The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-11-10
Too Amiable
Bv DOROTHEA HALE
DOWNRIGHT, 1910. by American Press
Association

| Laura. dear, am so glad you have
come. If any one else had called this
morning should have been not at
| home"
What q convenient expression. not
at homev It's like kings and presi.
| dents. who can speak officially or as
! private individuals. and it isn't lie.
| But what's troubling you?"
George"
George! Has he been giving way
to that violent temper again?"
.'Quite the reverse. He has sudden
~ turned amiable.''
There's nothing bad about that
NO. nothing bad. except that I'm
not used to it. don't care how a
man treats me so long as l under
stand how to meet him. George has
always been impulsive. irritable. quick
spoken. He's keeping something from
me. On Wednesdays he goes out at
O'clock in the evening and comes back
between and half past. I've tried
my best TO get out Of him where he
goes. but he won't tell me- He just
palavers over me- calls me- his little
darling jokes about woman's curios-
ity, but get nothing out of him.
"You suspect"
"No especial woman"
But yet you know she exists"
"Of course"
"Have you looked on the shoulder Of
his coat for powder? Lots of men
have been caught that way. The wo-
man puts her head down there. and
they all use powder. You're sure to
find it on his coat"
II haven't noticed any. Besides,
can't understand this self control. A
man who is in love with another wom-
an isn't usually very saintlike in his
treatment of his wife"
There you're wrong. George. feel
ing that he is untrue to you. keeps his
self control to prevent his giving him.
self away A man who is doing that
must be very guarded. The feelings
control the tongue. and the tongue is
liable to betray him at any moment"
II know George better than that l
twitted him about going out at 8
! O'Clock to visit a sweetheart. and he
sweetheart. but that is not the hour at
which he spends time with her. He
! isn't gone long enough"
"Why don't you shadow him when
he goes out in the evening""
''The only reason haven't done it is
hot H. ~ Il
George has always trusted me implicit
ly, and don't like to commit an overt
act in my distrust of him.
"You silly thing! You don't know
these men. They wouldn't hesitate
| any one of them. to put a professional
| detective on his wife And yet you
! hesitate to walk at a safe distance be-
! hind George just to see that he isn't
| getting into mischief. Why. it's your
! duty to watch him. Men are like chill
| dren when women get hold of them
and need nurse. Would you trust lit
! tie George to take care of himself?
| Come. get some stiffening into you.
III help you. I'll come around this
evening at 8 o'clock and lie in wait
/ for George when he goes out. keeping
him in sight till you come out after
i him. Then we two will follow him
and solve this mystery"
"Well. don't like to do it and
couldn't do it by myself. but since you
are going with me suppose l can
Come at five minutes before s. Go
hn cfo
hear George going out Follow him.
and will catch up with you | have
often seen him start. and he always
goes west. So l can't fail to go the
right way"
That evening the two women put
this plan into execution. George went
out unsuspectingly, his wife's friend
was under the stoop and his wife
| came ont within minute after he
had left the house He walked lei
surely up the street. turned several cor
ners and finally mounted the steps of
a house that was perfectly familiar to
his wife.
going into DR.. Fuller's. He has some
terrible disease. I'm going in to find
out what it is
Better wait till you have him at
home. when you can talk with him
calmly"
Il can't wait. I'm frightened to
death. Oh. what can be the matter?"
The husband had entered the house
and was in the doctors private room
for receiving patients when there was
a pull at the bell. Another patient. it
was supposed. entered and without
waiting for her turn pushed her way
into the room and fell upon her hus-
bands neck. moaning:
''Oh. George. What is this terrible
disease from which you are suffering?
Why have you hidden it from me?"
George smiled a sickly smile at the
doctor. who interposed:
Your husband. my dear madam. has
been showing symptoms of breaking
down of the nerve centers. told him
that his averting a collapse, depended !
upon his maintaining as perfect an !
equipoise as possible. Any giving way
to anger or other disagreeable emotion |
might have been fatal to him. But |
now ! am happy to say. thanks to his |
CONQUEST of himself and doubtless your