Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-20

sit is preposterousT burst in Mrs. Sidebot'
tom, II have been the means of catching him.
No one would have had farthing back but for
my promptitude, my energy and my cleverness.
Did not track him here, and act as his gaoler,
and drive him into q corner while you secured
the money? And you say that am to share
losses equally with the rest! No such thing.
shall have my money back in full; and the
rest may make the best of what remains, and
thank me for getting them that. AS for what
you say, Philip, 1 don't care who hears me, L
say it is fiddlesticks-itis is fddlestick ends"
"I should have supposed, Aunt Louisa, that
by this time, you would have known that when
1 say a thing mean it and if mean thing L
intend to carry it out unaltered-" Then, after
a pause, "And now am sorry to seem inhospi-
table, but under the painful circumstances
with death again in this house, and with my
child i'll, 1 am obliged to recommend you to re-
turn at once to York, and when there, not again
to consult Mr.. Smithies. 1t is more than prob
able that this reliable man of business of
yours, whom you set to watch me, has sold you
TO that rascal Beaple Yeo-or whatever his
name may be-"
"Oh. gracious goodnessr' exclaimed Mrs
Sidebottom. ITO be sure i will return to York.
l wouldn't for the world incommode you in q
house of mourning. 1 know what it is; the
servants off such heads as they have, which are
heads of hair and nothing else, and everything
in confusion, and only tongues going. Wouldn't
stay with you at this most trying time, Philip,
not for worlds. 1 shall be of by the next
train"
Philip was left to himself.
His wife was either upstairs with the baby
or was below with the corpse of one whom she
had looked up to and loved as mother. Surely
it was his place to 60 to her, draw her into the
room where they could be by themselves, put
his arm about her and let her rest his head on
his breast and weep, to the relief of her bur-
dened heart
But Philip made no movement to 90 to his
wife.
She was alone, without friend in the house.
Her sister was away, her baby was i'll. A death
entails many things that have to be considered,
arranged and provided. Philip knew this. He
sent word to the registrar of the death; he did
nothing more to assist Salome. He rang the
bell, and when after a long time a servant
replied to the summons, he gave orders that
clean sheets should be put on the bed lately
occupied by Mrs. Sidebottom. BE would, he
said, for while, sleep there.
Did it occur to Philip that there was cruelty
in leaving his young wife alone at night, with
sick baby, and with the body of the woman,
who had been to her as mother, lying waiting
for burial down stairs? Did it occur to him that
she might feel infinite desolaton at night if the
were away from her? He thought only of him
self of the wrong done to him.
"She married me, and never told me who she
was She married me, lying, under a false
name"
Salome had not realized, indeed had not per.
ceived, how deep and fatal a rift had been
cloven in her relations with Philip. The fall of
her mother, the efforts to restore life, the arri-
val of the doctor, the conviction struggled
against but finally submitted to that life was
extinct, had concentrated and engrossed all
her faculties. Then. when she knew that death
was again in the house, there sprung out OF
that knowledge many imperious duties that
exacted of SAlome tull attention and much
thought Mrs. Sidebottom had volunteered no
help. Upon Salome everything depended.
She had not the time to consider how Philip
would take the startling revelation made to
him. Salome was not one to give up herself to
emotion. She braced herself to the discharge