The Yale expositor., 1913-06-05


both just about used up. thin as fiddle
strings, and like fiddle-strings ready
to snap at a touch. Seems queer TO
think that thirty-five dollars a week
could make such a difference! With
IL We were In Paradise; without 1t we
were as near the other place as people
can get, l guess.
well, 1t was too much for her. She
was one OF those women who can't
stand hardships and she couldn't make
out In the position she was In. Love
wasn't enough for her, there had TO
be luxury and comfort. too. One day
came home and she was gone. NO.
In answer to look OF inquiry on Dom
inick's face, there was no other man.
She wasn't that kind. always as
straight as a string. No, she just
couldn't stand the grind any longer.
She left a letter in which she said
some pretty hard things to me, but
I've tried to forget and not bear mai
Ice. 1t was a woman half crazy with
heat and nerves and overwork that
wrote them. The gist of 1t was that
she'd gone back to California, to her
sisters who lived there. and she was
not coming back. She didn't like 1t
marriage, or me, or Chicago. She was
just going TO throw the whole busi-
ness overheard She told me II fol
lowed her, or tried TO hold her, she'd
disappear, hinted that she'd kill her
self That was enough for me. God
knows If she didn't want me wasn't
going to force myself upon her. And.
anyway, she knew fast enough /
couldn't follow her. l hadn't money
TO have my shoes patched, much less
buy a ticket 20 California.
After that there were some dark
days for me. Deserted, with no mon
ey, with no work, and no prospects
tell you that's the time the iron goes
down into a mans soul. didn't know
what was going to become of me. and
didn't care. One day on the street
| met an old chum Of mine, fellow
called Defay, that l hadn't seen for
years. He was going to the Klondike,
and when ne heard my hard-luck story,
he proposed TO me to join forces and
20 along with him. ! jumped at II,
anything to get away from that town
and state that was hunted with memo
ries OF her
"It was just the beginning Of the gold
rush and we went UP there and stayed
for two years. Delay was one OF the
finest men | ever knew. Lies all ex-
tremes aud contrasts; there's a sort
OF balance to 1t II you come to look
close into Il. I'd had an experience
with the kind OF woman that breaks
a mans heart as you might a pipe
stem, then l ran up against the kind
OF man that gives you back your be
lief In human nature. He died OF ty'
phoid a year and a half after we got
there / had It first and nearly died
in fact. the rumor went out that II
was that was dead and not Delay. As
changed my name and went on the
stage soon afterward It was natural
enough for people to say Junius Car
ter was dead.
Il was pretty near starving when
drifted on the stage. | had learned
some conjuring tricks, and that and
my voice took me there. just about
hoated back down here. | never played
In San Francisco till now. / acted or
| the western circuits, used to go az
far East as Denver and Kansas City
and then swing round and the circle
through the northwestern cities and
| Salt Like. ! managed 10 make a liv
ing and no more. ! was cast in parts
| that didn't suit me. The Klondike
Monologue was the first thing l die
| that was In my line"
did you never see or hear OF your
wife?"
mot a word. didn't know whether
she was dead or living till last night.
Buford raised his eyes and looked
piercingly into the young mans face
Dominick forgot the time, his engage
ment. Bernys anticipated entrance
He drew himself up in his chair and
said in a loud, astonished voice:
Last night? Then the woman you
saw here last night was your wife?"
The actor gravely inclined his
head.
81 saw my wife" he said solemnly
'1ast night at Deledda's restaurant
It was entirely by accident l liked
the Mexican cooking and had beer
more than once to that place. Las
night | was about to enter the bach
part of the restaurant when / saw hel
sitting there alone in the corner Fol
moment ] could not believe my eyes
/ got behind lace curtain and watch
ed her. She was changed, but it was
she heard her speak to the waiter
and IL I'd never seen her face I'd have
known the voice among a thousand
She'd grown stouter and think even
prettier, and she looked as IL she
were prosperous. She was well
dressed and her hands were covered
with rings. When she went out
followed her and she came straight
here from the restaurant and rane
the bell and came in"
Are you sure she didn't go into
one OF the other flats7 There are
four in the building"
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