There were four of them, two Indians and two who were either white or of mixed race; but it was only by his voice, and that after a moment's pause, that I could recognize my husband.

My husband! never till then had I known the full horror that word could convey.

Remember that long ago I had been charmed, had fallen in love, as girls say, with one who seemed to represent the very perfection and ideal of manly beauty; that this beauty and stateliness of outward form had been so great that I took it for the truthful expression of such a nature as I thought most heroic--remember this, and then think of what I saw after this year of absence.

A bloated, degraded, horrible creature--not even a man, but a brute, raving half deliriously, and still drinking, while his companions, little more sober than himself, made him the subject of their jests and jeers.

I held my little innocent child in my arms while I saw this, and for the first time, and for her sake, I felt a bitter hatred rise up in my heart against her father." A strong shudder crept over Mrs.Costello; she covered her face with her hands for a moment, while Lucia drew more closely to her side.