The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-21

could. You have been deceived. 1t was
| some other person.
You will have TO tell that to somebody
else than me, when I've seen you a-settin'
| an playin' for hours, Sundays an evenin' s,
IN your room here. Mis- Hamilton knows
. 1t as we'll as l do"
Yes, L heard you play often" said Con-
well, 1 have been living a dual life.
then have heard of such things. All
know about it is 1 left home in Nav and
l went a little ways on the train. and |
came to myself in this room. i'll worked
at the mill as a machinist and played the
violin / knew nothing about it"
You did not work as a machinist but as
common midland You, however, showed
a good understanding of machinery and
often remedied defects in it,
We'll, it's the strangest Two men. an
both on EN- lost their senses at the same
time. 1t would be queer enough if there
nad a. pen but one; and Mrs. Fry looked
as If her mind had turned a somereault
w nat does she mean?' asked the sick
man of Constance.
Another person has had a similar ex-
perlence to your own, or processes TO have
done so. But we will not talk of Il now
Another time viii do as well. l dare say
Or. Peek Will say that we have talked
too much already" and Constance. anxious
herself to say no more at the present time.
not until she had recovered her fun pow
ers OF reasoning, arose to go.
You know best. / am tired but Won
will come again. Constance What are
you going without saying good-bye?"
Goodbye, said Constance. family.
But that is not the way to say good
bye. Come here and l will show YOU now
and roguish look came into his ewes That
made her almost cry out. it was so like
ply, but she did not.
No, no, you forget. I can't must not,''
and she swiftly left the room. but returned
in moment, to say i'm hurried accents
Il cannot come here again if you ask me
TO kiss you, or say anything to me about
it. No one thinks you are my husband
You will have to prove it,"
Very we'll lie said bitterly: but AT
least L can see the children -
L don't know: perhaps So" and Con-
stance would have fed to her own home
had not Mrs. Fry come 10 her side and
clutched at her dress.
What does it mean. dearie, what does
it all mean?'
you know as well as / do, Mrs. FRY.
He seems like Vane, the other looks like
him Oh, it is dreadful, dreadful mys-
tery.''
There's one thing about it. He's
changed man. He don't appear no more
like Primus Edes than my Dan or Mark.
not mite And to think he can't play:
that"
What do you think?" asked Constance.
Il know what other folks will think
They will say IL is all sham That he
wants TO get himself away from the other
one, and he didn't know no other way. They
would say he knew all about Mr.. Hamii-
toms comm back an about your not feeIin.
Jest satisfied an all that an that Won
thought he looked like your husband
There was vein of shrewd Common
sense about all this that impressed Con
stance Still the futiity Of such an at
tempt; If it was as she said. struck her as
1T doesn't Seem as If any man in his
senses would do such a thing"
No, ii DON'T but there's queer works I'm
the world, an you know an 1 know Edes
want for his hair, an if the other one
hadn't come back, L wouldn't seem 60
strange, for sence he has been sick rye
noticed now and then a look like you~
husband
You have?"
much like him the other one does. He is
the exact picture, now, amt hep
Yes. oh, IL seems as If / should On
Wild! and Constance looked about her for |
a moment, as If really seeking an oppor-
tunity to fly from her perplexities Mrs
Fry strove to comfort her.
1T will all come out right without va, |
an me meddlin. Jest let ii right itself 7 /
say. If this one is your husband il viii |
be proved. and If tother one is WHY. that |
will be proved, too. IL is a matter that
will have to be settled by folks thai lrro,.-.
ped into a 'sylum. Anyway, dearie. don, |
YOU fret You hain't TO blame anvwav
You keep on dom right as you have dons.
keep 'em both at distance till it's ALI sat
tied. OF course, one of 'em is scamn
thelse he's crazy, an you'd oughter be |
would I better go TO the hotel to stav,,,
Talk with your uncle first
"Oh. he Is all for"
The other one; yes. L know Wall Wal, /
awhile And so comforted by the eood |
creatures counsel, Constance went home