The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-12-11

zone evening / was standing up
in the flies looking things over, when
who should l see slipping overt to one OF
the wings but Snowy and he all IN a
| tremble with excitement. whats up,
| wonder?' said I,watching him all the
time. Well, he slid up alongside
the drop and peeped outside,
and there he stood like a statue,
so absorbed, IdOn't think he would
have noticed it if | had dropped down
| on him. Idon't know if you'd think
it mean Of me or not, but | got down
| and took stock of the audience to see
what interested the mar so much. |
saw it all in a iify. There was a couple
in q bOx-a young man and q lady
and clearly fond of each other as they
dared to show. 1t was this couple
Snowy had been watching, and when
| got behind the scenes again, there he
was still, and, Jeeupiter, blamed II he
wasn't cryinglikea child.
"Of course, | said nothing, but l
watched him, and noticed when his
turn came he seemed backward, and |
| thought he had half Il mind to shirk,
But he went on and performed his
part as usual. HewaS nearly through
! when | heard a hubbub in the house
and went out III the corridor. The
door of one OF the boxes was open and
a boy was hurrying into it with a
glass of water. Kneeling on the floor
was the young man | had noticed ana
at his feet the young woman was ~
ing, seemingly stone dead. We had q
hard time bringing her to and | didn't
know what happened outside. But |
learned afterward that Snowy funked
bad all of a sudden and cut his part
dead short.
This set me a.thinking. But the
next night | had food enough for re-
Election. 1t was 1t clear, moonlight
night and | took a stroll. Now I'm
not q sentimental night mortal, but
! do admire nature, and nee | was out
of the town | got up amOngsOme trees
on a little mound and there | stretch
ed myself with the bright sky over me.
There was not a sound but the CrOak-
ing of the frogs and the chirp of the
katydids. don't know how long
lay there, but ali of a sudden sat up
and looked down at the road. There
were voices there and they belonged TO
q mar and q woman who were stand
ing by the gate and hugging each other
for dear life. | was amused at first
and thought it was an ordinary rustic
love making. But from their gestures
| saw that something above the com
mon was going on. The woman seem
ed to be pleading and the man fighting
her off. At last what did they do but
take to crying, the both of them.
II kept on watching them, and al
ter q while they kissed each other ten
derby, and the man went away. II
was then that / first became aware OF
a curious feeling that had been coming
over me-a feeling that / was not
alone. We have ali such q feeling
sometimes, you know, and then, as a,
all such times, l found / was right,
There vas a man standing among
some bushes just above me and lcok
ing at the other going down the road
| was in the shadow and he did not
notice me. But hemoonlight wasful
upon his face, and / knew at once thu
young man ! had seen in the box. AND
such a face as he did have to be sure
Talk of disfiguring a face with q blow
or by an accident, or with vitriol
They're all bad enough. But, fyol
want to soc o terror, look at |
face disfgured by jealousy, anC
there you'll have it. That wa
what allied the face that I was lookinl
at. 1t was black with passion. TIL,
eyes were staring, the lips were pressed
together, the teeth were clehehed
Hate, savage and unrelenting-murder
Gus ii need be-was in that look.
almost shuddered as / witnessed it
and felt a deal more comfortable wher
| heard footsteps crunching among til,
dry leaves and gradually receding,
"Then | started home. On the Dor
ders of the town who should I NEE
slouching along but Snowy
stopped to speak to him and as h,
turned up his face with a start til,
moonlight fell upon it, and there werl
his eyes as red as you please, and thu
big tears shining in them. / didn't
pretend to notice it, but all of a sud
den, as | looked at him, j got a sud
den shock. The figure, the walk
couldn't be mistaken in them-be
longed to the man who had parted
with the girl.
you may well believed was interest
ed. was manager of the company
and / didn't want to have any sean
dals about my ears So / thought il
my duty to inquire into the odd things
| had seen. But / didn't learn much
The girl who tainted in the box was
the daughter Of a rich but cranky ole
fellow, who had driven his only sol
away some time before out OF a whim
and the young man was the son of {
neighbor-a young fellow in the nava
academy-and a gallant lad, too, al
though he had a temper like satan.
"Well, the week went by and ! saw
nothing more Of SNOWY except wher