Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-05-05


The lecture amended and eXcised al
the latter end, was delivered with great
eciat Professor Theophrastus Me
lanchthon Potts, having insisted on
hearing his record repeated and having
| directed Jenny TO G,stroy II, which she
did not do, was very silent and was ev.
/ identity weighing something carefully in
his mind. Finally he said:
Jenny, do you think'I am at all to
! blame"
! We'll, yes, uncle, in one way-you
are too much absorbed in your studies
! and forget everything else"
Il thought so; thought So" he NUT
/ tered.
1t was the beginning of the summer
vacation. and Mrs Potts and the chill
dren had already departed for -
! Beach, where they were to spend the
next six weeks
A few days later Jenny and Hubert
were in the study conspiring AS re-
suit of their conclave Jenny sat down
at the typewriter and hammered off he
. following:
Highplane College, -.
Mrs. Potts. - Beach:
Come home next Thursday evening
without telling any one Slip into the
house at 8 p, m. and hide In the little
anteroom to the professors study. You
will hear something to your advantage.
The professor will not be there alone.
(Signed) FRIEND.
"Well, you are born casuist, Jenny
VIII not be there alone That's good.
He won't be there at all. He won't be
home from the faculty banquet before
1Op. m"
At 8 p. IN. sharp Thursday evening
Mrs. Potts turned the latchkey in thJ
hall door Of her home. Stealing quietly
in and creeping from the hall into the
anteroom noiselessly, she put her ear to
the keyhole of the study Loor.
Her bosom heaved with tumult of
emotion. She was torn with rage and
jealousy. In the parOXysmS of anger to
which she had been used to give way
and which had begun to become chrOn-
ic the accusations Of unfaithfulness
and her own jealousy were simply in
vented and feigned as scourge for her
husband am Is weapon of ofense.
But now she felt the pangs Of that
most frightful of all sufferngs. and
the tooth Of the serpent was deeply
buried in her bosom
confused murmur was all that was
at first audible, but as her breath and
pulse, accelerated by the eXertion of
hurrying from the depot, calmed some
what she heard these words in the
voice OF Potts:
MY love"-ba-a-a-'s a moment
-ba-a-a. wOman's voice between
sobs, you've disgraced me"-ba-a-a
Potts again, "I'll get divorce or any
thing you like if you'l only let me-
She could stand it no longer, but
bouncing into the room, screamed:
"Oh, you faithless, heartless scOun-
drel. And as for you, you shameless
Wo'-
She stopped transixed. There was no
one there.
But 'the phonograph played on"
Br-r-r-r-r.
Two pairs of eyes peeping through
the door of the conservatory marked
her stand for Il moment stunned, then
sink into a chair and listen open mouth
ed TO the phonograph as it completed
its record, then arise slowly, adjust the
machine again. wind and start 1t, then
listen attentively to the strange med
ley it produced, paling and reddening
by turns and ending her performance
In storm of tears and sobs.
After a time she calmed, rose, wiped
her eyes, adjusted her hair and, taking
up newspaper, sat down TO wait. The
first thing that struck her eye was the
announcement In fiaring headlines: