out again in her favor till then she knows what to expect he leaned over toward her resting his arm on the table that stood between them be careful that you do not carry this feeling against the poor girl into the grave with you he said earnestly as you truly say i cannot now offer her my aid i wish i could but why do you not do her full justice as matters are she is only certain of an income while you live will it make your dying pillow to know in your last moments that you have condemned one of your flesh and blood to want the old woman shut her mouth firmly together it was her own choice she made it she answered and she knows that i never he struck the table with his hand and their eyes met if mr or her children are ever without i love you v means are ever deprived of their natural they shall have me to look to he said i will stand between them and your dangerous ground young man dangerous ground repeated miss though she did not appear half as angry as he expected she would the best thing you can do is to dismiss my niece and her troubles from your mind he rose and stood before her if you will promise to execute a new will in her favor without i will try to do it he replied come come she you are asking too much it really is not your affair but i shall make it mine in the event i speak of he answered firmly good night miss the half hour had not expired when jim wondering what had happened drove silently b to chapter i love you t t t step which mrs had taken had been by her for some weeks after the j with her husband and the circumstance connected with it became exceedingly d and although she knew nothing of the f world she felt that it would be better to husband s friend venture out into t than to stay where every scene recalled the bitterness through which she had passed knew his wife very little indeed when he imagined that she had found even partial content in the life to which he had so long doomed her the fact that for eight years no word of complaint had escaped her only showed her devotion and her pride of spirit she could never have or him into her with more of his presence she could never have suggested even by a look that he ought to take her with him on his travels the love which she had given him had burst forth in her young heart and nothing but the absolute cruelty of events could have lessened its in all those years when she and for the society which he denied her she suffered as only a deserted woman can suffer and made no sign s fling that such a sacrificing wife did not deserve a more faithful husband shows well the difference between the two women there are fires that burn with a quiet and steady light there are others which flash their beams far out into the evening but let no man say that the latter is necessarily the better flame one of those evenings of the early winter just as was about to l h his lamp for the time honored hour of retiring had nearly arrived knocked at her aunt s door it is only following the manner of speech to state the occurrence in this form as nobody ever alluded to her uncle as even a roof over his head miss s always stern face darkened as the form cm ed her threshold for she had supposed the relations between her niece and i love you j w herself severed for good but she could not resist the sad smile with which greeted her nor the outstretched hand and she was soon put in possession of the cause which led to the visit was about to leave and had thought it only right to say good bye to those who were her sole relations there miss always suspicious thought at first that there was in this an attempt on the part of her niece to re herself in the family with a view to securing the money of which s latest will had deprived her s quiet bearing and evident of spirits soon however this fear she said she was going away she did not exactly know where and she wanted her uncle to take charge of her house and sell it as soon as he could obtain a suitable offer she had enough money to last her a little while and perhaps when it was gone she could get something to do all of which showed her prudent aunt that she was about as fit to go off alone as little would be and she told her so but i cannot stay here said m you yourself have advised me to go not without money retorted the aunt you ought to secure your divorce and a handsome allow ance i hear that your husband is getting rich he can afford to give you a large sum would not listen to her not after after what he accused me of dear aunt i could never take his money while be believes that at this miss poured forth the of her wrath as a villain jf the deep eat unworthy the t charitable thought husband s he ought to support his children she said i tell you you must make him do it but was inexorable she had changed her mind on this point for once miss had met a spirit as as her own the wife was willing anxious to go away and never wanted to meet her husband again his money she would not take that point was settled and 