Evening star., 1902-01-25

| swung her arms: she handled the knife
| with which she had trimmed the steak; she
swore that she would stick 1t into the Vital
parts of her ~rival: she pictured the I'M
make OF woman who took another wo-
mans man: she would follow up the lesson
] by plunging the same knife into the ribs
1 OF her lord and master
i Doll, said the 1riShman. Long oeIore
you'd get the knife between his ribs you'd
be on the ground with your ribs and your
| legs and your backbone broke-and lucky II
your neck wasn't broke as we'll"
Then I'll go out in the street and IN
4 give information. I'd say, Did you want
Adoiphus Truxo, him as was sentenced TO
be hanged three years ago for houseoreak-
| ing and was sent to the Plantation for life?
Because / know where he is, the villain.
And he murdered all the overseers in Vir-
/ ginny before he got away; and IL you'll
| come with me I'll show you where he is
mo, Doll, You won't do that; you won't
| have him hanged. You'll just take him
away from her. Now, Doll, be reasonable
| and lfsten.''
Doll paused in her mad tramp round the
room Her cheeks were purple, her eyes
were flaming; she showed her teeth like a
| tigress; she elenehed her fist and ciawed
the air; in word, she was the jealous
woman entirely abandoned to rage and re-
| sentiment.
| How do you know that she's taken him
from you? This morning l saw her"
The Irishman had fine Imagination be-
CduSe ne Hdu NOT IN reailty Deep
west than Drury lane, where he had seen
his friend the actor and had set certain
little things about his disguise in better
order. Il saw her, l say, this morning.
| It's fine man he is and no mistake.
True for you, my lady, l says. As to her
| face and figure if you'll believe me. Doll.
she's not to be compared with you. is he
/ in the White Dog stili?' she asks. Madam,
| l says, he is and likely to remain there.
I would help him il / could she said, be-
cause he is such a fine figure of man.
And I'm astonished,' she says, 'astonished
| 1 am, she says. ito think that he's re-
/ mained unmarried so long. Believe me-
| she says. there's plenty of women would
take pity on hlm-I myseIf-no, 1 must not
| say so,' she says. SO you see, Doll, she
believes that he's not yet married.
She must be fool"
She must-most of the women are fools.
| That's how they're made. They. under
| stand Rawthin', being, as you said-you are
1 the wise woman, Doll-mostly FOOLS"
Have you got anything more to tell me
about her?''
This, Doll. If we can make her under
| stand that your man is married already,
| she'll give him up Not, mind you, that
| there's anything to bring between them
| These rich women have their fancfes-same
as the likes of you Doll. She gets to know
] this fine man and she gives him money.
she says that she's astonished that he's
not married and she would take pity on
him. Welt+Doll. there you are! Once let
me prove 10 her that you are his wife ana
| there's an end,
Il told you that am his wife"
You did, Doll, you did Suppose / was
| TO go to her and to say Dolls his wife
and the proof is that she fetched me box
@ the ear enough to knock my head off
But We want better proof than that, Doll =
u can't give you my marriage lines"
| No-and don't want them. Tell me
That will be quite enough for me"
| That's easy. 1 was married in Shad-
wen Church five years ago in the month of
July Va
give years ago; in the month of 1,,r.
| in Shadwell church. That's enough Doll
| and now don't let him see that you're ieai
| Gus, because he's made so, and he'd he an
gered and when he's angered-if 1 was YOU.
| Don! wouldn't anger him. So that's all
| right, isn't it?"
II Il suppose So she replied. sullenly. 'IIe
He won't go there any more. promise
| you that and there's to be no sticking with
| Knives is there? and no going to the house
and calling names? Because ycu see Doll
you'd only anger him the more, and no Civ,
] ing information because You see, II wo,,i5
| be a terrible thing for you of ali peonle in
! the world to bring this man of yours-aii
| your own-to the gallows. You'd never for
give yourself, and bad luck would folio W
| you all the rest of your life'
| mo. 1 won't lay information. But she's
| got to give him up"
She will, she will, when she hears the
truth, there's nothing she will desire more
| than to give him up. Now, Doll the steat-
is done, III carry it, up. and bark We. not
word of this talk What he'd do to Won
| know. AS for me can keep out of his
way, but Ia rather not, I'd like to run his
| arrants and to do for him-until can get
/ job"
He carried the steak on hot pewter
platter upteairs to the man lying snug.
We'll. he asked, "have You got the
| money!"
I've got five guineas-there it is for
you
| And you saw the iady?"
I've seen the lady. She's a fine woman
as ever l saw. But she's dangerous"
| How dangerous?''
Tell the man. she says, that he's got
to do what he's told. 1 know all about him
| word from me will have him hanged
And tell him that he was not married to
! me, because he had wife already. Doll is
| her name, and he was married in Shadwell
GMhurch M nVe years ago-in the month of
| july she says"
J How did she know that? ?"
| can tell you. That's what she said
ana here.s your money. Five guineas she
| sends you You're to make it last a long
| time she says. Divil bit more You'll have
for long time. Give me a shilling
wouldn't rob you, shilling is all wart
| for my own trouble. Thank Won"
Come and drink bout this evening y,
me negro ratified the coins with the rap
turous visions of unbohnded rum for him.
yelT Lang ana -, trends BE careful. mate;
|
| honest lads, but no one can tell. There is
tax OF negro runaway from Virginia: /
heafd people in the street talking of a hue
and cry and the reward It's a not Of
money for any one, mind YOU"
| $50 it's; SO tis''
! There may be some of those down below
but who knows? Brother if 1 were Won
"a lay up here. Get your drink up the
stairs-and Your supper. Doll will do that
| tor YOU Lay up, lay up Bit
| so saying he departed, leaving Mr. Truxo
| to the enjoyment of his steak and the an
prehens1on of betrayal. He had also filled
the heart of one of Truxo's wives with
Jealousy, so that he came away with the
| consciousness of having done a good morn
ING work at the expense of a little exer-
else of the Imagination.
AS for the negro, he sat alone in his room.
| prey 10 all the direst terrors-and drink
| ing continuously in order to nuf ont nf
sight that narrow courtyard with which he
! was already familiar, and the thought of
| the triangular tree along the Oxford road
which rose up before him in his waking
| hours and in his dreams