New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-04

face and fixed his eyes on his wife. AS she met
his glance she shrank visibly lie could not
| know that she thinking OF that hitherto I'M
seen razor.
II guess we won't talk any more said the man
after making an attempt to speak to winch MS
Mrs. North sat silent until her husband had
taken his hat from the nail and was going OUT
Then she asked, as she had asked once 9 pc
Not precisely
s'pose she's with my sister"
Yes. | spose she is. +"
Mr. North was moving toward tie door.
"Colburn,'. said his wife again: He paused .l
anything Gd hSpF Pe S S 5sd BEN Mrs
disohedient child. You needn't send for her"
"All right But guess there won't anything
happen TO you You're getting along first rate
in that optimistic way which people use toward
invads
Then Mr.: North left the house. Roxy sat on
there, rocking sometimes, sometimes sitting
motonless with her hands in her lap .,
As the weeks went on nothing new happened
to her. Her disease did not seem to progress
Mr.. North hired woman to live there and work.
II any one ever suggested his sending for his
daughter, he snid he should do no such thing,
Ills wife didn't want her sent for and he was
able to hire somebody. He took care to state
that katharine I'D not know her mother was not
well. and he also took care that she should not
know IT,
The papers in October contained paragraphs 10
the effect that tho well known public speaker.
Mrs Owen LANDAU had gone to Europe for
much needed rest Some Of these paragraphs also
Informed the world That the great public speaker
was accompanied hy her niece. Miss Katharine
North.
Coburn North never knew precisely how he
passed that following winter. He only knew that
he kept at work even more strennously than
usual
His daughter wrote 10 him from different places
IN Europe, and lc wrote 10 her.
His face aged greatly. He was glad there was
n third person in his home He could SIT there
evening" looking over town accounts. with much
| M Inn hat he
the only human fcirg, in the room.
BrfoIc spring Deacon Grove had got his bill
Mr. North sent ~" local paper with the an
nounccmcnt To Mrs LANDAU, and Mrs LANDAU,
having read il. silently handed II 70 her niece.
who grew red AMI then pale. but who did not
speak.
Do YOU still have those ridiculous notions
about divorced woman % finally asked Mrs
"still have thcm Yes; why should I change"
was TIC response.
why should you not change" retorted the
other 1T il ONLY fools who never change
Icst she should losc her temper entirely, Mrs
LANDAU closed her lips and RETAINED from max
ing somc other remarks which demanded to be
sroken She scrntinizcd her niece still more
closely than she Il I over dorc.
Tho girl had really changed very little In her
months Of travel she had acquired the habit OF
wearing wrll-httnG and appropriate clothes with
+ entire nncon-ciousnc : And this il n habit when
some women never acquire She had ccr'an
much changed 81" did not know that she was
any different ~ ~ ontwardy. Bnt inwardy
ehe fclt an irdcnrahle difference which seemed 10
her make her another woman.
Owen Ilandan was travelling. she hardly knew
where. She never askcd any questions, or seemed
10 listen when her aunt would somc'lm rean
scraps Of his letters She thought that her face
rcma ned tho same She had lin idea that Mrs
LANDAU watched her She did rot resent, this
watchfulrcss Ike WIS not, somehow nearly as
! in creating n Sic had expected IN find IT, She
was looking for conc emotion which did not come
Sic believed .hc bad now fully arrived NJ the
| conclusion that she had nothing in the future
This conclusion was stronger upon her than ever
She still loved Wis Llandan hut she did not
ALWAYS ngrcc with her. and when she WINS obliged
mos M. nut Katharirrc never Yielded on any 81
| ilrse occasion~ Ms LANDAU used to close such
conversations with Nh" remark:
we'll when Won grow older YOU will chance
your mind that is. If yon have an" mind worth
changing
To her own utmos establishment Mrs. LANDAU
ono day. when alo"c, came to this CONCLUSION
"Why. the child irnucnces me- now fully as much
Tho two were established in London FOR the
spring when Mr. Llandnd received the second
! PAPER from Mr. North This contained tho an
! nounccncnt Of the marriage Of Mlrceilns IroVc
ard Miss Augusta Riddle both Of Feeding HIS;
And paragraph amone the Locals conGra'u",cn
Deacon Grove upon being able now to throw aside
his clutches.
Mrs. LANDAU did MOI give thi' paper 10 Katha-
rinc. She laid il on the table aud walked away
| She sent note 10 her step-son. VINO was ViSl,-
! ing his father in Wales And in due time; thar
| Is, in the quickest possible time IN when me
journey could re maze. young LANDAU arrived
| in London. ,., II. -,
| nntary conclusion which he had reached in re-
gard 10 Katharirc's attitude: as divorced woman
toward her future NE or courSc i waf nor n,,o
shuddcrcd at H. and slrank from II. But since il
wae only phrase. he mockcd at himself that he
| had ever imagined che could be vitally Affected
| by II.
Nothing on this cprth that could keep her from
| him shonld be allowed vitally 10 affect her.
This was what was domnantly in his mind,
and in his blood ms we'll as h" stood waiting IN
! his step-motlcr'S lodeing.
! Mrs LANDAU Knocked ut Kataarlnc's door and
then opened it 10 make the following announce
| mcnt
Owen want. to SOC you'
! Tho girl started 10 her feet.
"Owcni" she said.
| "Yos lie Is whiting in the drawing room. lie
has only moment 10 stny-he says. Don't be un-
kind TO n poor creature who was so unfortunate as
to fancy he loved YOU. lie has probably for
gotten All about that experience by this time
| Men are curious animals.
came forward. 90 -,
But I'm not going down Eve seen MIN. u.s
Katharine looked straight into her aunts eyes
| Then I will alone, she responded
| LANDAU To meet the girl she stopped JUST
within the door.
lie went quickly TO her and took both her
hands
II have come 10 ask il YOU have forgotten that
you told me you loved me- he said with toeraole
| cOmposure. -, =,
lie thought he spoke with remarkable calm
ness: considering that his heart was beating in his
throat and in his cars and in his eyes also, so that
there was blur his vision >,
AS for me- he went on hurriedly; one word
nercelv pushing the other from his unsteady lips
" "a for me I lave Won more and more every hour
live. There il nothing in this world TO prevent
MS from being happy. And | mean TO be happy. y
dafT could have Interpreted in n way that made
Katharine trembe and try 70 shrink away from
| him.
| katharine" he cried with some saNageheSS'
{" have YOU mama for remuneration