The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-02-02

been III for two days. ! don't like PEG. !
pie to look at me like that" Then, as the |
girl Shrank back, she added in break. |
ing voice. when Mr.. jeffrey comes |
home and said no more for several |
minutes. during which she clutchcd |
her throat with both hands and strug !
gled with herself till she got her voice !
back and found herself al le to repeat: |
"WhCn Mr.. Jeffrey comes, IL he does
come. tell him that | was right about
the way that novel ended Remember
that you are 20 say to him the moment
you see him that was right about the
novel and that he Is to look and see If
II did not end as ! said IL would. And, /
Loretta here she rose and approach
ed the speaker with a sweet. appeal
ing look which brought tears to the
impresslonable girls cyes-"don't 20
gossiping about me downstairs. |
shan't be sick long. I am going to be
better soon, very soon. BY the time
you see me here again | shall be quite
like my old self. Forget how-how"-
and Loretta said she seemed to have
difficulty in finding the right word here
how childish have been"
or course Loretta promised, but she
is not sure that she would have had
the courage to keep all this to herself
IL she had not heard Mrs. Jeffrey stop
in Miss Tuttle's room on her way out.
That relieved her and enabled her to
go downstairs to her own supper with
more appetite than she had thought
ever to have again. Alas, II was the
last good meal she was able to eat for
days! In three hours afterward a
man came from the station house with
the news of Mrs, Jeffreys suicide in
the horrible old house In which she
had been married only two weeks be.
fore.
AS this had been continuous thr-
rative and concisely told, the coroner
had not interrupted her When AT this
point little gasp escaped Miss futile
and groan broke from Francis JEFF
frey's hitherto sened lips the feelings
of the whole assemblage seemed to
find utterance. young wife's misery
eliminating in death on the very spo
where she had been so lately married
What could be more thrilling or al
peal more closely to the general heart
of humanity? But the cause of that
misery This was what every one pres
ent was eager to have explained. This
is what we now expected the coroner
to bring out. But instead of contlnu'
ing on the line he had opened up he
proceeded to ask
"Where were you when this Office
brought the news you MENTION
"In the hall, sir. opened the door
for him."
"And to whom did he first mention
his errand?"
"To Miss futile. She had come in
Just before him and was standing al
the foot of the stairs
"What! Was Miss Tuttle out that
EVENING""
"Yes; she went ont very soon after
Mrs. jeffrey left. When she came IL
she said that she had been around the
block, but she must have gone arOunC
two hours"
"Did you let her in?"
"Yes. sir"
"And she said she had been arounC
,ho hIoc,,g"
"yn, sir"
"nid shn sov ANYTHING olsc?"
"Shn asked If Mr.. Jeffrey had com,
in"
"A,rthing oIsoq"
",rhnn 10 Mrs Iefrrev had returned
ono Loth nr ,vhich Questions Won an
o,,orod"
"a Main .No,"
"Now, toII rs about the ofticar"
"tIo ronn tho heII almost Immediate
ly after she did, Thinking she woul
want to slip upstairs before | admitte
any one | waited minute for her t
go, but she did not do So and when tn
officer stepped in She
"Wel?"
'She shrieked."
what! Before he spoke"
"Yes, sir"
'Tust at sight of him.
eyes. sir"
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