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

afTectCd. One day she found that her
husband had deceived her. She was
stunned and bewildered, and she did
not know which way to turn. A letter
came from George Saxton. She an
swered it. Last August she secured
a divorce from her husband.
She had no money, and she Went to
work as cashier in a fashionable up
town hotel. Her hours of work were
long. and she was not accustomed to
fighting her way in the world; but she
was never sad or discouraged. The
letters kept coming from Canton. They
were full of affection now, and or plans
for the future. The little woman who
was working so hard to support herself
and her little girl would not live to
work long, the letters said. As soon as
the divorce decree was cd enough Sax
ton would come and carry her back
to Canton with him to his beautiful
home
Back to youth and love and happi-
ness again. He had not the faintest
intention of marrying the woman he
bounded into a divorce, for his sake
He did not care one penny or one pen
ny's worth for her or her foolish hopes
He did care to be able to say to him
self and to the few crOn es left to him
that the girl who Tilted him once was
in love with him, and had given up
her home and all her hopes of happl-
ness in life to please him. George Sax
ton was delighted with the conquest
Of his old flame, not because he cared
for her, but because she cared for
him. She was engaged to be married
to him when he died, few days ago.
He had a dozen serious love affairs
since the littl5black-eyed Franz girl had
aStOunded him by marrying man who
was willing 10 buy her affection with a
wedding ring. Serious to the women in
the case, not to him. The pursuit OF
women was to him the one great pas
time of his life. He did not acknoWl-
edge this, even to the men who shared
his tastes. He was very sorry for the
but-reaIly-WOmen so impul-
sive and so easily won were to him, as
to others Of his kind, worth not ona
seconds thought.
One woman there was in George Sax
toms life who was worth one second
thought to him. She was an Innocent
eyed little country woman the first time
he saw her. She wore a queer little
homemade gown that didn't fit, and
she was freckled and tanned, and her
plump little hands were as brown as a
berry. She was the wife of a village
carpenter, and she had never been in a
city as big as Canton in her life. Her
husband came there to open a shop,
and she came and went to work as a
dressmaker to help him out. She had
two brown, round-faced little boys, who
went bare foot" and came running
into the kitchen to help her cook, and
teased her for bread and butter and
sugar on it, after the manner of young
sters Of their kind.
The woman's name was George-Am-
ma George. Her husband was called
"Samp" George. She wanted her boys
to grow up and "be somebody" sha
said. So she and her husband took
rooms in the Saxton block and she put
up a modest little sign Of "Dressmak-
ing, Cutting and Fitting" and lay
awake nights in a terror of anxiety
lest a real customer should come and
find her lacking in skill. One day
George Saxton met her in the hallway
of the business block where she and
her little family lived. He followed her
to her rooms and told he that he was
the landlord, and that he hoped the
rooms were quite to her liking. Mrs
George was almost frightened to death.
She couldn't think Of anything to say,
so she got chair for the landlord and
told him that "He" would be home
soon. After that the landlord came Of
ten to the quiet little rooms UP in the
business block. He became very
friendly with ''Samp" George, who
walked on air at the attention paid him
by one Of the rich men he'd read about
In his village paper. "Sanap" George
had all the work he could do. Mrs.
George had a sudden vogue as a dress
maker among the people Mr.. Saxton
knew. The little home up in the top
of the Women's building began to look
comfortable and coZy.
"And it's all SaXton's doing" said
."Samp'' George. 81 tell you, mans
lucky to have such friend as he is.
faint every plain carpenter that can
get EN-" It never occurred to him
that the woman who cooked and mend
ed and patched for him and his chill