The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22

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His voice was calm and cold when he
| began again:
Under no circumstances call me Har
! ~ again. 1 am now Mr.. Harvey OF
| indianapolis and it would cause a scan
| dal and unpleasantness in this house
II it were known that 1 was your nus
| band, the husband of that fine looking
| old lady Mrs. Troy of Chicago"
Mrs. Troy Of Chicago,
Three wivesi
A trigamist.
Great Heavens.
He had taken me for Mrs. TROY there
in the dark. Then he had been married
| three times. I saw it all now, All in
a HASH Mrs. Troy was his first wife
Mrs. Triggs was his second and 1 his
| third.
/ screamed.
Then l tainted.
CHAPTER X.
l must have opened my eyes imme-
| diately.
Mr.. Jiggs the husband of the woman
/ who kept the boarding house was lean
ing over me rubbing my hands.
Then Mrs. Jiggs came on the scene
with a lamp.
With one yell she jumped on the
"AltS inquire OF nSr HUSBAND.
SO hor' she cried, Il have caught
you at last, you villain
The man arose to his feet and crouch
ed under the cuff she gave him.
out OF my house you hussyi" cried
| the enraged Mrs. Jiggs.
She caught me by the hair and began
dragging me along the hall.
L was about to faint again.
Suddenly her husband Mr.. Jiggs gave
a yell. Mrs. Jiggs loosened her hold.
| gaZed back Of her and screamed
myself turned, and numbed and bruis
ed. was Just able to know that horri-
bic tragedy was in progress.
CHAPTER XII.
There in the hall stood my husband
| and Mr.. Hit OF Louisville. the tall man
TO whom had been introduced the day
before
The men faced each other Ike tigers.
And where did they get those old
I army swords? My husband had one,
Mr. Hit the other.
Hit was pressing him. My husband
was no swordsman. Hit was athletic
l shut my eyes as I saw Hit lunge for
ward and just Craze my husbands
cheek l was dumb-stricken. / could
not scream l stood there and watched
the battle helplessly. Hit was facing
me. His eyes cleaned Economically
as ne lunged again and again with the
old army sword. He was driving my
husband back. step by step. Mrs.
Jiggs and her husband stood as speech
less as 1. Step by step Hit drove my
husband back. Then 1 saw my hus-
band grasp his hair
Just then Mrs. Trigg and Mrs. Troy
came out of their rooms. Both scream
ed. but stopped stiff frozen with terror
where they stood My husbands two
other wivesi How / hated them,
But now another thought came into
my mind. 1 had seen my husband
suddenly grasp his hair. Down across
his face trickled a stream of blood I
sprang forward and threw myself in
front OF him, my arms around his neck.
CHAPTER XII
HE is my husband" cried.
CHAPTER XIII.
your husband exclaimed Mrs
Trigg and Mrs. Troy together. ''Your
huSbandr'
CHAPTER XIV.
I cannot relate the thing as it fol-
lowed. Hit stood back in the corner
saying nothing My husband with his
bloody face asked to make an explana-
ton. He told them frankly that he
had three wives. They were all there
then and he named them. Mrs. Jiggs
of the Boarding Home then tainted
When she had recovered my husband
went on. He said that while a young
man he had married the now Mrs. Troy.
1t was a mistake and he had left her
and married Mrs. Trigg. That too
he had discovered was a mistake and
l.. Il, 4 asI
he said. 'T do not love the other two.
You can do with me what you will"
CHAPTER XIV.
I do not know how 1 got back to my
room. left them all there in the hall
Mrs. Trigg and Mrs. Troy were sobbing
bitterly. 1 dressed myself and packed
my trunk. Two hours later l hads
transferred myself to a hotel They
were to send for my trunk in the morn
ing. 1t was TO go TO the depot. was
to follow it had had enough of Nine
~ Day Oklahoma divorce. l was go
ing home.
That night 1 tried TO fathom It all.
How could my husband have ever mar
ried that old Mrs. Troy. She was
wrinkled and careworn. She must
have been at least 90. It was easy
enough TO see how he could have mar
ried dainty Mrs Trigg, but Mrs Troy,
II seemed like horrid nightmare.
And yet there was this one little con-
ISOLATION. He preferred me to the other
two He said so. He might be a big
amist and a trigamist, but l was his
preference after all.
CHAPTER XVI
Then thoughts Of my happy girlhood
came to me and l sebbed while | remen-
bered- 1 had met my husband. John
Pring. two years before. He had come
from Kentucky. 1 had fallen in love
with him at once. Our wedding had
been so sweet. What promises he had
made me- How sweet our little home
was. He was TO have his mother and
his sisters and his brothers come from
kentucky 20 visit US. l had never seen
them. and he told me how proud he
would be 70 show them what beau
tiful little woman he had for wife.
The william, And then the little fuss
We had! Il was SO ridiculous now that
l was almost afraid TO remember Il.
He had made fun Of my new hiatt
That was why l was going 70 get d.
vorced,
And that Oklahoma lawyer told me I
that would constitute 'fncompa Utility 4
and gross neglect Of duty" had told /
John was coming 70 Oklahoma TO get 4
a divorce At first he laughed but 4
when he saw l WAS serious ne begged /
me not TO. He told me that he had sent /
for his folks in Kentucky. They would i
soon be here. Wait until they had 4
come and gone. But was memorable. /
[ had come.
CHAPTER NEIT.
Then Il all came 10 me at once Was 4
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