The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-07-26
THE PEACEMAKER.
BY MARION PORTER.

II amt nothing but the janitor
here" boosted Old Peter, .but I
reckon 1 amount to something. If
you don't believe it, ask the boss.
Why, Strengthened out his domestic
affairs for him while ago, a thing
that I'll bet you money there amt
another man in this country could
have done"
you did" / exclaimed incredu-
lously.
l was new there Everyone else
seems to have known the story all
along, but had never heard of it,.
1t was possibly the very fact of know
ing this that had made Old Peter very
attentive to me for some time past.
He loved to tell his tale and boast of
it. / fell into his clutches at once.
How'd it happen?" I asked
IT liye," began Peter, enjoyingly,
sdown on Appleby street 1t amt
swell and handsome, but it's cheap.
1t was there that 1 got acquainted
with Mr.. Stuart's wife,
looked astonished.
Mind you, 1 didn't know she was
his wife then 1t seems his father
was living then, and short time be-
fore that the old man had turned his
son out of house and home because
he wanted to marry an actress. The
affair was kept kind of quiet and no.
body knew what happened, except
that the boy stuck to his idea and
married the girl and the old man
wouldn't have anything more to do
with him.
Well, the first time I see his wife,
she was lying on couch IN a top
floor room, and the landlady called
me in to ask me whether I thought
she was sick or what the matter was
with her. She was little thing with
a lot of yellow hair and big soft, blue
eyes Her face was kind of white and
she acted languid like, but she said
she wasn't sick. She said she d brace
up in day or two. felt so sorry
for her that bought her an egg plant
and took it home to her / like 'em
and thought it might cheer her up.
She laughed at first, really hearty
like, when she saw it, and then all OF
sudden she commenced to cry 1
stood there looking down and feeling
sorry
Got anything on your mind, my
pretty z says I.
1T amt on my mind, she says,
it's on my heart
You tell Old Pete, says I.
''She wouldn't at first After a
while she says she's had a quarrel
with someone she loves.
Did the party love your says I.
HE did-once, she says in a
whisper.
Then it amt never too late to
make up, says L.
after minute couldn't help
asking, Who is her
He's my husband, she says, and
then she told me it was young Stuart.
sWell, you could have knocked me
over. To think, you see, that I've
knowed Dan Stuart since, he was a
kid, and worked forty years for his
father. She sat down on little has
sock and told me about 1t and cried.
She said after his father threw him
out on account of her, they started
in together to work and make home
for themselves. They had little
fiat, and he worked in an office on
small pay, and she kept house. And
she said they neither of 'em warn't
used to it, and they got tired and dis
contented sometimes, but they loved
each other all the same, And one
night she said, she'd been down town
and she sees some real swell boots,
and when she went home she kept
.thinkin' about 'em, and bimeby she
asked young Dan if she could have
EN-. He was tired or something, and
he answered UP kind of quick that
he couldn't afford 'em for her And
she says she sort of flashed up that
she was tired of being hard up and
wanted to go back to the stage where
she could have things and be happy
again, and all in an hour she left her
little house and went down to the
old boarding place, and within week
she got job, and there she'd been
ever since.
Peter breathed hard as he finished
his lengthy sentences. / had to all
low him a moments respite
well" he continued, II told her
to go make it UP with Dan. Some
how, sitting there side of me and
talking it over, her pride kind of left
her, and after while she said she'd
so to him that very next day. I'd
never seen her SO bright and happy
as she was after she'd made up her
mind
1.-THE next morning she came cut
into the hall all dressed as neat as
could be and her face all little
smiles. We walked down the stairs to-
gctaer Outside there was a boy sell
ing papers and bought one. ! was
going to fold it up and put in my
pocket when she grabs me and points
to some head lines on the first page
and then see for the first time
how it says that old man. Stuart has
had shock and passed out the night
before. We stood right there and
read it-her and me-. Later, in the
paper, it said that the old man was