Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-11-03

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liberty? That equal division as a right
of which there's been a great deal said
lately ought. in my view, only to exist
under two conditions.
81 am curious to hear what they are, I"
said Olga scornfully.
"Where q man of fortune is mad
enough to buy woman as his wife,
aware that she has no love for HIM
"Well?''
His fingers stole up the flower stem
until they clasped hers wistfully.
"Or where woman becomes moth
err" he said very softly. "Olga, the
woman who accepts and makes beauti-
full this responsibility might rightly
command not half, but all her husbands
fortune, though she had been a beggar
maid and he king They are not equal
there. Then she has sacred rights She
becomes a divine mystery. Then he
might we'll worship her. His hearts
blood should not be too dear to spend
for her. Do you understand me, dear:'
She suffered his fingers to cling to
hers while she continued to look at the
sea. There was prayer in the hand clasp.
He was trying to read her thoughts.
Her bosom stirred little under its
laces, her eyes were almost tender and
doubtful. But shade settled upon her
beautiful face, and with it came decision.
The rose fell from her fingers.
"You go to extremes, David, she
said, with tolerant smile. "When we
have children, later-some time or 9TH
er-I won't ask your hearts blood nor
want to be considered mystery. I'll be
content with yacht or house in Lon
don or something thoroughly practical,
as you ii see. I'm going to drive. Will
you Gomez"
"No, must go back to town to-
night.
"Then we've finished about this tire
some money business:" she asked, lift
ing pair of long gloves from the back
of chair.
eve have if I've made you under
stand our position, and he passed bis
hands over his face in distracted way.
"You really mean we're in danger Of
beggary?" she asked, with sudden pas
sion. ''Do you mean that?'
"Must / go over it all again? Don't
you believe me? Don't suppose I'm try
ing to terrorize you. What say now is
the simple truth, and I'll say it clearly,
leaving out all the technicalities OF a
business explanation. In the present
crisis more than half my principal has
deprecated to almost nothing; good
deal has been lost. Suppose the rest
goes?"
He faced her. His lips were set in a
line of endurance, around his eyes were
the haggard traces of care, the thick
lock which fell over his forehead had a
grayness which aged him. 1t seemed to
him that had she been capable of even
a little pity she would have como to
him, taken his face in her hands and
kissed him.
She pursed up her lips and considered
a moment. When she spoke quietly,
there was concentrated meaning in her
tones.
81 shouldn't like to be poor again.
don't think I'd take that condition Of
affairs calmly. 1t seems to me I'd do
something reckless / don t know what. :"
She went to him and clasped her
arms, bare to the elbow, around his
neck.
''Do you love me at all still?" she
asked earnestly. "You don't love me as
you used to do, but do you love ne at
all?"
He bent his lips to her wrist, and a
terrible sadness came into his eyes.
81 love you, dear. Iwant to save you
from pain. -
"Then don't become poor man, Da
vid. Don't, in Gods name Do any
thing to get the money back" she said,
moved out Of herself for the first time.
GIVE had poverty all my life, all my
life. Oh, how loathe it Yes, loathc
it! You think me selfish. I know you
do, and l am. But l wouldn't really
harm you or hurt you if can have an