The Press., 1885-12-31
"Don' tuntie, please. I said, with

"Don't tnntie, please. said, with a little shiveH-
 "Nor uosAd I, but to convince you that he shouid have secured your little proper ty to yoil, if only for the opinion of oth- CTS.
 ssIt is all right just as it is. Ant here comes Ella, and my dear old worldly wise aunt forgot to lecture in her delight at see- ing the little fairy who nearly smothered her with kisses.
 But I had received hurt that ranked like a thorn in the flesh. And so Mrs. Jones thought he married me for my mon ey? and perhaps others have the same opinion? Of course I knew be did not, and said it over and over again to myself as helped our one servant to prepare the evening meal.
 And when my husband came with his hearty, cheery welcome for Aunt Fanny I looked wistfully into his face for an answer to my mental question, for it would such become in spite of my firm determination to ignore it as such.
 And somehow, after Aunt Fannys visit my thoughts and feelings were not the same. Had I been unwise, as she said, in giving up everything to my husband And had he been toe eager to accept it !? | was fearful 1t was even so. He should have made me understand that had re- served rights and not taken my property to control unadvisedly, especially to invest in business subject to all the fluctuations of the market. And now he never spoke of it only as his own, and had helped him to it all, and he had forgotten it.
 In my morbid state of feeling found so many bitter things of which to complain 1 to myself. We had been married four years, and during that time many improve ments had been made in the home and round it, incurring an expense of some thousands of dollars. My slightest wish ill regard to convenience or modern change was satisfied almost as soon ss ex- pressed. And it was, as said to my aunt, "a beautiful home."
 money it had been embellished and made more valuable, and he could easily afford to be lavish ill expenditure.
 My money used to beautify his home, I said, bitterly, glancing at my handsome surrounings
 1 When mine and thine are having bat tie, love and tenderness flee from the con- test And at times I was frightened at the hard, bitter thoughts I was hiding from my husband, or 'fancied l was hiding from him..
 "What is it, May ?" he once said, with a look of wistfnl tenderness. "Are you quite we'll ?"
 "Never bstter,' I replied, lightly, too thoroughly ashamed of the imp was har- boring to give it name.
 It was just month since Aunt Fanny left us-a wretched month to me--when one evening my husband came in and gave me folded paper, saying:
 Hook, dear, and see If it is all right p It was a certificate of deposit in the bank for just the amount ef the bonds I had given him four years ago.
 eff you prefer the bonds can obtain them for you, but the interest is very low now, and that reminds me, you will have to trust me awhile for your accumulated interest. This is all have saved frons my business, but you are to have the interest, every penny.
 "But whatever am to do with it ?'' asked, in amazed bewilderment
 "Why keep check-book and spend your own money as you please" he re piled, laughing heartily. "And now is the embargo removed, and may tell you how grateful I am for the use of the money and how much more the loving confidence displayed in lending it?" I could not reply, for what little good left in me was groping dismally in the val ley of humiliation.
 ''I will consider silence consent then Have you never suspected how secured your patrimony to you in case anything , happened to me before could repay you ?
 "But I would not have any security you know thatr' I said, eagerly, snatch : ing at tue last ray of self-respect. ''But you did all the same. This house , with it's two lots was deeded to you ant the deed recorded the same day I received your bonds. So you see have not onl, been using your money, but living in you house--Ela and I-for the past fou years.
 70! why did yon? P l asked. ! "Why did l live ln your house? Be cause 1 had nowhere else to live, and, be sides, I rather likel it. , "You know whatl mean. Why dil yol deed the place to me?' Because it w,s right to do so. I wa acting as your gnsrti,an aud had no righ to nse your property without giving SC curity, Don't you see !' [ "Yes, a q HOW 1 am to d~ed 1t back t you?,'
 "No, like it just as it-i-"
 ''I must write to Aunt Fanny, to night, I said more to myself tLan him.
 He indulged Ill a low whistle. | Ina, unwittingly betrayed myself, and compro missed with full confession, even to tn grievong report that he had only marie. me for my little fortune.
 "Did you believe that?' he asked gravely.
 1T tried hard not to believe it, but jus now sapn, t0 myso1f alch a nnY,fpok tvD