St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-17
CAUGHT BY HIS WIFE
A Fly Husband Who Paid Too
Much Attention to
Other Girls
NEATLY CAUGHT BY A NOTE
Which Appears to Come From
a Fascinating Young
Coquette.
SHARP TRICK OF HIS FRoU.
Who Met Him at the RendeZ-
Vous, Where He Waited
TWO Hours.

There is a man in our town" who
will never enter the Ryan hotel
again without feeling very sheepish,
particularly if his wife should be
with him. In fact he will never
pass the hotel or ever hear it men
toned in her presence without eX-
periencing an uncomfortable sensa-
ton. 1t isn't the fault of the hotel
either. Nor is anybody in or
about the hotel to blame. Nobody
but this same married man was the
cause.
He ought to have known better
for he is old enough to know. He
will never see 45 again. He married
his present wife over fifteen years
ago, and has always, so far as she
knew, been a most loyal and atten-
tive husband.
They are living just at present at
a swell hotel.
One day about two weeks ago,
Mr.. Ait would be heartless to
divulge his name-remarked to his
| wife at dinner:
had an unaccountable experience to-
day."
Indeed, what was it?" inquired
Mrs A
why, 1 was walking along Robert
street this afternoon, and right at the
| corner of Sixth a richly dressed lady
about thirty years of age, rode by in a
handsome private sleigh, and as she
turned the corner to go up Sixth street
she smiled pleasantly and said, How
do you do, Mr.. A.
NOW, for the life of me, I cannot
place that woman. [ am sure she does
not live in st. Paul There was another
lady with her whom she is doubtless
visiting
After little further conversation be-
tween Mr.. and Mrs. A. as to the iden-
tity of the
RICHLY DRESSED LADY,
the subject was dropped and never re-
newed between them again
The next day, however, Mrs. A.
CHANGED to mention the occurrence to
an intimate friend who also resides It
the swell hotel. The latter possesses
a mischievous disposition, so what does
she do but induce Mrs. A to play q
heinous, horrible trick upon good Mr..
A. 1t was very simple. Mrs. A $
friend writes and mails an exquisite
perfumed billet to Mr.. A asking him to
meet Mrs. X, the lady who bowed to
him on the street, in the parlors of the
Ryan hotel at p. m. the next day.
THE next day at p. m. Mrs. A. and
her lady friend arrive at the Ryan
hotel a half an hour ahead of the ap-
| pointed time. They kept well out of
sight, however, of the front parlors. At
five minutes of in walks Mr.. A. and
seats himself in the parlor. And there
he remains seated waiting for Mrs. X,
who never comes. But Mr. A. is a pa
tfent man, likewise a hopeful one -Four
o'clock comes and goes, but Mr.. A
goeth not, while his wife, at safe dis
lance, watches him sitting there She
was amused, or pretended to be, at
first, but by the time the pointers on
the big clock behind the clerks desk
down stairs indicated the hour of 5
Mrs. A. plainly showed that she was
| mad. She stayed Mr. A out. but i'll
order to do so, she was obliged to re-
main there until 5:15 p. M, when Mr. A.
gave up in despair and vanished. Then
Mrs. A. and her friend hurried out and
home to the ''swell'' hotel, reaching
there half an hour before Mr. A
Mr.. A. greeted his wife with his Gus
| tomary smile as he entered their apart
ments, but it was not reciprocated.
Mr. A. did not require any supper
that evening. His wife supplied him
with all the foOd-for refiection-he
could digest.