Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-06-28

Il won't bear being accused of cheating
by anybody she cried. Leave my house
at once. and don't you ever dare to darken
my doors again!'
There, now. Lucy. | reckon you don't
know jest what you're sayin'." said Hiram.
! growing very white. Il see its no use
talkin' toyou now. I'll wait till you come
to your senses.
She sent perfect torrent of angry words
after him. but he paid no heed to them.
and betook himself to the kitchen lounge
/ for the night, hoping to find her in differ
ent frame of mind in the morning.
/ But her anger had not abated in the
| least degree. and she still repeated her
command that he should leave her house
and never darken the doors again. Poor
| Miss Jane demonstrated with tears in her
! eyes, saying She hadn't been so comforta-
bic in twenty-five years as she had since
| Hiram had been in the house to provide
and care for things. How kind and thought
full he had been, and then to treat him in
! this way, and he her husband too"
! ..Well, Lucy" said Hiram at length. IF
| l go, | shall 20 for good. | Sha'n't never
| come back again; remember that. I'm sor
ry that l spoke so hasty, as I've said over
and over again. but l can't do no more
about it as I know of"
Come back. indeed! I'll never speak to
| you again in this world-never.
1t took Hiram some time to collect his
! possessions and reload them on the cart.
and it was quite dark when he drove
through the village of Pride's Corner after
the same fashion in which he left it a few
weeks before. The blue tubs We're there,
and the brass kettle, with the moons face
face reflected in its shining depths, and
the Jersey COW walked sedately along be-
hind, lowing gladly when she came in
sight of her old home. But the friendly
shades of evening hid him from general OBJ
servation this time.
Il played the wrong card. l hadn't
ought to hev married her jest for the sake
of the games eyenin's, and praps my pun
ishment's only just. Folks mnsn't be too
self-indulgent, fur pleasure is alwus desate-
tul." Hiram said to himself, sadly.
But though it was humiliating to be sent
home in this way-and the event has not
yet ceased to be talked of at Pride'S Cor
ner-Hiram began to feel in a few days
that his punishment was not as great as he
deserved. Johns folks were very glad to
take him as a boarder, and Johns house
hold was a delightfully."- cheerful one. Gym
thy's melodeOn had vanished with her. A
rosy checked little boy played about the
house; and to crown all, Johns jolly little
wife was an enthusiastic whist player; hei
her sister, who lived with her was of the
same mind;and as Ohm himself was alway;
willing to take hand Hiram frightened
into something of the kind of a man hi
was while Maria was living.
In the course of two or three months
Lucy wrote him letter saying 'if he
would return to the side of his griefstrick-
en- wife he would be forgiven all"
But Hiram could not bring himself to
think it his duty to do so. ''Twouldn't be
more'n another six weeks before she'd flare
up again, an it's jest like ivin' on the
aidge of volcano to be her husband" hC
reflected; ''an' eff man have chance tel
play whist without encumbrances, it's {
good deal better. But I'll take care to give
her good maintenance" And so he did