Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-17
IN THE SWEET BY AND BY.
A Romance of the Future, With AItera
 tons to Suit,

tons to Suit.
 They had been married two months. For the first time in their brief welded life she had left him without kiss. She half regretted it, as, stopping a mo ment on the doorstep to light her cigar, she saw q slight, nervous hand pluck aside the lace curtains at the drawing room window.
 Should she return? No! Hanged if she would. He had been too childish. She had told tho truth-She had business engagement of importance. He should not have permitted those mannish tears. It was blanked uncomfortable of him. The electric car came gliding around the corner. She lifted her hat ill the direction of the drawing room win dows, boarded the car and was borne swiftly from his sight.
 He stood moment, drearily thrum- ming on the glass with his thimble fin ger, the tears gathering thickly in his large brown eyes and trembling on his long flashes. Suddenly his air of dejec- tion vanished. His eyes flashed; his cheeks flushed; his bosom rose and fell rapidly. Turning from the window, he
 
 room. It fell against the tea table and broke his favorite royal dresden tea cup, but he only smiled bitterly as he flew up the stairs, two steps at time, to his own room.
 Hastily smoothing his hair before the Psyche glass, he donned his best hat and his new overcoat, and selecting a pair of evening gloves from the satin case on his low dressing table he stole noiselcssly down the stairs and out into the street without attracting tho attCn- tiOn of the houSemaid Once on the pavement, he was seized with a fit of trembling, and putting his hand to his heart he steadiCd himself moment against the iron railing of the area. "Oh, sugar " he murmured. angry at his own nervousness, "what silly thing I am! There is no real harm in what I'm doing. I'm quite sure" bit ing his lips angrily. that she's having fun enough" And straightening him l self proudly he hurried toward the cross ing where white banded pole an | nounced that tho ''cars stop here"
 Suddenly tall, muscular formed fe- male advanced rapidly upon him from | the opposite direction. He glanced swift | ly up and down the block. No one else ill sight. Heavens! what should he do: Suppose this woman should insult him He shrank into the doorway of an adja- cent building, but the mcrcilcSS electric | light revealed his covering form. The tall figure approached him with long, | swinging strides. Perhaps she would pass on. But no! She is close upon him. She is stopping now beside him. She -mCrCiful heavens! She has laid her l hand upon his arm. He closed his cyes Everything was growing dark. Then a voice-a dear, familiar. welcome ! voice:
 "Archibald!"
 With long, low, shuddcring cry he flung himself into his wifc's arms | "Oh, forgive mel he sobbed hyster- | ically, II Was maddcncd by your cold ness. It k not what you think. was only going to the theater-sOmc men dc go alone, yuu know, after they 'rc mar rieCl-oh! it WAS nuthing more, believe mc-and I w;s so n-nervuus and if frightened! Oh! please forgive Inc and t-ttak,' me humr!"
 Five minutes later. lying on the lounge in his own dear little room. with his wifc'S strong hand claSpcd i'll both his own, ho lifted his flushed fncc tu hers and whispered >hyly:
 'Hnu We're coming all the way back to kiss me, dear, weren't your"
 And she thought it would be just as well not to explain that she had fur gotten her latchkey. Francisco Chic.