Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-11-02

Wrapped in a waterproof, the wife spent
hour after hour IN front OF her husband +
business place, the curtains close drawn.
AT noon a red.capped messenger entered
the place, aud came forth and waited n
steps till Mr.. w. came out and handed
him note. Then, equipped in his new
fall coat, the worthy w. went forth, fol.
lowed closely by the coupe. Down to
Peck slip he went, on board the Hartford
steamboat; lie stepped. John got off the
box and went in, returning with word
that "Mr. w. was getting a state-rooln
key given him."
This was about two o'clock, and the
boat left at four. Mrs. w. went home,
made some domestic arrangement for her
intended absence over night; found q
note from her husband-"Just as he
thought (; the saw-mill was at it again /;
shouldn't he back till Tuesday night,
perhaps "Wednesday forenoon" Mrs.
w. drove back to Peck slip, got on
board the Hartford boat and waited fur
ther developments. As the last bell was
ringing, up drove carriage aud out
jumped Mr.. w, and "Oh, shame! oh,
sorrow oh, bad mankind out jumped
a young and pretty girl OF eighteen or
twenty. Both speedily went on the
boat, and in minute more the wife, the
husband and the party of the third part. q.
were gliding by BIackwell's Island. If a
realizing knowledge of his coming fate
could have burst on Mr.. w. how gladly
he would have exchanged his fall over
coat tor one of the striped jackets wheel
ing stone along the island wall and put
in thirty day sentence to escape what
this month OF September brought him.
Mrs. WIS state.room door commanded
the head Of the stairs. From its partly
opened porlal she watched. The gong
sounded. Promptly to the call of hash
sailed out the recreant w. and the
guileless maiden. To the suppertable
they repaired and thither also went Mrs.
W., bidding the waiter at the door seat
her opposite that lady and gentleman.
She sailed up in front OF the loving
couple. The gentleman was at that mo
ment assiduou>ly attending to the wants
of his companion, and Mrs. w. had fair
Iy brought herself to an anchor opposite,
when he raised his eyes. There have
been moments in which mems hairs have
suddenly lifted, when the horror of some
awful situation has struck them dumb.
This was the kind of moment that over
took Mr.. w. His hair is red it fiared
NJ like the burning of Moscow. Not a
word he uttered, but he rose as one with
a sudden pain. The lady opposite did
the same, aud amid the wondering
glances and grins of the boat hands, the
husband followed the wife TO the saloon
above. Rut oh, Lord! what repentant
rooster he was! Not all inch of back
talk III him; he made 70 sort of fight
he went down OH the marrow bones OF
his soul. He retired to his wite's state
room, while his wife had dialogue with
The party of the third part; and very
lively the female passengers of that boat
made it for her, gathering around and
expressing their opinion in a way more
free than pleasant. The first landing
made by the boat was one of the hundred
and one Haddams that thickly stud the
banks of the Connecticut. 1t was al
hours in the morning, but the husband
perfectly satisfied that some one Had
dam, got off with the wife who had him
and from Had,lam the truly repentant
came back to New York the next day.