The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-04-05

! The next day, she stole away from her aomirer, and with book, attempted to find amusement under a tree. Pretty soon the humorist, or rather fool, came along.
 Well" he said, stopping, " is our ac- quaintance sufficiently extended to admit of catching up and tying together the broken thread of diso purse. You have chosen a pleasant place." seating him. self
 "I came out here to be alone, and-bu, you are nobody"
 "Go ahead. Don't pay any more at- tention to me than if I were your husband. What book have you ?''
 "A Modern Instance"
 A very clever piece of work with an exciting climax"
 What is the climax ~
 Have you read the work - ! No."
 Then you shouldn't attempt to amp into the future. 4 book loses all inter est for a woman when she learns how ii turns out" Doesn't it with a man >''
 "No: so much, for a man look after character instead of situation
 That's not the reason. It IS because that man, in his egotism. thinks that he can probably make the book turn out as he chooses, regardless of the line marked out by the author. But you haven't told me the climax"
 You will not thank me after have told you
 Yes, declare will
 "The great neigh, is reached when Baftley Hubbard drinks beer and gets fat"
 "Nou are a good for nothing man.o
 Didn't say that you wouldn't thank me ?'
 Bu,you didn't tell me rightly"
 "Yes, did, for that's the sole aim of the book. l. is kind ot supplement to the Banting system, showing that beer, and especially bottled beer, induces i fiesn'
 = lou think you'lc smart, don't you :'' Well, don't know that get out of bed 3; night to think abou, 1t, or that such a thought has disturbed the quiet but strong under current of my appetite.
 Oh. Mir. Mcxleton, you are such a focl."
 see you have been inquiring abou; me. l must have impressed you"
 ]" What, inquiring about you"
 Yes, for didn't tell yeu my name. When people go around the neighbor- hood making inquiries abou, man, !, strikes Tie that he is rather an in,portan, character. By the way, what is your name?"
 She told him. in an embarrassed way, for she felt "cut up," as the English say, to think that he had been so little inter- ested in her.
 nay have heard your name bu, sorgot .t." he said.
 :" warrant yog there is one thing which you have doubtless heard but aot forgot ten"
 "Wha, :'
 !" That am wch."
 No. didn'; forge, that. ~and I don't suppose you forgot that the old gentle man was pretty we'll off
 What old gentleman ?'
 Your husband"
 :. No. did not forget it. li I had, I should not have married him.''
 must say that you are very frank to acknowledge that you sold yourself"
 Eoery woman who marr,es sells he1- sell, fer she becomes more O. less a slave. was poor gSl and had to work ma, way through scAool. Had loved a poog man, 1 should have married him. but as loved no one. and as marriage of some kind seems to be woman's destiny. [ {, married Mir. Whislow. He knew tha. 1 did not love him, for told him so. Af,es all how much worse is wor,an who marrscs ioS comfortable home. some thing which every woman craves, than the man who marries for money? Soci- ety may make difference, but in reality there Is none Whe. woman r,a,-;as tioh man. society says. she sold her seli, bat when a man marries d rich woman, the gossips say, deylish lacky !ellox
 l don't know but that you are iiehi. lt'S ahent dinner .in.e- snppese ~e ss down and devour something .''
 CHATTER II.
 The humorist and the widow met daily. s.rolled together through the woods.