The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-10-19
JEALOUS FOR NOTHING.


john Chadwick heard his wife's words
with gloomy silence On his handsome,
daIk-bearded face there was an express
sion that did not at all please, pretty,
willful, impetuous Mrs. Chadwick, who,
although four years married. was still as
girlish in appearance and character as
the maiden he had woed and won four
years ago
''Of course, the lady presently con
tiuued, taking fierce little nibble at the
muffin she had Just buttered-"o of course
Paul is scapegoat, and has done lots of
dreadful things, and you consider it a
crime to mention his name in your hear
ing. But, at the risk of taking away
your appetite for breakfast, John, | must
assert that, as my brother, [ am bound
to love him, and do love him-ehere!'
''You have not taken away my appe
tite at all,'' remarked her husband, in
by no means angry tones, while rising
ffom the breakfast table ION the con-
trary, Eleanor. I've made an excellent
meal"
Mrs. Chadwick froF1eei impaticntly.
lou re just treating me like spoiled
olild, John. You despise anything that
I may say, as if was toe uniniportant q
person to get angry at. =
And pray, Eleanor, do you wish that
I should get angry at your
Mrs Chadwick followed her husband
example by rising from the table this
point. Then she walked toward one of
the windows, and looked forth upon the
outlying street.
John Chadwick stared at her for sever
al moments In silence, and, finally,
struggling his shoulders like one who
says to himself, II fail to understand it
ut Ill. = left the room.
As soon as the young wife had heard
the hall-door close behind her husband,
she burst into a fit of illogical tears. Il
logical, because if you or l had been
standing beside her at that moment, and
had asked the cause of her grief, she
would have been puzzled TO give us a
satisfactory explanation Of it.
She was crying because she didn't ex-
actly like the way John treated her, This
was, perhaps, the nearest approach to an
absolute reason for her present tearful-
ness that 1t was In the young wife's pow
er to find. And yet in johns behavior
she could discover nothing really culpa-
bic, While, at the same time, being not
50 self blinded as to her own folies but
that She saw how much her own behay-
Tor was worthy of censure. She got into
RACES perpetually; she led John hor-
rid life; she was constantly trying to
quarrel with him. and she ought to be
ashamed of herself But, for all this,
John treated her with a saint-like pa
thence and sweetness that had the effect
OF still further irritating, rather than OF
pacifying her disagreeable modes.
And for this reason, his sweetness and
patience seemed to her like Indifference.
He had, she often bitterly told herself,
ceased to care for her as he had once
1AOl MOulu rouse Ncr
anger easily enough if he had really loved
her. No, there was not an atom of love
lett, and she was very pitisble woman.
Perhaps somebody else had attracted
him. Perhaps he was faithless to her no
less In thought than in decd
She started neryously as these last two
sentences were spoken by the little silent
inward voice that had begun of late to
torture her so acutely. Just then, there
sounded ring at the bell, and presently
a moment after she had wiped the tears
from her eyes, servant entered and in
formed her that Miss little would like to
see her in the parlor.
Now, Miss little was near neIghbor
ofChadwicks, and by no means fayorite
with either husband or wife, though the
latter has passed many pleasant hours in
listening to the gossip that she retailed
tor her amusement. Miss little was the
sort OF person who knows precisely what
her next door neighbor had for dinner
yesterday and is going to have to day.
Then, too, by marvellous power of mem
DRY, she was able to recollect all the scan
daioUs stories which had ever been told
OF anybody during at least forty years
past. Dangerous to the last degree as
tuend or even an associate, she was vet
amusing ano entertaining, and had it in
her power to charm people by means of
the very qualities which they despised.
Mrs. Chadwick found her spirits
frightening perceptibl7 under the ipfu-
ence of Miss Titles gayety, after about
twenty minutes had been passed in that
lady $ society. At length, however, Miss
little produced a very different impress
sion BY saying the following words:
Ny dear Mrs. Chadwick, your hus.
band is quite well, | trust? l saw him
last evening, though he did not see me. p"
He was out last evening, but did not
tell me where he went" Mrs. Chad
wick had grown trihe paler than be-
fore
NO Naughty man I told you that
| went to the theatre last night with the
Everards. Well. on our way home, as
we were going down Thirtieth street, l
happened to glace up in the direction OF
an open hail door, and there, on the
stoop Of the house to which the door be,
longed, stood your husband and a lady
My dear Mrs. Chadwick, what is
tie matter %
Nothing" The young wife spoke
very calmly. go on, if you please, Miss