The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-30

dren, and worked late into the night
sewing to make a little extra money
for the thrifty little savings bank ac-
count, could possibly be attractive to
any one. She was his wife, and that
settled it. Mrs. George had never
heard Of such a thing as Irritation
between an honest married woman and
any man. She knew there were wicked
women in the world. Her husband
pointed one out to her one Sunday,
when they were sitting in the park with
the children, and she colored and look
ed away and wished he would not
speak to her of such things.
She worked very hard. She was Of
ten tired, and when the boys were in
bed and ''Samp" was at some corner
grocery talking politics she felt a little
sad. George Saxton saw all this and
he let her know that he saw it. When
he had been the friend Of the family
for year she found herself one dread
full day ashamed to look into the eyes
or her brown little boys. Ashamed to
speak to her silly, Indifferent husband
ashamed to live, and praying for death
to come and wipe out the disgrace that
had been forced upon her.
She forbade SaXton to speak to her
again. She threatened him with in
slant exposure If he dared come into
her presence anywhere. She defied him
to despise her for her awful humilia-
ton, and when he would not keep
away from her she packed the little
trunk she had brought from the coun-
try and went away. When she came
back, as she was obliged to come by
her husbands will, Saxton found her
alone, and she cried out all her sorrow
and her agony Of remorse and self
hatred, and he begged her, and prom
ised her, and besought her to forget,
and pleaded for forgiveness, and lied
and lied and lied until the poor, scared
humbled little country woman pitied
him, and ended by loving him. SaXton
begged her to get a divorce. He could
not bear to see her thrown away upon
such clod, he said.
She would leave him. When she was
free he would marry her and give her
and the boys a home which would be-
come her grace and beauty, for she
had beauty Of an unusual sort, and
she gained grace and dignity with
every year Of her life in town. She
went to Dakota and brought suit for
divorce on the ground of persistent and
wilful neglect. She procured the di-
vorce. A few days after she received
her divorce George SaXton quarreled
with her about the lawyers fee.
Then he said he was i'll, and must go
away. His letters grew cold and per
fUnctory. She had no money, and he
sent her none. She went to work in a
Cleveland shop. She wrote him that
she grew very tired standing all day.
He answered that he was very sorry
but that she would become accustomed
to the work in time. One day she ask
ed him tinnidIy about their wedding.
He threw back his head and laughed.
The whole world turned black to Anna
George. "Samp" George brought suit
cot CT
Ing his Wife's affections. He had
letter Of confession which the con-
sclence-stricllen woman had written
him, acknowledging her fault.
Saxton compromised the suit and
paid the injured husband round sum
of money. On Oct. the woman George
Saxton had deserted heard that he was
engaged to be married to a Mrs. Alt
house.
On the afternoon of the same day
she found that "Samp'' George had
been married a year to a nice little
blonde girl who would not sit in the
same car with a wicked woman as
she called Anna George That night
George SaXton was shot and killed as
he was going to call on Mrs. Althouse.
Anna George was arrested and charg-
ed with the murder. She Is in Canton
Jail, and women who have not spoken.
to her since she left her husband are
sending her flowers now.
She does not seem to care for the
flowers. The two little brown boys
are growing tall now, but they have
not been to the Jail to see the mother
who was SO anxious for them to "be
somebody when they were barefooted
little country boys. George Saxton?
Dead-dead and buried. Gone out Of
the gay, pleasure-seeking life he loved
THE way Of the trans gressor is hard. {"
Is it ?Does a man like that pay in
the one brief instant of his death agony
for the heart-crushing misery he has
caused?