Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-09-03
The Yellow Streak

Ellsworth never knew until some
time in March how near Mrs. ELS
worth came to marrying the other Tel
low The other fellows name was
Gridley. Ellsworth did not know Grid
ley, but he hated him, and felt that
nothing would make him quite SO nap
py as to show him up in his true
light. He did not know what Grldley
true light was, but he was comment
1t must be bad one, and he wanted
to shine by contrast.
He began the disillusioning process
by making Gridley's acquaintance. In
cidentally ,he inquired secretly into his
pedigree, social and financial This In
vestigation. however, resulted in moth
ing discreditable to Gridley, with the
exception of his having been in love
with Mrs. Ellsworth, and that was
crime for which not even Ellsworth,
when rejecting on the matter in his
saner moments, could consistently
| blame him.
| But the budget of testimony ELECTED
in Gridley's favor did not alter ELS
| woreh's conviction that he was
rascal.
"All evidence to the contrary" ELS
| worth declared Il still think the fel.
| low has yellow streak somewhere in
his makeup, and | am going to find It
IT, 1t takes ten years"
| It did not take ten years to get track
of the saffron-tinted streak. One day
in the latter part of April Ellsworth
and Gridley happened to be in Phila-
| delphia on business. They met in the
| Broad Street station and came over to
New York together. On the way Grid
| ley got confidential, and before they
crossed Cortlandt Street ferry Ellis.
| worth had found the yellow sreak.
1 After dinner he told his wife about 1t.
| 81 saw friend of yours to-day" he
said
"Who?" she asked.
ED Gridley. He asked about you
Mrs. Ellsworth flashed him an in
quiring glance out of the corner of her
eye. She had never told Ellsworth
that she had been engaged to Gridley,
and she wondered how much he knew
of that arrested romance.
ooh, yes" she said. "Mr Gridley
and | are old friends. But l did not
know you were acquainted with him.
How do you like HIM"
mot very WELL" said Ellsworth. 81
think he is cad
THAT is strange" she said. He
never impressed me So"
THAT is because you do not know
him as men know him. Just wait till
you hear what he told me this after
I r,Yfl ~, Il. 4
He told me a funny thing that hap.
pened three years ago when he was
counting some girl up in the country
somewhere. He did not mention the
exact locality, and | forgot to ask, but
1t doesn't matter. Anyway, he and
the girl were pretty sweet on each
other, and one evening when they
were out driving they made up their
minds to get married. They were then
several miles from the hotel where the
party was staying. About halfway be.
tween the village and the point in
the road where they happened to be
when the matrimonial notion struck
them was a parsonage occupied by a
young Baptist peacher, and they de,
cided to stop there ON their way back
to the hotel and get him to perform
the ceremony.
"They were in a hired rig The
horse was a big, long-tailed bay that
was noted for his peaceful disposition
A woman could drive him. Although
Gridley and the big bay had been on
several jaunts together they had never
got very well acquainted, SO wher
Gridley in his anxiety to reach the
parsonage in good time on that par
ticular evening, touched the whip light