The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-20
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wanted. If you would have spoken them
sooner, we need never have parted"
"Oh, Harold how can your II was not
that | was asking you TO forgive me, but
my folly in leaving you. am as innocent
OF taxing that wretched money as my own
child. Won't you believe mel'
Il d. ny darling, ! do replied, with
genuine delight. u would have believed
you then if you had said this to me; but
you know you never dcigued me word,
and what was TO Think
Il was SO Mortified at your even suspect
ing me that fancied il was beneath me TO
deny il. ! cannot now understand what
could have prompted you TO think such
dreadful thing Of me. 1t is very hard to
bear"
! was beginning to wonder, too, how
could have suspected my own Marian. Cir
cumstances and my mother were more TO
blame than |, however.
In answer, murmured something about
Frank.
"Ah that letter 10 Frank, remember it.
You were always so hard upon him that |
didn't Ike 10 tell you about il. He really
had been trying to keep on steadily at the
post your Kindness had obtained him. but
all debts were constantly coming in, and
limited salary would not meet them and
keep him as well. There was one man
who pressed him hard for $50. He had
spent the greater portion Of his last quar-
tiers salary and more would not be coming
for some time. He wrote and told me
this, asking me 70 help him, but could
not. He wrote again and said he must
draw on his salary, but begged him not 10
do so, so soon. was sure his employers
would think il q bad sign. The man
threatened 10 expose his former habits 10
the firm, which you know might have
ruined him with them. ! resolved 70 help
him this once, and in order 70 do SO sold
my diamond brooch, which l
scarcely ever had occasion 10 wear. | got
$50 for it and | sent him notes 70 that
amount-he little guessed at what cost"
My poor prosecuted, selt.sacriicing lit
tie woman; why did you not tell me all
this. Why could you not trust met"
why could you not trust mel' Marian
demanded half-playfully, alphabetically.
Then she added earnestly, Il have been
very much TO blame, was proud and self
willcd and all sorts of bad things, and then
leaving you was worse than all. Harold.
dear, am 80 ashamed OF myself for that,
No woman is justified in leaving her hus-
band on so slight preteXt as had,
thought so TOO, She was becoming the
most sensible little woman in the world;
but had been TO blame, too, and was not
gong 10 let all the magnanimity be on her
side.
I'VE are both 10 blame" | replied. Il
am not going TO eXonerate you quite, little
wife, but am going 10 own my own fault.
| was brute TO doubt You. Marian, you
must forgive me- dear"
"Oh. Harold, We shall be so happy, again
now. shant we!' the little woman replied;
and then she wound up our reconciliation
in truly womanly style, with tears and
smiles and kisses.
But the mystery Of the money was still
more dark after Marian explanation, and
il was months before we penetrated it. We
DID so at last however.
Our piano being sadly in want of repair,
! sent for protest. onal man TO come and
do it up" was in the room when he
proceeded to take il 10 pieces. As soon as
the front was removed perceived little
black box snugly lodged inside which !
Immediately recognized, My grand idea
now flashed into my mind, Here, then.
was the clue b the mystery. WAS THE
THIEF. In me anxiety | had placed the
money inside the piano, while still under
the influence Of sleep.
Marian was delighted. She actually she'd
tears of joy when told lier Of my discov-
cry
"Oh, you abandoned man." she said
shaking her head at me, ITO suspect me
when oil the time you had stolen your own
money"