Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-09-16
A settled, white look came around his

clothes than for my respect and the con-
sciousness that you are my economical,
prudent wife who is helping her husband
save instead of almost goading him into
debt, You can have the money"
Her eyes flashed as delightedly as O
child's over a new toy. She had ac-
complished her desire, and his cold yet
touching words had fallen unheeded
before that
"You can have the money"
She sprung from her chair behind the
coffee urn, and threw her arms around
his neck, kissing his handsome, worried
forehead.
"You darling I knew you would
not say mo, for all you read me such
lecture on economy. Really, Ellis,
when you see how lovely L shall look in
my new silk, you will not grudge the
money, will your You like to see me
look as pretty as 1 used before we were
married, don't youi And you're not
angry, dear2 You do love mel"
Her sweet, girlish face all alight with
happy enthusiasm, her blue eyes dancing
with such honest delight, her smooth
cheek lying against his, AMI her dainty
little hand stroking his whiskers-of
course Ellis laid down Lis napkin and
pushed back from the table and kissed
her.
She was his wife-sweet, pretty, deli
cate as mountain pink, and he loved
her-loved her dearly, truly, as in the
days when he had won her, thinking
what rare flower she was.
He loved her, and was willing, yes,
anxious, to increase her happiness by
every honest means in his power-only
Efie was extravagant and unreas enable
in her demand for dress and style that
were beyond the capabilities of the well
salaried man that he was.
So, now he kissed her tenderly, and
then took out his purse and laid bank
note on the tablecloth.
"There's your new silk, dear-may
you enjoy it.
| His forbidding manner had so entirely
disappeared, that Efie's heart was en-
couraged to undertake another pet plan.
So as she demurely folded the note
away in her pretty little crimson Russia
pocketbook, she begun, so quietly that
Ellis was quite captured by storm !:
81 was wondering if it would not be
a good plan if we shut up the house for
August, dear, and went somewhere. It
will do you so much good, I'm sure, and
there will be no expenses here while
we're away. Can't we go to Hastings?"
She opened the battery very suddenly,
almost staggering Tremayne.
"Oh, Efie, no. 1t would involve
larger expense, ten times, than it costs
at home"
Then seeing that we'll known, martyr.
like expression settling on her face, that
always drove him to desperation, he
added, hastily:
elf you can manage it, go yourself.
dare say some of your fashionable
friends will chaperon you"
"Ohsmay I, may ], really? Indeed,
will manage it j l don't need many
new things, I'm sure. I have enough
for the silk, and with little more I can
easily get what 1 absolutely need. Ellis,
you are darling!
He laughed-not very ioyously.
"Im glad you think so. Well, I'm
off"
Two hours later, Mrs. Effie Tremayne,
dressed in an ptionably elegant
walking costume, started out on her
shopping tour, to meet at the silk coun-
ter Mrs. Godfrey Coddington, carelessly
tossing over rare pieces of evening
silk.
81 am so delighted to have your
taste on my new silks, my dear Mrs.
Tremayne. Do tell me which you pre-
fer the salmon, or the pearl blue, or
this SUMMER pink9 intend to have a
couple of them for Hastings"
Hastings
Mrs. Tremayne's cheeks glowed.
81 hope to see you at the shore, Mrs
Coddington, and in either this exquisite
maize or silver pink"
$50 you will be therei Do join our
party-only Godfrey and sister Blanche
and Nellie Bellburn and for next
Thursday week. Have you engaged
rooms9 What shall you get new3"
1t was certainly very delightful to be
talked to thus, but, once home, there oc-
Cured little qualms of conscience, as,
very, very gradually, she felt herself
drawn into arrangements she knew were
far beyond her reach.
And yet she consented to Mrs. Cod
dington's kind offer that Mr.. Codding-
ton should secure rooms for her with
his party.
She made up her mind that the ele,
CANT stock of clothes that two hours ago
she thought needed only little renova-
tion and a small addition to make it all
that was necessary, would not do at all.
And so, besides the money her hus.
band had given her being spent in the
dozen aud one trifing accessories that a
we'll dressed toilette demands, there was
folded away in seldom used compart-
ment of Mrs. Tremayne's pocketbook an
unreceipted bill for fifty pounds, made
out 10 Mr.. Ellis Tremayne.
Effie's blue eyes were dancing and her
cheeks flushed when she was set down
with her parcels from Mrs. Coddington's
carriage at her door.
She had time and to spare before Ellis
! came in to the five o'clock dinner to look
! over her purchases, that after all seemed
} very few and small considering that hor
rid bill in her pocketbook, that she
} dreaded to show her husband, for all the
fusL ed gayety of her manner.
! "Ah, is there any need to tell hin
| now 7" she reasoned, while she removed
her walking suit and donned lovely
black tissue. " Not the slightest use tt
tell him before I go away. He'll onl,
: make fuss, and I do hate fuss
, Besides, after I'm home again, perhap
, can save it out of the house money.
So she quieted her conscience will
5 the hopefully specious promises, anC
the next day, finding it impossible t.
' get ready by herself in time to go will
i Mrs. Coddington's party, was obliged t.
q ann1ov the narvices of q hiuh nrica,