The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-02-25
the RES0URCEFuI
HUSBAND
he Avolds Being Caught ina,
to His Wife. lie

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This one a month or so ago -,
go to Chicago. He was due tn ha
sent about two weeks. HE 40
wife hated to have him 20. Tbor,as
only been married year, Won knos.
Now, when he goes on bna,,
trips, as he quite often does tbis s
always makes his wife happy bv m nan
ing a great show of taking her niota a0
along with him. Then when he's w-,'
ing to her from the place he goo,
he writes about how the sight q, t
photograph on his dresser sootbao WI
lonesome hours, and so on.
Usually the last thing that ba a..
when packing his bag is to gr,h ~
cabinet photograph of his wife t tI'
only one of the kind in the house ur.,
this thing happened, that stands
the mantel in the front room of ~
fat and he stuffs it conspcuouslv '4'
his bag while she looks on.
But when he started for Chicago
this last trip he was in such desa
rush that in packing he quite foraa.
the photograph of his wife. He bas
to hustle for the train, and so for IN
first time he overlooked his little mem
Torrance.
After he'd gone she noticed fb..
he'd forgotten the picture. But ~
mentally excused him for forgetting !,
A day or so after her husband,e ..
rival in Chicago she received lette,
from him that amazed and sbocEes
her quite beyond expression.
In this letter her husband said
among many other things not al al
germane to the point of this Narrative
that he was deriving all kinds of solacs
and consolation from her plctnrs
which, as usual, he had perched on n,
dresser, etc.
OF course, she had good reason n
be amazed and shocked when she reaa
that letter
Now, three or four days after bls
arrival in Chicago he was writing her
another letter in which he started to
tell her about the joys and delight he
was extracting from the sight of her
picture on his bureau-when a sudden
wave of memory overwhelmed and
stunned him. He suddenly recalled
that he didn't have the picture with
him at all.
He thought it out for a minute
Then he went right ahead and finished
the letter to her about how much con-
ISOLATION, ETC., he was finding in the
picture of her. And he mailed the let.
ter.
His way out was this
He is we'll acquainted, personally as
well as in a business way, with the
photographer who had taken that pic.
ture of his wife. And So Immediately
he wired to the photographer here in
New York, instructing him to make,
instanter print of that photograph
of his wife-which the photographer,
knowing the wife, too, could quickly
identify-and to fire it along by spe-
cial delivery to Chicago.
The photographer here in New York
fired it along to the resourceful one in
Chicago, who went out and bought an
elaborate oval gilt frame for it,
He knew that his wife would
imagine when he got back home that
she had him, and that she would have
a little sadness about her, and so on.
And he had that end of it correctly
prophesied. She had meant to restrain
herself but when he flung his arms
about her on entering the fiat she col
lapsed from having worried, and fell
to weeping.
He, of course, with a wide eyed gaze
of utter innocence, asked her what on
earth could be the matter
"Oh, tito t-t-think," she gasped,
"t-t-that you could t-t.tell me
s-s-story!"
"Story?" said he, winking sagely at
himself in the mantel mirror over her
shoulder. Say, look a-here, little one'
what's this all about, anyhow? what
story? What on earth are you talk
ing about?"
"W-w-why," she gasped between her
sobs, about Mummy p-p-p-picture-
wr-wr-writing me that you were
Unlocking at it every n-n-night ana
you d-d-didn't have it with y-y-you at
all-it's on the b-b-bureau this nm
minute!"
Then he pushed her away from Nun
and regarded her with an expression
of lofty and wounded sadness.
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my little one" he said to her IN
that injured, abused tone, my dear 40
you really mean to say that you couiu
think me capable of that-me?
"B-b-but, J-J-Jim, dear" she sobpeu'
1.-The p-p-picture is on the b-b-bureAu
r-r-right n-n-now, and"
For reply he put his bag on top .,
the dining room table, opened 1t, anu
there right on top of the clean linen
and beautifully wrapped about IN :,
white silk muller was her photograph
Dearest" he said to her, didn't
tell you when you came back IRON
the country last summer that nov
another print of that photograph mau'