The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-04-13
COnnubiaI Diplomacy.
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yours or. AZ applied to connubiaI dif
ferences; Not only give your wife the
last word. but give her the first, and
be particular that she takes It. Not
only that, keep on giving It to her TIL
she hangs herself with her own rope
Sam Albert adored his wife, but he
had no more conscience 10 his dealings
with her than an Italian bandit.
.'What put that into your head. old
man?y asked.
"WelI, the other day my old chum
Billy Perkins asked me If / couldn't
take night OF for the theater, and so
forth. told him would. I'd been
out good deal without Fife just be-
fore that. and / knew she'd object.
What did do7 Have long powwow
with her about 1t, with such words
and phrases as neglect shameful
treatment you ought to be ashamed
OF yourself and all that. Not /. /
just says: My love- I'm awful sorry,
but shall be detained downtown to-
night late by business. Don't sit up
for me- Then kiss her more affec.
tionately than usual and 90 to the Of
fee.
"As luck would have 1t, some OF her
friends during the day telephoned her
an invitation to go to the same theater
where Billy and were going. and,
knowing she was to be alone at home,
she accepted. Billy and were sitting
down in the baidheaded row when,
glancing aside into proscenium box,
saw the party fling into 1t and my
wife take chair where she could rake
me with both eyes.
II kissed my hand TO her. but after a
look of surprise she paid no more at
tention to me than If were one of the
supes on the stage. knew I'd meet
cyclone when got home and had
plenty Of time to think matters over.
When a man gets caught that way it's
great mistake 10 founder around
among lot of improbable excuses
There's two ways of working it--one
owning up and the other way. chose
the other way / assumed an air Of
one badly treated, but too noble mind
ed to defend himself | didn't say a
word. simply looked at her reproach-
fully.
Nov. that piqued her curiosity. You
see, when woman sets up an idol she
doesn't like to have 1t shattered. she
had put me on beautiful white marble
pillar, and didn't propose to come
down. She couldn't realize that would
deliberately do what had done with
out reason. Since gave her no rea-
son, why, Of course, she began to fig
ure one OUT for herself; but not being
able to do 1t, she got madden than ever.
Andrews of Howe & Andrews hap
pened to have sat in the seat directly
in front OF me at the theater- Andrews
is In the same business as /. and have
known him for years. leaned for
ward several times and talked to him
about soubrette on the stage. She
was pretty as a'picture, and Andrews,
who knew the stage manager, offered
to take me behind the scenes between
the third and fourth acts and introduce
me, an offer | accepted. When the
curtain fell at the appointed time An
drews and Billy and got up and went
out together
WELL Effie kept up pretty sharp |
thinking as to the cause OF my brutal I
deception. | saw something was work
ing and just declined to come down
from my high horse and crawl on my |
stomach Instead, said nothing |
about the matter between us. combining |
myself to Yes, dear, and No, dear,
confident that If | let her alone long
enough she'd work out my salvation
for me and save me the trouble. AT
last It came out one morning while we
were at the breakfast table.
Frank. she said. 4 want YOU to tell |
me one thing. Where did you three
men 90 when you got up and went
out of the theaterY
.Not knowing but that she's got on
to my going behind the scenes and for
what purpose, WINGED inwardly,
Outwardly was game. ! suppose,
| replied calmly, you think we went
out for drinkY
Mo-" she said; knowing that you
and Mr.. Andrews are In the same busi-
ness, did not know but that you went
to the theater on purpose to meet him
for d business conference.
sThat put the beautifulest idea into
my head you ever saw | recalled
that Andrews ana had been trying
some time before to sell the Scrim-
mons estate, 200 foot lot on Main
street, for 100000 Wed failed. and
/ had forgotten all about It But II
gave me tip all the same.
Efsie. said composedly, don't you
know that some Of the biggest busi-
ness deals are effected In that very
way?
s.She looked down under my honest
gaze. and saw that she was very
much ashamed of herself Seeing that
she had kept me at swords points for
several days By the want of faith in
me, her lip trembled, and she burst In
to tears
aGoing to her. l took her to my man
" bosom and said:
s'Don't trouble yourself any more
about 1t, sweetheart You have my en-
tire forgiveness.
lie rolled d cigarette and lighted it
N his quick way. giving the match a
shake and throwing it away. evidently
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