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

Inlnu Npu. was gong on loving her
dccciiful hu>sy all the time. If he's
a scamp To me. after all I've trusted him
with. | thinks to myself, what'll he
ke TO her. who likewise is trusting him?
But | wanted to be quite sure before
| did ANYTHING. not wishing to do him
any in niusticc. since, dye see,
might have suspected him wrongfully
after all. But unfortunately for him
il wasn't SO. | caught him." said Mr..
Jowlarv, with his face hard set. and still
looking steadily al me, first time. and
put hi, honesty to test. had detec-
tive watching. and marked money put in
the desk was found in his pockets. Had
it been only my affair, do you know
what should have done? should have
taken him by the shoulders and showed
him out. But | had consideration for
her. like the wcak-minded fool that |
was. and never dreaming that she would
turn out the treachcrous cat that she
showed herself. 1t was his villainy to-
ward her that troubled me, so | pros
ecutcd him. and he got three months
hard labor Here Jowlary paused to
take n drink out of his glass. furtively
regarding me over the rim of the meas
urc the while. and then he continued:
YOU'D hardly think of it, but I've been
called windictive. Them what at one
time pretended to be my best friends
have told me so to my face. ask you,
as 4 stranger who has no leaning lords
one side or the other, if had felt win
dictive shouldn't have acted sort of
triumph over the woman who had re-
fused me for a fellow who very likely
was thief at the time? Shouldn't |
have gone to her and said, Apretty
mess you've made of it, and it serves
YOU right, and p'r'aps discharged her
then and there from her work? But
what did | do? l wait 'spectful like
till she'd got bit over her trouble, and
then goes to her. and l make my offer
to her again. NO matter for what's
past, says to her. Il love you better
than anybody else in the world, and I'll
make you my wife. You can't have
him now, of course says l.; no respect
able Young woman would marry a con-
victed thief She wasn't near so much
took back rs | expected TO find her.
You see she had laid herplans, her!
No. she says, Il can't marry him now.
He wouldn't have me- He told me so
when went to see him in prison. Il
would sooner die" he said. Ethan have
you coupled with the infamv with
which | am branded."' Then let us
make n match of it,. Il says, and forget
all about him. L couldn't promise
that were her words in answer. but
I'll marry you on one condition. IOu
must make over to me all your saved
up money. Only that will convince me
that You love me. as you say you do.
better than anything else in the world
Well, sir. | was that settled and deep in
love with hcr-l could choke myself
with these fingers when think of i'll
did it. made over TO her all legal and
proper, the eight hundred and forty
pounds sterling that was in the bank
made it hers for her sole and separate
use-on the morning when married
her. Well, sir, in less than week she
was missing from the pretty home got
for her. She wrote me. saying that she
couldn't live with me; that there was
that atwixt us that set her heart against
ME. try how she might, and we was best
apart. Now, what about marrying lie
for malice and vengeance? She'd got
my money, remember; but that wasn't
the worst of it. For soon as he comes
out of prison he sets up in a ilourishing
way of business-in my line. of course.
and what with his lies and his false
representations he's got the best of my
old customers to deal with him. And
I'm going down lower every day"
'But what has your wife to do with
your late foreman's prosperity"
asked him. That" and he brought
his great fist with sounding smack
down on to the palm of his other hand.
''is what | should like to find out and
prove against her. Bu: she's too cum
ming. sir. I've watched her, and paid
for her watching, and she's never been
found out in going near him. or in
writing to him, or in having anything
to do with him since he came out of
Coldbath-fields That the hardship of
it," continued poor MIR. Jowlary. grow
ing husky again; Il cant prove any,
thing against her. She lives with re-
spectacle people, and does nothing can
make handle of. My client asks
nothing of you the lawyer she employs
writes to me-'my client asks nothing
of You but to be allowed to live in peace
and quiet on her little property That's
the woman you saw bearing witness
know all about it, what do you think of
herr" l replied that thought it had
been most unfortunate affair for him.
and that there could be no doubt but
he had got the worst of it. If he had
pressed me for my opinion as to his de-
serving the worst Of it, my reply would
probably have been less to his liking
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