The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-03-23

iEsS"i, ana Slul IL III HIS grip "IIllt SIG
looked on. pleased all over to observe him
In the act of doing such nice, thoughtful
th.n2.
1t is necessary to remember. by the way.
that the cabinet picture that he took away
with him OH these business trips was, as
stated, the only specimen of its kind in
The house, and that it always stood on his
wlfc's dresser while he was at home.
Well. when he started for ST. Louis on
this last trip he was in such dead rush
that IN packing up he quite forgot the
photograph of his wife. He had to make
the train i'll quick time. and ne overlooked
His wife noticed that he had forgotten
the picture only after he had gone and
she mentally excused him for forgetting
1t when she remembered wha. a great
hurry he had been ill.,
But
couple Of days after her husbands ar
rival in st. Louis she received letter
from him that shocked and amazed her
beyond expression.
The letter from her husband said, among
many other things not gerlnara 10 this
narrative, that he was deriving all kinds
81 solace and consolation from her pic
tur". That he'd taken it out of his grip
Just as soon as he'd unpacked in st.
Louis, and that, at the very moment he
was writing. the picture, standing there
on his hotel bureau, was smiling and
smiling away at him and making him
suffer all kinds of Inconsistencies and lone
someness for the dear little wee Wife
and all that: the average reader'll fiji
gut the rest all right.
or course, she was shocked and amazed,
she was worse than that. She was Kriev-
ed. TO think that he. whom she had dur
ing all her married life found so perfectly,
so scrupulously truthful, should stoop to
tti!ing her a THAT is, that he should
write her something that wasn't so.
Wasn't that photograph of her right
there on the dresser before her very eyes :?
on. 1t was sad blow to her all right.
She didn't let on in her letters to him
didn't say Il word about 1t. But 1t stuck,
and 1t stuck deep
Now three or four days after he'd ar
rived in st. Louis he was writing her an
other letter about how much joy and de-
light he was extracting from her picture
on the hotel bureau when quick wave of
remembrance overwhelmed and stunned
him.
He suddenly recalled that he didn't have
the picture with him at all!
And here's where the rcsourcefulness
comes In.
He went right on and finished the let
ter to her about how much consolation he
was finding In the picture of her and
mailed the letter
lie Didn't calculate ON being found out.
He is sort of an alhcrcnt to that clcv-
enth commandment which says that
Thou shalt not be found out and there
wasn't minted amount of coin that he'd
take to have his wife catch him In even
one of those tenchy domestic falsehoods.
His way out was this:
He was we'll acquainted with the WASH
ington photographer who had taken that
photograph OF his wife And SO. that verv
evening, hee wired to the Washington pho
tographer. lnstructing him to make. in
stantly. print of that Photography which
the photographer. knowing the wife, too
could quickly ldenG.fy-and send it along,
by special delivery, to the hotel in st.
Louis.
me photographer found the negative
without any trouble. made a print of it.
mounted 1t and fired it along to the man
In st. Louis, who. when he received IT,
went out and bought an elaborate oval
gilt frame for 1t and chuckled very great
oeal indeed While he put the photograph
into the frame.
Ee knew that his wife would imagine
that she had him when he got back and
that she would have little sadness about
her. and so on. And he had that end of #
right. of course.
she mad meant to restrain herself, but
when he flung his arms about her on en-
rerlnE the house upon his return she col
!apsed from having worried so much about
the little thing and fell to weeping.
OF course. the brute, with a wide paze
of utter innocence, asked her what on
earth could be the matter
on, to think" she gasped, chat you
e-c-eould t-tell me a s-s-story.''
story? said the man, winking at him
ser IN the mantel mirror over her sho,l-
der, Say, little one, what's this eli about
anyhow? What story?" >
70. WY she moaned between her sobs.
that you were l-i-looking at it everv
n-n-ntght. and YOU d-d-didn't have 1t with
y-y.you at all-it's up on the b-b-burea Il
t-t-this m-m- mnute.'' : =
* The unspeakable male person n,1sba,1 bo,,
gently away from him and regarded her
with an expression of the most lofty sad
ness. 80 So
"My dear said he. in that ,n,,,r.,7
abused tone that some husbands have got
down pretty pat; MY dear do Won reaiI,,
mean to say that you could think me- ms
ca !R.heb ri sdch thing as that-me?"
tho p-p-ptcture is upstairs n-n-noW.
., FGr answer 1anm hs put his grip top Of the
right on top of the clean linen. and haan,'
TRULY wrapped about in a white siil.
mutner, was her photograph in the fine.
heavy gilt easel frame
She gazed at it with natural astonish.
ment. so''sl-
YOU "ten oio
Dearest" he said to her, didn't 7 foil
you that had another print made i ,e.t
for carrying away on business trips. abont
u week before ! started for st. Louis, and
that got this frame for 1t, and thar I
put 1t IN the bottom of my grip as soon a.
got it sos I'd be sure not to forget it !
y was while you We're iii Baltimore that
y week that hail. got r. To think that you
he turned and gazed out Of the window in
a. sad, forlorn kind of q way. !" ~
course. -
As has been observed before in this nor.
ton OF the paper, you cant keep a squirrel
on the ground.
Favorite Phrases Of Novelists.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
As women have their faNorite nerflimes.