The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-05-19
away cut into the country and around

to all sorts OF queer places"
The cabman laughed. You'd bette,
follow them in another machine" he
said. (Which one is it,"
THAT one there; that beautiful red
one with the lady driving. II only
had an automobile now could follow
1t will be several minutes before they
| get out Of that tanXle."
Sure enough, the automobile, coal
wagon, q department store delivery
wagon and street car were mex
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.
1t was more than the poor little
woman standing helpless on the street
corner could endure. She made q
start toward the automobile. Discre-
ton caused her to retreat. With a
despairing little cry she turned again
to her cabman.
If you'll get me machine III give
you dollar" she said.
The cabman was sympathetic. Il
was going to get you one anyway. ha
responded. You wait right here I'M
til l come back"
He disappeared in the crowd thai
surged endlessly toward the Auditor
ium hotel.
When he came back with 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.
1t 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 II 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 Id "a driven newer
machine myself. This is all right for
little trips, but not for such chase
as this"
Her face grew Whitewater than it
was, that is. We mustn't lose sight
of it, she said. If we do" Hero
the road was rough. She finished the
sentence to herself: I'll go to a 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. Then
the man went into hotel and brought
the woman 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 nus
bands Office. Half block behind the
white-faced 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 was
complete. "She is younger and pref
tier and wears better clothes than I
d." she acknowledged to herself.
"The truth OF it is, he's got acquainted
with her somewhere and he just loves
her more than he does me-"
Her wonderings did not carry her
farther 1t was too much agony to
wait for her husband to come out
again. She went straight to the ele-
waited station and took the south
bound train for her home.
She was moping in her room when
her husband came whistling up the
steps.
Il won't go down to meet him." she
said to herself. 1t was the first time
she had ever failed in that. He called
to her, little impatiently. "Oh. Nell.
come down here, I've got something
want to show YOU"
She stuck her Mead out of her bed
room. door and replied stifay: eve
got too bad headache to come down"
He was up the stairs four steps at a
time.
you look it," he said. ''What on
earth have you been doing with your
self? You look ten years older than
you did when went away this MORN
ing"
The tears welled up in her eyes and
ran over.
eve got enough to make me look