The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1894-11-30
MY 10, JOHN.
by HELEN IL. MATTERS.
CHAPTER XV-CoNr1NUEp.

CHAPTER XV-CoNTINUED.
IL never deserted your mother. "
he said, codly and firmly. ''She de-
serted me. When had lost my for
tune. when stood most in need Of
love and sympathy-she left me.
An | could not live on a woman
especially when she did not want
me-"
"But she did not know" cried
Tom. "Sho never knew a word OF
your losing any money until to-day.
She thought that"
John made gesture with his hand
TO command silence
81 do not know what she thought,
| only know what she did. And she
had wounded me deeply, Tom, long
before that, by her railing. her
jealousy, her whole conduct, so ut
terly unlike anything | had ever
known In her before.
"She was jealous, certainly,
father" said Tom, coloring, but
IL had given her no occasion "
said his father sternly. and indeed
the past six months had clearly
soured the usually sweet, frank tenn
per. "She might haye trusted me,
but she did not. She might have
seen my trouble. but she would not
! may be blind. but think l should
have known il she had been, going
through such a mental crisis as |
was going through then, and think
that should have been-kinder
"She has been bpokeu-he arted,
father" said Tom under his breath,
but his father caught it
"No, o-said, suddenly and sharp
w, "the woman who ooldly and de-
liberately proposed a separation.
who with perfect sang-froid carried
it out. and quietly removed herself.
and home and income. from o. ruined
man, takes too much care 0f her
own comfort to be sbroken-hearte6
woman. l had ruined myself, and
IN a manneT-by reheotion-her, and
she could not forgive me. She was
tired of me. She had other views"
Views" CALCULATED Tom. staring
at his father by tho. dim, miserable
light. What do you mean?"
''She spoke OF marrying again.
regretting that shes could not get d
divorce. and actually asked me to
strike her. that she might do So"
"She WINS very sorry Afterwards,
sir.
II didn't understand 1t them" said
John, whose pale face seemed &c
have DIV indled to, n point, whiAe his
dull eyes had thaS peculiarly hollow
look belonging to privation and
misery; .'but Il did-afber. Why
Tom. taat man s!ie,was fr:sking with
at Eus5on that might never saw
tho fellow betosnin my lice-dressed
up like girl and a fringe, Tom
Just think of il. at bar age. ans
with grown ap, son. i saw directly
that was why she had talked abola
getting a div orce, and he called h9I
deaa Oh slmmeless?r
He glanced dOwnwasds ut the oAaI
book as if tn calm himself with, it
pliilosophy, then wenS on quicklw
IL was aaNiOus about her -wome
aae such weak creatures, and sh
had always been taken such cave c
and il you'll believe me, ono nigh
in September stole down to Pigeon
II wick, and stood in her garden Xix
thief. and looking like a. beggal
and / heard them talking you
mothep and that fellow--ou til
veaLda. He said what pity it wa
she hadn't n man who really love
her. 10 look after her and pet he
and she said in hard voice. not liz
your mothers, that sh0 wished 81
|, had, and he said sometimes poop
(meaning me) died, and then 81
could be happy. And then l can
away. for l had heard quite enough.
Z mamie must have been upstairs
burst out Tom. "Why, dad. don
\ you know who that fellow wa
Mamio's husband, and mother
brother-in-law.
= John Anderson's jaw dropped,
stood staring at Tom as at a tot
2 stranger.
. "Mamie's husband" he repeate
captain Dcwar9"