Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1895-03-14
CHAPTER X-Continued,


grave little face and memorandum
IN her hand, wherein their incomings
and outgoings were set down with
scrupulous neatness and as much ac'
curacy as was attainabe under the
circumstances.
SLOW clever you are" Roderick
cried, enthusiastically, until he discov-
cred the sad deficit, which must be
met somehow How? "Perhaps the
people would walt; Richerden trades
men often do
"If they could, we could not, Silence
answered, gravely. "They must be
paid"
"IIow? Not by asking my mother;
R is impossible" added he, abruptly.
"And otherwise what can do? 4 can
not dig; to beg am ashamed
ROderick spoke with great bitterness.
His wife made no answer, but went
into her bedroom and brought out
large jewelers. case-necklet, bracelet,
brooch.
ut was very good Of you, dear, to
give me these. know what they cost,
for I have found the recelpted bill;
sill, If we had, not jewels, but the
money"
Roderick drew himself up with eX-
seeding pride Gam l come to such a
pass that ! require to sell my wife's
ornaments? 1t is a little hard Then
bursting out hotly, ms she had never
before seen him do "No, Silence, you
are only girl; you don't understand
The world, or you would never have
suggested such thing. Not that; any
thing but that"
"There Is nothing but that, so far as
see" she answered gently, but firm
". ut is true am a girl; but am not
quite Ignorant Of the world-at least Of
MS troubles. Mamma and were often
very poor--sO poor that we did not al
ways have enough to eat; but we held
our heads high, because we owed no
one anything She used to say, My
child, what we can not pay for we will
90 without always obeyed her. |
must do so still. You must never ask
me to wear these jewels"
He was so astonlshed that his sud
den wrath melted away in n moment,
The gentle creature whom he could
have ruled with n world Yet by the
way she quietly put the ornaments
back and laid the case aside, he knew
she meant what she said, and that
nothing would ever move her to act
against her conscience.
40 you not care for them, the gifts
gave you? said Roderck, tenderly
"Care for them? Do | not? But
care for you still more. would rather
never wear jewels to the day of my
death than see my husband look MS he
has looked this day"
"But to sell your ornaments! even if
can do it, which | doubt? My poor
child! what would Richerdcn people
say
"WOuld RichCrden think it more dis
creditable that you should sell my orna.
ments than that your tradespeoplc
should go without their money? Then
think the sooner we leave Richerdcn
Ghe better"
Have we Quarreled"
" don't know said she, half smil-
ing,
Roderck paused minute, and then
held out his arms.
'You are right; | will do 1t"
''Not you, dear; these things are 50
much easier to women than to men.
Let me 80 to the jeweler and say"
"That you do not like them?"
mo, for that would not be true.
nike them very much-as | like all
pretty things. But like other things
better-honor peace, and quiet mind.
We will set ourselves right now, and
after that we will be Careful-very
careful. You must earn the money
and, like Macbeth, leave all the rest
70 me- then this will never happen
again, | being SO clever us you say"
The laugh in her voice, but the tears
in her eyes-whO could withstand
either? Not Roderick, certainly. Be
sides, he had the sense to see, what
not all men can see, that there are
lhingS which woman can do better
lhan man, in which n woman is often
wise and Il man foolish. 1t is not
question of superiority or infcriorty.
but merely difference.
VI perceive" he said, 81 must give
you the reins and sink into my right
place in the household chariot. Well.
perhaps it is best; far better than turn
ipg into II domestic phaeton and set
hing the world on fire. Seriously, my
darling, this shall not happen again, if
you will help me-
So ended their first quarrel, which
Silence persisted was not quarrel.
but only Il slight variety in opinion.
And she did help him from that time
forward; in many things that might
otherwise have been very painful to Il
proud man, very wearisome to busy
man. But she had way of doing
them all, even the most humiliating,
which took the sting out of them en-
sirely. And when the money was OBJ
lained, everybody paid and the prepa-
journey to Blackhall, young Mrs. Jar
dine sat on her boxes, which she had
packed with her own hands, looking