Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-11


from the seminary, faltered:
Il am very sorry, sir didn't mean
what l said. | amp
He did not finish this sentence Instead
he fed from the room precipitously
On the following day Sophronia was
missed from her seat at table
She was suffering from mental rather
than from physical distress Until now
she had never experienced the paugs of
jealousy. At the same time the horrible
suspicion possessed her that Leander was
a bigamist
"Oh, what fool was" she sobbed.
"Now know why he didn't want me to
come here. | shall tell that Miss Walcott
just what think of her"
Sophronia finally concluded, however, to
take her departure from the seminary
without creating scene
She went directly to the railway station.
While she was purchasing ticket she
felt hand upon her shoulder, and turn
ing beheld Leander.
You herer'
His CONSERVATION was no less than hers,
and he also said:
You herer"
''Oh, how could you, Leander?"
Evidently she was prepared for a con-
fession from her spouse.
Imagine her establishment, therefore,
when instead OF making a confession he
began to load her with reproaches
Il now see, he said, why you We're so
crazy to go to a boarding school | never
dreamed that my wife was a natural born
fiirt Think how must have felt hearing
| those seminary cubs talking about and dis
putting over my wife, Miss Southwick."
"Oh, Leander, ! am not to blame |
| didn't mean
oh, that's pretty way to get out of
til You pretended you wasn't married"
For PHYS sake talk grammar, if you
can't sense" said Sophronia resentfully,
at the same time drying her eyes and glar
ing at him contemptuously.
Never mind the grammar. How about
them fellows?'
Never mind those fellows, How about
your other wife!"
My other wife?"
Eyes, your other wife. Miss Walcott, as
she calls herself"
Miss Walcott Who the deuce is Miss
Walcott?"
Il know and you know who she is" re-
piled Sophronia, but for PHYS sake don't
make so much noise. The whole town will
hear us, and want to get out of this place
and never set my foot in it again"
you don't want to get out of it any
more than l do. Here's the train now,' he
added, as the shrill whistle of the locomo-
tive was heard in the distance.
When the train stopped Leander took
seat in the smoker and Sophronia entered
! the rear car.
Thus they proceeded on their way toward
Northrop.
n mil -l,r.,
Sophronia gladly would have Joined her
husband, but to go into the smoker was of
| course out of the question.
1t was with feeling akin to JOY. there
fore, that she beheld him return to her
side
Yet she did not greet him with any prot
estations of affection, for the spirit of Miss
Walcott was still lowering near.
Il don't see how any one could be rs
mean as you have been, >" was her greeting.
What ails you?' he asked. Have you
! got another fit of Miss what her name?"
Miss Walcott-you know her name.
| You needn't pretend you don't"
Il amt pretending anything. You've
! done all the pretending, Miss Southwick. "
Il never said my name was Miss South
wick. That was a mistake of the score
! tary"
But what about them fellows?"
| II don't know anything about them.
| They had right to be at the reception.
| Now, will you be so kind as to explain who
Miss Walcott is and how you came to &C.
| knowledge her rs your wife before the
whole school?"
Dawn now peered into Leander's brain,
| and he laughed heartily as he realized
| what complications had been wrought by
the mole on Sophronia's hand, and Sophro-
MIA Joined in his laughter when he had ex-
planned to her his mistake.
81 wanted to give you a surprise" he
said
MY letter, suppose, put that in your
| head"
Yes, dear"
| Two weeks after the memorable sheet
| and pillow case party, the principal of
Stanford seminary announced to the stu
dents the following munificent endow-
ments:
First-s25, 900 for the erection of a gym
nasium, to be known as the Southwick
| gymnasium.
| Second-$10, 900 to establish scholarship
for married couples of limited means, said
scholarship to be known as the Sophronia
scholarship Edwardine Bailey in Boston
| Globe.
An Early Settlement in Western New York.
In March, 1910, Enos Stone, of Lenox,
Mass, having inherited from his father
$50 acres of land on the east side of the
Genesee river, settled on his property, hav-
ing brought his wife the entire distance,
the most of it wilderness, on an OK sled.