Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-28

So lectured the big fair man, happy
in the sound of his own voice; and his
words fell upon his fellow-traveler's
ears with curious significance.
And how about marriage for the wo-
man of feeling, of passion, tied to
clod who undertakes her value and over
rates his own ?'' he snapped OUT.
turned his somewhat expressionless
light blue eyes with mild surprise upon
the speaker.
Women of feeling and passion, as
you call them, are happily rare among
our marriageable girls he said, didac-
tically. "a woman's capabilities, eth
er Of head or heart, are much more
limited than a mans. Her sphere is
the narrow content Of the domestic
hearth; and"
Domestic fddlesiicks," interrupted
the younger man. "You talk as though
women were all alike. Is every man
fond of drink and bad company? No!
Is every woman content with domestic
drudgery? No, again There is as
much difference between them as there
is between u.s."
"Teddy" gazed at him with kind of
fatherly protest, and then he inquired if
he was married man.
marked haughtily that he "Did not see
how that fact bore upon the question"
''But it does bear upon the pues-
tion," said Teddy, with the same irritat-
ing geuiality. 81 am 1 should say,
good deal older than you, and / have
been married several years to woman
of quite the average intelligence. and of
more than the average looks and educa-
ton. [ was very fond of her; she was
devoted to me; but, being d woman,
she was incapable Of understanding a
man. She disliked my friends; failed
to appreciate my literary tastes and my
love of travel; grew pettily jealous, and
leased me with incessant questions as to
how / spent my time; and finally took
refuge In sullen silence, or treated me
to scenes just when [ required my mind
clear for the composition Of political
speeches and pamphlets. My dear sir,
| grew perfectly wretched; and the end
OF 1t was, about year ago l went OFT on
a tour for political purposes in Ireland;
there picked up with some old bachelor
chums; passed from one excursion to
another, always intending to travel
home the next week; and am now at
length returning northward new man,
restored to my pristine, contented state
of mind, and all the more pleasantly
anxious to see my wife that | have
plainly shown her | can get on excel
lently without her."
"And may / ask how your wife has
been employing herself ali the time p"
81 have only had brief notes from
her." "Teddv" returned. "She knew
it was discipline. But lately she has
more than once begged me to return.
So am going back little earlier than
L had intended as a surprise for her"
"And you think she won't have con-
soled herself?" sneered the younger
man. "Your confidence in your own
powers OF retaining woman's affection
must be considerable %
"reddy's" stolid face changed at last,
and it was with the peculiar GOODNESS
which only light eyes can assume that
be turned upon his companion and re-
marked:
81 have confidence in my wife, SIR"
The other gave short laugD, which
he intended to be offensive, and which
succeeded in being so, and to his intense
relief silence was at length established
between them. Even the but ST. ghtly
sensitive mind of Teddy" had at length
received the impression that his travel
Ing companion had no great liking for
his society, and meant to make himself
disagreeable. He did not know Bella,
and therefore could not estimate the
impertinence and absurditv of his sug-
gestion, that she could by any possibil-
lty have "consoled herself" for her hus-
bands absence.
Bella was just an ordinary woman,
quite happy pottering about the house,
writing letters, or buying little things
she did not want. Then there was
course of reading he had marked out
for hor which If foliomod-if
properly followed
Teddy had closed his eyes, and had
fallen into light dose, the duration of
which he could never afterWard esti-
mate.
From this he was roughly awakened
by being hurled forward upon his hands
and knees, and then flung against the
side of the carriage with such violence
that the glass of the window was shiv-
cred to thousand pieces. He heard
the crash Of glass and terrible roaring,
as of some hungry monster somewhere
in the distance. Opening his eyes he
A rush and rattle of Whirring wheels
mingled with the sound Of long-drawn
Whistling and women's despairing
shrieks. And from somewhere close to
him came groan CT agony.
He was stunned at first by the force of
the conclusion. In the confined space
in which he found himself he could at
first hardly do more than realize that
he was still alive. Presently, by a
stretching and pushing of his large
limbs he learned that they were all I'M
broken, and. before the relief party ar
rived. Harry Edwardes-for such was the
true name of the man known among his
chums by the nicknames of Teddy"
and "Gilpin"-had crawled out from
the ruins of his compartment, bruised
and shaken, but without any serious
hurt.
Drilling rain fell from leaden sky
upon the scene of the disaster.
Signals misunderstood, and the unex-
pected shunting of coal truck across
the line-such were the theories ad-
vanced afterward as the cause of the
accident
But this Harry Edwardes did not learn
until many hours were past. The re-
suits were what he now realized; con-
fused blockade of Windowless carriages,
flung off the line Or hurled one on top
Of the other, pyramidwise, across the
rails; shrieks and means of injured or
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