The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-20
HIS VIRTUE ILL-REwARDED.
Anderson Out $50, n Pair of Trousers
and IA HAT and Didn't see the Fight.


and a HAT and Didn't see the Fight.
From the New York Times
Virtue may be rewarded sometimes in
one way and sometimes in noiher, &c
cordng 10 luck and Circumstances, SAID
a wise man who was lighting c-gar after
luncheon down town yesterday.
"I have u friend named Anderson, VINO
lives in nice fiat in that part Of Manhat-
tan where Il isn't quite Harlem but IS
wei up town, with a nice little Wite-as
good and bright little woman as 1 kno"
and with as happy a temper as any wo-
man. They have been married year, ana
there had never been a jar.
Anderson has relics of some former
tastes Of his. There was time Wneh NJ
would spend a weeks salary, wax an
night, and take chances OF being hlliSd or
arrested 10 see two miXed-alc pugs scrap
I'm a barn and to be an "A comfortable seat
watching nrst-cfass men work win the
gloves was about as near heaven as ne
then thought of being. lie had set his he2rt
on seeing the Jenues bitzslmmohs hsht,
which would nave been MS nrst IN TWO
years: but as the time came he got TO
thinking Of the money 1t would cost ana
the ANNOYANCE 4 would cost his Wife, ana
he shut his teeth, and when his friends
were making Plans and parties Tor Cohey
Island he said No.
"A friend Of has named saunders went
10 him the day of the fight and said: See
here. Anderson, I've got some papers 10
draw up, ana there's twenty in II for me;
but | want to get away early. Would you
mind taking thc job and me tWentyF /
wouldn't miss this tight for farm.
WE %? said Anderson. Won IL Just
one condition. he added. Give me the
sure, said Saunders, handing out the
Just what 1 want said Anderson Ii
was q nice new one. He had made his plan
in a minute. Re would stay away from the
fight, take thar crisp twenty TO his VIE
for her very own and enjoy her surprise
and pleasure, Anderson doesn't nave any
more tWentes than he needs.
so he telegraphed his wife he would be
detained until late, and went to his friend ,
office, which is in a big doWn-town build
ing. The eleva tor there stops early, and
he planned with the Waterman 10 let hirn
lie finished about p O'Clock thai Fri
day night, and wa .l1ed down ten flights OF
stairs. Ii was dark toward the bottom,
and he was in hurry 70 get a car ne
heard coming, and ne made mISstep ana
caught quite nasty little fall near the
bouom-just enough to spring a thumb
a Bit and knock off some skin over one
eye. But he was happy as a man with
a singing conscience, a new so blll, ana
nice little wife waiting a nome has a
right TO be, and ne didn' waste time
troubling about small accidents. Just
before he got home he found "a restaurant
open, and, to make things complete, he
bought a nice luncheon-chicken sandwich
and that kind OF thing-and small bottle
of sherry, and had them packed to carry
tWelI. he liked into his room. and there
was his wife. Her nice little nose was red
and her face was mussed up. She had evil
IDENTIFY been crying, but her eyes snapped
when she saw him, and were hard as
why dear. what's the matter?' STAN
mered poor Anderson, stopping short.
She looked him over with a cold look,
and in a tragic kind Of voice asked
Where have you been?
AT Saunders office; and look what
I've got, he answered, as cheerfully as
the twenty pinned across the paper nap
kin. He felt something was very wrong
somewhere, but he was trying 10 feel his
'iThen the storm broke
q" If you wanted to go to that brutal,
shameful, disgusting thing she sObbed,
putting the herd pedal on the adjectiVeS,
you should have been man enough TO at
least LEI me know what 10 expect. But
you told me a faisehood-a vie, mean
falsehOod; that's what you did-and you We
dsgraced me- for I've been trying to get
you Office by telephone every half hour.
and you were not there! | know where
you were. ! know what you used to do
and you told me you loved me aDd would
stop all that and l was fool-fool-fool
enough to believe it,
"'There was more of the same kind. An
derson had never seen her mad before. He
did his best. but il was no use-cOuldn t
get a word in edgewise. She had heard
and read of the preteXts of husbands for
deceiVing their wives on such occasions;
she had hoped he would be above such
wickedness; she was not surprised to see
| that be had not only been to see the fight,
| but had been fighting himself. Here she
| pointed out the dent in his hat. his sore
| thumb and skinned eye and a split in his
| trousers he had not noticed, She sup
posed he was drunk too and had been ar
| rested and would have his name in the pa
pers; also it was an Insult to try to bride
| yes bribe-her 10 Couutenance such con-
| duct by Offering her money; that, she sup
| posed. was a part Of his gaming winnings
| on one of those bruteS; had he won it from
| his friend Casey the saloonkeeper. down
| the block-this was sarcasm-did he sup.
pose she would soil her fingers with il?
She is a woman who stands to her prin
| ciples. and she took Anderson's twenty
| and dropped il out of a window
"rhere was an houH of it, and IL was
| only after she had reached the penitent
| forgiving, hopeful stage that all womer
| work themselves to if you only lei then
| alone and give EN- time enough that An
derson could talk AT all.
| ''Of course she was sorry and remorse
full They always are when they've beer
| like that; and she is sweeter and NOR
| loving than ever and can't do enough &
prove how sorry she is.
''But Anderson is out nights hare
work, a pair of trousers, and hat, TO sa'
nothing of lacerated skin and feelings
disappointed hopes, and missing the fight
| Saunders. who really did lie TO his wife
saw the fight got a hundred on Jeffrie
| at one to two. had a royal good time AM
got home without breath of suspicion
was supposed to be in Philadelphia, ] he
lieve Put up the job two weeks before
| hand.
"There doesn't seem to be any moral
ontinued the wise man retectively; zap
| pears TO be mostly immoral. But as / wa
saying, virtue is pretty sure to be reward
ed, sometimes one way and sometimes on
other"
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