The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS.

~ WaS 6lG0F ArH OouE0yoS BULL q
1oung and pretty woman, was dressed
for dinner, and sitting at the window
with her embroidery, that she saw a
messenger boy crawl up the street,
stop to throw stone at another boy.
and finally ring her door bell.
A moment after this, Bella, the cup
stairs girl" brought her note. It
was ircm her friend, Edwin Jones,
familiarly Ned, who had come from
sfar to pay her a visit. and being tim
orous, had decided to wait at the
depot until she came to meet her.
There was no time to lose. Mrs.
Jeffries gave a few directions to her
cook, and hurried away.
Half an hour after she had gone Mr..
Jsffries returned home and let him.
self in with his latch key, wondering
that his wife did not come to meet
him.
Mr.. Jeffries had been very jealous
man before he married. He confessed
It He would not permit any one to
pay the least attention to his Emma
Jane. Even cousins of the first de-
gree made him suffer pangs of grief
unknown when they called of Sunday
afternoons, and an uncle, who was
unusually young for that relationship,
while as yet unknown, had driven him
TO the most serious thoughts of suicide,
Tor Emma Jane had kissed him in the
front hall.
do you really think, Jefferson
Jeffries, that can endure such con-
ductp" his Emma Jane had remarked.
els it possible that any one can be put
up with being followed around like
that. and stared at like thatP DO you
think will?" and then she had given
him back her ring, and he had ground
1t under foot
However, he bought her another in
. month or so, and they made it up
and married; and Mr.. Jeffries, warned
by the past, had behaved himself very
we'll, indeed, and he had never yet
been jealous of his wife, when one
afternoon in August he came home
.sarly to dinner and found her "gone
out"
bella, did she say where she was
goingp" asked Mr.. Jeffriea
mo, SIR" said Bella ''She gave
out the things for desert and went out
In q hurry loike. in her best things,
Just after she got a note loike. brought
BY boy dressed like a tallygraph."
'.Ah!'' said Mr.. Jeffries. II trust
her mother is not ill. 1t really seems
IS though something must have hap
pened."
He went up stairs when he had said
this, and looked about him for the
message. which, doubtless. she had
left lying somewhere. He could see
zone. He opened the drawer in which
Emma Jane kept her trifes of lace
and ribbon and quilted muslin and
still saw nothing. But, glancing into
the waste-paper basket he discovered
. twisted paper, and, as it was the last
of the little heap. picked it out and
unfolded it.
Spreading out the wrinkles. he put
his glasses on his nose and read. And
Is he read his checks grew pale, for
these were the words:
DEAREST EMMA JANE: Meet me on the
New York side of Twenty third street
ferry. I long to see you after our long
parting. Yours very, very fond, NED.
'Ned!' calculated Mr.. Jeffries;
''Ned!" He ground his teeth and
clenched his fists. He could have
howled with rage, but for the propri-
cites, which we generally observe in
our greatest agonies. This was the
end of it all, then; Emma Jane had
gone to meet her old beau. Old or
new, who could tell? A lover, any
how. He tried to be calm; but he
could not believe himself mistaken.
He knew her brothers and cousins
we'll They were Peter. Paul, Will
liam, Elias, Samuel and James. Even
her father, who would not have signed
his first name, Adoniram. There was
no way out of it.
mo end but one," thought Mr.. JET
fries as he sought for the pistol gener-
ally kept on hand for possible burg
lars. Il must follow them. find them,
shoot him first her next and myself
last. No one shall know why; but the
traitress will know as she dies!'
He put the pistol in his pocket,
crowded his hat over his eyes and
rushed out of the door. A Twenty
third-street car was passing, he jump
cd into it and retired to a corner, fold
ing his arms.
'Farew cried the driver. MIR.
Jeffries mechanically deposited some
thing in the box and sank into his
seat again. A volley of shocking re-