got a business to attend to and you mi t not believe it but i ve got a wife and that i m food ofl then during the murder he was was d n by be able to fed nobly want m to be friends hat i cant go on this way i got to come q so often � oh darling and always yon so that yoa were free i just wanted yon to around when you were tired and wanted to talk to m or could enjoy oar parties was so she was so gently tl it took him an hour to make his escape with nothing settled and horribly settled in a barren freedom of icy northern wind he si thank god that s poor poor decent but it is over ite d n by chapter his wife was when be came in did you have a time she i did not i had a rotten ti m e i anything i got to e q lain george how can you like � oh i don t know what s come over good lord there s nothing come over why do yoa look for trouble all the time he was warning himself stop bang so disagreeable course she feels it being left alone here all evening but he forgot his warning as she went on why do you go out and see all sorts of strange people i say you ve been to another committee meeting this i ve been calling on a woman we sat by the fire and each other and had a whale of a good time if yoa want to � from the way say it i be it s my fault yoa went i probably sent you did i well upon my word � you hate strange people as you call em if you had your way i d be as of an old stick in the mud as you never want to have anybody with any to em at the house you want a of old that sit around and gas about the weather you re doing your level best to make me old well let me tell i m not going to have � d n by bent to bis and in she ob dearest i t think that s true i don t mean to make you old i know perhaps you re partly right perhaps i am slow about getting acquainted with new people but you think of all the dear good times we have and the per parties and the and all � with true masculine be not only convinced him that she had injured him but by the of his voice sod the of bis attack he convinced her also and pr he had her ng for bis having q ent the evening with he went i to bed pleased not only the but the martyr of the household for a distasteful moment after he had lain down he wondered if he had been altogether just ought to be ashamed her is de to things maybe she hasn t had such a time herself but i don t good for her o get up a little and i m going to keep free of her and and the fellows at the and everybody i m going to run my own in this mood be was particularly objectionable at the club lunch next day they were addressed by a man who had just returned from an three study of the political systems divisions resources and of great britain italy and he told them all about those subjects together with three funny stories about european of america and some words on the necessity of keeping ignorant foreigners out of america say that was a talk real he � aid d n by but the grumbled four bunch of hot air i and what s the matter with the aren t all ignorant and i got a we re ail descended oh you make me said was aware that dr a i was sternly from across the table dr was one of the most important men in the he was not a physician but a surgeon a more romantic and sounding he waa an intense large man with a boiling of black hair and a thick black the new often his he was professor of in the state university he went to dinner at the very best on royal ridge and he was said to be hundred thousand dollars it was to to have such a person at him he hastily praised the s wit to but for dr s benefit that afternoon three men shouldered into office with the air of a committee in frontier days they were huge resolute big men and they were all hi in the land of � dr the surgeon charles the and most of all the white bearded snow owner of the advocate in their presence felt small and insignificant well great pleasure have chairs what c n i do for you be they neither sat nor offered observations on the weather said snow we ve come from the good league we ve decided we want you to join says you don t care to but i think we can show you a light league is going to combine with the d n by � � f io a can for the open shop so ting for you to put your name down in hu could not recall for not wishing to join the league if indeed he had ever definitely known them but he was certain that he did not wish to join and at the t of their him he a stirring of anger against even these princes of colonel have to think it over a little he that means you re not to george something black and and ferocious from now you look ben i m if i m 