Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-01-10
MIR. AND MRS. NUWED.

fortitude she found herself sobbing and
snuf1ing surreptitiously when 1t came to
packing his valise, which probably &C.
counted for her putting his socks into his
collar box and leaving out his collars en-
tirely.
Luckily Mr.. Nuwed, who was himself
wandering around in detected style, re-
tanned sufficient presence of mind to slip
in couple of clean shirts, otherwise the
valise would have contained little besides
other evidence of his state of mind, for
mono other than newly married man
would submit to Juggling valise full of
lunch on road where dining cars and
restaurant stations abounded. As it was,
the tears evaporated, but the lunch re-
manned with him until the trip homeward,
when he providentially threw it out.
Then husband and wife proceeded to bid
each other goodby. The process was too
extended to be described In detail It COM
menoed In the early morning and contin-
ued until the train carried Mr.. Nuwed out
Of his wife's fearful vision. OF course, he
promised to think of her every minute and
write every day, while she assured him
that her life would be bowling wilder
ness until his return. Her last words,
which had been frequently reiterated be-
FORE were, Telegraph me, John, dear, if
anything happens.
And SO they parted. Mrs. Nuwed re-
turned home to solitude and tears, and for
once in her life she did not In the least en-
Joy "a real good cry" Neither was Mr..
Nuwed feeling SO clipper as was his won't.
He ourled himself up in a corner Of the
smoking cabaret, smoked viciously and
thought long, delirious thoughts, in which
all the horrible oalamities which could
possibly or impossibly happen to the wife
of his bosom marshaled themselves before
his excited imagination.
But by and by good dinner, followed
by smoke and friendly game Of cards
with some congenial fellows on the train,
coupled with the fact that he quit winner
enough to put him on the good side of the
porter and secure 'nightoap," served to
divert his mind from these gloomful fore
holdings and send him to bed to rest as
we'll as one ever does In sleeping Car
bunk. After that his business absorbed
him most of the time, and although he
wrote regularly every day he did not, truth
w WILL onAAh VI "Als' AuWou o'oly AiAuoo.
Twas ever tnus-ln the e1cltemeht OF
business, pattle or the chase man may oil
vert MS mlhd from gloomy thoughts, put
woman left alone at home can only think
of her lost lover. Her very household du-
ties are painfully reminiscent since it was
for him that she used to perform them.
Now that he is gone they seem hollow
mockerles. Left to herself--for she Is loath
to connde her woes to her friends Tor fear
OF their laughter-terrors multiply them
selves IN her mind, and 1t is small wonder
that she Is reduced TO the verge OF hysterla.
All these Things are olteo In explanation
and to some extenuatlon OF the state OF
mind IN which Mrs. Nuwed found herself
about the third day after her husbands
departure. VI course the chief fund FOR
ing over II, was the possibility OF rail-
ROAD wreck Whlcn mlght Involve hef PC
loved husband. Inc TACT That he carried
large lie insurance old not occur TO her
once as consolation, wnloh goes TO prove
shat she was young and truly loved him.
Night after night she would lie awake,
recalling all the horrible disasters she had
ever heard OF and conJuring up IN mag
nation fresh terrors to add to them. Then
she would fall into an uneasy sleep, only
TO dream -of crashing tlmbers, Missing
steam, leaping flames, cries, shfleks ana
groans from poor, mangleu passengers,
among whom Mr.. Nuwed was the first to
meet her sight. ~ day these grim visions
faded away, and after she had perused the
morning paper with fear anu trembling
she could almost afford to laugh at them,
put at night, under the cover OF darkness,
these ghosts OF the imagination returned
with redoubled vigor.
just at this time 1T happened that the
mail missed connection or MIR. Nuwed
neglected to- post his daily letter IN time
although ne strenuously insists that ne did
land Mrs. Nuwed went q whole day
without hearing from him. The last pre-
oeding letter had announced that ne was
going to make short side trip up in the
country, and she remembered that " must
be over ramshackle little road where
wrecks were not an uncommon occurrence.
To cap the climax, one Of her friends
called in the afternoon, apparently to re-
late terrible dream she had had about
Mr.. Nuwed the night before. 1t Is aston
ishing how far friends will travel and
what trouble they will take to relate such
things A bit Of real cheerful news may
remain locked In their bosoms for ages,
but when anything uncomfortable occurs
1t must be communicated at once to the
one 1t will disturb most That Is part OF
friends duty.
Asnight approached Mrs. Nuwed was al
most on the verge Of Mysteries. She could
eat no supper and cried herself into a
state Of exhaustion. Then came an omi-
nous ring at the doorbell. There was a col
loquy with the maidservant In the hall
below.
Telegram for Mrs. Nuwed," she heard
Rising hurriedly, she rushed out to re-
co.vo ~.