Monroe City Democrat., 1907-08-29


close-fitting gray gown with dainty
turned-oyer lace collar, could hardly
bring myself to believe that she was
anything but young child. With an
eager look and a happy laugh she
went to Bob and throwing her arms
about his neck, covered his face with
kisses.
Good Bob has come back to play
with Beulah," she said, she knew he
would. They told Beulah Bob had
gone away to the woods to gather
pretty flowers. Beulah knew IL Bob
had gone to the woods he would have
taken Beulah with him. Now Bob
must play school with Beulah." She
sat at her desk and opened her child's
school-bOok. With mock severity she
said, Bob, cat. What does it spell?"
For half an hour Bob sat and played
scholar and teacher by turns with all
the patience of a fond father. With
difficulty l kept back the tears the
sad sight brought to my eyes.
For the first year of Bobs marriage
We saw but little of him at the office.
The Exchange saw less. He had wan
dered in upon the floor two or three
times, but did no business and seemed
to take but little interest.
THE Street" knew Bob had mar
ried the daughter of Judge Lee Sands,
the victim of Tom Remnants cold
blooded Seaboard Air Line deal. 9th
erwise 1t knew nothing Of the affair.
His friends never met his wife. Oc-
casionally they would pass the Brown
ley carriage on the avenue or in the
park and, taking it for granted that
the beautiful woman was Mrs. Brown
ley, they thought Bob a lucky fellow.
1t seemed quite natural that his wife
should choose seclusion after the aw-
full tragedy at her home in Virginia.
But they could not understand why,
with such cause for mourning, the
exquisite figure beside Bob in the
victoria should always be garbed in
gray. After a while it was whispered
that there was something wrong in
Bob's household. Then his friends
and acquaintances ceased to whisper
or to think of his affairs. With all
New York's bad points-and they are
as plentiful as her church spires and
charity bazaars-she has one Offset
ting virtue. If a dweller in her midst
chooses to let New York alone, New
York is willing to reciprocate. In her
most crowded fashionable districts a
person may come and go for a life
time, and none in the block in which
he dwells will know when his coming
and going ceases. When New York
er reads in his newspaper of the man
who lives next door to him, murder
ed and his body discovered by the gas
man" or the tax collector, the butcher
or the baker, as the case may be, he
never thinks he may have been remiss
in his neighborly duties.
There is no such word as neigh
bor" in the New York city dictionary.
1t may have been there once, but,
if so, it was long ago used as a stake
for the barbed-wire fence of exclusive
eep-your-distance-and-we-keep-ouf-dis-
tance-until-we-know-y 1t is told
of minister from the rural districts,
an old-fashioned American, who came
to New York to take charge of par
sh, that he started out to make calls
and was seized in the hall of what in
civilization would have been his next
door neighbor. He was rushed away
to Bellevue for examination as to his
sanity. The verdict was: Insane.
Had no letter of introduction and was
not in the set"
Shortly after the first anniversary
of his wedding Bob gave up his Office
with Randolph & Randolph and open
ed one for himself. He explained that
he was giving up his commission busi-
ness to devote all his time to personal
trading. With the opening of his new
office he again became the most active
man on the floor. His trading was
intermittent. For weeks he would not
he seen at the Exchange or on the
Street" Then he would return and,
after executing a series Of brilliant
trades, which were invariably success
full, he would again disappear. He
soon became known as the luckiest
operator in Wall street, and the begin
ming of his every new deal was the
signal for his fast-growing following
TO tag on.
From time to time l learned that
Beulah Sands was making no real
Improvement, though in some details
she had learned as q child learns.
But there was no indication that sho
would ever regain her lost mind.
Strange stories OF Bob's doin8s be-