| Show THE WOMAN ON THE BACK SEAT vengeance cuine cause to him film but hot not in her igor way I 1 boarded the train at 4 in the afternoon and had scarcely got seated when I 1 noticed a little woman on the tile last seat of the right baud hand eide side I 1 could not see her tier face on account count of the heavy beavy veil she wore and she leaned over against the window so heavily that I 1 thought her asleep there were only a few passengers of us in the car and everybody seemed to shrink into himself as if weary and disgusted chos the woman back there t I 1 asked of the conductor as nis ho he sat down beside me mo tor for a few minute don dont know ow going to st louis louls he replied sick bickill Sic kIll maybe anil and maybe its something on her mind ive got an idea that ashes watching for somebody it was a winter day and anti raining at that it was dusk but the lamps had ii not ot luen been lighted when alx six or eight people got on at n station among them was a couple w whom hom I 1 believed to be newly wedded although they were middle aged the man was fine looking and the woman really handsome and they took a beat about the middle of the car with ith their back backs to the veiled woman when I 1 happ ned to look back I 1 found her sitting bolt upright and acting as is if very much excited fifteen minutes after the train had pu pulled flex out of the tile station i to the little woman passed me P q she went flown down the aisle tho the lampi lamps were alight now and I 1 saw a pistol clutched sa her right hand band the couple referred to were acting very lovingly toward each other but I 1 hadnot connected the little woman with them at all she passed them by tv two or three feet and then wheeled raised her veil and stood with the pistol pointed full in the mans face no one can be prepared for action under each such every one in the tile car u was looking at the woman and every bod realized that a tragedy WM vast at hand but nobody moved for fully thirty seconds the woman stood like a statue the pistol within two feet of the tile mans face those in front of him said that he lie flu flushed 8 hed up a ai first bight of her and then gr grew e 1 v pule as death he ile tried to speak b but ll 11 t hie ilia lip up uttered no bound the woman be beside beide ide him birn looked raised her liand hands nud and bank batik back 11 in a dead faint george I 1 have come to ani say 1 bald haid the little woman at lat last anti her ler words worda were followed by the dull ink of or the hammer falling on a cartridge cherta ther was wits no explosion her ifer arm slowly fell antil until it rested beside her and with it pol bing wail wall blie rank alink down lu in the algle anil anti was helpless hel plesa all of us moved at once she was lifted to a sent seat and a woman took charge chairge of her tier we turned to the mau man for but he lie had fallen back and his hi eyes were cosed two minutes later we knew kneir that he was dead ag eu rely dead as if it A bullet had pierced ced his brain A A doctor who wils came asea in fro froia in llie uld c car ar ah a 64 ul sah it was a alz 5 0 heart failure lie was the husband of the little woman who lad bad been rid rising lag ao u 1 long 01 on the back seat they had guarr quarreled e 1 ell and he had become infatuated with the lie woman win the wife had to encounter them aud and hill him hini if hr giul looked into the face of death de etli for thi tl i z seconds aud and the tile strain on kin his nerves aim ts lati stopped the flow of life as suddenly us if he be had been struck by a thunderbolt A corps corpe an au a widow it ended there for tv u lint but not for then them was it any wonder that rus the train rushed on through the darkness dark each one ot of ua us seethed to hear a it voice a ying ye reaal The deede deeds of the wicked shall recoil upon their o own liea lien dbr M QUAD QUAID |
