Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-10-22

sAlOs tufnlH dWh1' II 10 on"O"i'
Long after MS children and wife
srre sleeping Mr.. J'newsy sat
smoking An. mixing cOmplacent
Iy of his success. He, Madison
Janeway. had began with nothing
and at fifty hr had won the things
he had longed for at twenty. The
opening and closing OF the door
attracted his attention. He looked
up.
A woman walked across the
room-a plain woman, With an
honest, ugly face. aud shsrt-
thick 6Kuro.
WHO are yOui' Mr. Janeway
ask~d frownlng 1t her intrusion.
'Duu't you know me, MsddAP
she returned.
Hr was startled whom she called
him Maddy-it Was more than
twenty years since he had been
called that. Are yOu-sre-Nou-
but you cant be y .rsh,' h. STAN
mered. She has been dead these
MANY years.
fam Sarah, she answered. Y u
have changed Maddy.'
'Yer-Yes We are apt to- he
replied unraslly. 'But you loos
lust the same He SAID this TO
see II abe would account for her
presence.
The living can only 50 the
deal VA they we're in life.' she re-
turned. You spld the farm dld|
yonp
Mr. Japrway felt an II represch
lsy n the Observ.,i d Yes sold
the farm, he said. 4 Needed he
qo oncy to put into other inv'st
meuts.'
Il worked hard On that place,
she said, crossing her hands
yer, rough. worn hands. Il w"Iked
hard there rboSe years I tired tc
save all I could; n ddy'
You we're good wife, Sarah
hr ,epIird, 'sni TO h of us hid "n'
burdens. guess
Aud it Was my nodry tn Il
bonght thu farm. You had uothlui
when YOU came cOurting me, di'
you M,id>7 And ynu said that III.
h.Irg thirt years Old and on bp
Ing JUST OF sgc made q" difference
Yes. l suppose l SAID that, an'
I'm sure | always tried to be goo'
to YOU he said in answer TO tha
unspokeD reprosch that seemed u
| liz behind her nus oxen words
Il tried to treat you well.'
'rhe money that came to me jus
before died from Uncle job
must have been a help. I left 1
aud the .arm to YOU, M4dd'! BE
dull eyes seemed to Iorc.' bim t
ckno wledRe his debt.
sYes-yes Sarah. [ know that
! owe much 70 70 Without yOu
hrlp and money 1 should have hs'
= mucb harder time getting on IN
feet. Yet think should hsv'
sueor eded 10 any osse.' MIR. Jane
I way could not forbear Offering thi
tribute to his seltesteem, 'Ho7
I ever, l gratefully scknO~ledf
. your aid Sarah
u 'You have another wife, not
! Maddy, and chiIdren;' she SAT-
but 1 was nrst. 1 believed In 20
$ aud | worked for you, oh so vi
l lingly. / knew that yoU We
different from me. knew that "
4. had hopes that stupid Sarah co
Y never understand. knew that
it was your companion IN your VOL
10 bat not in your hopes. l knew v
h we're growing further apart eve
"a year that we lived togeth'
D., I knew that while | was getting
es be worked out and middle az
Is yos were only coming In 20
he prime. knew that 1t Was best tn
Oh I died when / dId-beaOre 1 cal
I'd TO bs q drag on you. Yet, Made
ks before her and your children
ng think you ought not to shame d
fe. for 1 was yoor faithful wife. I
di wife OF your youth. and ] gave
: q all / had to Rive-my money
love, my TOLL
rIe Before Mr.. Jsnewsy could
, II swer she was gone, and ho
alone.
rst .Fhe next day however, he to
aat the old photograph down town {
lOrdcred for 1t Q gorgeous fra
When IT was rsturned ne huns