The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-01-03
A TRAGEDY OF ERRORS.

Tor dinner. ana sitting NJ the wlnuoW
with her embroidery. that she saw n
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 .lp-
stairs GIRL brought her a note. It
was from her friend. Edwin Jones.
Familiarity Ned. who had come from
afar 70 pny her visit aud being tim
orous had decided 70 wait at the
depot until she came to meet her.
There WIS no time 10 loses Mrs.
JeiIrics gave a few directions to her
cook. and hurried away.
Half IN hour after she had gone Mr..
JeiFries returncu home and let him
self In with his latch Key. wondering
that his vile did not come TO meet
him.
Mr.. Jeifries 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 nm uncle, who was
unusually young for that relationship.
while as yet unknown. had driven him
20 the most serious thoughts of suicide,
for Emma Jane had kissed him In the
front hall
do you really think. Jefferson
Jeifrles, that can endure such con-
duct?n his Emma Jane had remarked
''Is it possible that any one can be put
up with being followed around like
that and stared at like thatP DO you
think ! willp" and then she had given
him back her ring, and he had ground
IL under foot
However. he bought her another in
n month or so, and they made II up
and married; and Mr.. Jcfiries. 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.. Jefrries.
mo, sir" said Bella. ''She gave
out the things for desert and went out
in hurry lollSe. in her best things.
just after she got note loike, brought
by a boy dressed like a tallygraph.
AIR said Mr.. JefTries. II trust
her mother is not i'll. IL really seems
rs though something must have hap
pened."
He went up stairs when he bad said
this. and looked about him for the
which. doubtless. she had
left lying somewhere He could see
none. lie opened the drawer In which
Emma Jane kept her tribes of laco
and ribbon and quilted muslin aud
still saw nothing But. glancing into
the waste-paper basket, he discovered
n twisted paper. and, as IL was the last
OF the little heap picked IL out and
It,
Spreading out the wrinkles. he put
his glasses on his nose and read. And
as he read his cheeks grew pale, for
these were the words:
DEAREsr EMMA JANE Meet mo on the
Now York side VI Twenty -third-strect
ferry long TO sec you after our long
parting Yours very. very fond, NED.
'.Ncdw calculated Mr.. Jcffries;
'N,i" He ground his teeth and
clcnched his fists lie 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 lie tried TO be calm; but he
could not believe himself mistaken.
He knew her brothers and cousins
we'll They were Potcr. Paul, VIII
linn. Elias. Samuel and James Even
her father. who would not have signed
his first name. Adoniram. There was
no way out OF IT,
''No end but one" thought Mr.. JEFF
fries as he sought for the pistol gener-
ally kept on hand for possible burg
lars. II must follow them. find them.
shoot him first her next and myself
last. No one shall know why; but the
traitross will know as she diesw
Ho put the pistol in his pocket.
crowded his hat over his eyes and
rushed out OF the door A Twenty.
third-streot car was passing. he jump