa very great extent it is true. And, as a young writer, I can only hope it will do the good I wish it should do. That it will give courage to the weak, hope to the hopeless, for no one is so lost or fallen but that a higher, bet- ter life may be reached. I suppose I may as well tell you, Mr. Edward W—— is now trying to forget his first disappoint- ment in the smiles of sweet Lizzie Legare, and Frank has ‘‘gone West.” THE END. “MARJORIE DEANE,” by Bertua M. Cray, will — be published in the next number (39) of THE SELECT SERIES. cS Go GComicboo