Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-08-05
but been Happy old bach How wish I

but been Happy old bach How wish
was!" ..- 4s4.
care you in earnest, sir 2" lat
ssIn earnest, madam" 4I.
'sThen, perhaps, we had better part"
''Part it is, then" f
esThe sooner the better, too"
"My sentiments exactly, madam"
Today" s.s
To-day" #
"Where will you go?''
''I? shan't 60 I shall say here"
ssBut you don't mean to say you're going
to turn me out of house and home never
would believe that of you, Geo. Graham 2
as'It isn't that is turning you out. You
are turning yourself out. Suppose yoo
stay you have no money to pay the rent
| or run the affair 1t costs something tc
eep the house, I can tell you. I have
found it out by bitter experience"
e'But where can [ go? You know I have
net relative left me-.
s'You should have thought Of that before
you proposed parting. 1t is not my bust
ness to look you up house"
81 don't know whose else it is. You
might do as much us that for your own
wife" .-ase.
'For M wife I'd do great deal more.
But you are not my wife any more; only
the legal tie remaining 10 be severed, and
I'll apply fur a divorce at once
And disgrace us beth p
but what can a fellow do? Now I've
got used to having home, want one, and
once free from you. there are dozens of girls
that will be glad to take up with me, care
less, good for nothing scapegrace as I am. :"
.'And d pretty life they'll lead you, too. .
1T can't be worse than you have led me
the last six months. I've been a fool to bear
it so long. Fret, fret, fret, from morning
till night. Thank heaven, it is all over at
last p and he whistled gaily. 4e;i iAet
"You seem glad to get rid Of NE, sir.
''You have made me glad, madam" He
put on his oVercoat, drew Oh his rubhers,
and gathered up his hat and gloves. Was
he really going, and without his dinner?
4. "When will you be ready to leave, mad
am I'll order a carriage any hour you
name"
"You are an uufeeling wretch, George
Graham; you are, that's the truth You
might, for decency's sake, give me till to-
morrow to pack up my things and decide
what to do.'' at
Hou can have week, madam, if you
wish. thought you were in hurry to CO.
Yes, you may have a week. Meanwhile
I'll go to hotel.' s'
''And have the whole town talking
about US Why can't you stay at |lcpsc just
as well =
because never like to be in anybody's
way"
's.Rut it is your own house, and
if you ever had any regard for me, you'll
stay till Pm gone" Her voice was not
quite as steady as it had been
''Well, I'll stay, then 3u: not row
I'll come back tonight You need not lit
up for ine, Mrs. Graham. Ii will be late
when get in, and-I will take the spare
chamber till you are gone"
The front door closed after him IN anoth-
er moment He was gone! Gone without
his 1inner gone, and not coming back till
nobody knew when, and .hen going up
stairs to sleep alone. They had quarrelod.
They had as good as parted They would
ba DIVORCED. 5io could gel another wife
and bring her home here, and she-she
would have to 60 alone into the cold, dreary
world and earn her own living. She didn't
know enough about divorce, poor thing, to
think Of alimony. And all this because he
neglected to leave his things" in the hall,
and she found fault with him fnr the said neg
lect Careless husband Fidgcty wife And
because he was careless aud she fdeety, they
must live apart
Mrs GRAHAM looked about herjust then.
Everything was neat and orderly There
wac nothing to worry /! Nothing There
was everything And she sat down and
cried she WHO had been so resolute only
ten minutes before But that resolution,
that dc fance, had teen born of anger and
the anger WIS all gone now. How sorry
she was she had been so cross to him, for
she had been cross real cross, wlckedly
crogs. What if he had tassca his things
any and every way 1t was mans trick,
and here she sobbed outright; he never had
a mother to train him. Poor fellow, he had
been knocked around from pillar TO post all
his life, till be got riarpi0d, and now he
would have 10 knock around again. for of
course he could not get married right awayi
no, he would have to get a houseEeeper, and
she would worry the life out Of him and
wh,n he did get married could he find one
who would love him as she had and did p
Yes, did tho love was there yet, swelling
up and Overlooking.
She gent INTO the kitchen, hardly know
ing why, driven, perhaps, by the force OF
habit There stood the table, laid for din
ner, and so neat the cloth white in its
creases, the plates and glasses sh ining
brightly the knives and forks polished to
almost silver whitensss, She gave It one
look, and mechanically opened the stove
oven. The chicken was browning nicely
George liked roast chicken better than a.
flicasscc, SO she had cooked it til way
The potatoes aud the turaips were dancing
merry jigs in the pot, and the teakcttle was
softly humming. The mince pie stood on
the hearth warming itself quietly, and ex-
haling a spicy odor that was tempting even
to dyspeptic stomach.
'.'ouch - dinner and no one TO cat it!
l vish-l \ fl hadn't been so cross
to him. hogan it, and kept it up too .
he wasn't cross at first he held out until l
made him mad. l wish he was more care
full, though such dear, good fellow about
everything c lse. Never scolds when bills
come in like Hannah Renton's husband -
Mercy don't know how she does live
with him And he's always giving me
change, too I hardly have to ask for a
cent; I don't know what I should do if
had to manage as Carrie Sanford does to
get dollar out of jim If had such. a
man, ia leave him, if I had to work my
fingers to the bone to earn my living, And
he wants me- to haze q girl and be dressal