And found her clasped tight in his arms.

“I came in the room as she kissed him,

He saw me and begged for his life;

I shot at the cur, but I missed him—

He ran and left me with my wife.

“My—wife—God! I’d found her no better

Than women who live on the street,

So diff’rent than when I first met her—

She screamed and fell dead at my feet.

“Then somethin’ inside my brain parted