Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-08

tlemen, without exception. will admit
also that as financial scheme it was q
failure. never learned to scrimp. I
always bought the best of everything.
My table was always snowy clean, If
not elegant. In the absence of silver I
graced it with flowers | took pride in
all its appointments. I said nothing
about my past history. Gradually l
learned that the boarders thought my
husband absent, that was only doing
my part toward earning mutual home
in the future. They were very delicate
about the subject, never questioning me,
and for some reason / took no pains to
did l regret the false impression. The
clergyman of our parish was one OF the
guests of our house. 1 never knew such
study than eat his dinner. have known
rather than leave his books. | used to
pity the good man, and usually at such
times of intense study would send one
| of the servants up to his room with a
| lunch of fruit or cake, and he &, always
remembered it afterward by such a
pleased look and quiet 81 thank you for
that" you would think he had never
known what it was to have Q kind word.
He was very i'll at the time and recov-
cred very slowly. Daring his GONZALES
cence used to hurry to get through my
morning work in order to read to him,
for / knew that he must miss his books
more than anything else, and the Doc
tor had forbidden him to look into one
Many book read through in this way.
| believe the pleasure he had in these
books held him down to this earth, for
he was so good he seemed ready to 60
straight to Heaven.
6 But with very little explanation he
left my house and went elsewhere just
as soon as he grew better have al
ways thought it was because he found
out that / was acting a deceptive part.
think he must have lost confidence in
me- wished so much to explain it to
him, but he certainly avoids me. He
meets me now and then; always so
gravely and sweetly kind, as if he pitied
and yet reproved me. would give any
thing in the world to have him under
stand that did not mean any wrong,
but can never talk to him as I used.
There is a constraint between us that l
can not understand" -. .a- 20
This is the substance of what my dear
girl told me when she returned from her
expedition. .1ss....- .r .s
And what do you think, husband,
did?" she asked seating herself on the
arm of my chair and looking round into
my face with eyes in which tears and
smiles blended r..' TO- gs.... Die. ... a.
81 couldn't guess 900. ,..-..
81 invited her to throw up her bust
ness and 60 abroad with US next sum-
mer and would pay all expenses
"My darling, did you do that?"
yes, and she has consented"
"spin, spin, Clotho, spin,"
said /, rising and shaking hands with an
imaginary Clotho in the air.
"The deities of fate are ct work for
them, my love; you and l are only the
instruments! ...-
"Keep cool, John DEAR" was my
wife's amiable response, as she snatched
our youngest from the floor, where he
was in danger of being stumbled over
in my absent-minded and studious walk.
There's many Slip" you know, ssbe-
tween the cup and the lip"
Passing over the intervening months,
our first picture shall be photographed
from the deck of the Cunard steamer
R, in the month of May, 1880. We
are grouped about in various attitudes,
my wife and Mrs. Julia engaged in close
conversation about some piece of femi-
nine handiwork, when my friend APP
pears on deck for the first time. He
had persistently kept his berth, more,
thought, from dependency than from
the effect of the mint dc Ner. We were
three days out. Mrs. Julia knew that
he was on board, for my wife had told
her in casual, Indifferent way while
naming over company, concealing, as
women know how, any intent, under the
innocent words:
"Rev. julius Hardwood was a college
chum of my husbands. He makes one
of our party. You must meet him.
But l had not dared as yet to reveal
to him my treachery. lie had not seen
her. .3-'s
He was sauntering along in his medi-
tative way past the groups of people,
when stopping to say "good morning"
to my wife in one of his rounds, his
eyes fell upon her companion, who arose
with some timidity to greet him.
1t was hard ordeal, but he displayed
remarkable self-possession. Ifelt proud
of him. .s ..r
Had she not been quite preoccupied
with the thought of his imagined dis
pleasure she could not have failed to see
that it was no common interest he felt for
her, but hers was one of those charm
ingly unselfish natures that never sup
pose the elements of attractiveness to be
inherent in themselves. ...
After very short conversation he
disappeared. found him a few
moments afterward below, whittier I
had followed him. .o2
elbow could you do this, John?',
"Do what?" 7ra .',,sas? 1850
"Bring us together again after had
almost fought it out of my heart! The
battle all has to be begun again. have
found that my first thought was positive
delight for two weeks of unavoidable
companionship, but how is life to be
made endurable after thatp'' ,..
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