The Lie That Failed (1913)
The young heiress was engaged and she and the man of her choice were very much in love. Her guardian, however, looked forward to her marriage with dread, for he had dissipate a large part of her fortune and expected punishment when the discovery was made. The girl's sweetheart went abroad. Another suitor, an unscrupulous businessman, who admired the girl for her beauty, learned of the guardian's dishonesty, and threatened to expose him, but promised if he married the girl, that the defalcation would never be discovered. The letters from abroad were intercepted, and after long, weary months without hearing from her fiancé, the girl became convinced that he was faithless and consented to marry the businessman. A few years later, the young man returned from Europe to find that the girl was married. The marriage, however, had not been a happy one, for the husband soon tired of his wife and life became almost unbearable to her. But when she met her former sweetheart and he reproached her for her faithlessness, she learned of the deception which had been practiced upon her. But the barrier of a little band of gold, her wedding ring, stood between them. The husband chanced to overhear them and was filled with a rage to find that his plot was revealed. His doctor had warned him that his heart was weak and that he could live only a few months. He knew that the two whom he had so cruelly wronged would wed after his death, so he planned to prevent it in a manner that was diabolical in its ingenuity, The husband wrote a note, stating that his wife had poisoned him and prepared to drink the contents of a tiny vial. But before the plot could be carried into execution, the vengeance of heaven overtook him, for a giant meteor struck the earth and destroyed the wicked man. The widow could not mourn a man who had treated her so cruelly and soon married the man whom she had always loved.
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