Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-04-19

| or s arm, the boy nOluiiE NloSV W hNt ,
pulling at her shawl, andeontinually
asking her in an untelligible mutter
for something that she had not got
or didn't mean to part with. Her
bonnet was slipping of her duh, I'M
tidy hair; her face was white, with
tired lusterless eyes, pink, pinched
little nose and discontinued mouth.
The poor little apology for n baby
might have hung round her neck by
ribbon, and the other child was
small and sickly. A shrunken de-
pressing group.
just as Stephen Mostynwas begin
ming to weave round in his mind IA
pathetic, tender fancy, the small boy
becoming more than usually impor-
tunate, his mother said, with no flick
er of change in the expression OF her
face, but with voice whose rough
grating easily oyerpowered the noise
of the train;
"Jest you stop worritin, Tom
my, else III tell your bloomin' dad
when we git 'ome-see il don't.
Stephen shut his eyes, and only
opened them as the little family bun
died out two stations further on.
THE Monument. MARX laneH'
no further passengers invaded hlsca
riage
II can't stand this anylonger, and
the condensed fog chokes one lshall
get ont at the next station and so
back.
"Aldgate"
Out he jumped and crossed to this
return platform, literally feeling his
way. The underground station at
Aldgate is often quite dark in the
middle OF Summer, and on this day
the tog was dense. He found his way
10 seat and $50 thick was the dark
nessl did not discover, till no had
taken his place at the end Of il, that
there were two other people near
him. One Of them, u man, Was speak
ing in Il disagreeable queru.ous voice
I'm sure it's not my iault II | get
nothing TO do. I'm always trying TO
find something"
"les; in other peoples pockets,
a woman's voice, You |
want the wage. not the work
Good heavensl that il Milticsnt's /
voice exactly" thought stephen: l
what an extraordinary Fcscm.
blance."
What becomes OF money in your
hands | can't conceive" she won't on. 4
1t is Milliccnts voice. What in I
Gods name is she DOING" and Ste
ohen tried to catch % glimpse Of the p.
figure that was screened from him by .
the man between them, and still I
more so by the darkness.
What have you done with the
money sent you last"
Done With IL? Spent ii 81 course.
A family cannot live on nothing. II +
vas not much tor you to- giye-.you
Who live in luxury; you whose hus.
iand is rich; yuu--"
NV husband is very far from rich.
md II he We're so ii would benefit Won
n no way. Every hrthiug | have
ytyeH yOu for your wife was my own,
made by my own work. / a woman.
worked to help n woman. IA would
man, but not such IA You"
W hatevcryouma have given you
'wed to my wife.
I'll owed herr"
Yes; for taking from her " hat wns
lers by right. "
shall ! let this brute 20 on speak. 4
ng to her?' said Stephen to himself
folding the edge Of his seat tightly
n each hand.
And now TINT she III aud in want
'ou IN your prosperity grudga n little
Ielp to her and her hungry chill.
rem"
Il have lowered myself by listening
o You thus far, said Niliicpnt, lin
rider to soc If you would not in time
ay what expected OF you-whnt / ,
iaited for Now that YOU have ,
one 80, | will answer Won fnllv
his once and never speak with Won
gam. feel that yen cannot have =
we'd your life without some ones
aVlng called You % liar and cownrd 3
without your knowing that many
al a right to do so: therefore | win
OF pause to add my testimony 10
heirs. When your first letter camo
lst year, addressed to nv husband
2 wait an answer, he was, happily .
way from home. To save time. i (
ontrary to my inclination, opened !
our appeal. II contained n manly Z
'ierencc to your wife, and INV bus- q
and's regard for her in pnst yenra r
nd acringing demand for money for d
er and four children, If not for yos, !
nd 1t ended with n suggestion ns to h
le possible unpleasant conseonences {
ms domestic happiness II the mb. I
ct OF your letter Became known 10 y
e. Every detail Of the storw ma =
n as it concerned himself, nv Inns. h
and had long since told mo. md No {
ud thrown by you could shnks INV q
'ust. 'hy -
You lie when you saw that 7 toot 4
ON your wife what was hers hv [
ght. Ny husband once .loEod her n
ltn gu his heart and soul, and ahe a
ade him suffer bitterly. Bnt he Ind !
we'd her, as | say, and for hia anlsaI n
,nsented (if the rniaers.bi. .,t... 4