The evening times., 1897-04-03
Gained HIS W|FE's SHADOW
Sensational Episode in the Laby.
rintb of the Crystal Maze.
A COSTLY MIRROR SMASHED
An Irate Husbands Chase After a
Gay and Giddy Young Wffe-He
Had Followed Her and Her Adorer
From Home-AH Parties Moving
in Fashionable Society.

An aristocratic husband, impassioned ey
jealousy, seeing the image OF his aristo-
cratic wife and her aristocradc lover re
Elected in a mirror, assaulted the reflection
with a gold-topped cane and his kidded
fists till he shivered that hapless glass
into as many bits as there are faithless
wives and untrae husbands.
A suit for divorce will probably follow,
unless the repentful tears, gushing in
crystal tides frou the arstocratic orbs OF
the ariStocraic wife, shall soak into the
heart of the aristocratic husband and coax
the white-winged dove of peace to perch
in that ariStocratic home. Perhaps the
names Of the parties at issue will never
creep into cold, black type, and then, per
haps, they will. If they should, society
in the neighborhood of Seventeenth street
ana Connecticut avenue will be upheaved
and the commotion will ruffle the quiet Of
Washington society all the way from the
Arsenal wall To the Boundary.
The aristocratic husband, goaded and
distressed by suspicious that his wife had
ceased TO love him as she vowed she did
upon their marriage day, told her that
he was going down town. and would lot
return till late Under the shelter OF a
conspiring tree-box he fastened an eagle
eye upon the portals of his home. His
vigil was not long one when a cab rolled
by and halted at his door A young man.
clad in the height OF fashion, in yiolets and
in gloves, alighted from the cab. He
bounded up the stairs as though at were
a familiar way. He jerked the doorbell
H.
had He entered The blood OF the an
geredhuShand rose to such an altitude that,
besideit, the Washington Monument seemed
squatty.
The young man and the violets sailed
forth With him was the wife. She, too,
was dressed in the ways OF fashion, and
she wore violets at her breast, roses in her
cheeks and diamonds in her eyes. Smiles
danced over her face and merry words fell
from her lips To the husband they were
toads; to the lover they were pearls.
Tney entered the cab, the lash of the
drivers whip cracked, and the wheels
whirred The husband followed. The
young pair drove TO the Crystal Maze on
seventh street and passed in. The hus-
band was not far behind. He was in hot
pursuit. Annie Besant could have seen
a avernillion aura around him. In language
that is not often used by true poets,
that husband was ''hot under the collar. ~
he gasped to the doorkeeper: Has a
young lady with reddish hair and wearing
a fur cape trimmed with gray fur and ac-
companied by a blond young man entered
this placer"
VI hile the dooTkeeper was getting his
ideas into position, radiant image Of a
cooing couple flashed before the rage
red eyes of the wrathful husband.
There they are" he shrieked, as he
rushed wildly against big looking glass,
and came within an ace of giving himself
seven years bad luck.
The radiant image flashed again, this
time from another direction, and the an
gered hubby made break for it. 1t was
a bad break. Come here, you wretches,
persuaded tie ungentle husband in tones
that were not bland. Still the radiant
image flashed before the rage-red eyes.
Come here a heavy walking stick rose
in the air: its golden head and its FURNISHED
ferrule Sparkled and resparkied in the
mirrory maze: il whiZZed; il was descend
ing; the radiant image flashed on; the ra-
diant image smiled; the cane was falling
toward that image. Crash! Smash! A
torrent Of CLASSY fragments and crack
ling, spIntering, battering sound rang
through that Crystal Maze The wife and
the lover caught on. They fled. The man.
ager of the place held the iTate husbandand
released him only when he had paid S42
as the cost price OF smashing the glass.
That horTid blow cost the husband S42,
but il saved him the funeral expenses OF
his wife.