The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-07-09
The Jealous Wife
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Lucy, if you don't part company
with your absurd jealousy you will in
time have t. part company with me.
No man will stand such an annoy
ance."
"And if you don't part company with
the women to whom you are so devot-
ed you will have to part company with
me-"
'Whom are you especially suspicious
of at PRESENT."
"I'm suspicious Of no one. know
that you are attentive to-Margaret
Gray"
what, my old friend Mag?"
"You mean your old fame Mag"
"Lucy, you are foolw And the
husband stalked out Of the room and
the house.
One morning a telegram came to the
house addressed to Mr.. Bradford Bow
en-. The messenger on learning that
Mr.. Bowen WAS not at home declined
to leave the message, and the maid
went to Mrs. Bowen to ask when Mr..
Bowen would return. Mrs. Bowen
went to the door to speak to the mes
senger herself and found him obdurate
In clinging to his instructions. She |
asked him to permit her to look at the
address on the message, and he held 1t
up before her. Snatching it from him,
she tore off the envelope and read:
Noyr 80 Fos TYoc% IN.
morrow afternoon. Disguise. M. G.
The dreaded blow had fallen. Her
husband was about to desert her for
Margaret Gray. The stricken wife did
not for moment realize that she had
brought it upon herself. She crumpled
the telegram convulsively and, rushing
upstairs to her bedroom, locked the
door and gave way to weeping and
wailing By the time her husband usu-
ally came home to dinner she had
grown comparatively calm. She would
not reveal her discovery. She would
announce that she had tired Of living
with man in whom she had no conf
dence and that she would on the NOR
row go to live with her mother. But
table the erring husband did not ap-
pearl, s, 8, 10 o'clock came, but not
Mr.. Bowen. The deserted wife sat up
till 2 in the morning waiting, then
went to bed, but not to sleep. There
was one ray of hope in the matter.
| She knew of the appointment for the
next day and would be on the train.
No tro of ha1.
! And how the shamefaced hussy who
, had led him away from. his lawful
wife would cover before her just in
dignation.
4 But during the morning she began to
realize how desperate was the situa-
ton. She remembered her husbands
warning and thought that perhaps,
after all. she might have driven him to
what he was about to do. She changed
her plan. She would go on the train
but to implore him to return with her.
She would promise to do better in fu-
ture. But the telegram said, Dis
guise" Would she know him or the
woman he was to elope with? At any
rate she must do her best.
Beginning at the first car, she walked
through to the last, peering at every
one she passed. In the last car every
seat was occupied but one. and that
was beside a gentleman who moved
aside for her, and she sank into it,
with sigh. The train pulled out of
the station, and the man beside her,
turning, said:
you seem worried about something
Are you looking for some one on the
train?'
Mrs. Bowen at first declared that she
was not, but after awhile admitted she
was. Then when the man asked if he
could not aid her she said hopelessly:
, "The one l seek is disguised
+ tIn that case l can do nothing FOL
!, you Shall I telegraph ahead for the
} police?''
l, ooh. no! For heavens sake. don't!'
Before reaching Hastings the sym
pathetic gentleman had gained her con
" fdence and permission to go with he
to Browns, the principal restauran
and hotel in the place, where the elop
y
also went through the train for her
looking at suspicious persons, AM
l when he returned he said that the oil,
German and his frau sitting opposit
: looked as If made up. When they lief
the train they followed this couple
. who went directly to Browns.
e you must have something to sus
tain YOU" said Mrs. Bowen's FRIEND
J. and without her knowledge or consen
a ordered supper in private room. A
q soon as it was announced he led he
there. Scarcely knowing what she die
she sat down at the table, but refuse
to eat, burying her face in her hand
and weeping bitterly. Suddenly tn
!" door was thrown open, and there stoo
). her husband and Margaret Gray
g Lucy" said her husband reproacf
n fully, what does this mean? You her
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