The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-11-03
Those Dreadful
Suspicious

In the murder over on Jefferson street.
and later they were all released with
no proof against them"
YES" the lady barber said, twisting
the curl above her ear Now, amt
that awful? Four families put in
suspense because some police sergeant
has a suspicion" She tucked towel
neatly into the neckband of the regu
lar customers neck.
IF the police force did less sus-
pecting and more running there'd be a
greater number of guilty parties see
ing daylight In strips" the lady bar
Der remarked derisively.
but they always have to suspect
somebody before they arrest him." the
regular customer demonstrated.
The lady barber put stop to fur
Their argument on his part by build
ing a pyramid of her lather around
his mouth, which. experience had
shown him. would fall in II he dared
to speak.
Suspicion" she remarked, is an
awful disease. The germs Of 1t are
in everybody. All it needs is an idea
to put them at work tearing down
character and sending happiness to an
early death"
The regular customer snorted help
lessly.
Suspicion is the DEVILS favorite
vegetable. He plants it In peoples
minds, and every year gets crop OF
sin off OF It," the lady barber con-
tinued
Now, there was Susie and her hus-
band-happened just last week. Not
the marriage, but the suspicion. and
| If II hadn't been for the blessed fact
that Susie's mother had more sense
| In minute than Susie had"
The regular customer had been
fidgeting uneasily Now, he asked a
question that filled his mouth with
lather.
who is Susie?" he sputtered.
Susie" the lady barber said, Sc
verely. lis the sweetest bit of SILL
ness that ever refused dozen rich
men and married a poor one. Susie
is my best friend. Before Susie was
married She"
but what did Susie suspect?"
She suspected her husband, and
the poor boy wouldn't do wrong for
anything In the world, and Susie
knew IL. But that just shows how
suspicion is. II 1t once gets start
on anybody's mind it's as certain to
cause trouble as-as mouse in bar
Der shop"
"a lady barber shop you mean,' the
regular customer bombarded, reliev
ed at last Of the lather.
do you want a close shaver" tue
lady barber demanded,
"I'll take mine we'll done. please,
but tell me about Susie"
"Oh, yes. You see, Susie's hus'
band works in a gents furnishing
store. He Is a clerk. They've been
married about two months, and never
had q cross word. He adores her from
the toes of her shoes to the top
curve OF her rat, and she worships the
very counter he works behind. Hot
or cold towel?"
Holland Susie?"
Her hoy got day off last week
and went down to Bean lake, fishing
That morning after he had gone a
man came to the house and told Susie
that q robbery had been discovered at
the furnishing store-that somebody
had been stealing ties land hosiery
and other stuff for several weeks, and
that 1t was very important that he
should speak to John. and where was
he. So right there the devil plant
ed suspicion in Susie's poor head
know.
After the man was gone she rar
upstairs and looked all over John:
clothes. There were an awful lot o.
! new ones. She thought 1t over, and
then carried them down to the cellar
She was going to save her guilty hus
band If she could. OF course he wa:
guilty. She never doubted that {
minute by this. time When they cam'
to search the house she was deter
mined--Wet or dry?"
''Wet-no, give me tonic, and g
: on with Susie"
| they should fnd nothing t.
convict him. SO she started IRE II
the furnace. She never had started
, the fire before, and 1t took her abou
| an hour. 1t was one of those day
, when the mercury stood around So
} and by the time the girl had John
clothes all burned, she was abou
/ dead with exhaustion. But she burn
ed them-every scrap.
And in the meantime she had lock
? ed all the doors before she went t.
the cellar. you know-John 20 missed
his train and come back. He couldn'
get in, and she didn't answer hi
, knocks, so suspicion got started OF
n him, and he was certain that as 500
as he got away from town Susie ha'
- gone out to have time. So he left
n and when he came back that nigh
= Susie was really gone, and for a da
or two there was nothing but miser
for Susie and John. all because OF sus
g picion."
i. But how did it end?"
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