Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1894-07-26

for her money loving Annie Hubbard
all the time. That fact was patent
and plain.
All day long she went AROUND like a
woman in a dream. She was very
pale, and her lips were rightly set
Her changed appearance and demeanor
her husband attributed 20 the fright
she had had. And the whole time one
terrible thought was beating itself in
upon her brain. You love them both.
You stand in their sunshine Move out
Of it,
Toward evening she left the house.
walked 10 a drug store. entered, asked
FOR a certain powder, At once caressing
and deadly.
The clerk looked at her ~curiouslp
she fancied, as he gave her the packag,
and her change.
She went home Harold was out.
She sat town and wrote him a few
lines.
You accused ne o. h~inr JEALOUS sha
wrote Z don think ] was-T snow ! am. I
have Rad Annie ; letters % vou. II had
dreamed before I married you that you cared
FOR zach other : would have done then what I
am about To- 10 now
u seemed a long time before the
drug took effect, but at last she felt
the desired sense Of Inconsistencies
creeping upon her.
II 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 % him.
MIR. Groves. I've been waiting for
you. I'm Jim Dinand.
''Oh, yes-of course. Wait. and I'll
get this door open
MOI only wish to speak to you a
moment You did me u good turn last
year. when ! vas miles deep in hat
lawsuit. and couldn't pay you. Think
I've done you one now. Your wife
came into nv drug store tonight She
didn't know me. but | knew her. She
asked for morphine amount that
would be a fatal dose. She looked
wild and strange. ! gave her a harm
less sedative powder I may have been
mistaken in regard 10 her evident in
tention. but | don't think 81.
Ny God =. murmured Groves.
Thank you. Jim. he said then.
lie let himself in, went quietly up
stairs. noiselessly entered the room.
Noriue lay asleep; the note she had
written vas ON i small table beside
the bed lie took mp the sheet-read
the few calm. desperate words. Then
he dropped the note on the floor be-
tween the table and the bed. Il was
late next morning when Norine lifted
her heavy eyelids.
well. you lazy girl. cried a dear,
familiar voice, I'm tired waiting
breakfast for YOU. ! never knew you
To sleep - late. I near they've caught
our intruders. I hope so-although
they didn't get very much. suppose
they thought they had 4 great find
when they broke open the locked box
which Dave Har,ting gave me- To- keep
for him. when his folks broke up the
engagement between him and Annie
Hubbard. and sent him out west How
ever. in a letter I got from him only
this morning. he writes me that the
course % true love Is running smopth-
u again, and that he is coming back
To marry Annie next month. Make
haste. dear. The chops will be like
leather.
He left the room. She looked wildly
around for her note. picked IL up.
The draught from the window must
have blown il Of the table. Was ever
anything ~ ~fortunatee Bat how did
that young druggist happen u make
such a installer ON. ! have been
wiclCed-wieAed. Forgive ne. dear
tod my jealousy. my rash attempt.
both dark sins. viii never again
doubt your love. nor his.
And. in the sweet humility Of her
happiness she never did--kate Ceary.
in y Y Weekly.