The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-17

Elliott, i'm an artificial manner "I'll ex-
plain some day. Business. h. business:
Nov, be quiet and sonfortable,lik like a good
lie tried 10 Kiss her, hut she pushed him
away. Then he took hi. hat and over
coat aud LETT b hotase with = isssse laugh
Hardly had he passed the threshold
when his wife spr.Ine To her feet, Tipped
dininG-room hall. donncd . little round
rap and gray veil, and sneakcd out Of the
''she's following him this Time said
Rosa tn the cook
"JeaIo,ia again." said cook.
81 suess he's giving her reason said
.TTs something dreadful, said cook.
the way msrTs r.. men sS,! go ON; .., IN h
shadow at the stone b0lustrades and saw
that her husband stood under tho gas-.nmp
at the corner examining the note which
Well. wherever he wont there also b
would 60. Wap.oeve. he might meet
not eep-s6e would have long years for
that. She would behave a" an i"""l'cd
hailed il. An ulster and a thick veil ~.
not know her even II he saw her. She
sat i'm her corner and saw that he stood ON
the platform smoking. Which way the
ttE WhS koltbk ~ NotNSy ~
left il at last and entered another; so did
she. Again he smoked on the PLATFORM,
s%nd rs ,as' and ".p rhe zee foi 1srr hsr "I husband md
into q ferry boat. IL was dark, ana though
il did not rain tho air was full of moisture.
b bnsr' but ~sr sev SGni IF f" ,h rSSp, wer upon brutal sni
looking men, and they stared at her seem.
ing to wonder at her thick veil. She had
hands R~iistened with rings, some of them
very valuable.
of the railroad she trembled with terror.
As he assembled the bluff she Killed her
Who could Clara he" VIVA manner of
woman was she to appoin a rendezvous
like this? IL was a nasty, slippery, un-
loon hard by which seemed tn he full of
rough men. She drew so near to her his-
band that she could have touched %.., ed hi
began E rain n Earnest, and
seemed to be two feet deep with mud. and
still Mr.. Elliot marched on. Al last a
.friGhtful thing. occurred to Lizzie. She
ties, and with all this climbing and strain
ing of the shoes the ribbons had come un-
done. Suddenly the mud caught at them
with that curious power of suction which
mud seems to nave at timcs,and the shoes
came Oft. In vain h felt around for
them; they seemed to have vanished.
"Haiioor said n voice near her;
the matter with you, young wo-
"~I-nothing!' gaspcd Mrs. Elliot. A
large policeman stood before her. :.
This amt no place for ~ yonng woman
liccman. .Its dangerous IL you're a de-
girl. What's happened: Lost your
"No." said Mrs. Elliot. ..I'm not alone:
there's my husband! Frank! Frank!
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left you behind. did I. Lizzie:' he
said.
You're a mighty careful husband"
said the policeman, II do think,' and
Then Mr.. Elliott. who was a large man.
simply picked his little wife up i'm his
arms and carried her back to the grounds
which encircled the tavern. Here he sat
her down upon u wooden platform. Then
Tor a moment he v'nisisd aud r.iturned
"i've hired "a cab," he said: wen drive
@ go looking for Clara; besides, she's
of miles away"
CLARA" cried Mrs. Elliot: "Don't
speak of Clara how dare you:"
"She very nearly ruined mc, my dear.
threw away lots OF money on her." said
Mr.. Elliott. but she is looking up now.
ears, but / only found out what YOU suns
asked her Il i had ever known a lady
Clara before 4 met you."
"Oh, Frank, don't try tn deceive me"
.obbed Lizzie.. ~ read the note the woman
o-niRht-I-"
''Oh. 1 knew it, said Mr.. Elliott; at
fixed for you tn read. l wrote il to
myself. and my mother left il AT the door
II dinner time. l gave her "a signal from
he window that she might know you
we're coming down stairs, and I've kept
IN eye on you've watched you ever
'ince you left the door. My dear child. i
lever knew n Clara i'm my life; I never
iad 70 doubtful love affair even rs u hoy.
The note you saw was about an oil well
n which I had sharS.s-the Clara. She
IA tickle creature, / admit. and made
me anxious. but since you were bound to
s.Carriagc, sir - said the driver.
Mr.. Elliott lifted his shocless wife into
he vehicle, and half way home she vowed
hat she would never forgive him, but the
,ther hatf she wept upon his vest.
~ felt so helpless without my Shoes"
the declares, ''that My spirit was fairly
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But az all events she was never Jealous
II Clara aRain.-Fircside Companions.
Diaxrared and Then HonDrrd.
London Truth. |
About six weeks ago the empcru of
banished his brother, the jovial
Grand Duke Alexis. from 81, Petersburg. |