Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-08-14

| mOAdA u Icc4luS, Vi passion. lieu 10 Il
clod who undertakes her value and
overrates his own?" he snapped out.
Teddy put down his pipe and 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-
ticaly. "a woman's capabilities,
either of head or heart, are much more
limited than mans. Her sphere is
the narrow content of the domestic
hearth; and
Domestic fiddlesticks," 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 a kind of
fatherly protest, and then he inquired if
be was married man.
His companion changed color and
remarked haughtily that he did not
see how that fact bore upon the ques
uion-''
''But it does bear upon the question, :"
|
genIality. 81 am, should say, good
deal older than you, and l have been
married several years to a woman of
quite the average intelligence and of
more than the average looks and edu-
| cation. L was very fond of her; she
was incapable of understanding "a man
She disliked my friends; failed to APP
| preciate my literary tastes and my love
of travel; grew pettily jealous and teased
| me with lnceSSant questions as TO how
l spent my time; and finally took refuge
| in sullen silence or treated me to scenes
just when L required my mind clear for
the composition of political speeches
and pamphlets. My dear sir, | grew
| perfectly wretched, and the end of it
was, about year ago L went off 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 a new
man, restored to my pristine, contented
state of mind and all the more anxious
to see my wife that L have plainly
shown her L can get on excellently
without her."
"And may l ask how your wife has
q
Il have only had brief notes from
her," Teddy returned. 'She knew it
was discipline. But lately she has more
than once begged me to return. So
am going back little earlier than
had intended as a surprise for her" "
And you think she won't have con-
soled herself?'' sneered the younger
man. "H our confidence III your own
powers of retaining woman'S affection
must be consiaerablel''
Teddy's stolid face changed at last,
and it was with the peculiar coldness
which only light eyes can assume that
he turned upon his companion and re-
marked:
Il have confidence In my wife, sir. -
The other gave short laugh, which
he intended to be offensive, and which
succeeded in being SO, and 10 his in
| tense relief silence was at length estab-
llshed between them. Even the but
slightly sensitive mind of Teddy had at
length received the impression that his
travelling companion had no great lik-
ing for his society, and meant to make
himself disagreeable. He did not know
Bella, and therefore could not estimate
the impertinence and absurdity of his
suggestion that she could by any posi-
husbands absence.
Bella was just an ordinary woman,
quite happy pottering about the house,
writing letters, or buying little things
he did not want. Then there was a
course Of reading he had marked out for
her, which, if properly followed-if pro-
perly followed"
Teddy had closed his eyes and had
fallen into light doze, the duration of
which he could never afterward est
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 tie window was shiv-
cred into thousand pieces. He heard
the crash of glass and a terrible roar
ing, as of some hungry monster some
where in the distance. Opening his
eyes, lie found himself in complete
darkness. a rush and rattle of whir-
ring wheels mingled with the sound of
long-drawn whistling and women's
despairing shrieks. And from some
where close to him came a groan of
agony.
He was stunned at first by the force
of the conclusion. In the confined
space in which he found himself lie
could at first hardly d. more than real
ize that he was alive. Presently, 10y
little stretching and pulling of his large
limbs, he learned that they we're all un-
broken, and before the relief party ar
rived Mr.. Harry Edwardes, for such
WAS the true name of the man known
among his chums by the nicknames OF
Teddy" and "Gilpin''-had crawled
x.fI l.
bruised and shaken, but without any
seTi BUS hurt.
Drizzl.ng rain fell from a leaden sky
upon the scene of the disaster.
Signals misunderstood, and the uu-
expected shuntIng of coal truck across
the hne-such were the theories ad-
vanced afterwards as the cause of the
accident.
But this Harry Edwardes did not
learn until many hours were passed.
The results were what he now realized
"a confused blockade OF windowless
Carriages, flung off the line or hurled
one on top of the other, pyramid wise,
across the rails; shrieks and means of
injured or terrified passengers, he him
self standing upright and unhurt, and
at his feet the body of dead man.
Sick and giddy with tile horror of the
scene, he knelt eside the PROSTATE fig
ure. and, unfastening his coat, placed
his hand above the still heart. 1t was
his fellow traveller, with whom he had
been wrangling, as it seemed, only
few short minutes ago. HIS back had
been broken by the collapse of the /, ar
riage, and the purpose of his journey,
good or bad, had been frustrated.
A folded letter rustled beneath Harry
Edwardes' hand upon the Gead mans
breast. Tears rushed up TO his eyes at
the sound IL was DrOlably from some