The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-09-24

"Ihat sacred tie has never been sew
cred. You must always remember
that I don't know what your feelings
are on such subject, but according to
my views 1t should not be severed
roughly. When there are children,
that should always be borne in mind.
Don't you think sop 1l
'The children should be borne in
mind"
"Just SO. That's what mean.
Who can look after family Of young
children so well as their young motherp
Men have various ways Of looking at
the matter" To this John Gordon
gave his ready assent, and was anxious
to hear in what way his assistance was
to be asked in again putting Mr.. and
Mrs. Tookey, with their young chill.
dren, respectfully on their feet There
are men, you know, stand-of sort Of
fellows, who think that woman should
never be forgiven"
at must depend on how far the hus-
band has been In fault"
EXACTLY. Now these stand-of sort
Of fellows will never admit that they
have been in fault at all That's not my
case.'
"You drank little"
| "For the matter Of that so did she.
When woman drinks she gets herself
to bed somehow. A man gets out upon
spree. That's what used to do, and
then l would hit about me rather reck-
lessly. have no doubt Matilda did
get It sometimes. When there has been
that kind Of thing, forgive and forget
Is the best thing you can do"
IL suppose So"
Sand then at the Fields there isn't
the same sort of prudish life which one
is accustomed to in England. Here in
London man is nowhere II he takes
his wife back. Nobody knows her, be-
cause there are plenty 10 know Of an
other sort. Bnt there things are not
quite 50 strict OF course she oughtn't
to have gone off with Atkinson-a vul-
gar, low fellow, too."
''And you oughtn't to have licked
her."
"That's just 1t. It was tit for tat,
think. That's the way / look at 1t.
At any rate we are living together now,
and no one can say we're not man and
wife"
"There'll be a deal Of trouble saved in
that way"
"a great deal. We are man and wife,
and can begin again as though nothing
had happened. No one can say that
blacks the white Of our eye. She'll
take TO those darling children as though
nothing had happened. You can't con-
ceive how anxious she Is 10 get back 10
them. And there's no other impedi-
mont. That's comfort.
"Another impediment would have
upset you rather.
II couldn't have put up with that I"
Mr.. Fitzwalker Tookey looked very
grave and high-minded as he made the
assertion. ''But there's nothing of that
kind. It's all open sailing. Now, what
are we to live upon, Just for q begin
nihgp"
"You have means out there"
"Not as things are At present, 1 am
sorry 10 say. To tell the truth, my
third share Of the old Stick-in-the-M Mud
is gone. had TO raise money when Il
was desirable that / should como with
you"'- tt 4N
"Not on my account"
"And then did owe something. At
any rate, It's all gone now. I should
find myself stranded as Kimberley with
out q red cent"
"What can doP"
"Well, / viii explain. Poker & Hodge
will buy your shares for the sum named
Joshua Poker, who Is out there, has got
my third share. Poker & Hodge have
the money down, and when I have ar
ranged the sale, will undertake to give
me the agency at one per cent on the
whole take for three years certain.
That'll be 1000 year, and rs odd II
can't find myself again in that time. I"
Gordon stood silent, scratching his head.
"0r II you give me the agency on the
sage terms, It would be the same thing.
don't care a straw for Poker & Hodge. ="
81 dare say not" .....'
"But you'd find me as true as steel. {"
"What little good did at the Fields
l did by looking after my own busi-
ness"
"Then what do you proposep Let
Poker & Hodge have them, and shall
bless you for ever" To this mild sp-
peal Mr. Tookey had been brought by
the manner in which John Gordon had
scratched his head. 81 think you are
bound to do it, you know" To this he
was brought by the subsequent look
which appeared in John Gordon's eyes.
81 think not"
"Men will say so."
81 don't care straw what men say,
or women"
"And you to come back in the same
ship with ME and my wife! You
couldn't do it. The Fields wouldn't
receive you" Gordon bethought him.
self whether this imagined rejection
might not arise rather from the char
acte Of his travelling companions. ITO
bring back the mother Of three little
sainted babes, and then to walk in upon
every shilling Of property which had
belonged to their fatherl You never
could hold up your head In Kimberly
again" Fi'I'.l If
II should have to stand abashed be-
fore your virtueP"
Eyes, you would. should be known
TO have come back with my poor re-
pentant wife, the mother of three dear
babes And she would be known TO
have returned with her misguided hus-
band. The humanity Of the Fields
would not utter word Of reproval TO