The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-03-28
THE TERTIUM QUID.

All three were unwlsc. but the Wife
was the unwisest Tho Man should
have looked after his Wife. who should
have avoided the Tertium Quid. who
again should have married wife OF
his own. after clean and open fiirta-
tons TO which nobody can possibly
object round Jakko or Observatory
hill. When you see young man with
his pony In white lather and his hat
on the back OF his head. flying down.
hill ut fifteen milos an honr TO meet a
girl who will DO properly surprised to
meet him, you naturally approve OF
that young man, aud wish him staff
appointments and take an interest In
his welfare. and as the proper time
time comes give them sugar tongs or
side-saddles. according to your means
and generosity.
The Tertium Quid few down-hill on
horseback. but 1t was TO meet the mans
wife; and when he few uphill It was
for the same end. The man was In
the plains earning money for his wife
to spend on dresses and 400-rupee
bracelets and .inexpensive luxuries
OF that kind. He worked very hard
md sent her letter or postcard dali
ly. She also wrote TO him daily
and said that she was longing for him
TO come up TO Simla. The Tertium
Qu!d used to loan over her shoul ders
and laugh as she wrote the notes.
Then the two would ride to the post
Office together.
Now, Simla Is strange place and
It's customs are peculiar; nor Is any
man who has not spent at least ten
seasons there qualified to pass judg-
ment on circumstantiul evidence.
which is the most untrustworthy In
the courts. For these reasons, and
for Others which need not appear. /
decline to state positively whether
there was anything irretrievably
wrong in the relations between tho
Mans Wife and the Tertlum Quid. II
there was. and hereon you must form
your own opinion, 1t was the Mans
Wife's fault. She was kittenish in
her manners. wearing generally an air
OF soft and fluffy innocence. But she
was deadlily learned and evil
instructed, and, now and again. when
the mask dropped, men saw this.
shuddered and almost drew back.
Men are occasionally particular. and
naptir Il
the mos. exacting.
Simll Is eccentric in its fashion OF
treating friendships. Certain attach
ments which have set and cry stalled
through half dozen seasons acquire
almost a sanctity OF the marriage
bond, are revered as such. Again,
certain attachments equally old, and,
TO all appearances, equally venerable,
never seem to win any recognized
official status, while a chance-sprung
acquaintance. not two months old,
steps into the place which by right
belongs to the senior. There is no
law reducible 10 print which regulates
these affairs.
Some people have gift which Sc
cures them infinite liberation and
others have not. The Mans Wife had
not. II she looked over the garden
wall, for instance. women taxed her
with stealing their husbands. She
complained pathetically that she was
not allowed 10 choose her own friends.
When she put up her big white muff
TO her lips and gazed over IL and under
her eyebrows at you rs she said this
thing, you felt that she had been in
famously misjudged and that all the
other women's instincts were all
wrong. which was absurd. She was
not allowed to own the Tcrtium Quid
in pence, and was so strangely con-
structcd that she would not have en-
joyed peace had she been so permit
ted. She preferred some semblunce
OF intrigue to cloak even her most
commonplace actions.
After two months OF riding, first
round Jakko. then Elysium, then
Sumner hill, then Observatory hill.
then under Jutogh, and lastly up and
down the cart road as fur us the Tara
Deva gap in the dusk. she said TO the
Tertium Quid: Frank, people say
we are too much together, and people
are so horridi"
The Tertium Quid pulled his mus
tacbe and replied that horrid people
were unworthy the consideration OF
nice people.
"But they have done more than talk
they have written-written to my
hubby I'm sure OF it." said the Mans
Wife, and she pulled letter from her
husband out OF her saddle-pocket und
gave II to the Tertium Quid.
II was an honest letter. written by
an honest man. then stewing In the
plains on 200 rupees month Cor he
allowed his wife 850). and In n silk
tanian and cotton trousers. 1t Is said
that perhaps she had not thought OF
the upwisdom OF allowing her name
TO be coupled with the Tertium Quid s;
that aha VIVA tnn much nf m child IN