Daily globe., 1883-06-03
HOW TWO LEARNED Il LES
SON.

Betty sighed. Now why she should
have sighed at this particular moment
no one on earth could tell. And it was
all the more exasperating because John
had just generously put into her little,
shapely hand brand-new $40 bill. And
here began the trouble.
whats the matter?" he said, his
face falling at the faint sound, and his
mouth clapping together in what those
who knew him but little called an "ob-
stinate pucker." "Now, what is it?"
Betty, who had just begun to change
the sigh into a merry little laugh rip
pling all over the corners of the red lips,
stopped suddenly, tossed her head and,
with a small jerk noway conciliating,
sent out the words:
"You needn't insinuate, John, that
I'm always troublesome |"
L didn't insinuate-who's talking OF
insinuating cried he, thoroughly in
censed at the very idea, and, backing.
away few steps, he glared down from
his tremendous height in extreme irrita-
ton. "It's you yourself that's forever
insinuating and all that, and then for
you to put it on me-it's really abomin-
able I"
The voice was harsh, and the eyes
that looked down into hers were not
pleasant to behold.
"And if you think, John Peabody,
that I'll stand and have such things said
to me, you miss your guess-that's all I"
cried Betty, with two big red spots COM
ing in her cheeks as she tried to draw
her little erect figure up to its utmost
Dimensions. "Forever insinuating I
guess you wouldn't have said that before
I married you. Oh, now you can, of
course !"
"Didn't you say it first, I'd like to
know" cried John in great excitement,
drawing nearer to the small creature he
called "wife, who was gazing at him
with blazing eyes of Indignation 81
can't endure everything !"
"And if you bear more than l do,
cried Betty, wholly beyond control
now, "why, then I'll give up" and she
gave bitter little laugh and tossed her
head again.
And here they were in the midst of a
quarrel These two who, but year be-
fore, had promised to love and protect
and help each other through life
"Now," said John, and he brought
his hand down with such bang on the
table before him that Betty nearly
skipped out of her little shoes-only she
controlled the start, for she would have
died before she had let John see it,
"we'll have no more of this nonsense p
His face was very pale, and the lines
around the mouth so drawn that it would
have gone to any ones heart to have seen
their expression.
''I don't know how you will change
it, or helpit, " said Betty, lightly, to con-
ceal her dismay at the turn affairs had
taken, "Pm sure!" and she pushed back
the light, waving hair from her forehead
with saucy, Indifferent gesture.
That hair that john always smoothed
when he pettsd Aer when tired or dis
hcartened, and called her "child." Her
gesture struck to his heart as he glanced
at her sunny locks and the cool, indiffer-
ent face underneath, and before he knew
it he was saying
"There is no help for it now, l sup
pose"
"Oh, yes, there is, - said Betty, still
in the cool, calm way that ought not to
have deceived him. But men know go
little of womens hearts, although they
may live with them for years in closes,
friendship. "You needn't try to endure
it, John Peabody, if you don't want to.
I'm sure don't care p
"What do you mean?"
Her husband grasped her arms and
compelled the merry brown eyes to look
up to him.
81 can go .,SS to mother's,' said
Betty, provoktaSS "She wants mo
any day, and then you can live quietly
and live to suit yourself, and it will be
better all around"
Instead of bringing out violent pro-
testation of fond affection and remorse,
which she fully expected, John drcw
himself up, looked at her fxedly for a
long, long minute. then dropped her
arm, and said through white lips very
slowly:
eyes, it may be as you say, better all
around. You know best ;" and was gone
from the room before she could recover
from her astonishment enough to utter
q sound.
With wild cry Betty rushed across
the room, first tossing the $40 bill saw
agely as far as she could throw it, and.