The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1894-11-02

anQ L suppose men are so I.
but am glad Dolly died. IL would
drive me mad to think she might
ever live to go through what have
done.
"Amen." said Mamie.
Mary put her sister little away,
and looked In her face.
"Do you say that" she said. "and
you are not dve-and twenty yot! OH
it is horriblel AMI you loved him
so. child-how you loved him.
"Yes." said Mamie. slowly. al did
love him with the pure. true love of
a girl It's dead now. Mary-he
killed 1t, utterly, and it will never
come back. never, never"
"What did he do" said Mary, al
most in whisper. ''Was twas it
like John"
Mamie shook her head.
"They were little things" she
said, "but little things break a
woman's heart, just Us little worries,
household worries. age woman be-
fore her time, and make her old
while the man beside her keeps
young. And If men only knew how,
by triles they write characters
across our lives. and how our respect
or contempt for them is formed b.
the mereot nothiugs, they would be
more careful how they behave
but they never know. And he and
get on far better now than when we
were first married-capitally. in fact
and people hold US up to admira.
tion as a pattern pair
"And he doesn't knows" said Mary,
almost piteously.
"No-and. please God, never shall.
II he holds the caslset. what matter
if the jewel be gomez He will never
look and he will never know"
"But you are so pretty child. and
so young. said Mary, sadly. "there
will DO somebody else.
"Yes. He has como and gone. y"
said the girl quietly, 'long after |
ha been disiilusioned. After all,
you have only to stand firm to hold
on by your oyelids. and strength will
come, somehow, TO enable you to
hold on ter. And If one is only
starved long enough, one can do
very we'll without love. and one does
not cry out and hunger after ii IS
daily bread.
IL cant understand it--about
John" said Mamie, shaking her head.
he was so devoted to you and he
never seemed TO know there was an.
other woman in the world What
possible attraction could she have
had for him. or he for her?"
"He is q man said Mary bitterly,
land all is fish that comes to Lady
Blanches net. But o. my dear. you
say Captain Dewar disillusioned you.
and John never did me, it was / who
Cislllusioned him wore him out
bit by bit with my horrid temper-or
he never would have behaved as he
did,
Stuff" said Mamie, you were
mover bad tempered-He began it, ]
know. How did it begin?"
"He used to hide things from ne, "
said Mary. hanging her head, "letters
and things. and he meyer told me
where he was going, or else he made
up something palpably untrue, and
one day I found him at Lady
Blanche's and then knew"
"She wanted something OF him, y
said NJ mic, land she hattered him,
she aided. curling her lip, "and fat
terry will undue the best man living.
Fool him to the top of his bent and
he thinks you are an angel; tell him
some home truths, make fun of some
personal popularity. and you are &
devil A woman who has studied
flattery as q fine art rules tho world.
al never aattered john" said
Mary, with gentle dignity; sand
even II l had tried, | should not
have known how Do you aatter
Captain Dewar?"
al manage him." said Mamie, with
trace OF hardness in her voice.
when one cannot have the rea
thing, it is necessary to put up with
an imitation of it, unless one
wants to be ieered at by the
world. He will call me moro super.
latives in one day. Mary, than John
ever called you in a month, yet Johr
loved you, Mary-loves you still. III
swear-and Jem never did more thar
fancy NO."
What is it to fancy?" said Mary,
absently. her heart secretly throb
bling with Joy at Names words.
"a fancy, Mary, a is thing tor which
there is one cure that has never beer
known to fail. said Mamie, spring
ing up, land that is-marriage."
CHAPTER XI.
The long, unlovely platform o
Euston was alive with passenger,
taking their seats in the night mai
for the north. taking them too. with
a glad, eager hurry that told will
what rejoicing men and women were
fleeing away on this broiling 10th o
August to the GOODNESS and purity o
the moors.
Toward the middle OF the train ,
Pullman car labelled "ongaged," was
the center OF much fuss and commo
tion from the number OF servants
going in and out, while in their midst
half a dozen men and women were
| Y,oakinnr an afnnupf of ,oiea that nrI l.,