Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-23
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOcRAT, FRIDAY AUGUST B

in their new t1ftn avenue mansion. He had bought and torn down two old houses between Forty-second and Forty.third streets and had erected a palace, the inside of which was unique among all New York's unusual struc- lures. The first and second floors were all that refined taste and unlim- ited expenditure of money could pro duce. Nothing on those splendid floors told of the strange things above. A sedate luxury pervaded the drawing rooms, library, and dining-room. Bob said to me, in taking me through them. Some day, Jim. Beulah may recover, may come back to me, and want to have everything as she would wish, everything as she would have had 1t If the curse had never come" The third floor was Beulah's. A child's dainty bedroom; two nurses rooms adjoining; a nursery. with child's small schoolroom and big playroom, with dolls and doll houses, child's toys of every description in abandon, as though their owner were in fact but few years old. Across the hall were three offices, exact duplicates of mine, Bob's, and Beulah Sands at Randolph & Randolph's. When first saw them 1t was with difficulty that I brought myself to realize that was not where the gruesome happenings of year before had taken place. Bob had reproduced to the minutest de- tails our downtown workshop. Stand ing in the door of Beulah Sands of flee faced the flat desk at which she had sat the afternoon when first saw that hideous result of the work of the System" l could almost see the It, tie gray figure holding the afternoon paper. In horror my eyes sought the floor at the side of the chair in search of Bob's agonized face and uplifted hands. As stood for the first time in the middle of Bob's handiwork, seemed to hear again those awful groans.
 "Jim," Bob said, T have a haunt ing idea that some day Beulah will wake and look around and think she has been but few minutes asleep. If she should, she must have nothing to disabuse her mind until we break the news to her. I have instructed her nurses, one or the other of whom never loses sight of her night or day, to win her to the habit of spending her time at her old desk; have told them always to be prepared for her awakening, and when 1t comes they are instantly to shut of the rest of the floor and house until can get to her. Here comes Beulah now
 Out of tho nursery came laughing, happy child-woman. In spite of her finely developed, womanly figure, which had lost nothing of its wonder full beauty, and the exquisite face and golden-brown hair and great blue eyes, which were as fascinating as on the day she first entered the offices of Randolph & Randolph; in spite of the close-fitting gray gown with dainty turned-over lace collar, could hardly bring myself to believe that she was anything but young child, With an eager look and 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 if 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 childs school-book. With mock severity she said, Bob, cat. What does 1t spell?' For half an hour Bob sat and played scholar and teacher by turns with all the patience of fond father. With difficulty kept back the tears the sad sight brought to my eyes.
 For the first year of Bob's 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 Reinhart's cold. blooded Seaboard Air Line deal. Oth.l 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 1t for granted that the beautiful woman was Mrs. Brown ley, they thought Bob lucky fellow. It seemed quite natural that his wife should choose seclusion after the aw- ful 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 1t 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 6 person may come and go for a life time, and none in the block in which be dvells will know when his coming and going ceases. When New York CT reads in his newspaper of the man who lives next door to him. murder cd and Ms body discovered by the gas