Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-04-20
"A rEnFEcIT LApY..

Kansas City, Editor keiH OF tne
Toronto Republican has dashed of q
true literary gem, n which be tells
me inevitable story which comes
from the dramatic situation Of two
men and only one woman.
EDITOR Kelly has labeled bis com,
nent: "A story without . moral
re says4 NJ.
!, The other day q young married
woman Id one Of our western ;.tlea
went buggy-riding with = Gentle
man Friend who had arrived at the
discreet age of fifty-three. Before
this time she had applied to him for
o position. and being engaged In q
prosperous business, he had no Work
/ for her; but he was generous enough
to offer to help her secure Q position,
for she was young and good looking
and all alone in the great city, save
for a husband who was q good law
yer, and six-year-old son.
And so the woman met her Gen.
tleman Friend on several occasions
Fand in divers places-by appoint
ment. He was so interested in help
ing her secure a really good position
that he took valuable time from his
own business to go shopping with
her and he took her TO luncheon and
to matinees and showed her q per-
feet lovely time while they were
hunting the job. II is not every
man who will thus neglect his own
business to become the disinterest-
ed protector Of a young and interest
ing married woman who 10 hunting
a position. And all this regardless
Of the fact that her husband whom
she seems to have regarded as ClOd
and incapable Of appreciating the
services Of the Gentleman Friend,
had served formal notice on the ell
Derby Splinter to keep away from
the woman or assume the risk Of be-
ing perforated by a mountain how
itzer.
f, But--eternity excepted-nost all
things come to an end, and the end
came toqthis affair. There was q
last ride together, q ride on a last
desperate effort to find position
for the young lady. All afternoon
they drove, this lady and her Cen
tleman Friend, through the side
streets and the suburbs and along
quiet roads that ran by woody cop
SEES and through hazel dells; and the
birds sang and the plum blossoms
shed their fragrance on the air and
Marvellous braes were bonnie
where early fa's the dew, and then
from behind a protecting hedge the
husband arose and insensible to the
harmony Of Nature and the spring
time and job-seeklng, poured the
contents OF a shotgun into the anat-
omy OF the Gentleman Friend and
that particular idylic case Of job
hunting was at an end.
The Gentleman Friend yielded up
the ghost, the lady went to her home
and the Clod went to jail, from
which he was promptly bailed by
friends who offered to make the
bond for a million dollars, II neces-
sary. Her picture was in the dailies
and an interesting interview, She
admitted she didn't care q fingers
darn for either Of the men, but she
said she IL from a-proud old family
and Regrets the Publicity. She has
always been a Perfect Lady and is
conscious Of only high-mindod mo-
tives through the whole AFFAIR. Sne
says that, in addition to being Of II
proud old family, she started out
housekeeping with mahogany furnl-
turs but they moved around and
had to sell 1t and 1t has never been
quite the same since. 1t is pathetic,
being married to a man who will net
buy mahogany furniture. The won
der IS. that a man who will not keep
his house furnished in mahogany
could he aetuated by impulse 50
poble as 10 impel him tc shoot out
ore lung OF his wife's Gentleman
Friend.
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