The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-04-22
4 MARRIAGE THAT. FAILED

Try l.uu 5cr HTto. Iney mad always been
last friends. The day was pleasantly
passed and after an early supper the
young couple started homeward. Tom
ana ms W1fe promising to return the visit
on the following Sunday. . -
When the day came thew drove oven, +o
Risly's place and arrived there about noon,
ne came out to greet them, told his man
Jisn-an lndian-to care for the horses and
cshered them into the house isabel was
situng on the edge of bench looking
selS solemn and sshe neither spoke nor
~: Good day, dear: You see. we've
come as. we promised The situation was
embarrassing, but Billy pretended not to
hotce 1t and talked and TESTED with Tom
occasionally making some remarks to Mrs
tAneol- Who,-sinee Isabel would NOT tailx
YIN wirn ner. was quite confused. Finally
Billy whitfield some shavings and start "a
nre saying to his wife: - ! -. ~.
ONE now, Isabel, get us some din
mer, Tom and Mary are hungry after
their long ride"
Isabel did not bow or look IN. con-
e,,pulg 70 concentrate her gaze on the
opposite wall of the house. Her hnshemS
asked her two or three times in tho co,,rsa
VI tne next half hour to prepare dinner
: ailu nnaily set about it himself. rernarI.
Inc Old woman seems to he a IT,
lie out of humor today I" III
-;o,oal VINO was sitting beside his wife.
e end 49,, up newspaper to shield his face.
ana grinned; she bit her lips and frown no.,
at MN; Billy got out a pan of POTATOES
Hasheu and scraped them nicely anSi
dropped them into the kettle of hoilin o
wafer on the stove. There, isabel -" he
saio' -. i've started the dinner; 20 ahead
w." IKE good girl and do the rest 7
must chop little wood"
lie was no sooner ont of c;rh4 49,,
wel Went over to the stove, lifted the Let.
tle ana dashed its contents into tho 40
potatoes and all. Smoke, steam and ASH.
nled the ROOM Tom nudeed his wifo
asalI ana got smart thump in the ribs
10 49, 80 both were struggling so hard
cnoked. Isabel, after this, returned ~ ~
her seat on the bench. Presently Rinu
came IN, his arms full of wood. When ~
sa" the kettle inverted over the pra+ to
tne smoke and steam still ASCENDING HI:
Jaw Jaw cropped, he turned pale and the wooc
aen rom ms arms with a crash. Goint
over 10 where his wife sat. ia prosnad
her firmly by the arms and. 1iftine 'h be,
up, carried her out of doors. He was M
sooner inside again than She came ~
n1m' crying out in her own lanen,.ee.
IN small, but I'm not afraid of YOU =
blily again picked her up and out her
outside, this time closing the door 80
M
after she had made some Intellectual at-
tempts TO get in, they heard her GOING
up the valley crying and wailine to where
ne ner mother lived, about mile a,bovs-
dnen BILLY got some dinner for his
friends. but all the pleasure of the dav
T Tas spo,leo, ana as soon as they could
Ion and his wife started homeward
The next day Billy and his man Tin,
were sitting out in the yard when isabel
grove up with a team owned bv her moth
eer.-NWi1hoat a word she went, into the
mouse md began :tot take out evarvS rn6vs
anle thing IN 1t. Bedding, dishes. crock
cry, provisions. trunks, were brought on+
one after another, and piled ITO 49,
wagon. Billy never noticed her. HAVING
stripped the house, she went to the STA
pie, ana as soon as she was out Of sight
Jim took some bedding and provisions
from the pile in the wagon, an cached
them IN the brush behind the house. Pres
wagon and drove away,
having mended the harness, the two
men hitched up and drove to the lrav
1leld ALI this time Billy had never said
word. Jim hadn't. either but he was
doing lot Of thinking and wishing that
lisa bel was his wife for about ten min
utes: He chuckled as in thought he held
her by the hair and belabored her Shout
ders with club. All the long, hot morn
ing they worked in the hay field. and at
nooa returned to the ranch for dinner and
g rest. The bedding and provisions
which Jim had hidden in the brush were
gone. All the stovepipe had been taken,
too; the stove alone stood in its place
in the bare and empty cabin. The wom-
an had even taken her husbands cloth
ing; all he possessed in the world was on
his back.
''Well. what arc we going to do now?'
Jim asked. 1--WE can't stay here and
starve'
NO.
Lets hitch up again and go up to my
uncles?'
"All right
"And wei take the stove? If we don't
she'll have that, too, as soon as she can
find some one to help hey lift it."
"AI right 3D.
The next day people saw Billy Morse
riding westward toward the Kootena1
trail. A rifle was slung across his sad
die, and he led pack horse heavily
laden That was years ago. He has
never been seen or heard of since. And
Isabel? Why, Jim finally married her,
and rules her with a club. .-..