The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1892-08-12

AulTS.
Where are those plans?' he
asked.
what plans, dears' softly in
CURED Mrs. Hicks Brown, sliding
her caramel into one cheek and
still keeping one eye ON Il parlicu-
larly thrilling page of the yellow.
back novel in her lap.
"What-whai pans! Do you
mean 10 say lha, You did nct take
those Calumet building plans from
my table," asked Mr.. Hicks
Brown, in some agitation.
"Oh-oa = said his spouse, milo
~ surprised. "Whv, it must have
been those that Vic had"
"Thst-Vic-had !" howled Mr..
Hicks Brown. And pray, where
are they now9"
'Don't get excited, dear. Were
they anything in particular? Vic
had some old, soiled pieces OF
cloth playing with them awhile
ago but | supposed they were
some you had thrown into the
waste basket, so burned-Henry
What are you going to do"
But Henry did not answer. He
strobe over to The cushion where
on the offending Vic was taking
her afternoon siesta, gripped her
firmly by the nape OF the neck.
and despite his wife's hyslerical
profess, opened the door and
kicked the bowling animal INTO
The street, and not satisfied with
this, when Mrs. Hicks Brown
would have rushed to re,cre her
BET. he took her by The shoulders
and forced her into a chair, noling
with grim satisfaction as he did so,
that a couple of street arabs were
making off with Vie.
That dly Mrs. Hicks. Brown went
home to her mother, and wo weeks
later she was il member of the Gi-
vorce colony in a Western city,
seeking freedom from matrimonial
bonds on the ground of "cruel and
inhuman treatment" winch she
expected tie court, when her case
was presented, TO understand as
having been applied 10 her inst cad
of to Vic.
In the State where she sought
her divorce it takes only three
months to establish q residence,
and the legal lOrmaliies consume
very little time; but, slraage to
say, she did not find il easy yto pass
the lime. The first three Or tour
weeks, in her tlurried state of
mind. she did not notice but after
that time passed very slowly, in.
deed. Strange as it may seem, lite
apar, from Mr.. Hicks Brown was
very, very du!l--and lonely. Yes
she had been hasty-too hasty-
but there was no turning back
now. She had burned her bridge,
and, besides, had ever a Lovedale
relraced a step once taken! No
And she held her pretty nose {
little higher and lrled to looE
haughlily don'l-care ish, all The
time feeling very miserable, in
deed.
Everything seemed to conspirt
to add to her load OF sorrow. Sh,
was polaled out on the streets as /
"cclonist )" men about the hote
where she boarded tried to thrust
their attentions upon her; and al
though she met, through The pas
tor of the church she attended
and at the home of her attorney
many of the incest people in the
city, she was almost entirely IL
nored in a social way, and il galle(
her immeasurably. She, a Love
dale--yes, and a lIlcks-Brow fol
even if he man who had bestow
ed the last name upon her dil
work for IA living, il was a name Il
be proud OTTO be oslracisel b,
these insignificant country people
half The men among whom attend
ell balls in Prince Alberts or cuta
way coats! The idea! As if sh,
cared! And YET she did care
great deal.
And Mr.. Hicks Brown? He wa
working away as though fghtint
time. He never gave himself
moment, il he could help il, lol
thought. Not a word passed be
tween him and member of th'
Lovedale family since the day hi
wife had flung herself out tn
house and returned to her parent;
He heard she had gone Yves: for
divorce, and it made him vince
but he shut his mouth more tighl
ly and went at his work still hare
er. There were times when h
had 10 think, and they were NO
pleasant times. There was one j
particular. A few months belor
he had begun to build, unknow
, to his wife, a handsome new hous
in her favorite suburb, and tn
+, time came for him to occupy i
} and she was not there to enjoy i
His younger sister, an orphan, VIII
had Just finished school, aud ha
} come to live with him, was deligh
> ed with everything. She ran a
over the house, fairly gushin
I, with pleasure, and did not kno'
! that her brother, sitting amid tt
Q The confusion of furniture in Ii
I. front hall, was thinking of no
| much some one else would ha,
been pleased. And there wei
! two big tears on his cheek when |
t remembered himself and Arose
8 superintend the work OF arransiu
! lnrnilure.