The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-01-26
A CRUEL DOUBT.
How a Loving Husband Wronged
a True Wife.

Tho fishing fleet had set out early IN |
a., ,,ornino The atmosphere was |
very clear and the boats could stlll be
seen in the distance, strung out IN
line across the horizon between the
CrieI beach and the Pointe de CayeuN.
\ few sailors wives, children ana ola
men stin loitcred on the Jetty, all IN
excellent humor, for with such weather
there should certainly be fine haul OF
fish The sea was admirably blue; out
lashed bv the wind, it broke into little
waves which rushed, white-capped,
toward the shore.
DO YOU see it yet, mammal? asked
=. little fellow who had stayed away
from school that morning in order to
soc his father start with the fleet.
His mother had a marine glass-a
luxury that her ncighbors envied her.
In such clear weather as this If they
c,uId not distinguish the men they
could at least make out the gigantic
numbers on the sails.
He yo,lId have remained a long time
watching his fathers sloop rs 1t grew
smaller and smaller in the distance,
lo.t his uother led him away. They
must go back to the house TO their
work.
Tbcv Ioitercd along the harbOr,
,-l.i,h had lost its animation now that
It's, fleet OF fishing crafty was gone
ON the side toward the town few
small boats were waiting till the sea
went down a little before venturlng
or, and ON .he other side half a dozen
ships were discharginS their eargoes OF
coal and taking on phnsphates-
Mime. Fournier stopped mechanically
in the middle of the quay u look at
aae English three-master. the llardIflg,
which 6ume every week with a cargo
of coal 4 sailor, leaning on the rail-
cfthe slim. saw her and waved has hat
eaviy at. her. She turned away and
:ls-ricd mp the Rue dc Ia t'alaise TO her
hofne.
Two hours later the loupgers of the
l{uc de Ia FaIaIse were greatly sur
r,-;se.d TO see Master Fournier, the own
5r of the fishing-,loop Il Co., fastening
.ngriIy homeward.
a. had not entered the house before
his Dei,rhbors had run To learn the rea-
soy, of his sndden return
Why had he come back?
II was that way that they had OF
Leaving port. with all sails set what
4 a,,cr the weather, which was known all
4 mn and down the coast as -IrePort
4 sailing
| Uer bscl<stav had been broken, and
! .5l.,rni,.r had had To come back To port
! f,- repairs. These were already under
,...r. and. once he had his men at
work. he had come up to see his wife
moment
i Your wife-she has gone ont, but
size win he back directly.
lie was pouring himself glass oi
thin wine from the pitcher he had
d,..,,yn that morning before leaving
whom he noticed the inllstand open or
the table and the pen beside 1t still wei
with ink.
II was his sons pen and inkstand
I,rt As the little fellow never wrote
during the day he concluded that IN
wi must have been writing AlrnoA
ot the sannc moment he noticed Il let
tor in the blue vase on the mantel
and without thinking he opened II ant
read:
NINE FouRNIER-I love you more ttan ca
. | t,u implore YOU to set = time WEfn VIC ca
HARRY EVANS
My Godn' cried Fournier. ''Harr
+ Evans!"
English sailor of the Hardln%' "h
Ill already ruined more than on
home =
rs Fournier himself, fair with II
crmpIexion of girI and tender blu
eyes
!. lie spranq up to rush to the quay al
/ straDrIe the Englishman, when
, heard his wife returning. Evident
= che had answered that Insulting lctte
n and she would tell INN what answ
r .ba had piyen. lie trusted his wife.
Il hurried back" she. said, rs S
came in. y heard OF the accident rs
was doing my marketing"
, As she laid the purchase she n
20 made on the table he had time 10 thru
I'D the letter back into the vase lie wou
a wait for her to speak
81 Mime. Fournier continued to bu
u herself with her household duties.
II watched her and found her still your
III drowned like himself, almost as Il
~ gracefully poised on her pointed sab
= and with a waist still slender.
From; time to time she looked at h
ssa1 with a smile She was not surpri'
ie. to see him looking somber after the
laI cident. She did not say anything abb
~ - for she had given him her advice
the subject long ago, and 1T was
d sole matter on which they disagreed
Wife. have YOU nothing new to
- me?''
= Nothing, my dear husband"
- His face contracted as with sud
= min. His wife, thinking it due
- Ibavrin at the accident, kissed
~ tenderly.
y He pressed her to him with unae
50 toned force Never, even in the her
tempest, had he suffered as he suff'
now. Suspicion entering his SIM
20 Iovaf heart ravaged it terribly.
Il Wen, good-by. ! am going to
a harbor. We shall go out with the n
hE tide if the backstay is repaired. &c
IL by"
She accompanied him to the en-
the street and bade him farewell v
To- so frank an eye that he asked him