The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-05-09

entity I found myself feeling sorry for
the other Jones and wondering what
had happened to that bright-faced,
CHEEKY little woman had called upon
with my apologies. And those three
children-two girls and the sticky boy
what were they doing without a
mothers skirt to hang on to?
That was all siclxly sentimentaIity
of feeling, and it was quickly dissipated
by Riginald Chips-young Chips of
the war office-a stuck-up individual
with whom l travel to town every
morning. [ hate Chips to this day,
mind you.
Here's the train--jump into this
caEriage-all the people are staring at
you, and no wonder, poor fellow. 1t
must be a great blow to you"
"What is the great blown
"Your wife's running away" he
gabbied on. tits no use evading the
question, with that internal poster all
over Hatchington. Here you are-jump
in" he said, opening the door OF
first-class carriage
I was boiling with rage, but let him
foster his absurd delusion, intending
to crush his monstrous and silly faneies
into powder when we were in the car
riage together.
The idea of Mrs Thomas Jones run
ming away from mel
@'Now, tell me-" said Chips, when the
train had begun. to move and his red
hot paw had clasped mine in his solici-
tude, when did you first suspect
Parloer?"
''Parker-what the"
Don't get excited. there's good fell
low" he interrupted. ''The only thing
is to take these matters dispassiouately
coolly. with the sangfroid of man OF
the worid-to consider that, after all,
it is the best-a good radiance of bad
wife, and so look the future boldly in
the f1ce."
"PerditionE"
esrhe Hatchington Post has treated
the affair very delicately, no alluslon
to Parker whatever" he ran on, but
of course we have all noticed-why,
YOU must have noticed yourself-how
extra attentive Parker has been to
your wife all summer. How old
beg your pardon-'how Mr.. Jones can
stand that doctor fellow sneaking and
si1npering over his young wife, the
Lord Knows have said half a dozen
times or naDre. 1 should have told you,
but no one likes to interfere in such
matters too hastily"
+You-you-ofhcious and blithering
iaelass!'- 1 shouted out at last, you
impertinent addlepate, you silly idiot
of the deepest dye-it isn't my wife.
It's Timothy Jones' wife, round the
corneri''
what, Jones the poet?'
Eyes; there's no other Jones, is
there? and my wife is at home-and
is always at home, and what do you
mean by her simpering and smirking
with ParlIer?-our medical man-do
y-y-you dare to insinuate that there is
anything wrong between my wife and
him? You'll have to pay heavy dam
ages for this libel, sir-thundering
heavy damages-see if you don't!"
@Par5ler's gone, too, you know"
Chips gasped out feeblY, "and-oh,
dear-x7ith the other Mrs. Jones, then?
1 never thought of that. God bless my
soul, what mix-upl Twas sure twas
your wife who had bolted. am sorry
Il mean, my dear fellow, I congratu-
late YOU heartily that the rumor as
regards yourself is entirely false-I do,
indeed"
I was unhappy in that Office through
thinking of Parker and my wife, who
was younger than by two-and-twenty
years.
The green-eyed monster took possess
sion of me and stuck its claws into my
heart What right had that Chips to
tell me that Mrs. Thomas Jones was
Carrying on with DR.. Parker?
And then I thought of Mrs. Timothy
Jones and felt sorry for Timothy Jones
and wondered what had become OF those
two rosy-faced girls and that fat,
sticky boy, and, presto, once more into
the foreground stalkeds that abomin-
able suspicion that Chips had had OF
my wife.
[ met Timothy Jones in the down
train, and we were both down" enough
to match. He had copy of the Hatch
ington Post in his hand. He was trav-
cling third-class, but 1 got into the
same carriage with him, and disregard
ed any thought of appearances" in my
impulse to converse with him.
''SIr. Jones' said, 81 am extremely
sorry to hear the news"
1--WE haven't got any news, Mr.
jones'" he said quite sharply in reply.
"Tbat's the worst of it"
"Have-have you heard anything of
Parker?" inquired.
''What do you meanP"
81 don't know, But I heard that
Parker"
.sYo,1 mean Parl1ar the snrgeon 2n