Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1909 — A Disappointment. [ARTICLE]

A Disappointment.

For weeks and weeks he had been suspicious of his wife, buit for weeks and weeks he had carried a smiling face and held her on his knee as if he believed in her as he did in his holy grandmother. All things come to the husband who waits and there came an evening when a district messenger boy delivered a letter into the wife’s hand. The crafty husband was hunting for a collar button at the moment, but he was not deceived. His first impulse was to rush upon the faithless wife and brain her or at least break her neck, but he got a grip on himself and waited for a more complete vengeance. At midnight that night, after pretending sleep for two hours and after making sure that the wife really slumbered, the husband crept out of bed’to go through her dress and secure the letter. He moved inch by inch. He held his breath. Goose pimples formed on his legs. It took him 37 minutes by the clock to find her pocket, but he persevered, and’ the damming epistle was at last in his hands. In his heart he was vowing to show no mercy, to cut her up with a dull hatchet inch by inch, when he suddenly beard her voice saying: “I was going to pay it out of my own pin money, John, but lit be awfhlly glad to have you take it off my hands! ” “Woman, what means this?” he shouted as he tore the letter from its envelope. “It means a bill of sl4 for my last new hat, as you will see. Get into bed, dear, before you have a congestive chill!’’—LaCrosse Chronicle.