The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
HOMER GREENE

This occurred in the city of AL
ny, in the State of New York, on
1ristmas eve, in the year of our
Prd, one thousand eight hundred
Id seventy blank.
Mr.. Frederick Jury, attorney-at-
W, closed the 45th volume of the
ew York Court of Appeals reports, |
I'D threw it on his table with
ing. He had been reading the case
Darnall VS.. Morehouse, reported .
page ga, and had found there
st exactly what he didn't want to
Id. The view of the law, enter
ined by the honorable court, diff
red Numerically from his own. /
e muttered something that sound
very much like the title of the
Sc, but wasn't, rose from his chair, |
'ew on his top-coat with jerk that
pped the lining in the sleeve; put
his hat, turned out the gas, and .
arted for his home in as i'll hu-
or as man of eight and twenty
bars ever gets.
But the case in 45th N. Y. was
pit wholly responsible for his i'll |
amor. Indeed it had very little to
with it. This savage mood had |
ben matter now, of some weeks |
landing, and a matter wholly un- /
Pnnected with the profession of the |
W. To tell the truth, he had quar-
led with his betrothed. Neither /
them could have told how the |
larrel began, but the end of it was
d enough. The GOODNESS between /
EN- had continued and increased /
r some days, until finally the strain |
n q m q n hnn no 10
ere was a scene. There were |
iminations and recriminations. |
he accused him of "envy, hatred /
I'd malice and all undharitableness,"
I'D thanked the good fortune that |
<hd discovered him to her in his real
laracter of unmitigated selfishness, |
&Pfore it was too late. And he told |
Ter she hadn't learned the first ru-
ments of true affection, and that, |
she had any heart at all, it was
mere lump of ice that was never
Buched by love, or sorrow or suffer-
G, or any sweet emotion of human
y. Then she drew her betrothal |
ng from her finger and gave it to |
i'm, with face as white as the ice
which he had said her heart was
ade, and he took it, with a bow as
hlm and courteous as though it had |
een their first meeting instead of !
heir last, and said good night and |
Irned away
All that was three weeks ago. |
might just as well have been
lree years as far as Attorney Jury
las concerned. There was wretch
dness enough indeed, in those three
#eeks to have lasted him the rest
his lifetime, if it had been evenly
distributed. But he just kept right
n with his professional work and
Pld his troubles to nobody, and al
PWed nobody to question him about
hem. But there was peculiar
Pok about his eyes, and a percepti-
lie thinning of the compressed lips, !
nd an unyielding expression in the
lose-shut jaws; and he had rapidly
eyeloped what his friend and law
PARTNER called "a devil of temper"
was almost equivalent to being
rozen to death to speak to him. He
Fasted no words In unnecessary con-
4ersation, and his opinions were
occasionally expressed with an
/ <bruptness of diction that was moth
&g less than startling. Oh! reader
hearts, who sang
f. n d to be wroth with one we love
,1 th work like madness on the
brain"
PIT was barely five o'clock, but the
nter night had already fallen, and
lie snow, that had all day been
coating lazily in the air, came
4own, now, with a force and volume
hat was fast making out-of-door
life a burden.
AS Attorney Jury stepped out in
o State street and turned to 60 up
he walk, the rising wind brought a
great cloud of snow full into his
lace, and his temper was, thereby,
n no wise improved. At the corner
Pt Pearl street he stepped on to a
Hamilton street car that was
punching slowly along, over the
fnow-coVered tracks, with the horses
buffing and steaming ahead of 1t.
lie did not go inside the car, 1t was
hlready filled with men and women
bnd bundles. Besides, the merry
christmas spirit in there, as evidence
bd by the incessant talking and
laughter, was not congenial to him.
AS the car turned up Beaver street
hn extra team was attached, but the
Bpeed was not thereby perceptibly in
freased. At the siding, on the steep
incline leading up to Hamilton
street, the driver halted his weary
horses to wait for the passing of the
'lown car. 1t was not yet in sight.
Even the dreary tinkle of the horses
bells could not be heard. Five min
|ltes passed; ten minutes went by.
|rhe merry passengers in the car had
grown subdued and anxious. To At
Forney Jury, standing on the rear
platform, the delay had become un-