Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-07-12
SHORT STORY FOR
EVENING HOURS
THE GREEN.EYED MONSTER


in the habit of saying that they were
50 Jealous of each other that the one
could not bear to have the other out of
his or her sight. Only. of course there
was variant in the statement, accord
ing to the sex of the person who made
1t. The ladics-as ladies will, espcc-
tally when man has not married
them. hut has married a friend OF
thcirs-were wont to remark that he
would meyer have done IL If Aurora
had not made all the running. On the
other side, the gentlemen-who are
more ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS them.
selves by saying that Aurora would
never have married Manley If they
themselves could only have been per-
suaded to offer. SO that, take II all
around. things were pretty equal.
However. jealous of each other they
were-whilc, perhaps, you won't be-
lieve It, since gossip and rumor said
so. but still It is true-perhars Aurora
Nlanley was the more jealous Of the
two. Also she laborcd under slight
delusion. viz, that Arthur was the
handsomest man in the world-which
he wasn't.
However, let MS proceed to unfold
this pathetic romance.
Aurora was really sweetly pretty. in
what her best female friends qualified
~ the "washywashy. milk-and-water
sort OF way" and Arthur was fine.
good-looking man, though, of course,
some of his friends, who were short
and insignificant. said he looked like a
"chucker-out" 49, whatever that may
mean. But anyhow, II doesn't matter,
as no one said 1t to Arthur But If II
hadn't been for their jealousy of each
other all would have gone well. An
thereby hangs tale. Arthur came
home from business every night at
about I. leaving his government Office
Regularly at two minutes past 4, and
always calling in at the club for his
llotters, which, Of course, prevented him
from doing the journey to South Ken
sington under three hours. Now
when the days Of last winter were get
ting longer. 1t dawned upon Arthur's
comprehension that never did he reach
his Hat in Floradora Mansions but he
perceived following him and passing
him tall, ttenuatcd-looklng young
imam with a ragged mustache. who was
tgenerally attlred in clothes OF the
'reach-me-down" order and very much
worn. Also when he had entered their
Ii0Nt hf.NH NlaNsg fssagl
Aurora In a chaste and marital man
ner, he used 10 see, on pulling aside
the blind-the writer means 1.-THE old
lbrocade hangings"-thatt the dsheveled
and romantic Childe Harold-looking
young man was gazing at the fiat.
aside like that?" Aurora said one even
ling after Arthur had been doing this
flor about a month Il saw you do il
last night and the night before" she
added as testimony to her perceptive
ipowers.
TO see II It is raining" Arthur re-
lplied moodily, while adding to himself
l"I believe he's there to hirt with
aurora"
"You might have seen that as you
came in" his wife made reply, show
ling that she really was a highly men
tally gifted young woman. "Or," she
added with extraordinary perspicacity
ION your three hours walk from Pail
Mall"
Kept late" said Arthur. We've got
lanother war on now. Very busy"
Meanwhile, somehow or other
things were going wrong, as they easily
do In love affairs, and the hearts OF
these two fond loyebirds were torn by
lsimilar and, alas, conflicting emotions
st can't take him three hours from
the war Office here" Aurora would
mediate. 1T cant. | walked IL yes
terday in three-quarters OF an hour
} ,and Mrs. Gulp, the charwoman, sait