Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-12-31

months ago. Ever since nc and Ada
had been drifting apart and this COM
radeship with Mrs. Ives was at the
bottom of the breach.
He did not see the woman very often
and then struggled to save himself
from prejudice against her. but Ada
went about with her a good deal.
There was brother OF Mrs. Ives, who
was n doctor. besides being handsome
and agreeable. Ada told him, who was
sometimes their escort. IL Allan
opened his mouth to protest he closed
it again, lest his speech should SAVIOR
Of jealousy.
Gradually he and Ada became al.
most strangers.
Allan grew restive under this regi-
me. But he kept up show of good
spirits and got the habit of dropping
in to see Ada's cousin, Mrs. Dixon. u
lively little lady, who rallied him un-
mercifully upon Ada's desertion. Il
could have told you she was tickle
when YOU slighted me for aer," she
declared, with charming audacity;
"you are justly punished.
: Allan WINGED under the charge Of
fckleness. but declared his faith that
Ada would come back or her failure
10 do so would prove they did not be-
long together. "We shall see what
time will bring round" he said, hope
fully.
AS Mrs Dixon was charming COM
panion and her husband a large-heart-
ed fellow, who trusted her implicitly
in his own absence, Allan actually got
up mild Irritation with her and be-
gan to wonder il this freedom from re-
straint with which all parties were
satisfied was not the ideal state after
all.
But the Irritation pallcd after time,
and as the new year came on Allan
wished he could turn over n new leaf.
He still believed the theory of unques-
toned freedom To he correct. but pos
sibly some one had blundered in prac-
tice. He longed for the sweet home
life, and wondered il it could ever be
resumed. Was Ada indeed tickle by
nature? He almost hated her cousin
for the suggestion.
Mrs. Ives brother filed up pretty
large space in his thoughts. He had
not seen him, but he knew he often ac-
companied them to theaters and other
places of amusement.
THAT woman holds some mesmeric
influence over Ada" he thought un-
easily, as he unfoldcd his paper in the
scant elbow room allowed him by q
large, overdressed woman who had
crowded him up into the corner of the
car. A startling case of mesmeric in
huence-hypnotism, to use the later
term-was aired in its pages. AS no
read, n new uneasiness about Ada took
hold Of him. Suppose some such influ-
ence was being brought TO bear upon
herP A woman of that stamp, coarse
by nature-his one glimpse of her had
shown that-could only gain influence
over fine, sweet nature, such as Ada's,
by the exercise of some abnormal
psychic power, he reasoned.
He grew hot and cold by turns. A
great peril seemed TO be hanging over
Ada. The car was passing Daly's.
Through the window he saw Ada and
Mrs. Ives going into the matinee. AS
the doors swung together after them,
he stopped the ear and got out, and
followed them. He bought ticket,
went in and reconnoitered from the
doors, placed" them in the front row
of the second balcony, had a few low
words with the usher and went up to
the second balcony. where no seats
were reserved. There he secured a
chair which commanded a good view
of them, where they sat well around
the curve to the right. Mrs. Ives, who
was tall. well-formed woman, was
dressed all in gray, with gray plumes