Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-07-04

10 snap at touch. Seems queer TO
think that thirty-f1ve dollars week
could make such difference! With
1t we were In Paradise; without II we
were as near the other place as people
can get, guess.
We'll, It was too much for her. She
was one Of those women who can't
stand hardships and she couldn't mako
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 letter in which she said
some pretty hard things to me, but
I've tried to forget and not bear NAL
Ice. 1t was 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, limited that she'd kill her
self. That was enough for me. God
knows If she didn't want me I 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 ticket to 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 mans soul. l didn't know
what was going to become Of me, and
l didn't care. One day on the street
I met an old chum Of mine, fellow
called Delay, that l hadn't seen for
years. He was going to the Klondike,
and when he heard my hard-luck story,
he proposed to me to join forces and
go along with him. l jumped at 1t,
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. Life's all ex-
tremes and contrasts; there's sort
of balance to 1t If you come to look
close into 1t. I'd had an experience
with the kind Of woman that breaks
mans heart as you might 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. l had 1t first and nearly died;
in fact, the rumor went out that II
was l that was dead and not Delay. AS
l changed my name and went on the
stage soon afterward 1t was natural
enough for people to say Junius Car
ter was dead.
Il was pretty near starving when
drifted on the stage. l had learned
some conjuring tricks, and that and
my voice took me there. / Just about
made living for year, and then
fioated back down here. never played
in San Francisco till now. / acted on
the western circuits, used to go as
far East as Denver and Kansas City
and then swing round and the circle
through the northwestern cities and
Salt Like. l managed to make liv.
ing and no more. l was cast in parts
that didn't suit me. The Klondike
Monologue was the first thing l did
that was in my line"
did you never see or hear Of your
wke?"
mot a word. I 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, Berny's anticipated entrance
He drew himself up in his chair and
said in 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
last night at Deledda's restaurant
1t was entirely by accident l liked
the Mexican cooking and had been
more than once to that place. Last
night l was about to enter the bach
part Of the restaurant when saw heI
sitting there alone in the corner. Fol
|, moment I could not believe my eyes
got behind lace curtain and watch
ed her. She was changed, but 1t was
. she. heard her speak to the waiter
and II I'd never seen her face I'd have
known the voice among a thousand
Shed grown stouter and think even
prettier, and she looked as II she
We're 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 rang
the bell and came In"
Are you sure she didn't go into
/ one of the other flats? There are
four in the building"
mo. she came in mere. compared
the number on the transom with the