The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-09
A SAD AFFAIR.
why Her III Used Husband Didn't Lov
Her ANY More

Why Her III Used Husband Didn't Love
Her Amy More.
How is your hushand?'' asked the
little woman in gray.
Don't ask me, please he hasn't spo-
ken to me for week. Come to think
of it, though, he must be quite well,
for if he has pain in his finger he
thinks he is about to die and wants to
make up all our differences. ,
1T isn't good time to quarrel while
Sadie is visiting you for the first time
since your marriage. "
Zone can It choose the time to quar-
rel or have the toothache, dear If you
promise never to repeat it, no matter
how funny it is, I'll tell you the whole
story
''You may trust me implicitly, my
dear If I have a secret which I just
must tell somebody, 1 wait until my hus-
band is asleep, test him with something
unimportant, then tell the whole story.
It relieves me without enlightening
him. Oh, L assure you, am safe as
church. y
Very well. then. Tt began the day
some money to go shopping"
H.. L
am sure y
Eyes, and it was about the careless
way in which carry my pocketbook in
my hand, no matter how much money
it has in it. -
You'd better not. know a woman
who''-
so do Lots of 'em But told Tom
I'd like to see anybody snatch pocket
book out of my hand. Well, I went
into town to meet Sadie; then we went
shopping. AS she had never seen Tom
I wanted him to look his best, SO pur-
chased some pretty things for him as
we'll as for myself -
Every generous of you, I'm sure -
eyes. [ had just gotten him two love-
1y neckties at % cents apiece and
thrown away the ticket so he'd like
them, not knowing what they cost.
Suddenly, as I turned away from the
counter, somebody snatched my pocket
book right out of my hand''
Goodness, how awfu1P'
'tIt came over me like flash what
Tom would say to me after all his
warnings about carrying money. so care
lessly, and tainted away -
''No wonder. And did the thief es-
cape?''
'tWhy. no. The queerest thing hap
pened. Sadie caught and held him until
policeman came. Then he-he insist
ed that he was my husband!''
'fWhat impudencel But Sadie''-
"Oh, Sadie had picture of Tom,
and as this man was smooth shaven''-
"And we all know Toms lovely
whiskers %
''She told the police it was only
pretense, and gave our names and ad-
dress. They had taken him away, fight
ing like a demon and protesting that he
was my husband, before I came to my
senses.
'EHow fortunate that you did not see
|. the horrid creature. -
Perhaps so. But, oh, my dear, Tom
never came home at all that night
was wild with alarm, and Sadie was
sure that he was awfully dissipated.
About noon the next day was upstairs,
when I heard Sadie in the front hall
calling, Help, help, thieves, thieves =
I ran down, and there was Tom him
self"
'But don't see''-
ellis whiskers were sheared off and
he-he wouldn't speak to me, and Sadie
wouldn't believe he was my husband !''
Good graciousl You don't mean
that he had snatched your pocketbook
just to prove that it could be done? But
how did he settle with the police?''
''That was just what he had done. I
don't know how he settled it, for he
hasn't spoken to me since, and that
pocketbook had in it every dollar own,
and I don't dare ask him for it. Chi
cago Times-Herald.