Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-11-21

N'Niu kiiW more l!lan ne stated IN
court Do You mean that Il mean
nix" replied Mr.. .Jowlary doggedly.
""nlN for her sake would have up and
Gold EN- all there was to tell from first
To- last. Only for her sake" he re-
p"ar"'i. trying to laugh, and producing
Il sound indcscribahlc instead. That )
a pretty thing to say Of the woman who
has ruined me. and who. though I've
still got feeling of love for her. hates
me wuss than p'ison. who always did
hate me wuS> than p'iSon.' Scarcely
so. ] vcntllrcd. "or she would not have
been married To YOU. / heard you twice
rcl"at in court that she was your law
iul wife, and She did not attempt to con-
tradct Nou.' There YOU cut to the
core of it" said Mr. Jowlarv. the sud
den trcmor of his voice betraving how
much the matter moved him, land
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hateful To me as she is when think of
It. She married me for vengeance, sir
Married me and ruined me out of dead
~ spite and malice. What do you think
Of ihat?"
did not know what answer to make
him on the instant and he gave me no
time 10 consider the matter Il know
what You would think If it, and said no
more. said he. You d 90 away and say
TO anybody you met, by and by: Il came
across man to-day who I'd back for
beng the biggest liar that ever stood
on two legs. He wanted says you, TO
guy me with the statement that his wife
lpI 70 l. ~
spite and vengeance. It's fact, how
somever. You saw her. What do you
think of her-hcr looks. mean?" l re-
piled that she impressed me as being an
exceedingly good-looking and lady-likc
Young woman. not at all thc kind of
person To he guilty of the wickedness he
had imputed to her. "lIah! Then you
think it was n wickedness." Mr.. Jow-
larry remarked. evidently much gratificd
with my answer. Taking your version
of the affair rs beirg a truthful one,
there can be no doubt it." "And you
cant see, whichever way you twist it
and turn it, that i: can be made out to
be virtue and not wickGdness?"
should be better able" said |. "to Judge
of that if knew all the particulars.
have no desire to pry into YOUR private
affairs, but since you put the matter to
me in that way, as man of common
sense you must see that can make YOU
no other answer" Ditto to you" re-
torted Mr.. Jowlary, ''as man of com
mon sense and rs man of the world as
well. mind you. | amt going to be
weighed up without equal balance of
both. I'll tell you the particulars, if
your a mind to hear 'em. and then
you shall pass your verdict for OF
against.
I'm in the rope and yarn line O.
business, likewise in the sack and tar
paulin way. and I'm doing well-un-
derstand, I'm going back to the time
afore this affair happened, and afore |
was ruined. Well, I'm doing well. I've
got bit of a factory. and employ say
a dozen hands, and I'm making enough
to pay my way and put away ten-pun
note every Monday morning rs the day
comes round. I'm widower. been so
ten years and more, and I've got no
children. my home being only an old
woman that keeps house for me. Well,
the hands | employ are mixed hot.
male and female, the girls and women
working at tent-scwing and bag
making. You saw her in the witness
box against me? Ladylike. says you.
and good-looking. SO she is. So she
was when she came and asked me to find
her work to do. Poorly dressed and
with only an old black silk cape on her
shoulders. though it was middle of
int nd k,1 g. L.. Al
ground. 1T isn't work for such as you,
| says; you haven't got the fingers for
it. I've got the heart for it, says she,
so let me try. please. You would, am
sure, if you knew how glad l shall be to
be able to earn few shillings.' Well. l
didn't ask her any questions-who she
was or what she had been used TO. l
think to myself, you're a brave gal,
anyhow, and though you're sure to give
up before you've had an hours work
with twine instead of fine cotton, YOU
shall have a days pay for it, and that
won't be much hurting the pride of a
genteel 'un like you are. Howsomever
she comes, and she sticks to the work,
and she stands the chatting of the rough
gals in the same room without MUIR
muir. | hears 'em a laughing and GO
ing on at q rare rate one day, and goes
up to see, and they are calling her
everything and jeering her because she
is sewing corn-sacks with kid gloves on.
l laughs, too, as who wouldn't, and |
tell her to take 'em off; and, without a
word, she does it, and shows her fingers
all raw where the heavy needle had cut
EN-. If I'm not allowed to wear 'em,
said she, Il shall have to leave the work,
and have sick mother and two little
sisters depending on what l earn.
That put stopper on the chatting. |
made her take a weeks rest, and the
gals won't let me pay her her wages, all
the same. but make 'em up among 'em.
Il warn't the only one on the prem.
ises who did that. had young fel-
low who had worked himself up to be a
sort of foreman, though he came to ME
as an errand boy. Bad luck to him
wherever he is-ungrateful houndr'
And MIR. Jowlary grew suddenly white,
about the mouth rs he uttered the
words. You'll say. p'raps. he was as
free to fall in love with her as was;
and praps you further say being nearer
her own age it was more natural. Well,
who said it wasn't? Was that any rea-
son why he should have been so infer
nally sly over il? should have spoke
to her months before did, but l never
dreamt of him being in my way. When
| did speak to her, straightfor ard and
honest and well meaning, she don't
know which way to look or what to say,
and when she does speak it is to tell me
"l will ask Herbert he will be better
able to explain why she is obliged to re-
fuse me. saw it all in flash them
How | felt when she told me is nothing
TO the purpose. didn't show it, any
how. made light Of it to her. There
no occasion. for me to speak to him,
says. Words with him would do us
no good, and might hurt him, and, con-
sequently, you. I've had my say, and
I've got my answer. and there's an end
of it And a very lucky thing it was, VI
continued Mr.. Jowlary. speaking as a
man whose mouth is dry, though an
instant before he had drank some of his
ale. "a very lucky thing didn't speak
TO him or have words with him, or il
might have been said that had spite
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