The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-21
about the room. Don't you love

ity?'
tits the new society every one is
SO interested in, The Working Wives
Culture union What is wanted is
happy homes for the working men"
quoting freely from an eloquent Wo-
man orator, land the women must be
elevated; SO the East End is to be di-
vided into districts, and two young
women will be allotted to each. Are
you listening?"
Yes. dear; but it rests me to lie
with my eyes closed. Tell me all about
your society. What are the young Ia
dies to do?"
''Oh, they're to visit the wives il the
afternoon, and read books to them;
solid books, you know, about wages
and all kinds of things work
ing men like. Then in the evening
the wives will be able to talk with
their husbands on equal terms, and
the men will not want to go TO the
public houses. Isn't it a capital idea? ''
A sad smile touched Marsden's lips
for an instant And where do you
meet today? It's long way for you
to go to Whitechapel."
Didn't 1 tell you? The Marchioness
of Gloucester is giving drawing room
at her town house, and Lady Helen
wrote an urgent note, insisting that 1
should come, even though il were only
for an hour, as her mother depended
on my advice so much.
OF course l know that's Just a way
OF putting it; but I have taken lots
OF trouble about founding the union,
so l think it would hardly do for me
to be absent You're feeling much
better, too, arn't you. today, Thomas? %
Yes, much better. The pain has
almost ceased; perhaps it will be quite
gone when you return. Can you spare
Just ten minutes TO sit beside me?
There is something 1 have been want
ing to say, and perhaps this is nv
only chance. When L am well again
may be afraid
Mrs. Marsden sat down wondering,
and her husband waited a minute
one understands many things that
puzzled him before, when he lies in
quetness for weeks and takes an after
| look Yes, [ suspected it at times.
but [ was a coward and put the
thought away. 1t seemed curious that
no one came to spend an hour with
me, as men do with friends; and l
noticed that they appeared to avoid
me. l thought it was fancy, and that
had grown self-conscious
everything is quite plain now, and
am not hurt, dear, and
l don't blame any person; that would
be very wrong. People might bsVa
peen lar more impatient with me- and
might have made my life miserable
COD gave me a dull mind and a.
SLOW tongue; it took ME a long time to
grasp anything, and no one cared
ABOUT the subjects that interested me-
Beatrlce L wish now you had
told me how had bored our friends: it
would have been a kindness: but never
mind that now; you did not like to give
me pain.
What troubles me most is that all
these years you should have been tied
to a very tiresome fellow and Mars
den made some poor attempt to smilg
Had 1 thought of what was before
you, [ would never have asked you to
marry me.
Don't cry, dear; I did not wish to
hurt you. 1 wanted to ask your par
don for all that martyrdom
and to thank you for =
being my wife; and there's something
else.
You see. when I get we'll and am
not lying in bed. maybe L could not
tell you, so let me explain everything
now, and then we need not speak
about such things again.
Perhaps you thought me too eco
nomical but I was saving for a pur-
pose. Your portion has not brought
quite so much as it did, and I wished
TO make it up to you, and now you
can have 5000 year as before; if this
illness had gone against me, you would
have been quite comfortable-in
money, [ mean, dear.
NO, 1 insist on your going to Lady
Gloucester's; the change will do you
good, and I'll lie here digesting the
Reformation, you know" and he
smiled, better this time, S-lite credita-
bly,, in fact. will you give me a kiss
just to keep till we meet again?"
When the nurse came down at to
take charge, she was Mortified to find
her patient alone, and in the death
agony, but conscious and able to
speak.
Don't ring. nor send for my wife
II sent. her away knowing that the
end was near made her go, in
fact : against her WILL
The nurse gave him brandy. and he
became stronger for minute.
"She has had great deal to bear
see death. My manner has been al
ways so wearisome hoped
that 4. . nobody would be here You
are very kind, nurse; no more, if you
please.
would it trouble you to hold
my hand. nurse? It's a little lonely
am not afraid -. a wayfaring
man though a fool not err
He was not nearly so tedious with
his dying as he had been with his
living; very shortly afterwards
Thomas Marsden had done with sta
tistics forever.
Three days later Leslie came home
from the city with tidings on his face
and he told them to his wife when they
were alone that night.
''Marsden's lawyer made an appoint
ment after the funeral, and l had an
hour with him. He has asked me to be
a trustee with himself in Mrs. Mars
den's settlement"
I'm so glad; you must accept. for it
will be such a comfort to poor
Beatrice; but I thought Godfrey was
her sole trustee"
$50 he was said Leslie. grirnly.
"more's the pity, and he embezzIed
every penny of the funds-gambIed
them away in card playing and
other ways
Godfrey Harrison, Beatrice's broth
err
Yes. her much-admired, accom-
plished. ill-used brother, the victim Of
her husbands stinginess.'
IF that be true, then Godfrey is
simply a. -
You mean an unmitigated scoun-
drel. Quite so, Florence, and a num-
Der of other words we won't go over. [
tell you" and Leslie sprang to his
feet, there is some use T swearing:
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