The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-09-19
WITH MUCH ADO.
BY J. t. SEwcoarp.

BY J. t. NEwcoAfp.
There were sixteen houses IN the
lock where John Weston ahdt lis
life lived; sixteen houses just alike.
% much alike, indeed, that when
ohm came h5P@ d ESek@E used
rssssnis siDsJ ssSs M Il
NTH.
Then he turned in, and there the
arallel ended, for. the little woman
tho always opened the door and
elped him off with his overcoat and
sked him il he was very tired and
ave him kiss which made him for
let it if he was, was, in Johns eyes at
east, likTnY Qtlef rffls woman in
he wholey city ar iNthe thple world,
Or that njatEeh IN HjI
They Had ibeeh married but year
pr SO, and they were very happy in a
huiet, simple way. 1t was very
imple way, and one day was q good
heal like another, for John was htsfk
n the State Department, Jwhich'isl Not
IN exciting life. They had their break
last each morning ut exactly 8, and
John kissed his wife at the door at
exactly thirty minutes thereafter,
and, with his little red napkin lunch
fn his hand, walked past the eight
gates and turhe3 ddwh I Sixf9nfh,
street toward th StAte,l MarJaRd.
Navy Building. He always took out
his watch aud 1hAolsGa. uAka-tisanstisns
when he reached the circle ut Massa-
chusetts avenue, and ifit was sixteen
minutes before nine'hewhIRed a '1it tie
slower, or little faster II II was four
teen. 1t was usually exactly fifteen,
and then he kept right on with his or.
a'A At Sa faIs, IA. big gong .slvFSss
Struck in thess corridor, and John
would push the papers aside on
his desk and take out his little
red napkin with the lunch in it,
and the s14n OF bib Lift and One mag
in front pf him Mp dId( take y6Dt thef
lunches, and Then they would eat and
talk about the news of the day, or
one of the older men would tell stories.
of more or less color about his earlier
days, before he was swallowed up in
the great Federal machine. When the
bell struck again ut / o'clock they all
Invent back TO their work, though John,
as he pus1dyaS Biz habkihs always
Thought 81, the little MomRn Who hpd'
handed ito Him in thenforning and
it helped him-through his afternoons
work.
At 4 O'Clock he went down by the
elevator and up Sixteenth street,
again until he' c4me to the street With
the sixteen houses. There he turned
and counted the gates and began over
again That is, his real day seemed
place and the only time that his life
was different from that OF the man
who lived next to him, or the man
+opposite, or the man who, lived N
another row around the cOrher.i u
At least this is the way it had been
until very lately, There had been a
change, hQYeyer..-lahn- Vas 0na--et-
great many young men who 60 INTO,
the depart menta worn jim Washing hon,
with the interfrtuf}-of sASing,. enough
money to start in ssoniA profession.
Most oil. yoias- -ssssa--- keep
intention until they begin to find now
and then astreak of gray in their hair,
and they say they are too old,
But John Weston was not going to,
be one OF that class, so he said. He
| had good salary, and he did save
money, but not last enough to suit
him: SO, when ffeJopnH tbat\he toud
could get extr6- WorHWith eAtrd pay
at the department, he got into the
habit of bringing home q roll under
his arm OF an evening, and when din
ner was over and he had smoked q
cigar and spent an hour with his wife,
he would light the drop, ligistN on. hig
study-table and work until late at
night. Sometimes he worked great
deal later than was wise.
His wife sscd, to- sit-by the fire'with
her work and watch him as he bent
over his desk, and very often she
would sigh quietly to herself as she
sat therAyyerctfys sS.sfe you'd, and
she was a very dutiful little wife, she
could not see it quite as he did, de-
spite herself, cared more to see John
happy and not overworked than she
did for that indefinite some time
when they were to- leave Washington
and--go West. y ---------'-----'---'-'~-
She tried once or twice to get him
to work less, but he only smiled ssnd
talked so.fRrblHiestiqAlly7anoup that.
some time .thht' she 'hdd to give'N
up. ---..----r-.-----,..-,--
One evening she sat by the fire, with
her hands in hentlap,l not working
and looking very serious. She AMI
swered little abstractedly the few
remarks that her husband made as
he went on with his work, for she had
an idea that 5he Was REVOLVING and
gesn YaMf %steS Il1 lawjy W1 H.
his chait Will thelfSmiltari tVell, ftI
tie wombx,f 2 Which meant that he was
through for the evening, she got up
and perched herself on the wideuarw
of his study chair, looking still very
serious and solemn. --'--------
"John, 'rAhe said slowly, don't you
think and'very useless3", pun
Very Nd john withra smile that
made hef 1ettle the question lover
faahtOn hofo,sfa aha want on