Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-02-14


has rushed into me With a great ton.
remit love my husband, l worship
him, | adore him-do you hear, my
dearl'
She stopped IN her march, aud
turned on Mrs. Fellcwes a radiant
triumphant face.
An, u ] hadn't you to tell all this
to, | would 90 out into the fields and
shout 1t aloud. And what are you
crying for? am not mad. am. I
suppose, what Humphrey would call
natural, but somehow ii makes me feel
too big for the room. Hold the child
while | open the windows :
Mrs. Feliwes. as soon as she got
hold Of him. carried him off to the
nursery. and simply insisted on Ovens
ly.rg down and holding her tongue.
Do you want 10 bring a fever on
Yourself, she demanded sternly, land
be q ecarecrow when Humphrey
comess You are shockingly young. my
Gwen
She WAS sane after that. and tried
to behave as " nothing had happened
to her, Dut the change In her was quite
visible to the naked eye. Next day
she bnckled to her stewards work
with whole hearted dominance, that
insured Success, and Mrs FeIlowes
went home to her husband big with
happy news.
When five weeks had passed. and she
had neither message nor sight of
Humphrey. Ovens magnificent abond-
onment Of Joy had break, and a
trembling came into It. and into her
eyes a wave OF fear, and every time
she came In from her work ia the
village or on the home farm. she be-
took herself TO the baby 70 steady her
nerves.
And then the press began TO set
flying little gnat-like biting doubts as
to Stiange's unaccOuntable silence,
after ii was ascertained through 4
long-delayed scrap OF a note to Mrs.
Fellowes that he had Joined an ivory
expedition into am unsettled district.
Then. to add TO her anxieties. the mis-
sionary, grateful for his intended cap.
ture, ran down 10 Strange Hall. and
being rather IN ass, and sing been
left with only the tail end of con
stitution a solemn and gloomy one
he gave her a most 1urid and awful
impression Of those parts into which
Humphrey had penetrated
She put a brave front on, but she
had a shocking time of 1t, and her
usual song to her baby, in exactly
Humphreys tones was;
Damn whilst du weine, du liebe
kleiner'
which the baby looked upon as a huge
joke.
Week after passed and not d word.
and then wflisperings of relief ex-
petitions began 10 stir the papers. and
Mrs. Fellowes was hurrying up wildly
with her work to be able to get to
Gwen.
AT last she came over from the
station In fly. day or two before
She was expected and found Gwen
In Strange's dem which showed tokens
Of her all over the place. playing with
her child. now a big fellow who beat
THE record in the matter OF crawling.
When the nurse took him at last,
Gwen said to Mrs. Fellowes rather
gr.mly:
'The county considers should wear
u widows cap, and sport crepe, and
my horrible state of plumpness makes
ME to stink in their nostrils. lust look
at my arms, wish | could oblige
them" she went ON YEARLY. land bear
my woe according to their rules of de-
cency. Lady Mary ruled down on me
and stayed a week. and never got out
what she came to say until | was
putting her into the railway carriage
on her way back to London; then she
produced her rebuke on the top Of a
sigh. and began prayer, hut the train
started before she got well into 1t.
.''NIy dear she saild, Il think that
under fine circumstances plain black
gown and bonnet hats to my mind
at present are unseemly and then,
my dear Gwen if by any means you
could manage, ahem, not to add to
your plumpness people In our position
must set an example, assure you.
for myself. lost eight pounds and
half the first six months Of my widow
hood
"Then she began her rather irrele-
want prayer"
Gwen, sit down. and I'll make tea,
and tell YOU about Your father"
Gwen loaned back in her chair and
put her hands 10 her hot head.
u forget everything but myself and
this fattcping misery of nine. He IS
failing very much. " he not" IFS
letters somehow have a fragile sound
They have 4 horrible habit Of making
me howl, | have got 50 maudlin
howl now quite easily; he has bern
ut 'Chavasse' again, and TO rather an
awful extent"
Yes, he Ii failing day by day, and
unfolding himself at the same time.
never quite realized before how
bautiful and single-hearted his char
acter ii: he comes now to see me,
or rather TO sit and mediate in my