Connecticut western news., 1890-04-09
"And who is this Romaine fellowT'

~S SAAAS ASOAAA>~AAAO Arthur asked.
 sAn old, old friend of mine, and ! just too delightful for anything" his \ wife replied.
 "He looked like puppy tome, " said Arthur.
 Don't show temper" said Mrs. Drummond, coolly. If you didn't like him you might have talked to old Mr. Bond. I am sure he is very intel ligent. And how you looked when you marched out of the rooml In good society one does not display ones feel ings."
 s Certainly his country wife was inn proving.
 Arthur was too much startled to say anything.
 The round of gayety was at it's 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 fel- low" Arthur said, and Estelle an swered:
 "Oh. yes; I have asked every one to invite him for my sake"
 For her sakeY This was frightful 1 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 corner-she was the gayest of the gay, and ever at her side hov- cred. Louis Romaine. Sometimes com ing home from business he would meet her driving with him, and she would nod gayly. He suspected his wife of no evil. She did not firt, 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 go" Her husband hesitated. II sha'n't be SO stupid as was at my first ball." Estelle laughed. "And you know you love dancing. sha'n't tie you to my apron strings this time !" 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 fchu that she wore at her first ball with a pang of regret, and when the young wife turned to him with a little petulant sigh and said: "Of course it is bore, but we must dance the first dance together" he started violently. j "But you do not dance" said he. 'sOh! I've been taking lessons" said Estelle, ''and do dance very we'll" T am proud of you,'' said he. "We shall dance the first waltz together, shall we not2" "No," said sue, 'snot another for you to night. Besides, it is promised ITO whom2" cried Mir. Drummond. "I should have, said Mir. Romaine, :" said Estelle.
 And now for the first time 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 one to dance.
 How we'll 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 if he heard. II will bear no more," the furious husband said. 'To night shall end it.
 Later, after supper, he missed his wife and Romaine, and followed them to little room where those who were weary or overloaded could rest awhile. They sat there laughing, enjoying some joke.
 l"You will get your wraps and come home, madame" he said, in low but 1 furious tone. "And as for you, sir"-
 I've have carried it to far" said
 Romaine. Introduce me, Estelle." Arthur" said Estelle, don't you remember hearing me talk of brother Louf This is he."-Mary Kyle Dal-
 las in Fireside Companion.