The Illegal Marriage — page 262: what you’re looking at

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+e 254 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. all sleep beneath the sod. Trippe has removed toa | city in the interior where he is well-known and respected; Appling is a detective in New York city; and Cecy Stannard, with her husband and her chil- dren, still lives in the old castle. But one yet remains—one whose life and death were stormy—a weak man, capable of better things had circumstances been more favorable: one whose life was like “Sweet bells jangled, harsh and out of tune ;” one who had the sympathy of all; one who made a bad use of his life. Yet, but for that one youthful error, who can say that he would not have been both great and good. “It might have been”—are they not sad words? Near the Echaconnee church there is one plain slab of white marble, half hidden by grasses, upon which one may read these words: “Lost in a storm at Sea, ALE RED GUEHRREY; yt, 29 years.” Although he does not rest beneath this slab, Alfred Guerry is not forgotten; for often one finds a wreath of flowers upon the stone, evidently wrought by a woman’s hand, showing that one, at on remembers him as an actor in “Cecy Morgan’s rial.” [THE END. ] “A STRANGE PILGRIMAGE,” by Mrs. J. H. WaAt- WORTH, will be pubiished in the next number (62) of THE SELECT SERIES. Comicboo “S Te wie OP Oe Tee eee. ee 2 - Pa * aoe < f 7 WS 6s iV com