The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1889-10-09
rHEoREEN-EYEo MONSTER.

/ HEtGREEN-E EO mONS Ell. :.
Mrs. Denxa was the prettiest woman
in all Sydenham. and her villa was the
best kept and most artistically decorated
house in the town Michael DANA was
q wine merchant, in partnership with
his elder brother, Joseph, and had large
connection in the city. The brothers
Denza were good-looking men. Michael,
especially SO. They had Italian blood in
their veins, and something Of the Italian
warmth Of feeling in their natures They
were well off, too, without being veal
thy.
Michael Denza was leaning back in his
oaice chair one afternoon in November,
picking his teeth with quill-a look OF
perplexity upon his handsome features.
Notwithstanding the time of year. a yell
low rosebud blooIned in his buttonhole,
and his dress was that Of a man of fash
ion.
. can't imagine he said, as he regar-
ded a newly received telegram on the ta-
ble before him, = where the money goes
to Ella is so very simple in her tastes,
She scarcely ever seems to spend any
money on herself, and yet this is the Sec
ond demand she has made for so pounds
within fortnight. / don't grudge it to
her, Joseph, mind that /; but | can't think
what she does with it.
Why don't you ask her" observed
the practical elder brother Joseph Den
"a might have been as good-looking as
Michael had he not been so fat, but be
was ten years older-a man verging on
forty, and be was of a harder and more
suspicious nature than his younger
brother. He had no love for women,
either. he had been cruelty deceived by
one of the sex in the days of his
youth.
Why don't you ask her." he said
She won't tell you the truth, of course
but it may prevent such exorbitant de-
mands for the future"
Ella never told me a lie yet" cried
Michael, firing up. am sure Of it.
She is as clear and open as the.day.
Clear and open !" sneered Joseph.
My dear Michael, you are fooI.' A
divorced woman, clear and open. p
She is not divorced woman re-
turned the other, hotly. You knos
that, perfectly well. she.divorced her
first husband on account of This cruelty
and inf deity to her"
But where can the money go to71
"Oh," don't care" cried Michael, i'm
patiently, as he pushed the paper away
from him. sI wish / had never raised
the question. am not going to suspect
my wife of usiug it for an unlawful
purpose. She can do as she likes with
it. 1t is all the same TO me
I" But that is rather a dangerous way
of tampering with fortune If Mrs Mi
chael does not spend it, she must give il
away
But to whom could she give it ? She
mas no relations dependent on her?'
Can any one have hold upon her
Michael ?" demanded Joseph, suspicious
ly.
What do You mean ?'
g Can Ella have been so imprudeni
as to encourage some young fellow fal
enough-I am only alluding to q fiirta-
ton, you know-to embolden him to ap-
ply to her for money on pain of disclcs
ure? We have heard Of such things witt
married ladies before, you know, you
and l."
Michael Denzas face flushed with pas
sion as he started from his chair with q
clutched hand.
"If you were not my brother, Joseph,
he began, but broke of with harsh
laugh. "what folly / am talking, snt
you, too" he continued. Ella firt
Why, she is the quietest little woman ii
the world"
Well, yes. She certainly has not go'
on very well in Sydenham. | supposs
this divorce business has to answer fol
that 2''
Il suppose SO, said Michael, gloornily
People will talk. if it is only to heal
their own confounded tongues. IshoulC
have thought it would have died nat
ural death long ago"
So should l. That is what makes ms
think there must be fresh cause fo
scandal. Anyway, / should find ou
where the money goes to-
shall do no such thinglv exclaimed
Michael, sngrily bat at the same tim
he knew that he should.
He quilted the office earlier than usu
al that afternoon He entered = smoking
compartment Of the train, as usual at Lon
don bridge, ane, laying his head back OF
the cushions, tried to compose himself :
sleep. But the chatter oftwo young mer
in the same carriage arrested his atten
ton. They were discussing some wo
man. after the manner Of their kind.
shes awfully jolly said one ofthem
Just my style, You know-tall and slim
with gray eyes and brown hair. Quie
little woman to look at, butIknows dea
my boy"
Married, Dick, eh p
Married shouid.think So ] don,
care hang for them till they're married
No bread-and-butter misses for me, con
tinued the creature. who had not a hai