Nevada County picayune., 1888-02-15
rapid and nervous than usual.
 A bold chill ran through her frame, dread of she knew not what.

Then the words he had uttered on their wedding day came back to her:
 ''I will work. beg, steal or murder to get you all you want
 How she had put her hands over his lips to stop him; still not believ- ing that he would ever do anything wrong. but now-now what hwd she done?
 Suddenly her own folly rose before her, plainly defined to sight. She knew how much her husband made how much they spent. He must be unable to meet his expenses. Her poor Gcoffrv. How could she have been so blind! And now. under the pressure of her foolish fretting for a new dress, he had gone, as he said ito get the money"
 How? Where?
 She remembered the fate of a faithless clerk of her fathers and re- membcred that it was said 'shc stole for the sake of an extravagant wife. :" And her heart smote her.
 What could she do!
 Was it an angel that whispered in her ear. .'Follow him !''
 Aftcrward she thought so.
 She caught up hat and sacque and ran out. putting on her gloves as she went.
 She took ear and went to her husbands place of business.
 The street was dark and lonely |: no one was astir, but through q crack of the closed shutter. she saw . light shine. She tried the door. It opened under her touch and she en- tered.
 Some one had lit the gas in the in- ner room. It threw shadow high upon the wall. Now the shadow vanished. Trembling with excite ment she crept up to the door. and saw her husband bending over the great safe.
 He turned liercely, with his hand at pocket in which she knew he carried a pistol.
 Who is there!" he asked in fu- rious whisper.
 And she answered:
 "Only Rosa"
 And he sank down beside desk and looked at her strangely.
 You here, Why did you follow me-"
 II was frightened, she said.
 ''So was l. l remembered to have left the safe unlocked. but it is all right now."
 No. Godfrey, it's all wrong. l am no longer foolish baby. l seem to have come back to myself. Put that money back. If this Is the first time l have driven you to such a thing l thank God for it. You have kept your vow, even to steal for me. Put the money back"
 Godfrey looked at her in amaze mcnt.
 Tell me all," she said. ''Tell me all, darling"
 And in that lonely place the the two young people talked together for long hours.
 We will sell the piano and my jewelry and all that we do not need" |" said the girl at last. ''and l will keep house for you as q poor mans wife should, and we will be just as happy as we have been together. Why should we not! And in time we shall be better off. At least we will be honest--and safe. as honest peo- pie always are. Oh, Geoffryl to think to what l might have driven you"
 They walked home together, arm in arm. and the next day set to work to struggle out the load of debt up- on their shoulders. It was hard task, but they succeeded at last, and to-day are happy and prosperous and on the road to fortune.
 Yet l think that Rosa. when she kneels to pray at night, never forgets what might have been; and in her husbands heart is certain thank fitness for his escape from the edge of the black precipice over which so many erring ones have fallen. 
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