Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-05-15

l wagon and street car were inex- tricably mixed up. The two people who occupied the seat of the automo- bile were seemingly uncaring for the | circumstance. Their conversation seemed to be very earnest. Now and then the man bent tenderly toward the woman and assisted her with the steering apparatus.
 It was more than the poor little woman standing helpless on the street corner could endure. She made a start toward the automobile. Discre- tion caused her to retreat. With a despairing little cry she turned again to her cabman.
 If you'll get me machine I'll give you dollar" she said.
 The cabman was sympathetic. "I was going to get you one anyway" he responded. You wait right here un- til come back"
 He disappeared in the crowd that surged endfessly toward the Auditor jun hotel.
 When he came back with a motor car the pitiful little woman gave her instructions to the chauffeur briefly. You are not to lose sight of that red runabout," she said. Then she entered the car and waited.
 It was several minutes before the red car moved down Wabash avenue slowly. So engrossed had its two oc- cupants been in their conversation that neither had looked about, so the little woman was quite unnoticed.
 That was about Il o'clock in the morning. Until three in the afternoon she followed the red runabout. A merry chase it led her, too. Once the car in which she was driving had to turn out into another street and run the danger of losing the game.
 That's mighty fine car," said the chauffeur. If I'd known it was any, thing like this I'd a driven a newer machine myself. This is all right for little trips, but not for such chase as this"
 Her face grew white-whiter than 1t was, that is. We musn't lose sight of it. she said. If we do-" Here the road was rough. She finished the sentence to herself: "I'll go to drug store and buy some carbolic acid
 This happened out beyond Fort Sheridan. In all those hours only one stop did the red machine make. Ther the man went into hotel and brought the woman 2 glass of water.
 At three o'clock the red runabout turned homeward. Straight toward the city it came, even to the very front of the building in which was her hus- bands office. Half block behind the whitehead little woman rode alone in her hired car. Great shadows were drawn in around her eyes. Her cheeks had grown hollow. Intense mental agony was in every line of her coun' tenance. She halted her chauffeur left the car and paid him. A nice bill it was, too. The money she had meant to pay her weeks household ex' penses with. Swiftly she walked toward the place where the red run about stood. She paused in the en trance of the building, deliberately and looked into the face of the woman who sat in the car. Her misery wal complete. "She is younger and pret tier and wears better clothes than do," she acknowledged to herself "The truth of it is. he's got acquainted with her somewhere and he just love- her more than he does me"
 Her wonderings did not carry hel farther. It was too much agony tt wait for her husband to come ou again. She went straight to the els vated station and took the south bound train for her home.
 She was moping in her room whei her husband came whistling up th' steps.
 q won't go down to meet him" sh' said to herself. It was the first tim she had ever failed in that He calle' to her, a little impatiently. "oh. Nell come down here. I've got something want to show you"
 She stuck her head out of her bed room door and replied stifiy: "Tv