The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-01-19
But For Q Brief Period.


lifted Il bit on his fork and smelled at
1t suspiciously And the coffee is quite
cold. And there isn't a morsel of toast.
Really, it is too bad TO expect q man
to 90 10 work without any breakfast"
"The charwoman didn't come this
morning, you know Everard and"
Dorothy was desperately afraid that
she would cry, and sEe was determined
not 10 cry. so she said no more.
"Why can't You find servant
them" gIowied her husband "Sdch
wretched mismanagement never
saw"
perhaps YOU were mlte cCmforia' j.
in lodgings" said Doio ny, taunt Il in.
to speech.
No answer.
Perhaps you think it was mistake
to have married me-
Silence, so much recommended in
cases of this kind, is sometime, the
most cruel of all retortS 1t was 50
now. Yet Eyerard laYn s1id
word. He knew he wa b having Ike
a brute, but he was cold, hungry and
haunted with corroding care. He
turned to the fireplace and tried 10
poke the mass Of coal and coal dust in
to n flame but his efforts We're ill-di-
rected, and the smoldering heap re-
MANNED dead. He threw down the po-
ker in passion and went out into he
hall and into the street, closing The
front door after him with bang.
Hour after hour Dorothy sat ut the
wretched breakfast table without NOV
ing. She was alone in the little house
and had no one to mind but herself.
The tears came freely enough now.
They trickled through her fingers and
dropped, one by one, on the soiled Ia
blecloth.
WAS it true, them she asked her
self did Everard regret already the
rash step that had brought them To-
getherf" He was only a poor writer
struggling for dear life in the cruel
battlefield of London. She knew that
he was often pressed for money.
| though he told her little of his mon
| ey troubles Was ii not n piece of fol
ly in them to marry?
! At length she rose and mechanically
began to clear away the breakfast
| things The kitchen fire had gone out.
Everything was cold and dreary. And
! if it were all huge mistake.
She went upstairs and began to put
| a few of her personal belongings into
pOrtmanteau. One volume she
! thought she must haye-a copy of
"Ihc Imitation of Christ" She found
| IL after a little search. but then she
| remembered. II had been Il gift from
! Eyerard-how long ago it seemed
! In the days of their courts ship. The pet
name he had given her. and that no
one but he had ever called her by,
"nodie," was on the fly leaf in his
| handwriting. She could not take it,
She kissed it and put It away in a
| drawer. Then she went on putting
things together, one by one. on the
bed.
The winter afternoon had given
! place TO twilight when Eyerard put
his latchEey into the door of the little
! dwelling. He had long since repentcd
of his had temper. and lie had brought
with him a twopcnny bunch of yiolcts
as \ peace Offering II struck him. rs
he opened the door. that there was an
| unusual echoing In the passage. Clos
! ing the door behind him. he shouted,
Dorothy There was no reply.
"She can't he sult.ing stillT he said
/ to himself. "That is not like Dodic.
| Where are you?" lie cried again, push
ing open the door f the sitting room.
! He half expected 10 feel pair of
warm arms around his neck as he did
| so, but there was 40 sound of any
| kind. The room was dark and cold.
| With trembling fingers he lit the gas.
The cold light fell on a black CRATE.
| Evidently the fire had not been
| hp IrPf In 1 10 ir1sF
! He ran from room to room, dreR-liug
| he knew not what as he threw open
each door. Dorothy was not there Nor
| did he notice that their bedroom win
dow was open and that the draught
caused by his opening the door had
sent scrap of thin paper on which
Dorothy had written a farewell mes
sage fluttering to the floor. He gazed
round the deserted bedroom, noting the
signs of packing. and the truth burst
on him, He felt as if she had died.
Then suddenly revulsion of feeling
came upon him.
she can have no heart after all to
leave me when she knew | was in such
trouble" he said sayagely. He turned
left the house and never entered it
again. month later the landlord
seized the furniture for rent and let
the place to another tenant.
Dorothy woke neat morning with
painful sense of something Tread III
having happened. and she instinctiyelg
listened to learn whether her husband
was up. Then she remembered. She
had been careful to leave her address,
so that Everard might have no diff
Guilty in tracing her. and she had no
doubt that he would turn up some time
during the day to scold her-she deter
mined that she would submit TO the
scolding without a word-but, at any
rate, 10 take her home.
She did not 90 out all that day. lest
she should miss him. but he never
came. When night fell she would have
been glad to go back of her own ac-
cord. but her pride forbade her. and
she remained whore she was. Surely,
Z she thought. he will come tomorrow.
But that day too, passed, and Dorothy
| began TO realize that her husband had
| taken her ut her word.
AS matter of fact. on the morning
of the second day Everard had left
word whore he was to be found at the
honse agents office and inserted one
or two advertisements in the daily pa
pers-he could not afford maryland
then he told himself he could do nc
more, Dorothy was dead to him-lost
in the great whirlpool Of London
A year went by. and Dorothy. pale
and thin and shabby. was slowly drag
ginc her way through one Of the great
thoroughfares. Her heart was heavy
for there was a crslle IN the poor room
she had left, and in the cradle a bubl
girl What Dorothy Payn had gon,
through during the last six months on
" she and hnr Gna know a. ono Liml