Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-28

TIE name Oh every nlOrtui Ills
wife had ever met. She had had
a boy lover, but his name was
Johnny Craft, and he was rolly poly
and yellow haired. Arolly poly, yell
low haired boy could never have be-
come this sariling1y large and snowy
exquisite. AS he thought of this point,
Arthur felt a curious tingling of the
blood that he had never before expe-
rienced.
He seized his hat, dragged on his
overcoat, stalked to the elevator, and,
being lowered to the hall by the man
ager thereof, who stared curiously into
his wrathful face the while, took his
way to a restaurant, where he dined.
After this he spent his evening at
the club, and returned to find his wife
not sitting up for him, as was her
wont, but quietly asleep in bed.
She opened her eyes, however, as he
turned up the gas.
'Oh, dear, you have walked me out
OF the loveliest dream!" she said. do
put the shade on that dreadful gas"
Il hope you had a pleasant tea par
ty," the husband said, sarcastically.
'Oh, yes" Estelle replied, smiling.
''The incest little time"
"And who is this Romaine fellowi"
Arthur asked.
"An old, old friend of mine, and
just too delightful for anything" his
wife replied.
He looked like apuppy to me, said
Arthur.
Don't show temper" said Mrs.
Drummond, coolly. IF you didn't
like him you might have talked to old
Mr.. Bond. l am sure he is very intel
ligent. And how you looked when
you marched outof ,he room. In good
society one does not display ones feel
ings."
Certainly his country wife was i'm
proving.
Arthur was too much startled to say
anything.
The round of gayety was at its
height. Cards came TO the young
couple by the dozen. They went as
usual to one or two places nearly
every night, and everywhere the
handsome Louis Romaine appeared.
Every one seems TO know the fell
low" Arthur said, and Estelle an
swered:
"Oh, yes; l have asked every one TO
invite him for my sake"
For her sakef This was frightful.
But there was something more terrible
still. His lily, his white rose, his
adoring wife, who thought only of
him, who cared only for his admira-
ton, was utterly devoted to the fell
low. No longer did she sit beside old
ladies in a corner-she was the gayest
| of the gay, and ever at her side how
cred Louis Romaine. Sometimes COM
ing home from business he would meet
her driving with him, aud she would
nod gayly. He suspected his wife of
no evil. She did not flirt, she only
quietly preferred the company OF
young Romaine to his, and now it was
he who stood silently apart in the
haunts of society, watching his wife
with eyes full of regret and jealousy,
remembering what she had been TO
him and was no more.
Ball tickets" Mrs. Drummond cried
one morning. How delightful OF
course we will CO."
Her husband hesitated.
"Isha'n't be so stupid as I was at my
first ball." Estelle laughed. "And
you know you love dancing. / sha'nt
tie you 10 my apron strings this time"
1--WE will GO" he answered.
And they went.
The decollete dress that Estelle wore
set off her beauty, but her husband re.
membered the modest lace fichu that
she wore at her first ball with a pang
of regret, and when the young wife
turned to him with a little p~etulant
sigh and said:
''Of course it is a bore, but we must
dance the first dance together" he
started violently.
but you do not dance, said he.
"Oh! I've been taking lessons, said
Estelle, and | do dance very well.n
Il am proud of you," said he. I'VE
shall dance the first waltz together,
shall we not2"
NO" said she, mot another for
you to night. Besides, it is promised
to Louis"
$50 whom3" cried Mr.. Drummond.
II should have said Mr.. Romaine,'
said Estelle.
And now for the first time a furious
jealousy took possession of Arthur's
heart. He watched his wife as she
glided over the floor with Romaine,
with murder in his heart he asked no
How well those two look together,
said some near him. 'And they seem
so fond Of each other"
The man did not seem TO mind his
presence or care il he heard.
II will bear no more" the furious
husband said. ITO night shall end
it,"
Later, after supper, he missed his
wife and Romaine, and followed them
10 a little room where those who were
weary or overbeated could rest awhile.
They sat there laughing, enjoying
some joke.
You will get your wraps and come
home, madame" he said, ia low but
furious tone. "And as for you,
sir'-
1--WE have carried it TO far said
Romaine. Introduce me, Estelle."
Arthur" said Estelle, don't you