Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-02-25
THE STRING BROKE.
The Condition Of q Husband who had
Been shopping With His Wife.

He had wild, hunted look as he boarded the
car. He did not wait for it to stop. He rushed
from the curb. seized the brass lenders and swung
himself onto the platform and through the open
door, falling in corner with violent promptness.
His face was flushed his eyes were popped his hat
was on the back OF his head and hair stood up
'front.' With both hands he clasped himself about
the region OF the heart. There was a spasmodic
CONFUSION under the breast OF bis coat, at which
he clulched. He crouched back in the corner Of
the car set his teeth, and drew his feet up close
under the seat, settling his head down in his coat
collar.
.sMy gracious! What Is the natter" asked TIE
STAR man, recognizing friend In distress
''Oh!" exclaimed the man, looking up In dazed
sort OF way. Observation-Disclosures at all
An, 1t Is you; howdy!" and he smiled feeble and
death-ke smile, as he cautiously took one hand
from his side and extended it in greeting. 'I'm
awfuly glad. the sentence was cut short by
an awful CONFUSION In his chest, and he drew his
hand back TO clasp his heart. A sudden paleness
passed over his face, and his breath came quick
',Tls nothing, he said, crouching further back
in the corner. q" er-uh-was about to say IT'S de-
Iightful day." and he smiled in a helpless ptiful
way, trying 70 suppress his agony, while he casped
his chest. with both hands, spread out so as TO
cover as much surface as possible. Running for
"Aren't you IN, MANI" asked THE STAR man.
'Oh, no, no, no! Never BETTER" but 1t could be
seen that he was making an heroic EFFORT to con.
quite still suddenly there was another violent
jumping under his coat He spread his hands ont
wider and clutched despairingIy first In one place
then another. His whole frame was convulsed,
His chest heaved until 1t strained the buttons on
bis coat. As he clasped himself there O swelling
suddenly appeared In his side, and then In his
back as he chased it about with his hands He
crOuched back in the corner hugging himself
while swellings popped out all over him. big
air bubble seemed 10 run around his body as he
grasped and tried 10 suppress II. Suddenly, with
bound, he rushed from the car.
The STAR man seized him on the street and
dragged him toward a drug store.
"h0d," cried the stricken man, selling his pro.
tector diSparingy by both hands "Hold on: its
no use" HIS side was sweled out terribly and
quivertng with commissions. "Have you q wife?n
he asked. Then you can feel for me. knew it
was coming when 1t broke. l."
But TIE STAR man dragged him into q drug store
NOW, get me q string to tie 1t, !, he grasped
from under the folds, struck the floor bounded To
the ceiling Knocked a bottle OF comulexton cure
from the shelf and settled down Quyer1nR and
trembling on the show case.
IL was strange device, an eccentric combine
ton OF spiral springs piled one on another.
The patient sank into q chair "I have been
shopping with my wife," he said, after the thing
had been seized and tied. 81 was Shopping with
my wife-have you Wife? Well, she rave me a
little package no bigger than a blacktnr box-no
bigger than your watch. She Just asked me to
carry II home. She did not say Il was loaded. She
did not mention that IL might 20 Oh, she said
nothing about Its expanding in q moment to ten
times its natual size and Kicking and prancin0
ike wild mustang. She only said 1t Was a new
hustle. She-well the string broker