Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-10-11

Then her husband tried to see if there
was any salvation in friendly discus
sion.
Kate" said he, 4 love you better
than I ever thought I could love any
woman, and l intend to do every
thing l can to make you happy But
also intend to do what seemeth good
for both of Us, deciding by right of
my greater experience. Now, if l
could have bought you a mansion on
the Lake Shore drive I should have
been glad. But we are poor people.
We know next to no one. We have
our little fortune and our friends to
make. Our lives lie before us. Nov,
you can make it easy for me or you
can make it hard-but l think you are
going to make it easy. Eth, Kate?
l do not commit. Try-just by way
OF experiment, you know-to give me
credit for good intentions"
But Kate did not propose to be
preached to. She broke away from
him with shrieks of laughter, and that
noon she ate her lunch alone in a little
grove that lay back of their place.
Then she went for a walk and was
pleased not to return till after the
dinner hour. She counted on being
greeted with reproaches, and was
actually smiling with enjoyment of a
melodramatic scene when she reached
home.
Here I am, Lena" she called, as she
entered her house You may get me
some dinner now"
yes nam. / have, nam"
Kate went to the dining room.
The table was laid for one.
Here was a most gratifying cause for
offense. Her husband had dined with
out her. She spoke to Lena about 1t.
Just try for a week how it would seem
to stop scolding me for offenses which
No, ma'am. Misser Haughton, he
go off on train. He say get a tele-
graph"
He did rot exepect 70 go for a
week"
He say he go, ma'am."
Kate left cheated of her prey, and
the evening was interminable. But
she was consoled by the thought Of the
letter she would write him. But two
weeks passed before word came from
him, and then it was by wire
Am at Hastings. Leave tonight
Have sent check"
When the check came there was no
word with it. For at least a month
Rates indignation grew by what it
fed on. She amused herself with her
anger-and wrote letters which she
did not send, because she did not
know where to send them. But at
last she began to get genuinely home
sick for her lover. She could not
sleep for thinking of him, and had no
appetite for the nice little meals that
Lena prepared. When the autumn
frosts asserted themselves she saw that
all the bulbs he had set out were care
fully potted, and she looked after the
banking up of his roses, and saw to
coal and storm windows, and was more
business-like and industrious than she
had ever been before in her life.
AS the weeks passed with no as
surance that her husband was to re
turn, even for a day or two, a melan-
choly began to settle upon her-a
melancholy compounded of hurt vanity
and of honest apprehension lest she
had driven him away from his home.
But at length she was gladdened with
the intelligence that he would be at
Harvard within As hours. Now, Har-
ward was only so miles distant, and it
was preposterous to suppose that he
would come that near to his home
after three weeks of absence. Kate
had the pretty new house cleaned from
top to bottom; she put up fresh cur,
tains; she baked fruit cake and bread
with raisins in it. 1t was a time of
great domestic excitement. On the
morning of the day that she expected
him she arrayed herself i'll a chic little
gown of dark blue, with a scarlet vest
and waited the incoming of the train
impatiently. But just before the train
arrived and after every one in and
about the station had become fully
aware of the fact that she was expect
ing her husband, a message came to
hpr over the wire,
Have decided not to come home
this week"
A sense of modification and pam
such as she had never experienced be.
fore shook poor Kate. Some expires.
sion OF this torture seemed absoluten
necessary. Indifferent to the opinion
of the telegrapher she rushed to the
wire and sent off this inquiry: why
did you marry me-" And if ever the
wires were fearful they were so then.
She had not long to wait for re-
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