Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-04

large city like Leeds did; and she had
all her money scrupulo1sly settled on
herself for her own use and under her
control.
Steve felt very much as though his
wife had bought him, but for a little
while the eclat of having married great
heiress, the bridal festivities and foreign
travel compensated for the loss of his
freedom. But when they returned to
Braithwaite, life showed far more pro-
sale side. Mrs. Gaskill's economical dis
position became particularly offensive to
Steve. She inquired closely into his
business, and did not scruple to make
unpleasant witty remarks about his in
come. She rapidly developed, too, an
authoritative disposition, against which
Steve daily more and more rebelled.
The young couple were soon very un
happy.
the truth was that a great transition
was taking place in Steve's mind, and
times of transition are always times of
unrest and misery. The better part of
his nature was beginning to claim hear
ing. He had now seen all that good So
ciety could show him; he had tasted all
the pleasures money could buy, and he
was unhappy.
She had no ennui and no dissatisfac-
ton with herself. There was her large
house to oversee, her garden and con-
servatorles, her servants and charity
schools, her toilet and whole colony of
pet ANIMALS. Her days were SO short for
all the small interests that filled the day:
and these interests she would have will
hngly shared with Steve, but to him they
soon became intolerable bores.
Under such circumstances he might
have found his work in the ordering and
investigating of his wife's large estate,
but EhZebeth was far too cautious to
trust her business to untried hands.
Her fathers agent was her agent; her
banker managed all her investments;
her park and farm and gardens were all
under the care of old and experienced
servants, who looked upon Steve merely
as " Missiles husband"
In the second year of his marriage he
began to have some thoughts which would
have astonished his wife could she have
thought it worth while to inquire what
occupied his mind in the long hours when
he paced the shrubbery, or sat silently
looking out of the window. But Steve
was now ready for any employment that
would take him out of the purposely de-
pendent life which he had 80 foolishly
chosen for himself.
One day, greatly to his surprise, Eliza
beth said to him:
"Steve, have letter from a cousin
of mothers, who lives IN Glasgow. She
Is going to Australia and wants me to
buy her house. She says it is great
bargain, and wrote to Barrett to go and
see about it. [ have letter this morn
ing saying he is too i'll to leave his bed.
l wonder if you could go to attend TO it?''
Anything for change Steve showed
a very proper business-like interest, and
said:
Yes, would be very glad to 60"
every well; I should think you knew
enough of titles and deeds and convey
ancing and all that sort of thing. will
trust the affair to you, Steve"
So the next morning Steve found him
self on the Caledonia line, with e1OO
In his pocket, and valuable piece of
business on hand. The first twenty
miles out of Leeds he enjoyed with all
the abandon of bird set free. Then he
began to think again. At Crewe he
missed train and he wandered about
the station, fell in talking with the engi-
neer of the next one who was cleaning
and examining the engine with all the love
and pride a mother gives her favorite
child.
The two men fraternized at once, and
Steve made a trip over the Caledonia line
in the engineers small cuddy. He was a
fine young fellow, zone of SEVEN" he
said, call machinists and engineers" he
was only serving his time, learning every
branch OF the business, practically; he
had brothers who made engines, and he
hoped to do so sometime.
In spite of his soiled face and oily
clothes, Steve recognized that refinement
that comes with education; and when
his new friends called upon him at the
Queens hotel. he would not be ashamed
of his appearance, even in the most fas-
tidious days.
"Mr. Dalrymple, I am glad to see
you," said Steve, holding out both hands
to him.
81 thought you would be, sir? It is
not often | make mistakes in my likings.
I will go with you now to see my faith
er's works, if it suits you"
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en- Gaskill's conception; the immense
furnaces, the hundreds of giants work
ing around them, the clang of ma
chinery, the mighty struggle Of mind
with matter, Of intellect over the rev.
citation. He envied those cyclops in
their leathern masks and aprons; he
longed to lift their heavy hammers.
He looked upon the craftsmen with
their bare, brawny arms and blackened
hands, and felt his heart glow with adj
miration when he saw the mighty
works those hands had fashioned. The
tears were in his eyes when Dalrymple
and he parted at the gate of the great
walled-in yard.
"Thank you," he said, "you have
done me the greatest possible service.
shall remember it.
That night Steve formed a strange
but noble resolution. First of all he
devoted himself to his wife's business,
and accomplished it in manner which
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