The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-11-05
The Other Girl
A Case of Unnecessary
Jealousy
by r. A, REALL-.


To all their friends there seemed 10
be something essentially incOngruous
in the idea of their marriage Friends.
of course. as Is well known. have the
right to decide those things.
Grace OrmiSton WIS New England
girl OF an old Boston family, who
knew her Emerson by heart. 1t was
even reported that she knew what Rob
ert Browning meant when he wrote:
Setebos and Setebos ard Setebos.
Jim Garrison had been born and
reared on biz kentucky plantation,
and he had obtained his education in
that school which not only believes
but VOWS that II gentIemans education
is complete when he has been taught
Ito ride to shoot and to speak the
truth"
Yet their marriage had turned out Il
haupy one. for with all JimS igno-
rance of books he was gentleman.
every inch of the Stalwart length OF
him He did feel bit oppressed
though. at times when his clever and
learned wife let him "slide out of the
conversation" as he expressed it, and
showed by her manner that she knew
it was over his head and that she ex-
cused him in sympathetic kindness.
The truth was that Jim would have
been quite bit the better for it If be
had possessed more of share of that
of which most men have too much
conceit.
Poor Jim didn't have bit, and be
used to rub his handsome head rue
fully and with very genuine sorrow at
the harrassing thought thar he was not
good enough for his brilliant beauty Of
a wife and that she must feel some
degree of shame for him when she was
surrounded by the wise and learned
people who called on them contin-
ually.
When they had been married little
more than year telegram came for
Jim while he was absent in Kentucky
looking over some of his land. Mrs.
Garrison hesitated before she opened
the yellow envelope. for she was not
a woman who believed in letting her
curiosity get the better of her, al
though she had her full share Of that
delightful instinct Of her breeding
However. she finally decided that
she should open the telegram to see II
it was important enough to forward to
Jim. Surely every one will forgive
that. Women ought to be curious. Its
part of their charm. Think of what
the world would be without woman's
delicious curiosity!
The message was short. But few as
the words were they were sufficient tc
cause something very much like hel
little world tumbling disastrousl!
down around the pretty ears of Mrs
Garrison. The telegram was date(
from a village on Long Island and said
The girl is dying. Come at once
1t was signed Jack Harrington
Grace recognized this name as that O
one of her husbands friends of whom
she had often heard him speak. bu
whom she had never met.
Grace was not naturally jealOu!
woman-that is. nothing more than t.
say that she was not any more jealou.
than is any good. true, warm soulet
woman. She tried to remain unsuspi
cious; but, try as she would. she coult
find but one Interpretation for the mes
sage.
Her faith in Jim was too absolute tt
believe that 'the girl referred to coul(
be her rival since their marriage. Sh,
never gave place in her mind for ont
moment to any idea that her Jim wa!
capable of the shameful, disgustin;
treachery such a surmise would pre-
suppose.
But she could not help but see tina
this girl had some old claim on jim
and the thought of such claim on thu
man who she loved so passionately
was sufficient to drive her nearly fran
tic.
She perceived that the sender of thu
telegram had taken it for granted tha
Jim would not hesitate to come a
once And then she recolected with 6
keen sense that gave her new pail
now that Jim always had spoken shy
ly and hesitatingly about Harrington
and bad evaded all her attempts t.
induce him to invite this friend Of bis
early days to their home.
Her feeling was one Of total desola
ton She moaned at the thought there
could be anywhere in the world q
woman with such a claim upon hel
Jim that he must 90 to her deathbed
Mrs Garrison realized now and all al
once bow deeply and helplessly she
loved her handsome husband and how
empty all her world of knowledge and
art would seem to her II that love
were destroyed.
At last. however, she began to think
of the unknown girl who lay dying
With a mighty effort she put aside bel
own grief and telegraphed to her hus
band:
Mr.. Jim Garrison. Phenix Hotel. Lexing
ton. KY:
Come home Immediately. matter o
life and death. GRACE.
She could not bear to telegraph tt
him that 1.-The girl was dying. To re
fer to her In such way was repug
nant to every instinct. and she was In