The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-01-20
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This sudden halt in the narrative an
noyed the journalist. who had inter
viewed woman suffragists. heard the
confessions Of criminals, synopsized
the prayers of ministers and even in
vaded the sanctity of the home for the
purpose of publishing to the world the
secrets of private life The story had
somehow placed him in that super
sympathetic condition from which tact
takes flight, but, summoning the little
skill which remained, he determined to
make the man lay bare his heart.
NO." he said, don't apologize for
anything you say to me. I'm interested
in il all. When a man is manly and pat
riotic his life is always interesting to
me. We all have our sorrows, and it's
a relief to tell them occasionally. Did
you say your wife is no longer with
you?"
laundering as this speech may seem
to a mind which seeks and finds hidden
motives, il was sufficient to satisfy the
simple son of Hancock county, so he
continued:
"Yes. sir; it's over three months
since l saw her. Understan', now. l
amt blamin' her at all. She was young
and pretty and full of life, an so I'd jes'
rather to think of it all as big mistake
For little time after we was married
she seemed to be happy, but then
noticed that she didn't pear to take the
same interes' in things. It was jes'
after she had spent the day at Sulphur
Springs with lot of young folks.
drove her over there to a picnic one
mornin' and then come for her in the
evenin'. There were dozen or more
girls there and several young men from
the cities, but there warn't none of 'em
could touch her when it comes to looks
She seemed TO enjoy bein' within so
much that 1 couldn't help kinder stand
in round and Iookin' on for awhile,
but then | hurried on back for had a
lot o. hoein' to look after. Well, sir, I
was the proudest man in the world
when went back there for her that
night. Everybody crowded round,
even the old ladies, and told me what a
pretty dancer Mary was. All the young
folks in the country was there. but
Mary was the populares' of'm all. They
wouldn't hear to our drivin' back then,
but made us both come right in to sup
per. l didn't exactly calculate on dom
this, but Mary looked like she wanted
to, SO / did. They tried TO make me
dance, but don't know how. 1t was the
openin' of new summer hotel, you
know. A young fellow that set next to
me at the table, and was mighty polite
in handin' me everything, said he was
gonter be there at the hotel for some
time, and that we mus come round
often. OF course, asked him to come
see us, too. He was a pretty glib talker
When we was leavin' and tellin' every
body good-by and promisin' to come
again soon, heard a lady from New
York say to another one: Wouldn't
she be queen with the right trainin'?'
We got in the spring wagon and drove
home. and she was jes' all excitement
tellin' me what time they had that
day and how l ought to learn to dance.
1t was beautiful night, and it made me
SO happy to know she was eEjoyin' her
self so.
1.-TWO days after some ladies drove
round in their carriages and asked her
to go to the springs with I'M again. She
said No. but when she seen was anx-
ious to have her go, she went with them.
They drove back after supper, her and
the two ladies' and young man, and
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