Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10
co ner heart, and her eyes rolled up IN mock
agony
All sweet secluded onei
All poor deluded one!
He'll fool you If he can,
Now he's q married man
Now he's a married man.


standing back there belonged to her hus-
bands party-through some mistake she and
Cynthia were in their places, and they were
trying to get them out. She rose to her feet
and turned to her husband with indignant
eyes-'Nettie, come with me-" he said in a
low voice. II will explain everything. u
Nettie felt strong revulsion: she grasped
Cynthia by the wrist and hurried her away.
''One moment, ladies-I mean no ofense,
said the little manly JoFe, Wheatleigh,
they've gone.'
In the aisle they almost ran into man
staggering under great basket of flowers;
the odor made Nettie faint.
As for Cynthia, she only knew something
dreadful had happened. Nettie was deathly
pale and looked straight before he-, not hav-
ing uttered word since they left the thea
tire. Cynthia took her two hands and held
them tight, not knowing what else to do.
How terrible it all was, yet how wildly ex-
citing! She recalled John Wheatleigh's bag
gard face, the excitable voice OF the little
man, the well bred alnazement with which
the two women had regarded them as they
passed out-she thought she had seen these
women before; indeed, it was such an adven-
ture that poor Cynthia found herself taking
kind OF guilty joy in the situation. And
Nettie-how stonily she stared before her;
she did not look like Nettie Wheatleigh at
all. Would it be in the papers in the morn
ing? Would Nebtie get divorces Every
body would know that she had been there
and had seen it all, and would come to her
for the particulars Cynthia fairly grew
giddy at the prospect of her coming import
ance. Now they were at Nettie's house. she
must go in; she could not leave the poor girl
while she looked like that. Then Nettie
spoke for the first time
Come in the house." she said, hoarsely
''tell the man to wait"
She ran up stairs and flung herself on the
bed, face downward. Cynthia gently took off
her bonnet and would have bathed her face,
but Nettie motioned her away She did not
cry or make sound, but only buried her
face in the pillows as though she felt thou
sand eyes upon her and was ashamed.
There was violent ring at the bell, and
John Wheatleigh came rushing up the stairs.
She sprang to her feet.
"Nettie, darling, where are yous Oh, Net
tie, don't look at me like that-let me tell
youl Miss Odds, please go into the next room
for few moments; l must speak to my wife
alone"
stop; remain where you are, Cynthia.
Do you not see that whatever you have to
say to me must be said before her-nowE
''Nettie, dearest, it was all a mistake. That
was Ned Wilson, his wife and her sister. l
was going with them, you see-to meet them,
that is. and l mixed the tickets up-I gave
you'll ought to have told you"
sit was shameful" she said, in low, hard
voice, ito humiliate me before all those peo-
pie, before Cynthia, before"-she shuddered
-''those two women"
sS'Nettie, swear l meant to tell you-at
the table this morning the words were on
my very lips to tell you. l had written to
Ned Wilson then, but 1 had made up my
mind not to go if you didn't want me to; and
just as was going to speak you asked me to
take you--then we had that silly little quar-
rel, and fooishly went away without tell
ing you. If you knew how miserable | had
felt all day-it was that that made me send
0 God! she doesn't believe mein and the poor
boy covered his face with his hands and gave
great sob. Then it was that the true and
beautiful woIEanly instinct arose ana showed
itself in the despised Cynthia
''Nettie," she said, firmly, ''you are making
too much Of this; your husband has done no
wrong-look at him, Nettie. He concealed
something from you because he was piqued-
it was foolish, but not wicked, and he was
sorry for it before it was made known to
you in the way it was tonight. | know who
Mrs. Wilson is and who her sister is-he loves
you and nobody else You can trust me,
can't you, when l promise never to speak Of
this to any one, and-and, Nettie, l shall try
to forget it myself"
"Oh, did not deserve it, John; 1 did not,
indeedI' and Nettie flung herself sobbing on
her husbands neck, as Cynthia silently with
drew.
All his life John Wheatleigh loved Gym
thia Odds for those words. The shipper on
her kindly face was as a beautiful smile to
him ever after-her harmless twaddle as
pleasant music.
The operetta of "Mme. Roquette' had
long run in the metropolis. The airs were
played on hand organs by street bands, and
by energetic young ladies on the piano, but
although Nettie forgave her husband freely,
and restored him to her perfect confidence,
she could never hear, "Now He's Married
Man" without a spasm OF the heart
Not humane Rifle.
1t was promised for the new Lebel
tFrench) repeating rifle that it was
humane, either killing outright or disa-
bling, but not torturing with the frightful
wounds made by single frers of large cali
Der, and indeed, SO far as known, the
magazine guns as well. Recent expert
ments, however, have shown that tie 8
miliineter Lebel magazine gun is no moro
humane than that of II Inillimeter caliber.
The experiments were conducted by
Capt. Jaricot, his men firing into dead
bodies and at live animals at distances of
200, AGO, GEO, 1000, AGO, l 800 and 1000
meters, and the result, as summed up by
DR.. Delorme. are that the orifice made by
the entrance of the eight millimeter ball
Is smaller than that of its going out. the
same varying from four to six MILNE
tiers, according to the velocity of the bull
lets-the power of the new steel projec-
tile being greater than that of its prede-
Cessor, the bones offering less resistanc
and there being consequently s.dehec-
ton of the bullets. The hope that the
bones would have a fclear" fracture, with
little of the splintering which is so pain
full, has not been realized On the con-
trary, the bone is torn-"s hivered" would
perhaps more nearly express what DR..
Delorule says in the article he writes on
'Chirurgie de Guerre. And vet he says
that the effects of tie new rife, as used
at present. are trifling compared 10 what
they viii be when the new explosives,
melinite, roburite, etc, are used.-Scien-
titic American
coffee Among the Arabs.
The great event of the visit is the
coffee. The host has kind of brazen
shovel brought. in which he roasts the