The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-12-29
READY FOR. A RAINY
DAY.

In a pleasant, handsomely furnish
ed room, bright with gas and glowing
| freight, sat, one evening a gentle
man, about thirty-five years of age,
Bnd his wife, few years his junior.
Silence had for some time been un-
/ broken between them. The lady's
work had fallen into her lap, and she
was gazing with look of abstraction
into the CRATE. The gentleman had
/ been watching the changing cOunte-
nance of his wife with much apparent
amusement.
"Weli, Mary, what is it that so en-
chains your thoughts, and that has
kept your tongue so long silent?
The wife, thus reused from her rev.
erie, looked up and smiled.
81 was thinking, dear, how very
uncertain a business mans riches
are" E.... -.t
"Ho! no little wife, you were bOr-
rowing trouble, Pm afraid. Confess
now, wasn't you ?"
you always accuse me Of that,
whenever | look forward and plan 10
ward of trsuble," said the lady, with
a slight shade of vexatiOu crossing her
| fair face.
"But you know you are very apt to
do il, my dear. Now l never am so
foolish. But let me know what more
you were thinking. That long 81
,euce could not have been filled with
one Thought"
Edwin" :" said the lady, regardless
of her husband quest >tion, "iiow much
10 you cali yourself wOrth-beyOnd
what you owe, nean-what Is en-
tirely your own ?'
"a dear wife and three pretty chill
dren," was the smiling reply.
ayes, but what else? How much
goods and gUll ?"
"You are pointed in your questions.
| Why do you wish to know ?"
''If you'll just answer my questions,
I'll tell you all my reasons for making
| Them"
"Well, my love, I am worth fifty
thousand dollars. Viii that do ?''
"Ail free-yOuF Fown-without mort
gage or incumbrlnce ?"
"Why, yes, certainly-what does
all you, to he SO inquisitlve tC-nigbt?'
"FheA; il this property is entirely
YOUR own, it certainly cannot be
wrong for you to settle a part of il
upon me; and, Edwin, that is just
what / want you To do as soon as yOn
possibly can. The failure of Mr.. Dyke
mas put this into my head. Where
would his fanily-all his little ciIi.-
iren-nOw be, had not his wife al
ways kept her property clear of his
| business? What | want you to do Is
TO make me able to provide for you a
home, and for your children an edu-
1 4 .r-f1N -,
business arrangements. Will you 81 Z
e twenty thousand or even tn thou
sand dollars on me?"
Mr.. Prescott burst into q hearty
laugh.
''You are providing for an evil day,
that's sure case. Wny, Mary, Pun
not going t. faIl, and you are talking
nonsense. Set your heart at rest
wife; am able to take care of my
family, and don't expect to need to
ipply to my Mary to be taken care Of
All! hs, ha /! if that is not a good
! one ~
"You may laugh il you will. Pm
/ glad you feel so merry, but l can see
| nothing so very funny in the idea ol
| providing on fair day for wet one,
| You feel very rich, and strong now
no Doubt; so did Mr.. Dyke six months
ago, and why may not reverse come
to you as well as MIN. You know you
are always saying tlat shall have
everything 1 want 80 long as you live
Now let me see if have twenty thou
sand collars"
Upon my word, a modest request
Why, Mary, I don't know that
could draw that sum from my bust
ness with safety; but as your hear
seems set upon IL, will see what cal
be done. Are you satisfied, my greedy
dear ~
"For t1-night," was the reply.
Next morning, having made hersel
as agreeable as she knew how, anC
having satisfied her "desr love" by {
comfortable break fast she said TO him
as he was preparing to 90 out
Nov, husband, dou't forget whai
you are t. do to-day"
pooh % returned her husband
laughiDgly, as the subject of their last
Evenings conversation suddenly re
CURED tJ him.
"No, you needn't. Now, Edwin
You do at mean to put me off abonl
thai 10 liter, do you2 Now, dear Ed.
dy, you really don't, do you? Tel
me the truth before you go out. See,
nv arms shall be your prison till you
speak what is your real Intention.
You can get away easy enough, bui
you will hurt poor me if you go, for
shall hold on as long as l can. YOU
don't know how earnest feel about
this matter. It seem to me as if i
had come 70 this, home or no home,
and your will were this day to decide
It."
"Yes, yes, I will certainly you'll
only let me 60"
"Delighted 10 do It! Go! you ART
the best man in the town. knew
YOU would consent to make your Mar
happy"
SDear Mary" said her HUSBAND
passing through the door.
His tone was financial rather thar
sffectionate. He always had indulg
; ed his wife, and he knew not how Il
refuse her now; but somehow III
didn't exactly relish the idea Of max