San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1892-08-12
imnea,vRsbly. Bhe a Lovedale

lime lie never gave nlnSeli
moment if he could help it for
thought Not a word had passed be-
tween him and member Of the Love
/ dale family since TIE day his wife had
flung ho,-seIf out of the house and re-
turned TO her parents. He heard she
had gone West for divorce and It
made him vince but he shut his
mouth more tightly and went at his
work still harder There were times
when he had to think and they were
not pleasant times, There was one
in particular. A few months before,
he hal begun to build unknown to
/ his wife handsome new house in her
favorite suburb-and the time came
for him 20 occupy it and she was not
there to enjoy r. His younger sister
an orphan. Who had just finished
school ard had come to live with him
was delighted aith everything. She
ran all over tho house, fairly gushing
with pleasure and did not know that
her brother sitting amid the con
fusion of furniture in the front hal.
was thinking Of how much some one
else would have been pleased. And
there were two big tears on his cheeks
when he remembered himself and
arose TO superintend the work Of
arranging furniture.
Everybody who reads the papers
remembers the Hicks Brown divorce
trial-how the defendant paid no at
tention to the suit; how the Judge. in
granting a decree without almony.
scored the fair plaintiff for seeking a
divorce on puoh trivial grounds. and
assured her that he allowed a decree
only because it was plain to be seen
that it was a case of incompRibility;
and how two days after receiving
her decree this plaintiff left suddenly
and every bod5 said. i told you so
I knew she'd go as soon as she got
it."
But everybody does not know that
the reason she left so suddenly was
that she recsived a telegram an
nouncing her fathers death. or that
when she reached home she found
that he had died a bankrupt
Hicks Brown knew it and his heart
ached with the longing TO go TO her
aid and then the Hicks Brown pride
came to the surface. and his heart
hardened with cold snap and ne
bent himself &c his work harder than
ever
One morning as he rode into town,
Henry Hicks Brown was thinking how
lonely his sister must be sometimes
out there in that slow little suburb.
and an idea rtrCck him BY Joven
he thought its the very thing.
There are lets Of nice girls who would
jump at the Chance to be companion
to so jolly gil as Lottie. And he
stopped at the Sol Office and left
Want advertisement which stated
that yougg lady desired com
panion who nag able to speak French
aud possessed sundry other &c
complishmen must furnish best ref
erences; would receive liberal salary.
etc Apply ia person at residence,
No. - Grove street"
Mabel HioAs-Brown discussing
ways and means with her mother at
their SHINY furuished breakfast-table
next morning. saw the advertisement
It's the very thing, mamma and
I'm going to sac about it to-day.
Something must be done, and I'm the
one to do it So
But Mabel t seems so-so-why
the idea Of
There TIERS no use saying
word mamma We can't be choosers
any more And 30 it was settled
At four o'clock that afternoon Ma
bel Hicks Brown rang the door bell of
the house in GrOpe street indicated in
the advertisement and was admitted
by trim maid who seemed to know
her erranL and ushered her into a
pretty little drawing room on the
right
Somehow the from had a familiar
look. At least thpre we're things in it
that seemed fam liar That picture
in the dark corner-she must have
seen it before. Sac rose to look at it
and as she did 80 some one cane
hurriedly into the room Turning.
she stood face to face with Henry
Hicks-Brown.
For a full half-ninute they stood
staring at each other. stunned Then
Mabel. weak from the strain of the
weeks and months just passed. gave a
shuddering sob and sank to the
floor.
Ten minutes latsr she found her
sell upon the divan in the corner with
Il pair of strong arlcs about her and q
very dear face dose to her own.
while a deep. tre1aulous voice whis-
pered: Mabel. can't we make it all
up? Tell me little girl
She told him right then and there;
and. hall an hour after that they
stood in the study of the parsonage
close by Brown would have it
so-for all the world like a pair of
clippers. and what had taken nearly
FIVE months TO unite was retied in
five minutes.
And that was the real end of the
celebrated Hicks Brown divorce case
the part that only a small minority
ofthe newspaper-reading public knows
about r l. Ketchum in the Ar
gonaut
Hard Work.
Mental exertion OF any kind Is
something that tires the AVERAGE