Arizona silver belt., 1894-08-25
She thrust his gentle hand away. VI am very well. ' ahe said

She thrust his gentle hand away.
 "I am very well, she said.
 And all the time she was going over and over in her mind the details of her husbands acquaintance with Annie Hubbard He had known her from childhood long before he met Norine. She reeollected his telling her they had gone to dancing school together; but she had never dreamed that Be was in love with Annie. or she with him. Now she knew that it was so, since he treasured her letters, her picture. She understood why he had locked his desk. He had married her for her money loving Annie Hubbard al' thc time. That fact was patent and plain,
 All day long she went around like g woman in dream. She was very pale, and her lips were rigidly set Her changed appearance and dcmeanor her husband attributed to the fright she had had And the whole lime oae terrible thought was beating itself in upon her brain. You love them both. Ton stand in their sunshine Move out of itr
 Toward evening she left the house, walked to a drug store, entered, asked for certain powder, at once caressing and deadly.
 The clerk looked at her curiously she faneied, as he gave her the package and her change.
 She went home. Harold was out. She sat down and wrote him few lines
 You accused me Of being iealous,o she wrote T don't think I was-I know am. have read Annie's letters to you II had drcamcd before ] married you that you cared for each other would have done then what an aOogt Co do now"
 lt seemed a long time before the drug took effect, but at last she felt the desired sense of inconsistencies creeping upon her.
 lt was almost eleven o'clock when Harold. who had been on a wild goose chase after the burglars, reached his own door A voice out of the shadows spoke To him.
 Mir Groves, pve been waiting for you. I'm i'm Dinand."
 Oh, yes-of course. Wait, and I'll get this door open"
 'No-l only wish to speak to you a moment. You did me a good turn last year, when was miles deep in that lawsuit, and couldn't pay you l think I've done you one now. Yous wife cume into my drug store tonight She didn't know me, but knew her. She asked for morphine-an amount that would be fatal dose She looked wild and strange. gave her Lar .. Iess sedatve powder maa have been s... .-cEen in regard to her evident in grtion, bat don tatfliss iis s2
 My God " murmUrel Crows. "faaml; you, linn. he said then
 He let himself in, went quietly up. stairs uoisclcssly entered the room Noriuc lay asleep the note slle had written was oa smai, table beside the be,l He took up the sheet read the iew calm, desperate words Then he dropped the note on the floor be- tween the table and the bed lt was late next morning when Norine lifted her heavy cyclids
 Well, yon lazy girlr cried n dcas, familiar voice, I'm tired waiting breakfast for you never knew you. to s4erp SD late l hear they ye caught our iurgIerS. hope so-although they didn't get very much 1 suppose they thought they had . great find when they broke open the locked box which Dave Harding gave ne to keep for him, when his folks broke mp the enga Eemsut between him and Annie Hubbarl, and sent lsm ont west uJw- ever, in a letter got from hiGi only this morning be wr!tts me That the course Dl rng lygc is running smooth ly again and that be is coming back to marry Annie next month Make haste, dear. The chops e.i.. be like leather"
 He left the room She looked wildly around for her note, picked it rp
 "The draught from the window must have blown it off the table. Was ever anything so fortunate2 But how did that youuE druggist nappen to make such a mi ,ta,lc2 Oh. 1 hsve been wicked wicked! Forgve ne. dear God, my jealousy my rash utteupt, both dark sinsi will never again doubt your love, nor his,
 And in the sweet humatg of her happiness, she never did.-ks .e Cleary, in \. '. Weekly.