Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-04-28
$500 PER ANNUM, in ADVANCE.

we Can go on III Inls way, hOOert
said, with still more unpleasant man
ner.
oh I am not afraid! Steadiness will
bring it back again
And in the meantime are we to
starve"
Starve!-no, dear. have plenty;
have saved fifty pounds already. II is in
the bank and we shall do very badly if
we eat up tina. before got my custom
back again.
Roberts eyes sparkled. Fifty lbs!'
he said coaxingly. Little miser you
never tol1 me of this!'
janet blushed painfully. Something
forebode evil TO her, and she would will.
iugly have retraced her admission, if she
could have done SO. Not that she had
any definite suspicion or any definite
fear. 1t was simply the vague forebo-
ding that usually accompanies false
step. I~ ..
1t is for the children she said hurri-
edly.
And so keep it sacred, even from
myself. Only the workhouse should
drive me to use il.
This was said gently, bu. with GER
tain frmness of voice and decision of
manner not to be mistaken.
Robert was silent. But all that day,
and the next, and the day after, he was
more loving. playful, tender, fascinating.
than he had ever been, either before or
after their marriage. ..........-.
You had much better sell your stock
and good will. and 60 out to America he
said, suddenly, on the fourth day. You
are loosing your custom more and more
every day. and soon you will have moth
ing left to sell. Take my advice, and
part with all while you can command
your market. You will do better with
me in New York
They were alone. 1t was evening,
and the little ones were in bed. Robert
drew his wife on his knee and kissed
her. -. ..-. .....
Sell all that you have he repeated,
'and come back with me 10 America.
hal capital situation in New York,
which gave up to come to you; bu,
may have it again if go back and ask
for it within the year. My master prom
ised it. BE advised by me, Janet.
know the world better than you do. Is
no, our fortune the same?' ..... ...n
Janet at first demurred, then wept,
then relen,ed, then refused again, wept
afresh. and finally consented; won over
by the grand promises and tender caress-
es her husband lavished on her altern-
ately. He had behaved so well since he
came back-he seemed TO be so thor
oughly reformed-that Janet felt she
would have been wicked to have doubt
ed him. And was she not bound by the
laws OF God and man to ODE, and fol.
low hin whlshersoever he might com,
and! Janet's religion somehow al
ways took the form of conIugal obe6i-
ence-though We should say ii was from
conjugal affection!
Ii was then agreed between them tha.
a sale should be announced, and that Ja-
net should dispose of her house and
trade, the furniture, goodwill, every
thing she had called her own (Rober.
always said .ours'). and set out with
her husband to the New World, to be-
gin afresh. and enter on a new and bles-
sed life of prosperity alone.
Amidst ridicule, en,rea;ies to recon.
slider her step and representations of
the bitterest misery, amidst prophesies
Of deserion, perhaps of murder, and
earnest prayers to cast of this infatua.
ton, Janet stole softly among her friends
on the day Of the sale, trying hard to
keep up her heart, and to believe in her
own wisdom. aud her husbands good
ness. but failing miserbly, as each fresh
volley of satire or of en,rea,y burst
upon her. If she could have retraced
she would; but the thing was done now;
and wright or wrong she must abide by
her own decision.
The sale was effected, and by il Janet
realized large sum of money; larger
than what she expected. or would have
gained. had she not been SO popular and
beloved. Altogether, taking out the IF
~ pounds before mentioned, she made
up one hundred and fifty pounds, and
with this her husband asserted to her
and every body else. they could make
their fortunes in five years.
They took ship a, Liverpool and sail
ed for New York.
They had prosperous voyage, and
Janet and the children bore il WE'LL
Robert. though nothing like the old Rob
ert of brutality and i'll usage, was yet no.
thing like the tender husband he had
been of late. He was moody and snap.
pish, and more than once he told Jane,
that wife was great hindrance to a
man, and that if he had been alone with
such capital to star. with he would
have been gentleman in year or two.
But if you had been alone, dear. you
would not have had such CAPITOL said
Janet, simply. You know made i, for
u.s. s
He growled something unin,illigible,
and walked away. Janet's hear. sank
within her.
If l have been fool after all-if |
have been deceived again!' she thought,
as she watched him talking in the dis
lance. But she would no, give way to
such n thnuoht and fal, o,,;to ,o,;.a..