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Show IN SOLEMN BLACK. A WOMAN IN ClOOMY MASGUER-ADE MASGUER-ADE ATTRACTS ATTENTION. Believing Her Husband Unfaithful She Seeks and finds Him on the Public Street in Company -with Another Wotuan Saturday Night Mystery Pedestrians who were on Main 6treet between be-tween 11 and 12 o'clock on Saturday night, observed a woman robed in deepest black. About her head and face was wrapped a soft black cashmere shawl that completely disguised dis-guised her. The woman's actions indicated that she was fired by the moat complexed emotions. Sorrow, anfi;er, anxiety, fear and suspense, all struggling for supremacy. Her steps were one moment quick and the next so slow that 6he almost 6tood still. One second 6he would act as fierce as a tigress and the one following she was timid as a bird. All this time, which covers that taken to walk from Second to First South, this w oman kept her face carefully concealed. She took particular notice of every couple that passed her, and if the man happened to be large and wore a stiff hat, she looked at him so intensely that her eyes seemed to burn into his soul ; but when satisfied that the man was not the one she was looking for she passed silently on. Continuing up the west side of Main 6trect until she reached South Temple, she crossed over to the Templeton corner. Here she paused for a minute and looked up and down. A man and woman were passing the tithing house and were on their way down street. The woman in black stood rigid as a .statue, hesitated a second and stepped into jthe doorway of Zion's Savings bank. The -coeple kept on their course. They were evidently evi-dently the object of the woman's pursuit. She drew back into the shadows. She only waited until they were a few-steps few-steps in advance when she was following Uiem as relentlessly as a demon and yet as Ijtealthily as a cat When she left the door-I door-I way of the bank something bright was seen .to flash in the ghostly glare of the electric light. It was a knife not a long one, but a little Italian stilletto,. For the purposes of identification it will not be Irrelevant to describe the man and his eruale companion. They were both rather 4 fine looking and both above the average height. . The man was clad in dark clothes and w ore a round crowned stiff hat. His (nstache, once black, was slightly tinged Mh grey. "This was only true of his hair, ept that the gray was plentiful. But he still young, certainly not more than 35 ? The woman by his side was a blonde. I k was clad in a light-colored dress, a sort j'rray and of that material known as 11 V's hair. About her neck she wore a Y light-colored feathers. IIP pair walked down the cast side of I I ' street followed by the woman in black. I Inan, fearing that someone in the crowd lid recognize him, hacl pulled his hat 1 I his eyes and rolled the collar of his 1 l' -v coat UP aoout h's ears. AVhen they 1 Iched Second South they crossed over and i lintinued west. When half-way over j llneone who seemed to know the man llldked by him and as he did so admonished I ll'Be careful, old boy! you arc being fol- lec'" au( then passed hurriedly on. Whe admonition was not without its effect. lfV "man looked guiltily about him, but selling no one he knew aud having no suspicion sus-picion of she who whs clad in the robes of mcJ'irning, he got easy again and continued Li was then between 11 and 12 o'clock; the strcl ts wrc becoming comparatively quiet anil only a few people, were about. The coi:.!e had nearly reached the drug store on the I corner of Second South aud "West T(-jole. The momeht of accusation had a d. Quickening her pace, the pursuing f I n in black, rapidly walked by the ' lie and turning like a Sash, threw aside . rloomy scarf with which she had been I loped and stood before the guilty pair. I lelcn," ejaculated the guilty man and f fstood speechless. a i V woman disregarded him.inut placing jl Vnd on t-houlder of tl Van's coni- Jp!i''''re arc y044 V with this l JOYil'li k ySL" my hus- 1 J and thaiVou are wrecking 'my- tfonw' til luining n.v life, you vile creature you" I Irning to - he man she said: "Henry, lis this wc.aan Come home with me." the man stood, untouched by an appeal ap-peal that should have wrung a response frotji a stone, and if he made a reply it could not fhe heard; but he rudely thrust her who proclaimed herself his wife out of his way and the couple walked on. . A man who had witnessed this scene, and sav the woman stagger as though about to falfouered his assistance but she reeoverred quickly and hurried away. She walked rapidly east on Second South to Main and down "that street to Third South turned the corner of Third South, walked east until she got to the Tellurite block and going into the entrance which leads to the upstairs apartments, apart-ments, vanished. |
