The Sunday morning news., 1891-11-29

derStand me. 1t was just so the other
day, and it is most unreasonable and
unkind of you to insist upon quarreling
about matter like that, when | was
certainly in the right"
81 unreasonable / insist on quarrel
ing2 Wasn't it you who said our en-
gagement was at an end?'
81 said if, John"
''If l wouldn't agree that as my wife
you should be financially independent
of me. A wife who is independent of
her husband
"Only financially, John!"
"Only financially A rather important
only"
"But not the most important. It is
only matter of convenience and-jus-
tice"
"It's matter of utter unreasonable
ness. l would be willing to leave that
to any ten men,"
"And | to any-to some ten women"
''If they supported such a proposition
they would prove themselves unreason-
able, and therefore incompetent judges. y
''But, John, q woman is a civilized
being in civilized land, and, as such,
she does need money, and since, as a
wife, she can't earn it, why is it I'M
reasonable for her to want 30 understand
that she shall be mistress of a certain
sum-"
because it strikes at that ideal of
unity which should lie at the foundation
of home.'
"But how would you like it if that
ideal of unity left you in a position where
you would never know whether your
purse was going to be full or empty"
THAT is entirely different. A man is
accustomed to handle money and get it
In businesslike ways. A woman isn't,
and she doesn't know how to deal with
it. If you don't like my blunt speaking,
please remember that you invited it..
Most girls don't open this sort of a dis
cussion."
.sBut we would have to discuss it
afterward, so it seemed to me best that
we should know we understand each
other before"
"Why should we ever discuss it? A
wife naturally and properly leaves such
matters to her husband, and she ought
to have confidence enough in him to do
it gladly"
1T wasn't lack of CONFIDENCE
"You have read The Woman's Record
until you have imbibed wild ideas about
women's rights, Mary. That was all well
enough before you knew me. But if you
cared for me, as you said you did, you
should have forgotten everything else.
Love cannot exist in harmony with such
ideas. The truth is, Mary, you never
loved me. 1t was all a mistake"
''Oh, how can you say that?"
eff you had, would you ever have
given thought to what the future
might hold beyond the fact that we
would live it together? Love implies
self forgetfulness. All the traditions of
the human race, all the instincts Of the
human heart, teach that woman yields
the ordering of her life into the hands
of man. Yet, while am all on fire, you
are coolly planning how you may keep
yourself independent of me-"
''You make it sound all wrong" she
said with something of a sob in her
VOICE. L olQu u lklCetu ~ Iildu We
GLOW did you mean it? do not see
how it can have two meanings. You
mean it or you do not. You love me OK
you do not! Which is it?'
81 don't know Idon't know! only
know cannot bear to have you angry
with me-" She was sobbing undis-
guisedly now. "If / was wrong, John,
forgive mel
Liddell started to his feet in uncon-
trollable excitement, but Carne pulled
him down.
"My dear little girl" John was say
ing, II knew you couldn't really mean
it. It was all that Woman's Record.
We will subscribe for The American
| Cyclist instead, and these three unhappy
days shall be forgotten forever.
! 1--WE have heard enough said Lid
| dell feverishly. ''Come on. We must
intercept them at the hotel before they
use up any more of it."
Crane turned to him inquiringly.
''You think you have found your miss
ing plot?"
''ThinlS? I know. He threw me of
the track at first by his dense stupidity
but there wasn't any question after thai
reconciliation. II only could have fell
certain a few moments sooner would
have put stop to it on the spot.
WHAT"
81 would have stopped them before thu
final moment. 1t will be harder to ge
them to give it up now"
mark, explain yourself. Remember
that i am inexperienced in these subtle
matter& Am to understand that yol
propose to make those young people re
sign the last half hour?'
81 am going tc demand my property
my plot. Most certainly"
"But--where will that leave them?"
"Where they were before"
"That is to say, separated and heart
broken"
"Well, yes, suppose so. l can't he'll
that"
"Rather hard on them, though, ism
it:"
"But Maurice, you mustn't let you
sympathies warp your sense of justice
That reconciliation belongs to me, il
trust for my hero and heroine. Icoul'
not conscientiously surrender it,"
Couldn't you supply them with an
other?"