Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-10-19
JUDGE AND JURY.

II believe they are utterly miserable
and remarkably brave" said the girl who
thought she knew life.
Il believe they are absolutely happy
and have great sef-control,' said the
girl who thought she did not.
II believe they are an extremely ordi-
nary couple who at the bottom of their
hearts do love each other, and who yet
manage to have some very bad days
meaning rows-like everybody else" SAID
the girl VINO really did.
They were speaking Of Mr.. and Mrs
Fanshaw. known among their acquain'
tances as the Judge and Jury"
Nobody quite knew why they were SO
caled-or, rather, nobody remembered
The name had originally been a chance
remark made by witty young barris-
ter. who had an oddly-cleyer trick OF
knocking off his acquaintance In some
little catch phrase like this one of Judge
and Jury"
'She's the Jury. you know-realy set
ties everything: but he imagines it all
his own doing, and, in any case, he gets
the credit of it, We know"
And they had been 50 called ever since.
The judge dearly loved his wife, but he
never told her SO. In his own mind he
had agreed that the fact of his having
chosen her from a world of girls-and in
dis youth the judge had been much
sought after--of having told her, and
that more than once during his brief
engagement. he did love ner-and finally
having made her his Wife-al this was
sufficient. What necessity for more? So
he lived quietly, undemOnstratively on,
and-in secret his wife was miserable.
She was rather a passionate and also,
in some ways, very proud woman. But
she had no children, and above all was
she woman 70 whom not only the mere
fact of loving word or a little caress
was an absolute pleasure, but, moreover,
she pined-if that word or Carcss were
hers-that all the world should see and
hear it. 1t was n species Of unconscious
cOnceit, very common, did one only know
1t, 20 most women. Often did she tell
her friends how the judge would almost
Ignore her ia front of people. but when
he got her alone! Indeed, she had laid
some quite passionate love scncs at the
judges door.
Her younger friends looked at her hus-
band with great wonder-at herself with
envy. and the jury, noting this, was then
happy. She would move about with a
smile ON her lips. cheating herself almost
into the belief that the Judge really had
kissed her with tears in his eyes after he
mad been away for two days-when, in
very truth, the two on meeting had but
""'h h'inuS. VI lHuuEn inc Judge uld
occasionally. ana on such occasions, en-
brace his wife. if they met, as they had
done, before the servants he always
treated her in this stranger fashion.
mere was one particle Of truth in
Mrs. Fanshaw's romanccs.
AS have before said. her young
friends envied, her contemporaries
smiled, and the old people softly said,
Poor thingp'
And the judge and jury went their
ways. She being a clever woman, ruled
him in all but the one point which would
have made her happy.
There came, one very hot summer. TO
he town this couple lived in that dread
disease typhoid fever.
And one of the earliest to take it was
Mrs. FanShaw.
slight attack. The jury herself was
not anxious and the judge, as usual,
said rothing.
Dick, said she to him. when she had
been Ill few days, If / were going to
die, and you knew il, what would you
doY"
You are not going to die" said the
judge, dryly.
But il were, Dick?" petulanty. The
II cannot imagine, my dear. such an
unhappy state of things Don't you
think you had better go to sleep for
iittle?"
Dick, would You bid me goodby and
say you loved me-" the invalid asked.
She was worse than either of them
knew, and fever gave her a courage she
would act otherwise have possessed.
II think my dear the judge repeat
cd, rising from his chair preparatory to
leaving the room-"you had better"
Mrs. Fanshaw caught hold of her hus-
bands hand as he turned away.
Anyway. Dick she said. in shriller
key than her wont was to speak in,
"eyen II I'm not going TO die-and. Of
course m not, taS the Judge made an
impatient geSturcl-"it wouldn't hurt you
to say You loved me now. Dick. do
Just once. And she pulled Mt his cool
hand and pressed her hot cheek against
il.
But the judge did not answer her. and
presently left the room.
The next morning the doctor looked
eFaFer' anu three DAYS after the poor
jury was raying in deirium
And through it all she was having mas
sionatc love scenes with her huSband-or
worse still, for now the indigo did uot
leave her night or day--Shp was imnlor-
ing him to say he loved her and could
not understand when ne did do so.
And this he did, regardless OF nurse or
doctor.
Day after day the Jury grew worse
and worse, and from delrium She sank
INTO unconSciouSneSs, and from uncon-
seriousness into death
And the Judge was left alone.
Il love yonI love YOU" he Sobbed
continually. bat it was into silence ha
spoke.
The Court was empty. The Free
Lance.
Rev. Mr. stokes Acduicsced.