Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-08-17
LOCK BROWN HAIR
Nearly DisrDpts Home or a Profess
sionaI Man Residing in Another
City Who Visits Rock Island.
FOLLOWED HERE BY HIS WIFE
Whom He Had Refused to Bring With
Him, Saying There is Nothing
Here to See-HoteI Scene.

wife that this city was not much of
an improvement on tank town; that |
all there was here were the court
house and artcsian well and flag
pole She had urged him to take her
with him on his business trips here. |
and he said he would be glad to do it
if there were any way of entertain
ing her after the fashion that she was
to in her own home. The
couple reside in a city somewhat larger
than Rock Island. They have hand
some house, several children, and are
situated.
The wife had heard of Rock Island.
but her home is so far remote from it
that she did not know anything as to
its population or attraction beyOund
what she knew from her husband. He
told her that the business men walked
about town with straws sticking out of
their mouths and wore their TROUSERS
tucked into their boots III the sum-
NOR. One day she grew to discussing
Rock Island with a friend. The friend
told her that it was one of the most
beautiful cities in the Mississippi val
ley. The wife did not betray her
emotions, but if she had had hold of
her hubby at that particular moment
spot on his Uranium.
Follows Him to City.
The climax of the husbands du-
plicity came recently when the wife
followed him here unawares. She
registered at the same hotel that he
was stopping at under an unassumed
name. She was disguised. wearing
cheap clothing and Il heavy black veil
She noticed her husbands name on the
register. The next morning there was
Il two-hour's interview between her and
the chief at police headquarters. She
did not want her husband arrested
exactly, but she did want TO have her
suspicious confirmed or proven untrue
that he had another sweetheart here
and she thought it was the duty of
the chief to detail Il member of his
department TO trail him until she was
satisfied on the point that was oc-
casioning her so much agitation.
She was positive in her own mind
thdt there was IL brOWn-haiTcd fairy
in this city who had been receiving
the attentions of her husband. and if
she could lay hands on her she would
scratch her eyes out. She believed
she would know her if she ever ran
across her on the street by the color
of her hair. No one could have told
her that her husband cared for any
one except her until one night she
pulled his pOcketbook from under his
pillow and found therein a lock of
the brown hair.
1t was only during the past year
that he had been hiding the book from
her. She noticed him slipping it be-
meath his pillow one night. Then she
grew suspicious and turned detec-
tive. Her first impulse was to burn
the lock of the huzZy's hair. but after
second thought she decided not to
do so, but to allow him to go along
to the point where she would be able
to catch his redhanded.
Wants to Meet Her Rival.
She did not allow the hair incident
to change her disposition in his pres
ence. And again she asked him to
take her to Rock Island, hoping to get
! . glimpse of the woman with the
| brown locks. And again with his
! sweetest smile he begged of her not to
insist on suffering a visit in such a
| burg as this. Then she knew for sure
! that there was another woman. She
proposed locating her. If she did she
would get more of her hair than she
gave to her husband.
The chief tried to reason with the
woman. She was growing excited The
tears began to roll down her cheeks
She had good cry Then she felt
| better. She told the chief he was
like all the rest of the men. They
were all of the same calibre They
had no respect for the love of a true
woman. The chief told her that she
had sized him wrong. She could Sc
cure better proof by inquiring at his
home on Second avenue
The woman carried large suit
case filled with clothes. Presently she
dried her tears. and when told by the
chief that there was nothing that he
could do for her, since her husband
had committed no offense that he had
knowledge of. unless she swore out a
warrant for him, she left the station
going in the vicinity of the hotel al
which her husband was stopping.
Marches Him BY Collar.
The chief advised her TO return
home without letting her husband
know that she had followed him here
She did not take his advice. goina
directly to the hotel. where she met
hubby in the Office. Grabbing him By
the coat collar in the presence of {
number of guests she marched him uT
to his room. where il can be taken FOL
granted that he received a curtain
lecture that he will not soon forget
including Il slight reference TO the loci
of brown hair that he carried in his
purse next his heart.
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