The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-11-16
Ithrew a stone into the water and
waited to see where it fell. Then
said, quite steadily:
- ,,.,, s,>

enough TO go Mlck 10 your WORK,
she assented flor go to my Already
because l do not sleep in Romc).
Yet l knew she had understood me.
She threw 4 stoneinto thcincoming
wave in her turn, then she spoke
slowly and carefully:
Are you going back toyourwife?"
she said.
"Who told your" said I, not hay
ing voice for more.
1.-THE princess, think. The MORN
ing YOU came into thestudio and she
was there"
l seldom entered Suzon's house.
One morning | had gone to ask her
about photographing picture, re-
membercd, and Princess Mathilde
was there.
"What did she say?" ! asked.
"Pr9isely? She said what IL very
handsome man you were, and what
Il sad story yours was
"Ah?" said stupidity.
"Whcm is your wife," Suzon spoke
with careful civility. Il suppose
you will Join her in Romeo"
"My wife, mademoiscllc. is, orrath-
err was, in II maison dc sante. She
suffers from incurablc homicidal
MANIA
81 beg your PARDON" saitlmy COM
ndc softly, and held her hand to
me.
! took it as it was offered and let it
SO again.
She did not ask mo any more, nor
did l tell her. of what use was it to
say that three times had that wom-
an tried to murder me when crazed
by drink, till her own people had had
her shut up? Or why should say to
my bon garcon that had only that
day received IL letter from the doctor
at the asylum telling me that my
wife had escaped, and he did not
know where she was: could tell him
of any haunt in which she was likely
to be found?
] saw no sense in telling all this to
Suzon. When IL man at the age of
23 marrics IL woman thirteen years
older, and finds out soon after that,
besides being addicted to drinking,
she is OF unsound mind and makes
pleasing attempts to murder him,
she and her doing are not Il subject
on which he is likely to dwell. So
held my tongue.
l never thought she could find me
out in my pleasant land, though she
had been there once with me. long
ago: never thought that in her mad
hatred she would remember how |
invariably spent the spring months
there after my winters work. But |
fnncic,l | should find her in Rome.
"What are you going do?" =! asked
Slzon.
Work" she said quietly.
She never spoke of it. but l knew
she painted tor her bread. and that
she had no idea of saving money,
hut lived from hand to mouth. So |
was anxious about her. could not
trust myself to think about it.
would keep au cour;nt with her do
in"s: that was all could do for her,
though knew she was horribly poor,
and the life of Il beautiful woman in
Paris is not easy in that ease
"Wrwill have ono more walk ho.
fore lmo."I said to S,,znn. and she
said Yes"
So the next doy we walked III thc
terraceh high road, up and up till we
reached the olives and the wheat, and
then the bean fields, and, wandering
nv and innocent God knows
We snt down ,t last on tho
lnnr GRASS ot tho r1nc If The
cl;ff ovorlnnu,nm tho 90, wboro A, IL
tie wind came IN to rs
We did NOT snrok Gifts bc;no OH,
LAST doy. wr talked rs 1,sunl com.
rolc to comrnde whilca ni"htinonlo
somewhere about kent irwin" Ills voice
in broken erstasies.
II was like heaven
1 law on thc grnss: Suzon not far
off read Iconnl.li niouI lint nrcs.
emily I ceased to hear hcrvoicc
7 do NOT slrrn nt MONT and l;ko
nil nronlr who hnvcinsomni., am mt.
terly ,nn}le sometimes to keen from,
fallin~ into +, ,lcon slorn csncci,lIv in
thc Omen mir "
And so I did that tlov
And while I slent that woman must
have bcrn creeninp nm To MS For
started doze1 from NV slcnn to scc
Suzon strurnlinm in tLc rr,sn Of -
mad woman onthe very verge of the
Cliff
or coursc know who # w,s Twas
IN NV fnet liEn a flash Init not in
time: for before co,,lI reach her I
saw nv co,nr,,,lo tlun. out over that
awful height
And then two mon who had boo,
WORKING in thn folds c,mo r,,nn;nn
and cannht nv Wife did NOT wn;f
To hear Them raj how thnv had soon
her crecn m to mo not snn;nm was
not alone. how inst MS shc hclI tho
knife Mt nv bnck Suzon had loaned
l;Lo - cat md n,,url+ - En- fn,n, I'o.
hand and how that sho dov;I hn,,
turned om hnr AM that ! lo m" !, ftor r'
ward Now I ran down that zinzoo
nnth TN tho shove and knnlt Inv ,nT
I;ttlo com,.,ln '' ~ ~ ny
i thou"l't she was dead for nc,rlv
ovorv h'nn i, i,o. wis.," III. ".,s hnoi.a,,
and her "vos y"ro c1ns. s M w stu uu.''I
~ronnJ fnr bor hoor. NV With INV ' hnr,l
n Who had movnr +oucbod hnr, Sho
w,s ,l;rn tnm t,,t :. ..t;n III +i'm,,
sho ononol hor ovo. nnI ,onloJ ~.
mo ava >'' ~ ~ %
Shc know mo Inf sho did no+ 7