The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-01
TIE EVENING STORY


"A Master StEOkS.
After marriage some couples seem
to assl1nilate easily, while others are
like fractions horses trying to pull to-
gethef in double horses for the first
time. Mr.. and Mrs. berwick belonged
to the latter class. Mr.. ZerWick was
a level-headed, pAactical man. He had
had quite enough Of 'spooning" dur
Ing the engagement, and the wedding
festivities had bored him. He wished
to settle down to the humdrum OF me-
Not SO the lady. She saw no reason
why the honeymoon should not con-
tinue indefinitely.
Now, there were both truth and fall
lacy in her position. There IS a diner
ence between a Tuner and a life money
moOn-the same difference as DeIWeeh
bubbling brook and a deep silently
flowing stream. Mr. berwick, though
tired OF the former, was READY Tor ti.e
latter The consequence was that hls
wife jumped at the conclusion tnal
they had made a terrible mistake--that
they were not fitted for eacn iotner.
One day, with as much dellDefatloh
as she could assume, she informed hef
husband Of this conclusion. Naturally
he was very much surprised
Well he said calmly, Il fear II Is
too late to repair the error.
"Nothing under heaven would in
duce me to endure this any longer. /
would soon land in Iunatic asylum.
What do you propose to DO
leave you
WELL replied the husband, IF you
sare to do that it would be far better
to go before there are any children to
suffer by this terrible mistake.
THE sooner the better"
would you like a divorce so that
you can marry again p
Thank you. I've had quite enough
of matrimony."
II want you to be comfortable. I
win leave you in possession here and
live at my club
merely a passing .squall and while at
business durin~ the day thought It
would have blown over by the time OF
his return. What was his astonlsh-
ment when he went home to find his
wife gone with her principal baggage
The situation was serious. His first
impulse was to go after her, beg her
pardon and bring her back If possible
before her flight should become
known. But for what should he ask
forgiveness? He did not know. And
if he should humble himself once for
sins he had not committed would he
not need to do so indefinitely Should
he await developments or bring mat
tiers to a crisis? If a knowledge of her
foolish move got out it would be ire
parable. He determined to settle
the matter at once.
When Mrs. berwick got settled at
her mothers she was not quite sure
whether she had taken a very brilliant
or a very silly course, but her mother,
who had made q spoiled child OF her
| and into whose ears she had poured
all her husbands imagined harsh
! treatment, satisfied her, at least for
the moment, that she had done just
right and he would soon come to her
crawling on his knees.
! What was the young WifeS astonish-
ment the morning after her fight to
receive a call from lawyer, who, the
moment she appeared in the drawing
room, stood up and mechanically read
something which she did not under
| stand, but which the man informed
her was a summons in divorce pro-
! ceedings on the part of her husband,
on the ground Of desertion. The bust
ness air with which the attorney
handled the matter caused the room
to swim and the floor to sink.
''I-I-wish." she stammered, ITO
see my husband
my client does not desire an inter
view: You having deserted his bed
where can I address him? Is he
81 am not at liberty to tell you"
do you mean that can only COM
municate with him through your
''He did not tell me that he expected
any communication from you, but said
that If there was anything it musi
1 come through counsel"
! This is shameful
The man bowed and was about to
take his departure when she stopped
him s'Stay. VIII you forward a let
/ ter to my husband p
Certainly"
Going to a mahogany writing desk
she wrote a letter, a tumble of re-
/ proaches, threats, sprinkled with mi
/ mute quantity of seif-condemnation
and was about to seal it when the law
Pardon me. As Mr.. Zerwick's
| counsel I must see that letter or
shall decline to transmit it.
Mrs. berwick tore up the letter and
! ordered the man to leave the house,
! but before the door was closed on him
/ called him back, reWrote the letter and
handed it to him to read. He did so.
and refused to transmit it, on the
ground that it would not be acceptable
! to his client.
At the end of an hour, during which
Mrs. berwick wrote a number of let
tiers, each more tractable than the last,
she finally was brought into a state of
| mind to write simply:
Sweetheart, forgive me"
She handed the note to the attor-
ney who glanced at it and put it in his
| pocket while the writer turned away,
and. throwing herself on a divan, bur
led her face in a number of pillows.
Five minutes after the attorneys de-
parture the sorrowing wife was in the
arms of her husband.
The secret of this temporary separa-
ton was we'll kept by the go-between,
/ who was not an attorney, but a cot
ton broker with no knowledge of the
i law whatever.
W. LIE ROY WISE.
Elephant Played No More.
A circus was once going round to