Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-21

Galloway stared into the captains face with
his stony eyes, shifted uneasily upon his seat,
and breathed heavily.
"Ain't that all right, Tom ?" asked Captain
Player, rather disappointed at 80 lukewarm
reception of his suggestion.
eyes, that is all right, captain" again as
sented Galloway, looking awkwardly into the
fire.
"Well, Tom, have discharged my bust
ness, and now I will return home" said Cap
tain Player, rising from his seat. "You, of
course, know where your wife is, and will
bring her home at once"
captain Player" said Galloway, feeling
that his guests eyes were looking upon him,
and that he was awaiting an answer--"I don't
know where she has gone, nor why"
"Good Heavensp' calculated the captain,
as he again seated himself-"not know why
There was some unpleasantness between you?
asked he, with his eyes fixed sadly on his host
"None in the world, on my honor as a
man p asseverated Galloway, as he toyed with
the poker, and averted his eyes from the earn
est gaze of his visitor. "She was here, yester
day morning at breakfast; since which time l
have not seen her."
"Gcod Heavens, Tom, you alarm me!' ex-
claimed Captain Player, while his face became
more serious still. "Was she ailing, Tom?"
asked he, earnestly; "was there anything
strange in her conduct or appearance, to lead
you to believe she was not quite right in her
mind ?"
"Nothing that I could see" returned his
host, still busily beating the Goals with the
poker. "She was just as usual"
"And you have looked about, Tom, to see
if you can find any trace of her p asked Cap
tain Player, after painful pause.
"Ithought she might have gone over to some
of the neighbors' houses and would soon re-
turn and so I made no search. We had a
heavy shower late yesterday afternoon, and
supposed that might have detained her. l
don't feel at all uneasy, captain" continued
his host, looking ur with more re-assured air.
"She sometimes goes out visiting without
speaking of it. She has her own way. l am
not an exacting husband, and she knows it, l
don't wish to keep her Gagged up at home, and
she comes and goes at her will. I am sure
she will be home sometime in the course of
the day."
"Well, really Tom," exclaimed Captain
Player, who was more perplexed than ever at
the changed complexion given to the affair.
II feel burden lifted from my shoulders
indeed do. But, Tom, why couldn't you
have told me this at once when you saw was
laboring under mistaken impressionS"
because you startled me, captain, by your
serious face, and I didn't know what was
coming Now don't let this be the talk of the
country. 1t would hurt me very much, cap
tain, that my wife could not 60 out, when and
where she pleased, without giving rise to un-
pleasant gossip. Please don't speak of this
rumor to any one."
81 certainly shall not, Tom," replied Cap
tain Player, who felt that he had suffered
himself to be betrayed into very silly inter-
meddling with the domestic affairs of neigh
Dor, in ostreprehensible and obtrusive man.
ner but the captain exonerated himself, par
TALLY at least, from censure for his precipitan-
cy, by the consolatory conclusion, somewhat
dimly entertained, that he had suffered his
wife to thrust him forward into this quixotic
adventure, against the sober dictates Of his
own better judgment.
After parting drink with his companion,
Captain Player rode home in most unenvia-
BILE frame of mind. There were many things
to perplex and confuse him. These were con-
siderations apart from the modification he
felt at having suffered himself to be made the
dupe of circumstances.
"I don't understand it," he muttered to him
self, for perhaps, the twentieth time. "Didn't
Tom Galloway give me to understand that
there was something wrong between him and
his wife-and didn't he promise to forgive
and forget; when, as it seems, there was moth
ing to forgive or forget?"
These were questions which the captain
could not answer to his own satisfaction. Ofan
unsuspecting and frank disposition, and little
prone, either by nature or habit to weigh the
words and scrutinize the expressions of those
with whom he came in contact, the whole
mornings work was tangled web, too COM
plicated and perplexing for him to unravel.
He gave up the task in despair and, with a
sigh of dependency and selfdis,atisfaction,
rode slowly homeward, resolved never again
to obtrude himself upon the domestic affairs Of
his neighbors.
II didn't feel my way as quietly as inten-
ded," he muttered to himself eff I had, I
would have found out how things stood, and
not have made such fool of myselfP' With
this consolatory reflection he alighted at the
gate with but little appetite for his dinner,
and no disposition to be especially communi-
cative in regard to the success of his mis-
sion.
CONCLUSION NEXT WEEK.
DULL PUPILs-Avoid wounding the SEN
sibilities of dull child. There will always
be those in every school who are slow to com.
prehend. After their classmates have grasped
an idea during the teachers explanation, they
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