Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-11

gasped. Il have cab at the door. VIII
you go to the theatre with me?"
1 looked at my watch.
why, it's o'clock, and / have
childish fancy to see the whole of per-
Torrance"
Don't talk of performance she said
nervously. Performances are nothing
to me. My husband is at the - theatre
with young girl"
20 nonsense 1 cried
NO, no. it isn't. saw them going in
together
it.
Some acquaintance whom he hap
pened to meet going in"
She burst into tears, and l saw a lively
evening looming up.
1T was this way" she sobbed, as /
stood pinning on my hat and fishing for
my gloves. Harry ana / had intended
going to the theater tonight but at din
ner we had a quarrel about-well, really
about nothing at all-and [ refused to go.
He slammed out of the house in rage,
saying that he would go by himself
When l thought it over decided TO make
up with him, and went alone to the the
alter TO surprise him.
20, these surprisesi' I murmured
through a cluster of pins.
Il got there just N time to see him
handing in his ticket at the gate" she
walled, and there was a bold-looking
girl with him.
Then she had a spasm.
Il am going with YOU l said, as we
entered the cab, because you are in no
promise me to make no scene, Whatever
you discover. Think of your Children
When we reached the theaterthe second
act was we'll on and not a seat left in
the house.
Only one upstairs box the treasurer
explained.
Mrs. c. paid $12 for this. She had al
ready paid 81 for the cab 20, jealousy
is expensive at tines and was on netties
until she had reached her coign of van
tage.
Nobody noticed us Every eye was
focused upon the stage and through the
lace curtains of the bax we began our
man hunt.
1t is no easy task to pick one face out
of 1900, as we soon found.
On row after row my tired eyes rested
spotted" the rebellious one
With nervous tension at my heart, l
looked eagerly, yes, prayerfully, on
ether side of him.
o, joy.
To his left was a vacant seat turned up
that he had intended his wife to occupy,
and on his right sat an elderly woman
wearing steel spectac.es and an iron
uh n 70 },
boy who accompanied her.
With feeling of eXultation l pointed
out the husband to the wife, and saw her
of shamed satisfaction.
But he certainly was talking to a
young girl as he came in" she persisted
Your husband is a gentleman, l re-
tCrted, land probably doesn't cut his
acquaintances even when they wear pet
ticoats! Don't you suppose that he has
known a few women in his life besides
your
well. watch him when he goes OUT
broke in this hopeless case, ''and We'll go
after this act"
Eut l:efe | rehe!,ed
I'D like to see a little of this play" I
said, land besides I'm not going to stand
night doing detective duty My name
isn't Polly Pinkerton! You've spent $14
already on this nonsense and"
I'D spend $500 to be satisfied" she in
terrupted.
Well like a fool, 1 followed her out
when the act ended, and we wasted the
next hour in adjacent drug shops looking
at directories and wearing the bloom off
their chairs until the cabmen's voices
proclaimed the play over.
Then, under the chaperonage of d mid
get messenger boy of 10, we watched the
throng until Mr.. Harry appeared.
He walked up the street all alone whist
ling gayly, and the wife made a mad rush
for cab-''to reach home before he did"
leaving me an object of suspicion to my
protector as he-ha-ha.-'to me home'
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