Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-22

efficient and obedient housekeeper. I trust
ed that your fathers daughter would have
some good sense and discretion. But l
see, he continued. that you are like the
rest. without reason or honor. 1t is not
your fault, l suppose, since you are wo-
man.
Josiah Sewalrs miserable experience had
made 1t impossible for him TO realize the
effect of such words as these on a sensi
tive woman who loved him. Pauline lash
ed out wildly. You married me, then. to
be a servant without wages. VINO cannot
give up her place. Very well, l have my
revenge, for / married you. an old man
who might have been my father, simply
and solely for your money Then she had
turned and fled from the room, without
another glance at the frozen figure at the
desk.
Pauline shut the eyes of her imagination
when she thought of the future. Remorse,
together with many excavations of her
husbands words, was already hard at
work within her. She did not go DOWN
stairs again that night. In the morning,
when she went to breakfast, her husband
had already gone All day long she wan
dered from one trifling employment to an
other restless and disconsolate, feeling for
the first time the disadvantage of being a
rich woman with servants hands 10 1uI-
fill all the necessary duties of Hfe-
over and over again she reviewed de-
spairingIy the scene of the night before,
wondering how she had ever come to ling
that cruel haunting lie, but her own calm
er reflections had brought such quick for
giveness for ner husband that she grew
hopeful for herself, so that she was Woe
fully disappointed when he did not appear
at dinner time.
1t was only at O'Clock that she heard
him come in and so to the library. Pres
eEtly he sent for her, and she went to him
with a most contrite spirit, determined to
Go her utmost by apology and Cancellation,
TO matter what he might do or say. But
she was scarcely prepared for the ominous
wilderness of his set face or the judge-like
sternness OF his demeanor as he sat at
his desk with a couple of oficial-iooking
documents under his hand.
Pauline stood before him, hesitating APP
pealingly.
Josiah Sewall looked at his wifes face.
palng and flushing, and at her qutvering
lips. He believed she had spoken the truth
in her anger the night before; he saw moth
| ing in her expression now but Tear OF the
consequences. And Pauline, on her side,
saw only the sheer in his searching eyes,
and her own hardened, and she straighten-
ed and felt no more dread, but only a pa
| tient sense of inevitable misery.
Mr. Sewan spoke first. You informed
me last night" he began coldly that your
reason for becoming my wife was through
no regard for myself, as you had pretended,
| but simply to reap the. advantage of my
money. Such a condition of affairs nat
urally excludes you from any claim, hence
| forth, TO my regard. 1t does not constitute.
/ believe. reason for divorcing a wife,
| but / can, at least, prevent you from real
| iZing your expectations. Since money is
/ your only object, ] shall make it my bust
| ness to deprive you of that in the future
as completely as lies in my power. I have
/ today altered my will. leaving you at my
! death exactly what the law allows and not
! a penny more. l have also made ont list, y
| Mr. Sewan raised a paper from the desk
! without moving his eyes from his wifes
white face. "of certain shops at which you
| can order. | think, whatever you need for
your clothing and other necessities. If
| | I
| to the list when advisable. The bills will
/ be sent to NE every month. Your brough-
! am will. of course, be ready at any time
| to take you wherever you may wish to go.
| But" added Mr.. Sewall raising his voice
| slightly, you shall never again, if ii is in
my power. touch one cent of my money
while l live"
| He stood and held out the list toward his
| wife. Whatever outburst of rage or hyS-
I terra his experience or the bitterness of his
| spirit may have led him to expect. nothing
AT least followed. Pauline took the paper
mechanically from his hand, and went quiet
| ly and without a word out of the room.
In the days that followed there came to
her a curious sense of relief, almost of rest
| Her doom had fallen, and there was a sort
of poetic justice about this curious punish
| mentor revenge. But there came to her
oddly enough. first faint feeling of hope
! from the fact that she had succeeded in
| moving the man so deeply She regretted
| deeply what had happened, and, though it
had been put out of her power to confess
| her remorse she .ad at least been shown
/ a way to suffer for it.
| The practical discomforts of the new Or
der of things showed themselves promptly.
| she mad emptied her purse of all the
[ change which had happened to be in it,
| sealing somewhat dramatically the few
/ dis and coins in an envelope. and put 1t
into corner of the desk wondering half
| childishly If her husband would ever realize
she was too proud to take even this adyan-