The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1915-12-17

| tired OF a forty-dollar husband.
gave her her choice. II was Howe or
me She-she cried, sir
| / could make no answer to that.
| either.
| Il drove her away | was too proud. |
She said if ever | sent for her she'd
come back to me. But of course that
was Just talk. And then | resolved
that IL there was anything between
her and that Howe fellow. Id kill him.
That's what I'm here for.
Il told you il was reading between
the lines. didn't L? Naturally. these
actor folk don't talk about the play
all the time they're acting. | take II
that it becomes a sort of second ma
ture to them. They can be killing
each other, and breaking Jail, and
making love, and all the while they're
telling each other what fine dinner
that was last night and will the roads
be good for autoing next week?
Il have brother in the education
business He has charge of an insti-
tuition for deaf and dumb children.
went to him ard asked him to teach
me tie deaf-and-Gumb language. He
didn't know Why / wanted it, but he
taught il to me-"
Finger language" | asked.
mo. sir. Progressive institutions
don't teach that any more. It's lip
reading. took job there as porter.
, | knew could always get forty-dol-
lar Job when wanted it. I'm spe-
cialist in wool goods, and there's al
ways an opening for low-priced nan.
: / took job as porter in the institution
= and worked there six weeks. At the
end of that time could read lip lam
j.. guage. Then ! began watching the
/, films
He turned on me Hereby ana
, grasped me by the arm.
q 1--WE been watching her every night
!, since then" he said. I've heard every
y thing she's said to Howe. When she
- had first left me of course they were
Just friends After couple of months
n. the new plays were coming on, and
% she looked kind of sad. Once / heard
him tell her to cheer up. Well, she
\ looked grateful. sir-he was chasing
Il. looked grateful just for second, wher
he had her by the hair. That started
4 me thinking.
After that he began making love Il
her. Never one instant did he stop
- And she didn't say much, just KEEP
quiet and went on with her work
mn "Hush-sh," exclaimed the audience
Ill uhic
Hi This is later play than the las
Hi The minute | hear her tell him sh
NM loves him I'm going to find him an
~ kill him."
- The screen was working. A succe:
sion of figures passed and repasset
Julia Rome and John Howe Occupie
- the center most of the time. And no
{ the fascination of the game had begu
to take hold of me. Instead of watcl
ing the play | watched the lips OF tn
characters. The words they spoke
and discovered for the first time tn;
they really spoke-seened quite d
Il vorced from the parts that they wei
n playing But, strive as hard as
II might, could not understand a wor
The man at my side suddenly seize
me by the arm again.
did you hear? Did you hear?"
whispered. Hes telling her that
loves her. He's asking her to get
divorce from me-"
/ stared at the screen. John How
uil- was in the midst of furious altero
am ton with Julia Rome, who, posing
ect his abandoned wife, was clinging
cry him, begging him to take her back t
uOF the sake of the children. He thru
ype her from him and sent her staggeri
across the room.
I'm Hes saying that her love for me
-'' dead and that he has loved her sin
the first day they met" whispered I
companion, never relaxing his fieI
80 grasp upon my arm
The pictures changed. ] turn
ool- and, though could hardly see the "a
;, of the forty-dollar man, | knew Il
a,h the crisis of his life was at hand.
90, heard him breathing hard through
the nostrils And still his fingers grlpI
NOV my sleeve as if they were steel cla'
Won Suddenly the grasp relaxed.
man sank back in his place.
:. 7 watched him; he did not move a ~
,tifv Gle. And / wondered at what decis
NE, he had arrived. To tell the trutl
or had not formed the highest inpl
but sion of Julia Rome. 1t did not sc
hose credible to me that woman of 81
rare talent and of such beauty wo
;, no be content with her husband in Ii
,,n+ leased two-fanily house somewhere
che the suburban region of the metropc
she The lights went up again. No
Mus could see my companions face
anne was trembling, and perfectly whit
nd a Did you hear? No. but OF COZ
you couldn't" lie muttered. she
7 il. him-she told him that she mad ne
loved anyone but me She said
ound she never wanted to see his
If again. She said that she was &C
\ to to ieave the stage and return to 4
thou- Thank God. | said softly.
.rhe What am 1 going TO do? 1 am
I 0f not deserve