The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1895-09-05

little past tn1S oV0nluS-uOs d. IIIle
before o. she corrected herself hastily.
"Only please secrete yourself behind
the hedge and wait as quietly as pos
sible until I join YOU"
Mr.. Eastman looked down into the
flushed face of his little neighbor in
stupid wonder. What on earth did the
woman mean; had she suddenly taken
leave of her senses? He bent over her
and looked at her curiously while he
made haste to say, Certainly, certain
ly, Mrs. Raymond. I will come to the
we'll house if you wish, but do, pray,
tell me what has happened and why you
wish to see me at that place this even
ing"
But poor Mrs. Raymond only burst
out crying and turned away.
Don't ask me any questions, but
come she entreated, and then while
he stood there, still dazed at her ex-
traordinary actions, she turned swiftly
and fled down the road, leaving him no
further opportunity for explanations.
But little later queer thoughts be-
gan running through Howard East
mans brain. This little woman, his
neighbor, he had known from child,
and her conduct tonight admitted or
but enc explanation. That came to him
slowly, but with a conclusiveness that
was almost overwhelming. Brushing
! his hair back from his brow In
frenzied way, he muttered half aloud:
my God! It is as thought! My wife
is flirting with that man, her husband,
/ and tonight we are to surprise them
/ in the old we'll house"
| But he could go no farther in his sup
positions Like one dazed he returned
/ OF m his
room, where he took out and examined
i carefully an old revolver. He did not see
that his wife had followed him, but
! the look upon his face had not deceived
her guilty conscience, and with the
| secrecy of cat she watched his every
movement.
Nettie Herald. after she had left her
rivals husband, seemed to suddenly
awake to the full significance Of her
actions. The physicians words came
| back to her and his definition of "love"
shamed her when she thought Of how
she had yielded to her jealous impulses.
| Was that love to expose the secrets of
her husband, to even endanger his life
! by telling his weaknesses to another!
| Surely if she loved him Alright she
would be willing to close her lips and
let him wrong both himself and others
if it was necessary to save his reason.
She felt that she had played traitors
part, but was there nothing she could
do to save him?
It was almost the hour for that dread
ed meeting before she had fairly made
her plans for undoing what her wom-
ans impulse had caused her to do. She
had no doubt that Mr.. Eastman would
be there, and she felt inStinctively that
he had guessed the rest, and would
come prepared to avenge his honor.
Then she pictured her husband, wild
eyed and gibbering-mouthed, in the
cells of a lunatic asylum, or strangl1ng,
purple in the face from the suicides
moose, and knowing that the cause
would be disappointment in her and a
| childless home, she censured herself
for her lack of love, and planned more
eagerly than ever his release from the
present threatening danger.
She rushed down to the appointed
spot five minutes after she had seen her
husband walking swiftly in that direc-
ton, and finding her neighbor waiting
silently behind the hedge she began
begging, even pleading, for him to come
away. and assuring him that it was all
| a mistake-an error of her jealous
fancy.
But the angry husband was inf1exible
He was sure now that it was his wife
who was expected at the well house,
and. bent on vengeance himself was
sadly at loss to explain the change In
Nettie.
Five -ten-ffteen minutes he waited,
Nettie' trembling and pleading harder
and harder, but still the woman did not
! 70 fha n0fiQnflV
waiting.
A half hour passed, and Nettie was
beginning to hope and wonder if she
had, indeed, been mistaken, when sud-
denly it occurred to Mr.. Eastman that
perhaps his wife had arrived before
them and had been enjoying herself in
the society of her lover all the while he
vas Waiting in such agony in the dark
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Shaking Nettie's OBTAINING hands
from his arm he strobe forward as
silently as possible, and with one crash
burst through the f1imsy door that pro-
tected the entrance to well house.
For moment he stood silently while
the match he had lighted flickered
brighter and brighter, then with the
courage oozing from his finger tips at
|
to run for help in voice that was fair
ly hoarse with horror When she had
gone he entered bravely and carefully
feeling along the limbs Of a suspended
body let his fingers rest upon a moose
of cord that was cutting deeper and
deeper into the throat of the man whom
he supposed had won his wffes affec-
tions.
It had come at last, that terrible end
which DIR. Ainsworth had predicted, in
spite Of Nettie's frenzied sacrifice of
wifeIy honor. Her husband had doubt
less anticipated this hour with an eager
ness born of tainted reason, and then
when the moments of waiting and dis
appointment came the furious eager
ness reacted upon itself, and believing
that the object of his passion had de-
ceived him, he lost all power over will
and mind, and yielded to the impulse Of
his fearful inheritance.