The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-18
A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS.

with her embroidery, that she saw
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 a note. It
was frep her friend, Edwin Jones,
familiarly Ned, who had come from
afar 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..
,Jeffries 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,
for Emma Jane had kissed him in the
front hall.
do you really think, Jefferson
Ieffries, that l can endure such con-
duct?" his Emma Jane had remarked.
AIS it possible that any one can be put
up with being followed around like
shat and stared at like that? DO you
&hink | will?" and then she had given
him back her ring, and he had ground
it under foot.
However, he bought her another in
d month or so, and they made it up
and married; and Mr.. Jetfries, 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
early to dinner and found her "gone
OUT
bella, did she say where she was
going?' asked Mr.. Jeffries.
mo, SIR" said BELLA. ''She gave
out the things for desert and went out
in a hurry loil1e, in her best things,
just after she got a note lolke, brought
by a boy dressed like a tallygraph."
''Ahn said Mr.. Jeffries. II trust
her mother is not i'll. 1t really seems
as 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
none. He opened the drawer in which
Emma Jane kept her trifles of lace
and ribbon and quilted muslin and
still saw nothing. But, glancing into
the waste-paper basket he discovered
visited paper, and, as it was the las
of the little heap, picked it out anl
unfolded it,
Spreading out the wrinkles he pu
his glasses on his nose and read. An(
as he read his cheeks grew pale, fo1
these were the words:
DEAREST EMMA JANE: Meet me on tn
New York side of Twenty third stree
parting. Yours very, very fond, NED.
'tNed!' calculated Mr.. Jefries
,"'Ned" He ground his teeth an
clenched his fists. He could hav
howled with rage, but for the propri
cites, which we generally observe i
our greatest agonies. This was tn
end OF it all, then; Emma Jane ha
gone to meet her old beau. Old o
new, who could tell? A lover, any
how. He tried to be calm; but h
He knew her brothers and cousin
well. They were Peter. Paul, Wi
liam, Elias, Samuel and James. Eve
her father, who would not have signe
his first name, Adoniram. There wa
no way out of it.
mo end but one," thought MIR. Je
fries as he sought for the pistol gene
ally kept on hand for possible burg
lars. Il must follow them, find then
shoot him first, her next and myse
last. No one shall know why; but tt
traitress will know as she dies!"
He put the pistol in his poke
crowded his hat over his eyes an
rushed out of the door. A Invent
third-street car was passing, he jum1
ed into it and retired to corner, fol-
ing his arms.
"Fare!" cried the driver Nj
-Jeffries mechanically deposited som
thing in the box and sank into h
seat again. A volley of shocking r
proaches from the driver aroused hi1
He found the passengers glaring
him.
''I've had this trick played on r
before!" cried the driver through t
door. You're nice one, amt yo
at your age, to put coat button in
the boxp"
Mr.. Jeffries received the rema
without an answer and repaired l
error by putting a. Quarter into +