The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-02-01


bell and called up the conchmau rom his
Irritation with the waitress below stairs
"Quick, Richard, f,llew Mr.. Thistle
down; he has gone to Delmonico's, think
If not. 90 to the Office. Follow him, say
and tell me- where he goes and who comes
to see him.,
"But, madam ventured the man sur
prised at the orders, " Mr.. Thistledown
may have"
"No. he hasn't; he took no breakfast,
and it's early. Begone, say p
She was melo- dramatic and positive in
her manner she had caught an idea
know that her husband sometimes break
tasted at Delmonico's. She owned the
carriage and horses, and she paid the
coachman, and 80 the coachman would
obey her orders.
And the irate Mrs. L. was right. Her
husband thought more Of his breakfast
than his dinner. and, under Mrs. Us do
mestic management, he had breakfasted
at Delmonico's before, under similar Cir
cumstances
And he did not ride down town; he went
out from the house, relighted a cigar at
the drug store at the corner, bought a
newspaper, and consumed ton cents in
the operation, and then started straight
down the avenue, where the coachman
overlook him couple of minutes before
he went in to give the order, while faith
full Richard waited outside.
But there was nothing but the chops,
coffee, rells, and the newspaper; no dis
covery whatever, and would not have
been but that Mr.. Thistledown sent for IL
sheet of paper and AN enyelop, wrote Il
note with lead peucil, and sent it to the
restaurant Office
Richards eyes sparkled at the discovery;
he had something to tell at last, and the
Anglo-Francaise clerk as he gave his dl-
rections to the hall-boy who started off
with the note, toward sixth avenue.
The boy to@k an upward bound car, so
did Richard and alter few moments seat
cd himself beside the messenger, whom
he knew, from the frequent waitings which
had been imposed upon him upon opera
nights, and sidewalk acquaintance so
contracted.
"Yere bound for uptown IN the early
mornin', Frank" ventured Richard, by
way Of inquiry at the beginning.
eyes, with a note"
Vera to get an answer ?"
"No only to leave it, And the inno-
cent messenger, who knew Richard to be
good fellow, handed out the note, which
was addressed to lady living i'll
street, and marked {. In hasteD
"Ye won't get back for an hour, away
up there" said the coachman Pm goin'
up that way. Eli take it for We.
Unwilling at first, the messenger finally
|, consented. He had been paid half q dol
lar for the service, and it suited him to
earn it more easily than riding about in
the cold SO he give.the note TO Richard
sprang from the car, and Richard folio wed
at the next corner, going directly to Mrs
Thistledown with the note and bursting
into her presence with the air of a mill.
tary commander who had captured cita
5 del and just reached headquarters tC
make his report.
To say that Mrs. Il. was s.ill more an
CRY would be far too little in words to dc
her justice. Marital infdelity she already
suspected, but she did not suspect an
, appointment at an uptown picture gallery
at two o'clock that very day-as made IL
; Nh. Thistladown's note-with "A pretty
, widow who was one of her best frienGs
, and constant visitor at the house.
: Mr.. Thstledowp had named the hour
the place-sbe knew the lady; and new
that the dreadful secret was discovered
she determined to follow the discovery tc
the bitterest and and denouement.
An hour later Richard had delivered
the note by proxy of the butchers boy al
the corner, and Mrs. Thstledown was
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. picture gallery about two o'clock
A red dless which she would have de-
spised to have worn upon an ordinary
occasion, served as a garment which her
husband would not recognize, the borrow
, ing of a cloak trimmed with sable fur from
a friendly neighbor, and a thick black
veil, were so effective that she sailed into
the picture gallery few moments before
time, with the air Of Il countess, and was
secure in the consciousness Of her marital
digeity and unsupported presence.
The pictures were fine, but Mrs. 7. had
no immediate interest in pictures she
watched the door and the stairway, and
turned her back as the widow, whom she
: had not before suspected, came into the
room and warmed her neat little boots and
the feet within them at the hot air regis
ter.
The widow compared time with the
clock and her watch, and SO d ID Mrs.
Thlstledown the pretty widow was i'm.
patient, and so was Mrs. T.. and the iu-
patience of both the ladies in waiting were
soon ended by the appearance of Mr.. I.
in light dogskin gloves, we'll brushed over
coat, shining hat, and his favorite cane,
just as a gay deceiver would probably be
when keeping sub rosa appointment
early in the afternoon at picture gallery.
The meeting was not affectionate-they
were wary and discreet, thought Mrs. T.
There was no whispered conversation
between them; they were up in the
business of such meetings-an old story
thought Mrs. L.
care you reGdy ?" asked Mr.: T., to
which the lady answered: Yes, but l
must be back to dinner ;" and Mrs. H. WAS
thoroughly satisfied that the faithlessness
of her husband was an old matter, and it
took all the possible control of her actions
to prevent an interruption Of the interview
and the scene which would be the consc
quence, as she nervously followed the
quiet couple over to Broadway, where they
took an omnibus bound down town-and
so did Mrs. T. but Of another line and,
with the window down, and the cold air
reddening her nose and blowing in upon
her aching forehead, she watched.
To Maiden Lane she followed them, and
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